ytturbed

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by ytturbed 12y ago
'No doubt' is a figure of speech. But in species where there aren't any pain signals at all, my case is strengthened. I've skimmed the page you link: doesn't it just assume that 'pain experience' implies s
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Oh I agree, I'm the same, but I do acknowledge that there's an unsolved philosophical/scientific problem here, with no good explanations in sight. And thus I can't equate indifference to the death of insects with sadism.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Yeah. Another questionable assumption: >If you had the opportunity to feed harmless bugs into a coffee grinder, would you enjoy the experience? Even if the bugs had names, and you could hear their shells painfully crunching? No doubt the
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>shame has become a central tool for trying to create positive social change Yet it doesn't. It creates fear and reduces communication. The motive for shaming people, for trying to make people feel guilty, is to increase the power
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by ytturbed 12y ago
I don't expect professional philosophers will contribute much either. But it's plausible that a philosophical advance (a new way of thinking) within an existing field such as computer science will lead to the breakthrough. Deuts
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>In fact anything computers ever do is not real intelligence No, he doesn't say that. On the contrary he names the principle ('Universality of Computation'; see paragraph 4) which guarantees that computers are capable of
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by ytturbed 12y ago
One thing the article gets right I believe is that highly creative people are annoying, almost psychotic individuals. It can't be otherwise. If they cared what other people thought as much as the rest of us do they'd self-censor t
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by ytturbed 12y ago
I have to agree. Sometimes I think I'm not disciplined enough. But every now and then I start a book which is so interesting and vital that I'm compelled to go all the way through at top speed, with later re-reads. I'm thrill
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Yes. There's something about walking isn't there? Returning attention back to the body and the senses amounts to relaxing after hard concentration. Perhaps petting the dog enhances that, the body being where emotions are felt.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Sleep is a given. The brain is learning continuously, not just during sleep. Go back to a section of a piece after 15 minutes doing something else and notice it has become easier.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>When she does this with students, she asks them afterwards, “Was anything fuzzy?” It’s usually the part that they were messing up that’s fuzzy. This is genius. Reminds me of the rule that if something feels fuzzy at the instrument it&
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Yes. We could define it as any movement which condemns people on the basis of their professed ideas.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Plus you'll likely still have access to it years later. And it will remain private.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Perhaps would-be surgeons ought to have their manual coordination assessed before they commence years of expensive training. The irony is that for my father's generation, in England, prowess on the rugby field was considered importan
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>If animals eat all the food that is available to them and reproduce as fast is they are physically capable, then the environment will be denuded, the next generation will starve, and the species will face extinction. All animal species
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Why can't recovering from WW2 have been the cause? Re-building institutions and cities from scratch causes people to think more creatively.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
I would say that by and large it's actually the social people who get lonely. They need the acceptance of others in order to feel good about themselves. Newton had his God and his work. Sure, there's 'more to life' but b
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by ytturbed 12y ago
If you have a creative personality, a source of income, and an internal source of validation then, yes, social time is time wasted.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Some people claim that there is indeed such a pill: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ibogaine/comments/2kb3s9/i_have_done...
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by ytturbed 12y ago
We ought to design for a range of masses.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
I was addressing the statement 'Currently, all our human rated rocket engines use chemical reactions', and I agreed with it. But it's not good enough if you consider the lengthy design cycle of propulsion systems. We ought to
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by ytturbed 12y ago
To address my claim you would need an explanation of why that trend will continue, including for the several new projects. Btw, Apollo used a novel alloy.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
The value of his 'boyish wonder face' is that he's emotionally open, relatively speaking, and therefore we perceive that he's not consciously deceiving us in ways that he thinks important. It shouldn't matter, of co
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>Currently, all our human rated rocket engines use chemical reactions (combustion of a fuel and oxidizer) to produce the energy. Yes, however, for completeness: an explanation of why we must limit designs to chemical rockets ought to inc
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by ytturbed 12y ago
As a result of these fears, AIs will be sandboxed: http://goo.gl/AUJH4t Subsequently having their interactions monitored and restricted for a period of probation: http://goo.gl/3XJjHY Look familiar?
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>Where did you get your epistemology? Karl Popper. >If we can't measure things we don't understand, how the heck would we come to understand them? We get new ideas, such as the concept of distance, by guessing them in respon
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by ytturbed 12y ago
We can't measure things we don't understand. Note that a photodetector detects light, not suns.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
No, it's not obvious. If it were then we'd have programmed an AGI by now.
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by ytturbed 12y ago
>It is possible to be intelligent and unwilling to follow instructions True. But whether an instruction has been followed is easy to measure and relates directly to language, unlike the other criteria in Table 1. Also, note that chimps a
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by ytturbed 12y ago
Fascinating stuff but the concept of intelligence is rather nebulous. Their operational definition is cobbled together from things that people have intuitively considered important like eye tracking and tool use. But these aren't conne

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