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Whether you like his theories and positions or not, he was a great philosopher, an influential thinker, and an interesting character.

NY Times interview with him: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/27/magazine/dani...

NYer profile: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennett...

Interesting thread on /r/askphilosophy on philosophers' pushback against him: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2cs8kz/do_ma...

Big loss indeed, RIP.
I found Dennett's responses to Fodor to be spot on. I think Fodor simply could not grasp what Dennett was actually talking about--and Fodor was not the only one.
It looks like there may be decent Linux support on these chips, though I’m not sure if custom drivers for the hardware in each laptop would be needed?
RIP. When I wasn't sure what to make of Goedel, Escher, Bach, his writings tipped the scale. Thanks!
I wonder if he ever demanded "reparations", like so many "activists" today.
Dennett himself (like his teacher Quine) is very deflationary about the kind of philosophy practiced by most of his colleagues. See e.g. his "Higher-order truths about chmess" (https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/s11245-006-0005-2):

> Some philosophical research projects ... are rather like working out the truths of chess. A set of mutually agreed upon rules are presupposed — and seldom discussed — and the implications of those rules are worked out, articulated, debated, refined. So far, so good. Chess is a deep and important human artifact, about which much of value has been written. But some philosophical research projects are more like working out the truths of chmess. Chmess is just like chess except that the king can move two squares in any direction, not one. I just invented it — though no doubt others have explored it in depth to see if it is worth playing. Probably it isn’t. It probably has other names. I didn’t bother investigating these questions because although they have true answers, they just aren’t worth my time and energy to discover. Or so I think. There are just as many a priori truths of chmess as there are of chess (an infinity), and they are just as hard to discover...
Hilarious, I had the same exact thought and deleted my comment when I saw you'd beat me to it 3 hours prior.

For all people make fun of Elon, you've gotta hand it to him, a truck that can only be washed in the cover of darkness is a true innovation.
Madrid: They don't have a river, a beach or ancient ruins.

We do have a river, but if it doesn't seem much to you, take the train south and in half an hour you reach Aranjuez:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranjuez

There you have the Tagus river and gorgeous gardens.
>> all of these can be exciting and interesting without pretending that it's closely related to human brains

Why do you say they are not closely related? They are certainly an analogy to parts of the human brain. They are inspired by the way real neurons work at some level. But using the word "pretending" you sound as if you think these similarities are pure fiction. Why is that?
> I think Kant would have been another justifiable example.

He may well be, I just don't know that much about him.
Correct, but, to bring it back to the original point, there's a difference between "sloppy code" and "sloppy code that cascades into unintended acceleration". The fact that it didn't actually cascade isn't a reason to keep writing sloppy code, of course. But such sloppiness also remains a red herring until they can actually find a concrete way that code could have contributed.
This is the classic fallacy of "outrage == surprise". You can expect a person or entity might do something you personally find morally wrong and still sound angry when it happens - that's not hypocrisy or ignorance. You might even use words like "shocking" to describe their behavior, because, no matter how expected it might be, immoral behavior is shocking - and should be!

Long story short, sometimes people try to use "expectation" to downplay bad behavior, and that's clearly irrelevant. The "expectation" for a business to do absolutely anything legal for profit is perhaps the most common manifestation of this fallacy.
> You don't have to save the world, just keep it moving.

Thanks, that's a nice quote.
In 2015, I found the phone number to radio host Jesse Lee Peterson's office, and around the same time had seen a clip of him saying that the "biggest mistake America ever made was allowing women to vote". I called the number to leave a message that I thought he was an "ignorant, sexist moron". [1]

The intern that answered the phone said "do you want to tell him yourself?", to which I quickly said "yes".

Jesse answered the phone, and I said "hey, Jesse Lee Peterson, I think you're an ignorant moron".

He replied back with "do you want to say this on the show tomorrow?" to which I said "absolutely". A producer reached out to me via email, and the next day I spoke to him on the radio for about 20 minutes. I doubt I convinced him or any of his listeners of anything, but at least I got to say my piece, for a lot longer than I thought I was going to.

While I still think he's an ignorant and sexist moron whose opinions have only gotten more radical and scary, I guess I'll give him a little credit for being a bit open to alternate arguments.

[1] Even if you disagree, don't try and convince me otherwise here, because you will not convince me otherwise in this case. If you don't know who he is, I advise that you don't Google him if you don't want to get depressed.
Koto 0.14 released – scripting for Rust appplications
If they are purely your projects, then it is just a matter of will :-D
I find that this is a great reaction to someone finding a bug in your paper. No trying to cover it up, but straight-up admitting a mistake. Also, the fact that he leaves the paper out because it does contain novel ideas that might be useful for further research is cool.
Yeah. There are companies that specialize in these sort of connections. But getting an appointment with a specialist is hard enough much less connecting to a qualitative survey.

In addition the the other comments, maybe you have some personal networks. But expert networks are probably the best bet that doesn't involve personal connections.
My partner used to not be covered under my health care. When we paid cash for his appointments it was LESS than it is now with insurance copays. This is on top of a huge monthly payment. A recent ER visit with my health insurance cost more than the one my roommate did without it. We absolutely need socialized health care in this country. Almost nothing could be worse than the current system.
This is also problem with any field.

There are ton of scientific theories that seem legit but its def out there.
Show HN: Detwemoji – replace Twitter's emoji with OS standard implementations
So sad. I was on the team that brought him to Google, and my task was to get his signature on the video release form. Here's the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_mY54hjM0

I told him that his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea was one of the few where, when I got to the end, I immediately wanted to go back to the beginning and read it again.

He said, "I'm not sure that's a good thing."
That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's pretty anti-Israel, no matter what side you're on. I mean, even look at the sibling post to yours. Its anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
Does code review speed matter for practitioners?
or, conversely, a quack marketing approach: the more you can relate a product to an existing successful product, the more people will think it's a good idea.
They meet the god of evolution, he is completely obsessed with beetles.
well before there was supabase I would use Firebase

so it would serve Google well if they matched what supabase is doing or bought them out
Those are starting to be pretty out-of-date. Proper C++23 code looks nowhere like code from Effective Modern C++ (published in 2014) just like you wouldn't expect C# or JS books from 2014 to be up-to-date with 2024 good practices - compare for instance Eloquent Javascript 1st edition (2011) and 4th edition (2024) : `let`, `const`, `use strict;` and a ton of other things taken for granted today weren't there.
I too would find that very annoying and would be hesitent to buy one without consistent access to charging where I lived if I was driving a lot.
The awful thing about this is that regardless of whatever AI companies prohibit in their terms, companies will integrate these kinds of LLMs into their hiring process.
QtCreator helps with the learning curve as it‘s a very accessible IDE. One of the first IDEs I used in my career.
> Carbs turn to the same thing as added sugar before they even hit your stomach

This is not true, you have amylase in your saliva that has a tiny impact on breaking down starches.
While there is a little bit of hydrolysis in the stomach, most of the break down happens in the small intestine for smaller oligosaccharides (pancreatic and small intestine enzymes mostly) and the colon for large ones including most fibers (bacteria are doing it)
>Like we had no reason to suspect that someone who wasn't affiliated with us or wasn't even wearing a shirt or anything related to our sit-in—we had no reason to think that they would be retaliated against.

This is from one of the organizers of the sit-in/protest. I'd want to get third party confirmation and/or google's side of the story before confidently claiming "This is incorrect; every uninvolved worker who spoke to them was also terminated".
Actually things have changed for IBM. Speaking as an IBM employee, but not on behalf of IBM, my team (and I suspect all others) had to identify any work done by Russian IBM employees and then subsequently divested ourselves of those employees and offices during the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
> Needing to also use a keyboard key at the same time wouldn't very ergonomic.

Agreed. But maybe better awkward than non-existent? Otherwise, users with no right-click can’t pan.

Didn’t realize ctrl-click and right-click are not always functional equivalents.
This post most likely was identified and went out to Israeli disinformation groups to be spam flagged.

Or HN and it's mods are bias because other political piece's are posted here often.
I don't like Twitter's emoji. I prefer Apple's implementation. I spent about 5 minutes on this, thank you Claude.

This isn't pretty at all, I know. It's not meant to showcase any kind of personal talents. Just an itch I finally scratched.
You missed the word 'rate'.
I first came across Daniel Dennett through Douglas Hofstadter, when I read The Mind's I because I liked Godel, Escher, Bach. Once I had read Dennett's contributions to The Mind's I, I started looking up everything I could find of his writings; I think at this point I've read every one of his books and a fair number of his papers. He will be missed. RIP.
“In neuromorphic computing, however, a "spike input" — a set of discrete electrical signals — is fed into the spiking neural networks (SNNs), represented by the processors. Where software-based neural networks are a collection of machine learning algorithms arranged to mimic the human brain, SNNs are a physical embodiment of how that information is transmitted. It allows for parallel processing and spike outputs are measured following calculations.

Like the brain, Hala Point and the Loihi 2 processors use these SNNs, where different nodes are connected and information is processed at different layers, similar to neurons in the brain.”

My impression is that there hadn't been much success with SNN's yet.
Related:

Google CEO: Building for our AI future

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085758
btw, here are some other fun explore points :)

Sci-Fi -> https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/9008

History -> https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12669

Fantasy -> https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12664

Behavioral economics -> https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/3105

One HUGE challenge we have right now is that the publishers abuse their genre system, and the NLP/ML system I use for topic identification isn't great. I am working on a new system to bypass both of those and hope to roll that out later this year; that will drastically improve accuracy on topics/genres.
Almost certainly a good idea. I'm about to start trying things in this direction
In my testing it never exceeded 700 watts, and those surges are extremely brief. That isn't very high for a decent power inverter.
I like this view of the integral (and generally regard this site as helpful to build intuitions).

https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-calculus-analogy-inte...
Rest in Peace, Legend!
Not that I’m aware of, and it seems unlikely. You may be thinking of his agent John Brockman who was indeed involved. The only connection I found after 10 min of googling was when Dan Dennett went with other clients of Brockman (Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins; I know, weird trio, but this was back in 2002, well before Dawkins’ outing as a right wing weirdo) that attended a TED conference at Epstein’s island in 2002.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-science...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets...
Apple Ordered to Remove WhatsApp, Threads, Signal from the App Store in China
Very sad news. Had the pleasure of having him be the keynote speaker at an aesthetics conference some friends and I organized during uni. Brilliant mind. RIP
> The second one is WOW.

Indeed! Now assume that the many-worlds interpretation is accurate and you will live through most of that, if quantum immortality [1] turns out to apply to the real world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...
Random anecdote: I tried a few trivia questions for 90s video games and llama 3 8b and 70b are hallucinating quite a bit.

Command R+ and Mistral 8x22B were better.

Llama 3 still feels like a huge jump forward in capability. I wonder why the 70b is not better at recall (for lack of a better word?).
This has the side effect of incentivizing bullshit submissions. This may work better for something that is rigid, like answering some multiple choice questions.
But the thing is it's only the angular speed of star systems in some galaxies. We have also found galaxies that behave differently, as if they have no dark matter. This is very easily explained with dark matter theory - they actually don't have dark matter. Any theory that modifies gravity needs to explain why we only sometimes modify gravity.

Further, while that was the observation dark matter was originally introduced to explain, there are a lot of other observations it has since explained. For example we can see regions of space with high gravity that do not appear to have any substantial amounts of regular matter in them. Again, stuff we can't directly detect as it doesn't interact with light but still has mass is a really simple explanation.

And from a theoretical perspective, there's no reason to think dark matter is weird. There is no law that says all particles need to interact with the electromagnetic force, indeed we know of many particles that don't even though none of the ones we know are particularly good candidates for dark matter. That there is a particle we don't know about specifically because it's most important property is that it is hard for our instruments to directly detect is far more likely than that one of our most successful theories which has an extremely firm foundation and has correctly predicted numerous observed phenomena with incredible accuracy has been wrong this whole time.
Dennett's response concedes all of Fodor's main points and proceeds via innuendo and ad hominem. But there you have it. Dennett was important and influential, and is worth reading, but his appeal as a philosopher has always been a mystery to me.
It has apparently been there two days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068125
"heavy user"? Hundreds of comments on multiple posts that made the front page. They've been there for people to see, and direction to the main posts via dupes. The discussion continues on flagged posts.
Woosh! Way over your head
Last time I checked SNNs still don’t work as well as traditional NNs. Why are they working on hardware before getting software to work?
There are people who think Israel is committing war crimes. There are also people who think that HAMAS/Houthis/anti-Israel Arab states are the ones committing
these crimes. There are people who strongly feel that AI will destroy humanity. There are people who are pro nuclear power and people who are vehemently anti nuclear power. There are people who feel that advertising and social media are a cancer to society.

Google is involved in all of these causes (and lots more) one way or another. If they accommodated every employee protest and shut down projects as and when a random group of 20 was opposed to it, there would be no company left.

So no, they are under no obligation to stop selling cloud computing to Israel or the US DoD or anyone else. Whether they are judged to be the same as IBM during the holocaust or as the saviors of humanity will be decided by historians 50 years from now.
If you're mostly using the CRM for quoting, why not get a tool focused on that like pandadoc? It will be cheaper
It's mentioned in the first sentence of https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%82, the first sentence in the corresponding English article, and early in the corresponding pages in other languages that I checked.

I chased a few references and found the following:

The Iliad: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+3.16&...

Hyginus, in Latin: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost02/Hygi...

I assume there's more.
I don't know, I wasn't there. How old do you think I am?!

Just kidding. I suspect that's an interglacial when you have warming and melting but before the trees have grown back to recapture the co2. But check with an expert if you want a more authoritative answer.
Why not VSCode? It's support for extensions are great. Emmet for rapid HTML scaffolding, inline hex color preview, autocomplete for attributes, and not to mention great multi-line editing support. And, of course, CoPilot which can write/edit HTML so much faster than I can type. Can you tell I'm a fan?
Someone who is discrediting all of philosophy shouldn't confuse Wittgenstein and Kant.

Further, Wittgenstein disavowed Tractatus as a failed project and completely revised his approach to philosophy. His most important and influential works came afterwards.
And be upfront about it - tell them that you're in the research phase and you're just trying to gather information, and it's not a sales call.
It looks a little bit periodic before we showed up. If it is random with some periodic tendency, I guess we don’t need a particular justification for the highest peak, right? One has to be. It isn’t massively higher than the previous peak.
“This would give a stricter platform a competitive advantage in the marketplace; a platform that has to declare in large print that it allows misinformation or hate speech is likely to turn off many potential users and advertisers.“

Compelling speech as a way to protect free speech seems like a great idea at first, but I wonder if this wouldn’t become a purity spiral of sorts?
There's a dead comment on here that I think could spur some interesting conversation, it said:

> Tim, you aren't important enough for an LLM to have an accurate summary for you

That's part of the problem though, right? How is the end-user (the question-asker) of a chat robot supposed to know that? These things are advertised as machines to answer any question, they answer them with confidence that *feels* authoritative in a way that a webpage, with all of its surrounding context, does not.
If you talk to a collegue and say "what should I use to do X", and they say "use FooX", because they read it in a book last year, is that unethical?

Most of the top results in search engines are terrible, mainly because of the SEO spam

We'll eventually reach that with AI of course, but for now we haven't.
The WIN32 API is somewhat ugly. I hate how all types are capitalized and their short abbreviations in arguments are sometimes weird. I hate how they have their own version of lots of standard C types that you have to be careful about (they weren't standard at the time, to be fair).

But it's quite straightforward and easy to use. Any language that has FFI can call into it and build GUI apps, I've made a windowed Hello World in PHP with it.

And it has been that way for 30+ years at this point. It's quite remarkable, really!
In the UK, lots of people are finding their 1.0 Ecoboost engines are catastrophically failing at 50,000 miles or less (hence the nickname Ecoboom). Ford have been useless. This has been going on for years now, and they have finally said they'll help, but only if the repair was done at the dealer, you have a FSH and the car is less than 7 years old. Outside of that you're SOL. They've refused to recall and fix the underlying issue. Obviously this tanks their resale value but Ford do not care.
Highly recommend listening to this HBR podcast about the same topic. [1]

TJ Watson (of IBM) is quoted as saying: “I’m an internationalist. I cooperate with all forms of government, regardless of whether I can subscribe to all of their principles or not.”

I hear a lot of similar echos within tech companies right now. People using “we’re a business” to shut down discussion about the role of supplying AI technology to Israel, who has been using AI to choose bombing targets [2].

[1] https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/11/lessons-from-ibm-in-nazi-ger...

[2] https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
That certainly breathes new life into old metaphors like "twilight years".

It sounds like the most immediate takeaway is that anyone analyzing this stuff needs to control for when measure individuals.
I enjoyed him mostly for his crusade against philosophy purporting that the mind has something other than a physical basis. Modern day philosophers that want to resurrect the “mind body problem” and panpsychism and the “hard problem of consciousness”.

He consistently argues that studying consciousness and perception is difficult but not impossible, and we will slowly make progress in this scientific endeavor just like all others we have attempted thus far. In philosophy circles he is sometimes derided as having too scientific a mindset, but that is what draws me to him. He’s very endearing to listen to as well—very idiosyncratic.
Thank you for all the answers.

I guess the one saying about things happening for a reason, or going further, the reason why they happen is to give us a chance to act on them in some way, talks to me the most.
Do we have public post mortems for all the thousands of recalls over the years?

For example, what happened with Toyota's wheels falling off a couple a years ago.
The title promised more than it delivered, but nevertheless, Dennett's efforts in attempting to achieve that goal were a refreshing break from the incessant and fruitless bickering over whether the mind is a physical phenomenon.