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Ok well "you", "here", and "now" have meanings that don't depend on consciousness at all. Two software programs on a network could use the terms quite meaningfully. For instance, instead of sending the current timestamp, it could send the message "now" as a shorthand for it. Instead of sending a name/network id of the machine it is communicating with, it could send the message "you" as shorthand for it. Instead of sending the latitude and longitude of the location of where it is, it could send "here" as shorthand for "where you already know I am". There are advantages and disadvantages to this (for instance, network latency could affect the meaning of "now" vs. a timestamp).

If you are going to say it's "not a concept" you probably shouldn't then say it is synonomous with these other things. I would argue that it IS a concept, but it becomes an incoherent concept when analyzed closely. Or it becomes a very generalizable concept, one that applies perfectly well to manmade things like self driving cars and maybe even thermostats.
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There's some truth to the comment. You can't have people become so complacent that they just trust people on their word. You need somebody to actually verify that what they're doing could actually work.

Take Theranos for example. That whole thing is a huge case is scientific illiteracy. What they were suggesting was essentially impossible to achieve, yet people invested in it anyway. Nobody demanded to even see it working properly as a prototype. There are enormous kickstarter campaigns for things like "self-filling water bottles" or "solar roadways" and people fall for them.
I'm pro-cap. (For different reasons.)

But (1) this case is a bad example of unnecessary litigation, and (2) there might be better ways than a cap to stop the litigation that you're calling "unnecessary."

Maybe what you want are no caps, but greater penalties for losing (either to the winning side or to taxpayers who are paying costs associated with large companies suing each other) -- just for one example. So higher risk, higher reward. Or maybe the courts reform to make it easier to dismiss cases. You could think of a million ways to do it without caps.

What you don't want are for good cases to not be brought on behalf of consumers because it's not worth the investment of time and money.
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Yep, GP rant is middle-brow dismissal.
The amount of false and misleading information spread about Trump has been staggering though. Trying to pretend this only goes one way is a joke.

Is there even any proof that these micro-targeting campaigns swayed the election in anyway? Has anyone stopped to consider that maybe enough people just preferred Trump over Hillary and the election outcome was not the result of a some facebook ads?
Anyone who has ever owned a smartphone knows that the battery degrades over time, the battery drains faster requiring more frequent charges. So besides the slowness, a user would already know that the battery was getting old. Why in the world would they buy a new phone when they could just buy a new battery?
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Totally agree. And I do think short term trading gets people in trouble :). At least the vast majority of people. Not everyone is cut out to be a top notch speculator like Soros.
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In the cryptography world backwards compatibility is basically "let the adversary switch me back to the old and busted protocol so I can be owned even after I upgraded to the latest version."
I mean, isn't that cult-like vibe pretty much par for the course at all unicorny startups, successful or not?
That's normal. Diseases act as parasites on their hosts and its not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host, or at least not quickly. That's what tends to make zoonotic diseases so dangerous, they've calibrated themselves to exist in an equilibrium with a host animal population but when they transfer to humans that balance is out of whack and they either are immediately wiped out by the immune system or they tend to overdo it and kill the host. COVID-19 seems to have "gotten lucky" in that it found itself with, from its perspective, a thankfully low lethality allowing it to spread widely.

This can apply to bacteria even more than viruses, see https://aeon.co/essays/when-bacteria-kill-us-it-s-more-accid...

EDIT: I should say, though, that you shouldn't expect that to happen quickly. The selective pressure for COVID-19 to become less lethal is far less than it was for, say, MERS.
It's basically the smarter version of what Elizabeth Holmes did. If you're going to grift, play by the rules. It is not illegal to do what the Neumanns did, take dumb money and use it to enrich yourself while the company collapses as long as you don't lie and follow the rules.

If Holmes hadn't made the amateurish mistake of actually lying rather than just handwaving vaporware, and had managed to pull some liquidity out during later rounds into Theranos, she'd be rich and untouchable.

Remember, it's not illegal to be bad at business or technology and it's not illegal to be ridiculously optimistic to the point of delusion about the future. What is illegal is being "optimistic" about events which have already occurred.

As a result, they are smoking weed by the coast of the med and shopping for vineyards and Holmes is going to jail.
I think a better way to remember him is his insistence that all GE's company's be either first or second in their market. So under performers got a chance to go for it and if they failed they were sold.

Welch more than quintupled GE during his time. None of his successors could manage the company so what he built is slowly being dismantled. What I never understood is why they didn't just split the company in half which would have returned more value to the shareholders.
I wasn't "absolutely humiliated" by that election, but I was shocked and saddened. And when people try to tell me how humiliated and indignant I am in a "you mad bro?" sort of way, I just find it annoying. Why does the internet revel in being annoying in their taunts of the other side? What exactly do you enjoy about it? Genuine question, although obviously a bit confrontationally.
Aside from data collection questions, yes. I think it's distasteful, but I think it's inevitable. The same techniques are used by grocery stores to send people coupons. This isn't cutting edge.
Check out Steven Brust's Dragaera books. The "humans" in the books, Dragaerans, are essentially Tolkienesque elves; the "Easterners" are human, essentially Hungarians. Dragaerans aren't immortal, but have several thousand year lifespans so the difference is not very important to Easterners. (One character is older than the Dragaeran Empire, more than 200,000 years, IIRC.) And then there's the Serioli.
I grew up in Canada, several decades ago. At that time, everyone returned glass soft-drink bottles and beer bottles to the stores where the items were purchased. Milk was delivered in bottles, and the delivery person picked up the empty bottles we left on the porch the night before.

Nobody would have thought of throwing the glass into the trash, even if there were no refunds. I think part of this was that so many people had a memory of the great depression, and waste was viewed as sinful.

When plastic came in, the older folks washed plastic bags out so they could reuse them. You'd see them on the clothes lines, drying out. (Sure, people had indoor dryers, but clothes dried on the line not only saved on the electric bill but smelled so damned wonderful that it's hard to erase the memory of the delight in bringing things in off the line.)
Because I learned <center> like 20 years ago and it still works, while some of that I've only been exposed to in the last couple years (multiple "this is the right way to center" notions have come and gone since trusty ol' <center> became "bad") and I'd have much lower confidence it'd look the same in my browser as another.

[EDIT] I'm talking about situations like "we need an ugly informational page here for an hour" and all or some part of it would look better centered, or if I'm throwing up a placeholder page on a personal site. Those kinds of things, I'm not gonna google "what's the correct 2020 CSS to do what <center> does" and end up with a bunch of caveats and gotchas when I could just <center> and move on with my life.
My working definition is "Music is organized sound".

This is neither subjective nor egocentric.

While this includes many things that some would not consider music, it at least doesn't seem to exclude anything that humans at one time or another have called music, many of which I find enjoyable. (Japanoise, Power noise, etc).
The article talks about a philosophical concept called "dual-aspect monism" which, in the author's interpretation, basically means that everything we think of as physical/material has some kind of consciousness, and that our own consciousness emerges somehow from the interactions of the elementary consciousnesses of the particles in our brains. So consciousness is the hardware of reality and physical phenomena are the software, an inversion of the typical materialist view. (As a programmer, I'm not sure that metaphor really works, but I'll allow it.)

The author presents this as an avenue for confronting the likelihood that even a perfect understanding/modeling of the physical characteristics of a brain is unlikely to reveal anything about consciousness or subjective experience itself.

Seems plausible to me. Reality tends to make sense, so if it's most likely impossible to make sense of consciousness by studying the brain, there's probably some other way to look at it.

The idea that fundamental particles like electrons have some kind of subjective experience was hard to swallow at first, but then I thought about my cat. It's safe to say that a cat's consciousness is more primitive than a typical human's. You can also say that cats (at least once you get to know them) are a lot more predictable than people and have a smaller set of possible behaviors and reactions. If my cat sees a bug on the wall, she's going to do her weird hiss-snarl thing at it just about 100% of the time, and there's 0% chance she's going to roll up a newspaper and swat it.

If the consciousness of a particular entity can be ranked in comparison to that of other entities — like I would rank my consciousness as "higher" than my cat's — and if entities with "lower consciousnesses" have fewer possible behaviors or reactions to stimuli (like my cat compared to me, or a broccoli plant in my garden compared to my cat), then it's easy to imagine that something as elementary as an electron could be conscious in some way and still obey what appear to be totally deterministic rules. (Electron may have been a bad example since we can't really observe them like we can cats, but the point stands.) Another way to state it would be that as consciousness rises, so does free will (or, at least, scope of behavior).

I'm also reminded of:

John 1:1-3 (NKJV) — "In the beginning was the Word[0], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos

Of course, consciousness potentially being "the hardware of reality" doesn't necessarily mean God exists. But it fits.
I've been looking into this for my Miata. There are a few plug and play options for hardware that you can buy from small companies. This is all platform dependent of course.
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This thread and the article are both about a lawsuit. Saying they should be culpable would imply legal culpability in this context, of which they have none.
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> Nobody demanded to even see it working properly as a prototype.

Quite a few people did and recognized the fraud that it was long before it was public. But there were quite a few vested interests in making sure the price the equity would sell at was more than what they purchased at.
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Something being legal at a given point in time doesn't make it an absolute truth. Look at slavery, torture, age of consent, I'm sure it all sounded very good to the guys in charge back in the days. In a few centuries people will look back at us and wonder why the fuck we were so stupid.

I mean, just think about it for a single second, who profit from these things beside big corporations, certainly not me, you or our future descendants.
Ask HN: How do you track productivity (beyond just tracking activity)?
So here we are in 2020, and it seems as though it's really hard to get away from tracking time (activity) as opposed to other metrics that might be better indicators of productivity. Don't get me wrong, I find tracking my time to be an interesting personal exercise, but the moment you enforce it at an organizational level and have to share those details with others it produces unintended (and probably unwanted) social side effects.

I understand that some people work in environments that rely on hourly billing (a topic for a whole other discussion), so billing concerns aside.

What metrics of productivity, beyond activity-based ones like time, do you track? And do you use any specific tools (processes, software, etc.) to help you track those metrics?
>… The true pain comes later when it's time to send a signal. Maybe you want to shut down a child process.

>Do you kill(pid, signal)? Maybe you do kill(pid, 9).

>Do you know what happens when pid is -1? …
That is also not quite accurate.

The "unexpected shutdown", as Apple called it, was a result of a voltage drop in the battery. Voltage drop occurs when the max current capacity of a battery is exceeded, it has nothing to do with battery age.

Also, when you experience a voltage drop you have generally exceeded the c-rate of the battery and caused some damage which increases it's internal resistance and further reduces the max current capacity of the battery.

The iPhones experiencing "unexpected shutdown" weren't very old, generally a battery is spec'd with a c-rate that takes into account degradation over time. The fact that Apple shipped software to limit the max current draw of the device demonstrates that this wasn't expected behavior AND they were attempting to hide it rather than own up to a defect that might result in a recall.
In a way, Apple got away with a bit of sleight of hand here. They got in trouble for a fix which slowed down phones, but avoided taking heat for hardware issues which might have been much more expensive to remediate. If instead of slowing down their phones, they'd just started crashing repeatedly after a year - 18 months would it have been significantly more expensive?
The problem is that we don't believe in government.

BTW, did you know that government and cybernetics have the same word root? Some how that inspired me to think about creating better feedback loops at a societal scale..
As a single, contrary data point, I live in the North of Scotland, and get very little sunlight - I started taking 4,000 IUs a day of vitamin D around a year ago, but haven't noticed any difference whatsoever.