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by h0l0cube 1y ago
See also Dragon's Lair: > Most games in the Dragon's Lair series are interactive films where the player controls Dirk the Daring, in a quest to save Princess Daphne. The game presents predetermined animated scenes, and the play
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
> It's a "mirror" on current society, which is probably where they got the name. Nope. It's a reference to the surface of a screen. (Though undeniably there's important double meaning there) > The "blac
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
TFA refers to 'non-trivial compositionality' as what's novel about how humans communicate (and how it's perhaps not as novel as we thought): > However, the team also found examples of non-trivial compositionality, the
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
It's obviously the only real end game to this policy. Asia needs to divest itself off US bonds, which China has been slowly doing the background of late. No matter how it plays out, it's looking like higher interest rates, infla
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
It's just going to be a game of whack-a-mole as production and dumping shift to the less taxed countries. In the end, manufacturing won't shift to the US while labor costs are too high for factory workers. And the only way to re
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Numbers matter. Only a small amount of insurgents are needed to occupy the military, but if even 2% of the civilian population took up arms, the situation would become untenable. All the armed forces together constitute not much more than
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
In-group value is a kind of MLM scheme :)
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
'Considering some people idiots' is intolerance. Tolerating that kind of intolerance in the name of free speech in the marketplace of ideas or whatever can allow that intolerance to gain traction such that intolerance becomes a d
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Maybe. I'm not sure if FPTP necessarily leads to authoritarianism, but there's a whole bunch of countries that sill use the system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cou... I think, tho
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
This was definitely a thing in the optical disc era of games where seek times were horrendous. In record mode, this is done by just overloading the file read functions, recording a list of file, seek position, and read size instructions, an
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
P-zombies, conceptually, actually have no ghost in the machine, but are indistinguishable from sentient beings. Sentience and free will are two different things. > they may have measurable effects in our physical reality If there’s somet
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Hot take: it's a failure of democratic competition. The US doesn't have proportional representation, and it's long maintained a duopoly of two electable parties, and a first-past-the-post system that makes any vote for a 3rd
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
> anti-Israeli campus posters as idiots The problem with free speech absolutism is that it leads to the 'paradox of tolerance'. We are now seeing the fruits of that line of thinking. > The paradox of tolerance is a philosop
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
> Perhaps it's most accurate to say we have will or volition but not free of constraints imposed by our biology and physical/social environments. You might be talking about compatiblism. > Humans imagine they have free will
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Fashion is an MLM scheme in the sense that it only works if those most invested in fashion can convince those less invested that it has value
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
I’ll repeat the question you might have missed > If it’s random how is it free will? Stochastic processes won’t get you to free will any more than determinism.
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
> processes can exist outside of our measurable physical reality If it can't be measured in reality, how can it be relevant to reality? > a random number generator in base reality? How does randomness pertain to free will?
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
I sympathize with your point of view, but they stated opinion based on faith, which is wholly (holy?) different from stating truth
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
> computers can and will have free will too What is free will if it's simply causation? i.e., environmental inputs leading to differences in charge, altering other differences in charge, leading to outputs, leading to environmental
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Even quantum space can be described by both deterministic and stochastic elements. The stochastic elements of quantum uncertainty are about as much free will as a PRNG – though even more predictable as they don't have a flat statistic
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
No downvotes from me, but where do you think the free will lives? What mechanism produces it? What about that mechanism, if not purely stochastic, is not predictable? If free will can have a real measurable physical effect on this univer
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
My pedantry—like most pedantry—was focused on the problem, not the solution. Ergo, you could accurately say "AI lipsyncing nonsense" is a highly-technical solution to a practical problem, and subtitles a pragmatic low-tech soluti
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
While it could be said that LLMs are in the 'peak of inflated expectations', blockchain is definitely still in the 'trough of disillusionment'. Even if there was a way for blockchain to affordably facilitate everyday tr
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
David Simon went into great detail in his blog about why they had to completely re-edit The Wire scene-by-scene from source material to suit the HD format. There were scenes where the meaning was changed and details lost if they simply cro
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
I think you mean it's a technical problem. Language translation and screen size translation are both solving for the practical problem of reaching a wider audience and on more devices.
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
The impact can only be measured by how it negatively affects one's living standards or societal participation, both of which can be attended to by society-at-large by making society the problem, not the person. Though it's intere
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
The calculation about whether to repair something or not usually hinges around labor and material costs vs replacement cost. The more difficult something is to repair, and the more expensive the components are, the less like it is to be re
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Once it's at this level of prevalence, can it really be considered neurologically atypical? The broader point that's often missed is that this is a naturally occurring and common phenotype that doesn't gel well with office-wo
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Perhaps there's an opening in the market for an appliance company that brands itself on self-repair and self-hosted connectivity? All most people want is "push button and do the thing as long as I live".
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by h0l0cube 1y ago
Not really the point. The modern "practices during dressing and butchering" highlighted by the GGP were based on the understanding of the germ theory of disease.

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