ZeroFries

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by ZeroFries 3y ago
Great to see the forum mods doing the best they can
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by ZeroFries 3y ago
Have you done the cost:benefit analysis? Curious what makes you so confident that "crashing the economy" (you're aware of all the excess death and despair this would cause?) is the best move here.
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by ZeroFries 3y ago
The federal government doesn't "hoard" land around areas where people would want to purchase a first home. The vast majority of crown land is not around any major urban centers. Canadian tech workers make way above median inc
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by ZeroFries 3y ago
Even with the prices of commodities falling, stock prices can still rise, and as long as this is higher than the deflationary rate, investing still beats hoarding.
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by ZeroFries 3y ago
Although it's the riskiest time for deer, I love centering my road trips around dusk, so that you get some daylight, some golden hour softness, a beautiful sunset, and some darkness. It feels like a complete experience that way, a mini
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by ZeroFries 3y ago
Sensations are not just information. A number is information. There's something that it's like to experience a sensation. There's nothing that it's like to be a number.
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by ZeroFries 4y ago
Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS, React, SQL Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zerofries Email: sgarvagh@gmail.com
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by ZeroFries 5y ago
No, it's not. The argument rests on the fact that it can't be solely discrete across the entire system. The discrete information needs to "come-together" in a non-discrete way, e.g. something like quantum coherence. Th
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
The input system is discrete but the end-result, our conscious experience of our world-simulations (made up of visual qualia) are not discrete. They are unified. An example of how this could be implemented (not saying this is the case, just
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
There's no reason to believe qualia arise in a given discrete computation. Why would they? In what steps in the algorithm do qualia arise and why, what characteristics do they have, what causal roles do they play, etc. It's comple
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
This is just not the case, even with infinite energy and time. There are properties of quantum Turing machines that are not reproducible with classical Turing machines. https://web.archive.org/web/20081123183419/ht
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
Self-driving cars don't experience visual qualia. A model is not the same as an actual experience. There's no binding-problem to solve with self-driving cars because there's no attempts to make them conscious. It's a com
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
Lots of reasons. You need energy to store the information. You wouldn't be gaining anything, only losing efficiency. The quantum level is the "lowest" level of existence, there's nothing "lower" to use to simul
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
Your left and right visual fields are united in one "space". Classical computation cannot achieve such unity. Digital computation concerns discrete parts changing in discrete steps, which is not like a field at all.
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
The law of large numbers let's you abstract in such a way that the group can appear simpler than the individual unit. Of course, to fully simulate it across every single possible scenario, one would need to model all the individual uni
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
A Turing machine could never simulate anything down to the quantum level, including brains, which is necessary to solve the binding-problem.
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
Chestnut wood has many desirable properties such as rot resistance which lowers the need for toxic wood preservatives. It makes great roofing shingles.
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by ZeroFries 6y ago
No it means the amount of calories coming from body fat is increased by 43%, which may amount to nothing over the course of the day if it also simultaneously increases appetite. Almost all forms of weight loss suffer from this problem - the
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
When I shovel the driveway, I'm sweating wearing no jacket, but I freeze sitting on the porch in a parka.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I'm hoping it's less itch-provoking as well. I can't lie on grass without irritating my skin like crazy.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
This is the viable alternative, having similar aesthetics to a traditional lawn. However there's still a fair amount of push-back. I just bought a house and am planning a clover lawn this spring, and discussing it with extended family
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
We tell serial killers with an appreciation for the grotesque to cut it out all the time.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Or, you know, they enjoy the craft/art-form, and want to do it professionally. There's definitely some weird selection pressure in show-biz, and impulsiveness/ego may play a small role, but there's a million ego-maniacs
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I sometimes feel the same way when sick and I accept that I'm just going to have to put everything on hold until I get through it.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I was told many times to go with a slightly undersized AC, precisely for this reason - they're better dehumidifiers because they run for longer periods of time.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Consumer pressure
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Desires themselves are imbued with negative affect. As Naval Ravikant tweeted, "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want." More fundamentally, I think the very mechanism of how des
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Then you got outcompeted, and an immigrant was able to offer better value.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I've purchased products and handed over money and still not honoured for a price claimed to be a mistake. Latest example 40g of marijuana priced at $1/g. They ended up shipping a quarter ounce instead, 20% of the original deal.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Many types cancers can use ketones as fuel.

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