mooseburger

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Should AI be Open? (2015)(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by mooseburger 5y ago|0 comments
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by mooseburger 5y ago
I don't actually believe technology can save us, don't find the techno-utopias concocted by sci-fi authors to actually be utopias, and don't accept the thesis that we have progressed because we're better at satisfying bo
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by mooseburger 5y ago
> would the concept of me and you as separate identities actually mean anything to us anymore? Clearly yes. If your body is destroyed, I will stop experiencing your thoughts and your senses, and vice versa. > You anyway go to sleep ea
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by mooseburger 5y ago
I wonder how many people will actually attempt mind uploads, or believe that completely computer generated agents are sentient. Especially since it seems like a lot of these technologists are willing to use duck typing to determine sentienc
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Tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by mooseburger 5y ago|2 comments
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by mooseburger 5y ago
> What does it add? Why does it suggest itself? What do you think it does? No idea where you're going with this.
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by mooseburger 5y ago
Getting Epstein "suicide" vibes from this.
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by mooseburger 5y ago
Virtue signaling.
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by mooseburger 5y ago
Yeah, that was interesting. Apparently even being a female POC doesn't allow you to blaspheme against the nameless faith. It has evolved.
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by mooseburger 5y ago
Regarding Garcia Martinez, I am still surprised "straight male" is such a disadvantage that being POC doesn't buy enough oppression points to allow you to criticize white women. Then again, maybe it's more that being His
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by mooseburger 5y ago
That isn't about grammar. Presumably, this "I" is real. Can you find it in the world? If you say it's the brain, there's only elementary particles there, same as everything else. We see no such "I" there.
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by mooseburger 5y ago
He wrote a book called Two Hundred Years Together about the Jews in Russia. It wouldn't surprise me if it really is antisemitic, but it's utterly pathetic to give a damn about the thought-killing cliches of modernity such as antis
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by mooseburger 6y ago
> you experience discontinuity every night when you sleep Something dubious about this. No one thinks they're annhiliated upon sleeping, then reconstituted upon waking. Even adhering to materialism, the problem with mind uploads is
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by mooseburger 6y ago
It's pretty lame they didn't name the app, it's clear some programmer(s) somewhere needs the wake up call.
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Shouldn't you name and shame this guy in this comment? It doesn't seem like he deserves anonimity.
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Interestingly, no, it isn't fully explained as of today. Schopenhauer's quote of "Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle" is still true today. No, starting from be
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Doesn't appear to be a pardon, which involves the conviction being expunged. Commuting a sentence means more like "you have been punished enough, but we were right to punish you". A pardon is "we were wrong to punish you
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Ask HN: How to do password strength checking in 2020?
3 points by mooseburger 6y ago|0 comments
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by mooseburger 6y ago
I see that the global center of capital is continuing its millenia long westward migration. Past the US west coast, and into China. From Prometheus Rising: > Brooks Adams also noted that centralized capital (the accumulation of wealth in
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by mooseburger 6y ago
https://humanvarieties.org
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Critical thinking is supposed to be just one tool, everyone should have more than that in their mental toolbox. It's useless on its own, we need the capacity to build systems more than we need the ability to tear them down. It's a
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Can't change the heart with rioting either, and are you sure you know whose hearts need to change, and what change needs to occur? I think you could erase all racism from the hearts of humanity and end up with basically the same world,
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by mooseburger 6y ago
Once programmers become obsolete, it's likely a matter of days until the human race becomes obsolete.
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man(fiftytwostories.com)
1 points by mooseburger 6y ago|0 comments
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by mooseburger 6y ago
There's a reason Jesus' reply to the first temptation of the Devil was "One does not live by bread alone": the world is not a problem to be solved, and as long as man continues to see it like that, their suffering will c
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by mooseburger 7y ago
The brain, like the objects you described, poses no mystery to physics. There isn't anything about the atoms in the brain that suggests there would be consciousness, or indeed, anything in physics that predicts consciousness arising, t
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by mooseburger 7y ago
From what I remember of Laozi, he also describes entering an indescribable state of mind. Zhuangzu also explores themes of accepting the world as is, and accepting death.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Trying out belief systems is like choosing programming languages: rather hard to appraise them without actually trying to build something and run it in your wetware computer.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
I would argue you can just read this: https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakr... Advaita Vedanta is rather similar to Taoism.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
You don't have an impression of your own consciousness (your conscious awareness) to begin with. You just perceive stuff. How exactly could you not have conscious awareness?

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