plokiju

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by plokiju 1y ago
American Christians are extremely individualistic... As long as your individual interests coincide with their rigid moral code and what they see as a "good Christian lifestyle". Seems right to me
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by plokiju 1y ago
That's funny. I come at this from the opposite direction. I like to run stuff on my home server, and I started a ROM collection because of Romm. If you're used to managing a media collection using jellyfin/Plex, adding roms f
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by plokiju 1y ago
I thought that for a while. Until it was pointed out to me that most long videos are made of 6 second shots. Generating a long video one shot at a time kind of makes sense, as long as there's good consistency between shots
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by plokiju 1y ago
You don't need to root an android to install apps from outside the play store
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by plokiju 2y ago
That argument feels entirely circular to me Why are you ok with the president being above the law? That idea was not considered normal even a couple years ago
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by plokiju 2y ago
Maybe for now. But I think there's a good chance the market for diamonds goes the same way as the former status symbols that became common, like purple dye[1], or pineapples[2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainl
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by plokiju 2y ago
In the case of diamonds, you have the choice of buying the exact same product with human suffering involved, or without. If there were a lab-grown iPhone on the market, of course I would choose it
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by plokiju 2y ago
the elders of the internet
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by plokiju 2y ago
to me, programming is playful math. I think I would have enjoyed math a lot more as a kid if we learned programming alongside the traditional math lessons
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by plokiju 2y ago
Dogs don't automatically love either, you have to build a bond. Especially if they are shelter dogs with abusive histories, they're often nervous at first They're usually loving by nature, but you still have to build a rappor
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by plokiju 2y ago
friendly reminder to you: you won't be in the future either. because all humans have short lifespans. having children won't change that. enjoy the ride, whatever that means to you
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by plokiju 2y ago
I think the difference with qualia is that it has so many ethical implications too. I can accept that I have inner experiences and can suffer, but what about animals/robots/outsiders? Will I need to take GPT-10's feelings int
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by plokiju 2y ago
I'm honestly shocked you're skeptical about this
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by plokiju 2y ago
The primary value of any social network is the network effect
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by plokiju 2y ago
what is a complex life to you?
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by plokiju 2y ago
you say gaining new information from out of body experiences are a fact. what's your evidence to back it up? I treat those kinds of stories the same way I'd treat an alien abduction or bigfoot story. humans are unreliable narrator
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by plokiju 3y ago
that very much depends on your philosophy. Many believe that there is no continuous "self" in the first place. it doesn't matter if the upload is a copy, if the "original" is constantly being shredded and re-printed
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by plokiju 3y ago
At the same time, pretending that brains don't obey the laws of computation has its own implications, which can confuse unprepared minds into thinking: 1) That brains are something supernatural, instead of physical information processi
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by plokiju 3y ago
Because calling it a computer means you can apply computer science concepts to it. That's the interesting part. You can talk about the classes of algorithms the brain uses to solve difficult problems, the ways it tries to conserve ener
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by plokiju 3y ago
> Brain doesn’t perform computations in any CS accepted sense (neither it is a turing machine nor it has any encoded program to execute any defined algorithm). That's a big statement. Anything that can be effectively described with
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by plokiju 3y ago
So it sounds like we both agree the brain is at least a physical object that performs computations. I'm surprised you don't see similarities with other physical systems that perform computations, but sounds like a terminology diff
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by plokiju 3y ago
Read the comments on that link for a summary of my thoughts. > But neither the song nor the poem has been ‘stored’ in it. The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain
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by plokiju 3y ago
Like I said, it depends very much on how you define computer. To me "processing information" == "computation". And a physical system that performs "computations" is a computer. Therefore, a brain is just one ty
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by plokiju 3y ago
there are a lot of mysteries around the brain, but at a high level, I think you'd have a hard time finding a neuroscientist who doesn't believe the brain processes information. what's the alternative?
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by plokiju 3y ago
I'm not seeing the distinction. All computation "just is". computation happens through the physical world. adder circuits are performing a computation. an x86 CPU is nothing but a bunch of dumb circuits. water canals can do c
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by plokiju 3y ago
how would you do pattern matching without computations? I think anything that could be described through logic gates or turning machines would be a "computation". And any object or organ that processes information would be a &quot
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by plokiju 3y ago
I think that very much depends on how you define "computer". the brain is doing computations, so I think it's safe to think of it as a computer. it's just a completely alien computer to what we build ourselves
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by plokiju 3y ago
have we ever not lived in a time like that?
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by plokiju 3y ago
And high school: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/florida-just-expanded...
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by plokiju 3y ago
That doesn’t mean it can’t be questioned

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