evilsetg

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by evilsetg 9mo ago
I am glad you had a good experience. For me it was the most scary medical experience I've ever had. I think they hit a nerve because i felt my foot involuntarly cramping. The feeling is hard to describe. Also I lost vision completely f
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by evilsetg 10mo ago
I also think this is true, but one thing distinguishes the two and that is commitment. Resarch opens up new possibilities while doing the thing narrows them. Many people (myself included) have difficulties with that. Reading will only get y
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by evilsetg 11mo ago
It's fun that you say 'naturally' when there have been centuries of oppression and conditioning against women in STEM.
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by evilsetg 1y ago
But are philosophy and economics so neatly separable in this case? Say you hold the philosophical belief that humans creating art is important but the economics don't allow it. In that case the root of your argument is philosophical an
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Okay, so we are not destroying all of nature, only enough nature that it will get seriously uncomfortable for us. Great! Your second argument is even stranger. It would be unnatural to stop polluting the environment? Where are you going wit
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Maybe we as a society should decide that having children is fine when you don't have a stable career yet and finance it as such. The contradiction that our most fertile years are also the most unstable is something society could and sh
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by evilsetg 1y ago
We have to find a new equilibrium for fertility that does not depend on opression of women. This could very well mean we need more rights, most of all more stable, plannable lifes i think. The old opressive ways of ensuring fertility are go
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Every human being creates nuisance sometimes. The only winning move in your game is not to live.
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by evilsetg 1y ago
What would speak against carving a cooking pot from stone? One thing I could find is that they might explode but I guess that would also depend on the type of rock.
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Thankfully, a lot of cultures also recognize inherent value in humans that does not derive from their usefulness.
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Interesting idea! Could you tell me more about how you arrive at the conclusion that forward passes cannot produce qualia?
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by evilsetg 1y ago
I will train to become a nurse. They are highly sought after and the job seems rewarding to me. I heard it's quite stressful though.
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by evilsetg 1y ago
The way I see it, joining social media requires your account to be bound by a chain to either a corporation or some rando. I'd much rather bind myself to some random person on the internet because at least there is a chance that they w
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by evilsetg 1y ago
The question of what is art is a philosophical one and does not have one conclusive answer. While I like your definition it is not __the__ definition of what art is nor is it agreed upon by all artists. I like to think art is anything that
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by evilsetg 1y ago
One thing I have trouble wrapping my head around is blatant scams being advertised on reputable sites and apps. As I understand sites run ads through advertisement networks, but why are those networks not required to vet the ads that are bo
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by evilsetg 1y ago
Maybe landlord coops could be a solution. Band together to co-own with multiple small landlords and share the risk.
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by evilsetg 3y ago
Years ago I volunteered at Monique's for 3 weeks with my brother. It was a great and interesting time and I met a lot of cool people in Monique and her family and other hikers and volunteers. We used to sleep in a shack in the back and
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by evilsetg 3y ago
What is shocking to you about a man apperearing feminine? And where do you see a national security concern in effeminate men?
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by evilsetg 4y ago
Can you explain how you know that neither a toaster, your wristwatch nor ChatGPT are conscious? If being conscious means being conscious like a human this would be obvious but maybe the toaster is just conscious like a toaster. Is a bug con
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by evilsetg 4y ago
In German there is 'Kein Backup, Kein Mitleid'. It translates roughly as 'No backup, No sympathy', as in you'll get no sympathy for your data loss. It's a bit negative though.
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by evilsetg 4y ago
This is an answer to Mick Gordon's statement regarding his work on Doom Eternal. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532078 for his his statement and HN discussion.
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by evilsetg 4y ago
As I understood it, 'Hey, math doesn't lie' was a sarcastic jab to point out how ridiculous it would be to believe the argument just because it contains a calculation.
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by evilsetg 4y ago
> THIRTY FOLD ISNT EXPONENTIAL. A * exp(b * t) = A / 30 => b = - log( 30 ) / t As far as I can see a thirty fold decrease does fit into any exponential curve if you have the right rate constants or times, so I don't rea
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by evilsetg 4y ago
No, I think the free market is an ideal system, a model. A bit like a harmonic oscillator in physics. The reality is more complicated.
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by evilsetg 4y ago
This train of thought always strikes me as similar to religious thoughts. "You think what the market does is unfair? But it is the market it can by definition not produce any unfair results." Any argument about fairness is swiped
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by evilsetg 4y ago
I like the model of ths German Bundespressekonferenz where an organization made up of journalists invites the German goverment for press conferences instead of the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesp
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by evilsetg 4y ago
How about an exemption for one house/apartment? If you use a house for personal purposes, e.g. to live there then your point stands but in case of commercial purposes the tax is something that should just enter your business calculatio
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by evilsetg 4y ago
My emacs-config gets only sharper. Or so I like to think.
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by evilsetg 4y ago
Just because while participating in the Chinese Room you can not feel the feelings of the Chinese room does not mean that the Chinese Room has no feelings. Or does it? EDIT: typos
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by evilsetg 4y ago
I wonder how you can be so sure about digital logic not being able to produce subjective experience? How is being able to describe how a mechanism works related to knowing if it feels something or not? We have no sure way to tell if any oth

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