kruasan

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by kruasan 5y ago
Your comment is the exact plot of "The Want Machine", a story by Exurb1a.
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by kruasan 5y ago
This is true, we can travel only up to 8.2 billion light years (radius of the affectable universe/2) which is the largest completely causally connected region, in the sense that every point can observe and reach every other. 8.2 billio
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by kruasan 6y ago
I make jazz piano music and funky electronica, drum & bass occasionally. My most representing albums are The Box of Unusables, Nightly Blues, Gematria. All available for free download on bandcamp: - https://kruasan.bandcamp.c
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by kruasan 6y ago
That's naive. Why would I let it go? Firstly, contrary to Benatar, our lives are not "meaningless", even from a cosmic perspective. Our personal problems, concerns, relationships, and feelings are in no way less significant m
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by kruasan 6y ago
Someone posted this, whatever that means: 𐐌 𐑊𐐴𐐿 𐑉𐐴𐐻𐐮𐑍 𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐮𐑅 𐐻𐐯𐐿𐑅𐐻, 𐐮𐐻 𐑊𐐳𐐿𐑅 𐐿𐐭𐑊. 𐐶𐐲𐑉𐐿𐑅 𐐼𐐮𐑁𐐲𐑉𐐲𐑌𐐻 𐑄𐐰𐑌 𐑅𐐻𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉𐐼 𐐬𐑊𐐼 𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑌 𐐰𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻, 𐐺𐐲𐐻 𐐲𐐻 𐑄 𐑅𐐩𐑋 𐐻𐐴𐑋 𐑁𐐫𐑉𐑋𐐼 𐑁𐑉𐐲𐑋 𐑄 𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑌 𐐰𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻. 𐐆𐑋𐐰𐐾𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐮𐑅 𐐺𐐨𐐮𐑍 𐐲𐑅𐐲𐐼 𐑁𐐫𐑉 𐐹𐑉𐐰𐐿𐐻𐐮𐐿𐐲𐑊 𐐹𐐲𐑉𐐹𐐲𐑅𐑆. 𐐡𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑋 𐐼𐐭𐐼 𐐮𐑌𐐻𐑉𐐨𐑀𐐼 𐐺𐐴 𐑄
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by kruasan 6y ago
As Greg Egan in "Permutation City" once put it: Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms -- a result of information being processed in certain ways, regardless of wha
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by kruasan 6y ago
>do mathematical objects exist? Yes, they do, in an abstract sense. Existence in math means a very different thing from existence in physics. There are mathematical objects that exist, and those that cannot and do not exist. Someone post
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Krista and Tatiana Hogan: twins with conjoined brains(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kruasan 6y ago|0 comments
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by kruasan 7y ago
There is so much wrong with this. It's clear that you're essentially presupposing there is either "free will" or "determinism" when in fact the right distinction to make is "free will" as opposed to &
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by kruasan 7y ago
This reminded me about Tegmark's map of relationships between various basic mathematical structures: https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf (on page 2)
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by kruasan 7y ago
That hard drive is basically just a reduced music version of The Library of Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
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by kruasan 7y ago
I was referring to this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1068238562443841538
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by kruasan 7y ago
Learn how to make more friends. Communicate. Learn how to talk with people, how to be adaptive and contextual. Learn about yourself as much as you can, either via introspection or from other people. Learn what your values are, and what make
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by kruasan 7y ago
I once memorized 200 digits of pi when I had nothing more fun to do on a long boring lecture. Sherlock popped into my mind, so I imagined a journey through my house where I chunked numbers to make them represent certain things or people, an
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by kruasan 7y ago
merry kurisumasu
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by kruasan 7y ago
> mechanism by which subjective states are experienced by the entity Why are you implying some kind of mental entity that "does the experiencing"?
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by kruasan 7y ago
Yes, there are objective mathematical truths, but you cannot be sure there exists a physical reality or anything that corresponds to our experiences. You just know that there are subjective experiences right now. That's the only thing
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You Can’t Do Anything That Is Shamefully Wrong(zenhabits.net)
1 points by kruasan 7y ago|0 comments