@madmaxbr5 @goodside this entire perspective necessitates certain definitions of consciousness, along with the pre requisite of agreeing to the notion of p-zombies. if ur not there, ur having a different kind of discussion
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@CigsKillKids
if you don't wanna do something just do it
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@goodside because natural selection seems to reward strategic predators, not mindless ones.
there are no dummies at the top of the food chain.
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Imagine if the answer to Dawkins’ question (“Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?”) is that humans are conscious for reasons analogous to why our eyes have blind spots—i.e. consciousness is a bad idea and a more competent God would have made zombies.
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@Fxnestt @Scoops_McGee980 @C9Mang0 the point of him being sober for a year was to prove to ppl like you that he was never an alcoholic
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@Scoops_McGee980 @C9Mang0 Sad if true. Hopefully he just keeps going and 1 year isnt the goal post.
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Hello. I was invited to play in an online ult event, but there seems to be some people upset by that
I thought it was fine because it's a fun stream idea and I've been making progress being 300 days sober
Not here to make anyone upset so I dont mind skipping
GOOD DAY
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@agranato42 Because *technically* you could Christmas tree to a perfect score, but that just means don't leave blanks. I don't understand why those questions were hard
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An under-told story: the returns to the insane high school extracurricular arms race would diminish significantly if the SAT and ACT would make the test harder so that there wasn’t a giant blob of people with ~2400 or ~36 scores.
Brad Carson@bradrcarson
As a former uni prez...Best higher ed reform no one talks about: raise the ceiling on standardized tests - a lot! Too many top students max out, then compete on expensive pseudo-extracurriculars instead of actual merit. Wider score distribution fixes this.
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@Ltdsoltd @agranato42 i mean if there was one part of the *standardized* test that had to go it was the completely subjective writing portion
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@agranato42 The 2400 scores don't exist anymore (essay part of the standardized test was apparently even more racist than the multiple choice, lmao), but yeah it should be incredibly difficult
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@N0tAnthonyDavis @BananaScientist @agranato42 then the rich parents would just hire particularly effective tax lawyers 2 restructure their income levels to something far less detrimental 2 their childs SAT scores. the problem with having money is that its advantages are so far reaching that controlling for them is impossible
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@BananaScientist @agranato42 You could very easily create an adjusted score based on parent income
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@Ed_Realist @agranato42 (he's wrong on most points, and a duplicitous shill on the rest)
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@agranato42 Cremieux assures us the test isn't easier. (He's wrong on this point)
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@allTheYud if this isnt the most direct evidence of paperclip maximizing "the best way to save humanity is by anhilating them" then idk what is
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Even after all the horrors I have seen, I am still skeptical that AWS is dumb enough to hook up AI coding directly to prod.
The general level of stupidity required is such that AWS would go down more often.
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac
amazon's internal A.I. coding assistant decided the engineers' existing code was inadequate so the bot deleted it to start from scratch that resulted in taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours and was not the first time it had happened incredible ft.com/content/00c282…
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@markankcorn @AviSchiffmann anythings possible, but if yes the future is approaching at a frightening rate
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@markankcorn @AviSchiffmann don't see how it can possibly be fake unless ai vid gen is really that good now. a billion reflections to give itself away and thats deadass alexander skarskard
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@AviSchiffmann OAI comms is saying it’s fake. But wow is it a damn good fake
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@cogergpat @Sauers_ maybe the one, truly conscious, human did, and the rest simply follow?
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@Sauers_ Except humans independently invented the word "conscious", Mr. Myopia.
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@ptrschmdtnlsn thank you for finally explaining economics to me peter
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Every time this comes up, a bunch of people miss the point. Each one clearly values watching someone eat shit at >$100, and disvalues eating shit at <$100. This is two people with (utterly bizarre) preferences, getting gains from trade that they wouldn't have gotten were it not for dollars as an intermediary. They both *want* to trade eating shit for watching someone eat shit, but needed dollars to coordinate that positive-sum trade across time!
Had they come across the piles simultaneously, they could have negotiated eating simultaneously, but they can't. This is *the* huge advantage of money, as a universal IOU; it enables "virtual trades" between parties separated in time and space.
no context memes@nocontextmemes
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@_JamesSteward_ yes horses were also more reliable than cars in the late 1800s whats ur point
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The battery to provide comparable energy to a tank of diesel in my 4WD (80 litres) would weigh 600kg for 240kWh.
About 9 times the weight of diesel fuel.
Sydney EV 🔋☀️@sydney_ev
Donut Lab just walked into CES 2026, dropped a 400 Wh/kg, 5‑minute‑charging, 100,000‑cycle solid‑state battery on the table, told the rest of the industry: ‘Catch up, mortals.’ Everyone else is talking 2027–2030. Donut says Q1 2026. Verge motorcycle for order now, 600Km range!
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@kirancodes in his pinned tweet he also believes "water has memory". this guy is actually retarded
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I was about to spend some time reading through this thread before I realised the poster is not a doctor just another techbro healthfluencer except this one is in the Philippines lmao
turtles all the way down
Jack@jack_schroder_
There is so much wrong with @bryan_johnson's blood test results - that if you told me that it was just a regular individual who doesn't do any health interventions (let alone spending millions of dollars a year), I'd honestly believe it. I'll unpack it all below:
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Dude dropped out of college and is mad he can't find a job? Don't get me wrong, I'm also a college drop out, but I did it for a job...
U.S. Tech Workers@USTechWorkers
“Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview. Today, he says he keeps three part-time jobs in Greenville, S.C., and grows his own food to cut down on expenses. Having abandoned hopes of working in tech, Mr. Boone says he is exploring alternative fields like construction or farming.”
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I have finally realized what class of Taco the taco stand is. I like to call it tourist tacos. They offer things that people know they need to order and they do it in a very white manner but still deliver a good enough product that people rave about it because it's still wildly better than anything they've ever had before.
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