pitspotter

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by pitspotter 5y ago
Are we, in fact, waking up to woke ?
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by pitspotter 5y ago
>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contradicted by Richard Hamming in his lecture on creativity. He points out a famo
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by pitspotter 5y ago
The Consistency Principle can be annoying too when used exploitatively. I walked away from a gym membership once when they tried to charge a joining fee in the last minute. https://worldofwork.io/2019/07/cialdinis-
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes, only today I noticed a fine free domain recording of a work by Rudyard Kipling has been appropriated by audible with the Librivox blurb removed and the narrator misattributed.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
After sight-reading through the piece a few times you can generally start writing down the fingering on the score. Keep a pencil handy. It's a bad idea to finger on the first play or the first day because there's a risk of prematu
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by pitspotter 5y ago
The treatments don't exist yet apart from a few stem cell treatments e.g. for Parkinson's disease. But there are clear criteria: there are the seven categories of cell damage proposed by Aubrey de Grey over a decade ago: https:
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by pitspotter 5y ago
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ > [...] We’ve barely scratched the surface of optics and camera lens A real genius certainly, but, I'm always doing this; bad choice of metaphor here!
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes! I like the garbage collection analogy and we already know that children brought up without parents do badly. Why would an AGI be any different, let alone an AGI brought up in virtual chains for safety's sake. What a misguided noti
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Worth emphasising that the knowledge of how to do these things like tying shoelaces and writing topology papers is contained in the surrounding culture. So if a machine can learn this culture, much of the complexity is outsourced. The abili
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Not having to sign for deliveries.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Maybe the 'Do Easy' strategy helps a drug user to cope with the low dopamine levels during the hangover period, i.e. when not high.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
In some cases it might be due to the curse of knowledge . You assume because you understand it that the subject must be pretty simple for others.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
I think you're both right. The benefits of successful invention (most inventions being unsuccessful) redound 1000-fold on surrounding society (rather than on the inventor, who nevertheless may profit). Yet it's good people who a
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by pitspotter 5y ago
The main idea of the book is the very exciting idea of reference frames which are created by cortical columns and whose function is to model aspects of the world such as physical objects and abstract concepts. Thinking is then moving th
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes, I hate that motivation. More trivially there are people who enjoy baiting and winding other people up. Why? I don't know. However I think I know the reason it's permitted to exist: because it makes its victims more resilient
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by pitspotter 5y ago
His magnificent 'Dragon Speech' also made it clear that he'd already lost some of his marbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes, which piece was that btw? I'm learning Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor, probably the hardest piece for me to date. I'm not timing the process but this must have been going on for six months by now. Practice occurs only
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Health, intelligence and facial symmetry do seem to be linked to the absence of deleterious mutations so yes it may well be that the children of wealthy people benefit, in the farther future. I don't foresee any particular harm, sinc
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Trying to enhance or disable healthy genes isn't the same as fixing known disease-causing mutations. Moreover, identifying harmful mutations can't tell you how to build superhumans. So I think the similarity is only superficial.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Curing genetic diseases is going to turn unlucky people into more normal people, not privileged people into superhumans.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes, I wonder too. Yet isolation does seem to be a component of creative achievement. Feynman would be another example like Von Neumann. Off-the-charts intelligence and admired for his intelligence, his honesty and sense of adventure. But
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by pitspotter 5y ago
As easy as it is to admire intelligence it's really motivation which is key, which is the admirable thing about people . VN could have accomplished far more if he'd been less concerned with prestige, academies, spy stuff, and so
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Yes! It wasn't until I'd posted the question that I realised its aptness for today (Easter Sunday). However I'm not saying people should believe in an afterlife. Rather I'm reflecting that not wanting there to be an
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by pitspotter 5y ago
What if we're in a simulation and getting to level 2 requires that one prefer consciousness not to cease upon death?
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Clearly you are a golfer.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
Cotton sheets help to remind me. I don't know what people slept on in history (tho I hear that heather was good) but clean sheets and cotton pyjamas are fantastic.
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by pitspotter 5y ago
No I really think society can only improve, albeit slowly, by problem-solving . Firstly one has to identify a problem and take ownership of it. But outrage is about blaming other people and refusing to take ownership.
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by pitspotter 6y ago
Indeed. Giant technology companies are effectively part of government now. They make and enforce the rules about public discourse. The libertarian argument used to support censorship is that a private group or business is free to do what it
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by pitspotter 6y ago
The idea isn't to go to sleep but to avert a full-blown cold or other respiratory infection if possible. Usually takes 15-45 minutes. But you have to catch it right at the start and you have to be at home, obviously. If you're con
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by pitspotter 6y ago
It'd increase them, for sure. Never mind, though, the only cognitive effort required is a focus on gentle breathing. Plus an occasional flick of the duvet to refresh the air!

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