skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emergent phenomena are often hard to predict, like the weather. That doesn't actually tell us a whole lot about the underlying physics, it seems to me. The halting problem is an emergent property of turing machines, and we know mathematically that the behavior of a Turing machine cannot usually be predicted or mathematically modeled without just running it.

The mathematical underpinnings of superconductivity are still in flux, but there's still every reason to believe that it's an emergent phenomenon from known physics. I don't see any obvious reason why consciousness can't be something like that.
The author is edging the gap between hard materialism and something more.

Axioms of hard materialism:

- physical events have physical causes

- everything is a physical event

the associated tenets of science support a kind of intellectual "clean room", isolating rational thought (stories about things) from being contaminated by specks of human emotion/desire/serendipity.

Other ontologies (including my lived experience) have different core principles.
>Nature does not appear to be at all bothered by this "contradiction"

There is no contradiction. Our intuition for what 'A happens before B' means and implies is just bad/incomplete, as special relativity models.

>Even more puzzling "contradictions" arise in quantum mechanics.

I would bet a couple years of wage that what seems like contradictions will eventually be cleared up with some non-intuitive models, just like with special relativity.

I imagine the 'changes based on observer' problems of quantum mechanics will be more understandable once we decide what an observer is ( goddamnit people from physics, you don't add such a highly abstract variable to your model without giving it some good definition x( ), with some better experimental apparatus or with some deeper models of reality.
Nevertheless it is an important debate to have don't you think ?
Why would it need to exist? I feel like you're reaching for a philosophical argument here for a question which is already adequately resolved by physics and biology.
> I'd still rather be poor today than poor a few hundred years ago.

That's super interesting. Thanks for your input.
I don't see how this is a "wow" moment. It is a straightforward consequence of prior materialist commitments, not a discovery of empirical science. If everything is "matter in motion", then ipso facto all mental activity is matter in motion. The problem is that materialism is completely untenable given the way materialism understands matter (e.g., the problem of qualia, the problem of intentionality, etc). Some materialists realize this, but double down and become eliminativists, which is very sad.

Also, from what you have said it does not follow that all "mental content" is to be "located" in the brain. That you have brain correlates is not surprising, if only for the fact that without them you would need to wonder what the heck the brain is doing. But you will not find, in the materialist account, a way in which to account for abstraction in the brain. You cannot account for the concept "square" by appealing to the alone (as opposed to say the image of a particular square).
I was very addicted to THC and Nicotine when I used to smoke. I was able to quit both though.
Yeah exactly, why would it?
Iran celebrated the 2500 year anniversary of the founding of the Achemenaid empire in 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,500-year_celebration_of_the_...

I wonder if such a focus on pre-Islamic history would fuel the 1979 revolution.

Nowadays, people are celebrating the 2500 year anniversary of Salamis (and Thermopylae, which is overrepresented in its significance).
Many students fail to look into prospects and hopelessly enroll in post-grad thinking they’re entitled to them.

Do your homework when you choose to sign up for a degree, stop playing victim.
Each comment GP made corresponds to quote following the comment. i.e.:

>This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe?

>> Yes, we quarrel with the French. The members of a family argue pretty freely inside the home ; We quarrel with our allies, We don't quarrel with our enemies -- we fight them.

With that said, I wouldn't interpret the US relationship with China as one of alliance nor as one of enmity (yet).
My jaw literally dropped when O read that,here I was thinking we had reached peak 'Idiocracy'.
I'd expect to see that on an Instagram ad for a fly by night supplement company.

But from a publicly traded company that presumably have lawyers on retainer to look these things over?
I’m of the opinion that its an option

Building these options is alot of fun and very lucrative
I'll use myself as an example:

- Voters should show proof of citizenship when voting.

- The US needs to take a serious look at implementing Universal Basic Income, and not just because of the automation of jobs.

- Abortion should be legal up to the earliest that a fetus has survived out of the womb, roughly 3 months.

- We should celebrate diversity, and, we should be able to talk about what makes us different. Without risking censure.

- We should have a clear, straightforward and streamlined path to citienship for anyone who wants to become an American.

- Mass media has done a masterful job of brainwashing Americans for the purpose of polarizing us, which drives outrage, clicks and ad revenue.

What label do you apply to me? How about none? People's beliefs are on a spectrum, they aren't binary. But we should each understand the 'first principles' of why we believe what we believe, and dig deeper than a news article. Once you view people in this way, you actually have to get to know them before you can decide whether their beliefs align with yours.

Labeling people and judging them based on a superficial observation is the opposite of inclusion. I was taught that in grade school 50 years ago.
You don't need a degree to open a medical business. You need a degree to practice medicine.
Sure, that could be a reasonable thing to say about IQ.

But "fastest man" is well defined, because speed is well-defined.

"being fast at storing and processing information" is a candidate for a definition of intelligence, but far from the only one.

So no, it's nothing like claiming that Usain Bolt isn't the fastest man in the world.

Or maybe it is: Bolt is almost certainly not the fastest person over 100 miles, so what kind of speed / intelligence are we discussing?
> Do you think your plumber started his business thinking of making the world a better place?

For the tradespeople I have known, the answer is yes. They also like getting paid, of course. But they find satisfaction in making the world better one sink at a time. Otherwise spending 40 years as plumber would be an absolutely miserable experience.
Right so the employees providing the actual services may need qualifications. The person opening the business doesn't. I've never seen anywhere where opening a business needs a degree or qualification.
I guess I don't really see it.

As an adult, I don't really have much interest in a complete degree with a certification. (With the exception of very bounded industry-specific things.) So in that respect adult education certainly is different.

I have known people who got PhDs as adults and I think they mostly didn't care for the experience. I know I have zero interest in getting another degree. Even a couple of decades ago, it would have zero value for my professional development and would, in fact, have been mostly a distraction.

However, there are a ton of educational opportunities often oriented to working adults. Community colleges, extension programs, online learning of all sorts...
Sure if it's badly written the CPU could get hot and all the side effects of running the code, maybe it's a virus.

if the machine has consciousness of thought and not just continuity of data, it would feel pretty bad with it's sensors (maybe even some total pain threshold metric) and might even cry or complain to a near by sentient being for help.

The problem is it may only speak to other beings of the same abstraction level, or higher and the listening being has to notice, have empathy, and the skillet to fix it.
Depends on definition of “feelings”. I can define a “feeling” of a CPU as its temperature, whether it is rising or going down, which does not sound too wild because CPU may react to it and decrease its frequency or shut off some cores. How about cache usage patterns that are literally coping mechanism with the necessity to access main memory?
Which makes it all the more impressive that it's quoting Tacitus and such like. There's an important distinction between reading level and intelligence, and I think we conflate the two in modern writing. Simple language doesn't need to be simplistic.
Six Pillars of Wisdom: lesser versions of famous books
So I listed all the things a powerful government can do - control the media to enhance their worldview and threaten to take away private party, arrest and kill innocent people with immunity, take away freedom over petty crimes, etc.

And I should be more worried about corporations evading taxes?

I can tell you I’m much less worried about walking into any of the Big Tech companies and being treated unfairly than I am driving down the street and being harassed by instruments of the government.

As far as using AI to discriminate. Law enforcement and the government has been discriminating for hundreds of years. They don’t need AI to decide to harass me.
In case anyone is interested in a link: https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf

It's indeed an interesting read.
It’s funny, I don’t really feel that way about spending money on stuff, especially not cars which are a total nightmare. I guess I consider my time a lot more valuable? Probably why the higher prices for Apple products don’t bother me. I just want something consistent that I don’t have to think about.
Are you suggesting that the term "gypped" may've been racist? Presumably because its etymology may be a reference to a stereotypical behavior attributed to gypsies, which some might regard as a racial-slur for [Romani people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people)?

That passage doesn't give me that vibe -- it seems to be trying to suggest that the relevant behavior, "gypping", isn't culturally unique, but rather could be found back in the United States, too.

Concerns about terminology etymologically-based on cultural stereotypes aside, it doesn't read like the author was expressing a racist perspective, but rather trying to speak to such preexisting-perspectives as to dispel them.

Would probably want to do some checking on this first, though I'd suspect that "gypsy" wasn't widely regarded as offensive back then, either, much like "Negro" literally just meant "Black". Seems like sometimes terms are retro-historically recast as racial-slurs, apparently in an attempt to create a gap between historical-texts which use such terms and later-texts which don't. Kinda like depreciating an API in favor of a clone as a mode of depreciating the corresponding ecosystem.
Then do it yourself. Most people, however, don't game the system and would benefit from removing rent-seeking barnacles from the "no games" path.
I think the idea of a palm pilot with a stylus was before its time. I have a hard time using a mobile phone keyboard to take notes, but I also don't want to take notes purely on paper for the reasons you've mentioned. A small form factor input device with a stylus (like galaxy note) with ML handwriting detection and widespread adoption from note-taking apps would be wonderful. I'm not on the Android ecosystem and therefore feel like I can't take advantage of the small product offerings in this space.
If testing for IQ works for your purposes, then why not use GMAT, GRE, SAT scores?

I’m not sure any of this helps, though, since it would only prove you’re good at the test.
Does he mean two hours when you already know the puzzles and are just performing the actions? I don't think that's a meaningful thing to say. Most people will spend hours trying to figure the puzzles out.
The ruby-like syntax and the VERY open and newbie-friendly community have definitely contributed to this.

I've been to Elixir conferences, and they felt like people were just encouraging each other to build solid software WITH each other. I've not seen this level of camaraderie for other programming language communities.

Elixir devs — and I am super biased here — are a special bunch :)
Is the issue, imitation without consent or that viewers are not informed correctly?

I thought that given is ex-wife had not said okay and given Bourdain's past actions he may not have agreed with something like this using this technique was a poor choice, not necessarily that viewers are shown generated instead of recorded content
Yes, I routinely ask/remind my cofounder that we’re in the money game

We are in the business of selling equity, credit, and consumer products
We would have been similarly protected from Galileo’s misinformation too, right? I guess I’d prefer we not censor “wrong” ideas. The bigger the government policy footprint, the more trolley problems are bungled. Humility is understanding that sometimes less is more. “Let it be.”
UFOs: Why So Weird?
Since we have different interpretations, it seems like all the more reason for a dialog.

That said, perhaps Google decided that the risk of a bad interpretation is far too great (which would make sense) if they keep him employed.
The problem with going off of commits is that if someone doesn’t follow every week, they are likely to miss what is happening.

The only place I go to see updates for projects is Releases (or a changelog file).

Maybe a nice middle ground is simply writing more blog posts? I believe this comment from the blog sums it up very well:

> The last post here was April 20 and on Twitter Red-lang, Oct 20, of last year. Never feel like the teams posts must be somewhat ground breaking or totally exciting to the general reader/supporter. We and new interested parties must see you are still supporting your own vision or like a slow loading web page they'll be forced to move on.

https://www.red-lang.org/2020/08/redsystem-new-features.html...
Giving up the IP in perpetuity is what would be different.

>He added, “By the end of the recording, the right to these moves would go to them.”

Li said back then, he was already worried that future technology would allow US filmmakers to digitally reproduce his moving body and superimpose the face of any actor onto it.

“I was thinking: I’ve been training my entire life. And we martial artists could only grow older. Yet they could own [my moves] as an intellectual property forever. So I said I couldn’t do that,” Li said.
Which people would be forced to go to Linux?
I recommend reading "Elbow Room: the varieties of free will worth wanting" by Daniel Dennett to get a better handle on what the term "free will" might actually mean.
There very much is a back up plan, with bunkers, food, water and energy reserves, for such a catastrophic event. But not for you an I.
That is not true methane, propylene, hydrogen can be easily produced and they have temperature >2800C while burning of coal can produce combustion gases as hot as 2,500 °C (4,500 °F).
https://www.thoughtco.com/flame-temperatures-table-607307
Except that it's actual nonsense. Not long after WW2 the congress tried to ban comic books for spoiling the youth,just couple decades later people were holding public protests against the Simpsons, and the first TV show to mention the word "period" was met with similar level of protests as if that's something dirty and unspeakable.

No, it's the exact opposite - "back then" people were far more fragile and sensitive and doing or saying the wrong kind of thing could have serious consequences on your life.
You cannot depend upon the IRS to send you an accurate bill.
Anyone who has ever dealt with IRS will know that they seem to arbitrarily inflate the amounts they ask for. When this happens, you need a tax attorney to point out to them that they got it wrong. Rinse and repeat a few times and they will eventually get it right after several years and many iterations.
Right off the bat:

"The right to speak involves the duty to listen."
A faster multi-way merge algorithm interchangeable with heapq.merge
Didn’t say the Dutch weren’t racist. Never understood the Zwarte Piet nonsense. Putting race on US Birth Certificates was a systemic racism before Jim Crow and still exists.
What Are the Spiritual Gifts? – God's Good News
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If the program was coded to produce subjective feeling, no. Otherwise, it would suprise me very much. I believe what we call consciousness is selected for and is written into the structure our brains have. I do not beleive that consciouness exists outside of living brains. Maybe I am wrong but so far there has not been much evidence. I also do not believe consciousness is simply an accident but that it was specifically selected for by evolution.

People who have taken psychedelics may disagree but I think consciouness is tightly connected with sense of self, the ego. An organism that is conscious can have a sense of self. An organism with a sense of self may have a greater degree of flexible self preservation / flexible self promotion than a simple stimulus response network. Because we are conscious we focus on what we are feeling about our selves not just on the immediate sensory stimulus. Pyschedelics may break down the connection / integration of senses with self giving rise to the illusion of consciousness outside of the self-brain. But I would say this is an illusion.
Ah finally found one! Looks great!
The biggest cheapening of Master's degrees is in education, where many school districts provide reimbursement and fairly significant pay raises for teachers who get masters. Which has led to a large number of garbage paint-by-number programs to service that demand. My mother got one while I was in high school, from a well respected regional university, and the level of the coursework was laughable.
Isnt that what EFF does?
Every proposed legislation I’ve ever seen on this would let the individual tax payer still fill out a Form 1040 and send it in, if they disagree with the IRS prepared numbers.

So this would still be an option.
> Also it does not make logical sense to me why such a feature should even develop, why have consciousness if you can have intelligence and problem solving without it?

Who/what says that you can? Consciousness seems to make most sense as a sliding scale than as a sudden switch.

But even if you do argue that it's optional with intelligence, the reason it would be present would simply be: is the most efficient way to implement it.
The statue itself was paid by the French, the US funds were for the pedestaland earthworks.
More suppression needed for totalitarian control.
For virtually everything in life (not just cars and taxes), there's always "maybe I could have done better". This attitude is a recipe to be always dissatisfied and unhappy. The approach should be "did I do a good job?". For example, if you were able to get $1000 off on the car but most people are able to get only $800 then the answer is "yes" and you should be happy and content even though someone may have gotten $1200 off. Once you start evaluating your actions and decisions like that, life becomes much happier and content.
Thanks. My initial read of the other comment was that the US was fighting the French Resistance, when it was the opposite.
I think you make a good point, but maybe it's still right to fire this guy.

Using one's platform as a way to talk about personal racial views beyond the basic "don't be racist, and try to judge others based on their individual qualities" is unprofessional no matter what one's viewpoint may be. (I suppose an exception to this would be when your profession involves analysis of different groups of people, such as in diplomacy or sociology.)

Imagine a flight attendant using the in-cabin PA system to advocate that everyone should read How to Win Friends and Influence People. The message posted on LinkedIn may have been positive in a way, but at the same time a Developer Relations professional is supposed to use that kind of platform in a more topical manner.

Edit: I'm not usually one to complain about getting downvoted but I personally believe this is a fairly circumspect comment about using a professional platform in an unprofessional manner, and I'd appreciate if one of you would explain your distaste for it.
Apparently (from my colleagues) even the CIS Level 1 benchmark for Windows Server doesn’t actually recommend disabling the print spooler service by default, but that seems to be the common sense approach going forward. If you don’t need a software component, either uninstall it or disable it.
Online discussions are a lot more scatterbrained than sitting down to read a book. People are more willing to take a second & more logical look before responding when they cannot tweet back.

Also, this has a lot of reasons why the reader is right to feel a certain way.
I re-watched Dracula recently on Tubi, it was wonderfully bad. I remembered it being scary when I was a kid. I've yet to see Much Ado About Nothing, will check it out though.
> Both of these things suck, but if I just got a bill from the IRS I'm just going to think "maybe I could've done better"

I don't think anyone is advocating for removing the option to file taxes manually. Just let the IRS send a bill by default, and give you the option to file your taxes yourself if there's something wrong or you think you can do better.
> If there's an infinite number of civilisations out there, and one of them is so advanced that we are insects to them, why wouldn't they just exterminate us, or use us as food?

We want to exterminate mosquitoes because they're actively detrimental. Nobody's advocating for the extermination of, say, daddy long-legs spiders even though they're everywhere; and nobody would be advocating for the extermination of mosquitoes if they were all located in Antarctica.

So it takes a very precise level of inferiority to be extermination fodder. If you're too unassuming, there's no reason and so it doesn't happen. If you're dangerous enough that you can fight back and hold your own, it doesn't happen either.

That aliens would find us just the right shade of annoying seems... implausible.
Right on, but you forgot to mention the other part of their business model with is to sell out their customer's financial information to the highest-paying bidder.
I like doing courses in French on <https://www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/>. They have courses to learn French, but also on many other subjects.
Taxes are not hard. You enter in your income and see if you can get any deductions.

Be an adult.
I agree that it is amazing that people keep believing in obsolete theories, but it may not be all bad. In some areas of life, and to some people, very old theories have more explaining power than modern day science has. And they are often more comforting.

If neural networks explain consciousness (which they may or may not do), then there are still some remaining issues to explain. For example, how can it be that our universe exists, and why are the laws of physics in place? And why are they so consistent?

The consciousness problem may be unrelated to these problems about the fundamentals of science. It may well be that we can understand consciousness as a thing that exists entirely inside the laws of physics, but some people are not yet convinced. It may even be the case that the consciousness problem and the fundamental science problems are intrinsically related. Hence the interest in the combination of quantum mechanics and consciousness.

One hint that points in this direction is that neural networks are a great basis for abstraction and logic. And by some coincidence this is exactly what can be used to form theories that explain everything we observe.