Hint for the handshake problem in Microsofty 92: Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) provided a formula for this.
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Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to.
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Han tells Leia directly that he is in this for the money, not the revolution, which is not something a typical sleazy character would say.
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New information suggests that basic assumptions underlying many disciplines may be inadequate or mistaken. How they respond will predict their future.
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A computer system can be generally intelligent (AGI) only if it can generate genuinely new functional information, not merely transfer it.
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A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates the niceness and the threat.
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The trend against eyewitness reliability seems part of the ideology that undermines finding objective truth.
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When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works.
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We now await an army of predominantly middle-aged, bearded male philosophy graduates, out of work for the past 20 years, raising their wrists, thus pointing their fingers to the sky as they make the journey for an interview in Silicon Valley.
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Sometimes you wonder which version of yourself is the “real” you, and whether all this shifting makes you somehow inauthentic or fake.
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A hint for Microsofty 91: Where might Jimmy the Mooch have found some spare energy?
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Koch might wish to consider William James’s neglected theory of consciousness: the brain does not create the mind; it focuses it.
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Can God ease or irradicate the suffering, both physical and mental, of some human beings on Earth if they pray for it or have ‘Road to Damascus’ moment?
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While an interpretation might survive many difficulties, it cannot survive the failure to provide the one thing it promises — and even after seventy years, “many worlds” has yet to produce even one.
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Rey’s piloting skills start out rough, but before long she’s weaving through a downed star destroyer with ease.
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He documented the chaos and drama of our political life from the rare perspective of a conservative addressing a largely liberal audience.
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Marks points out that model collapse means that AI can’t simply keep getting better by training itself until it becomes a superintelligence.
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Data centers will probably create jobs as well as eliminate them, which is usually what new technologies do, but environment concerns remain.
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Materialism in neuroscience is not a finding, it is a tenet. It does not need to be true. It simply needs to be enforced.
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Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.
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