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Why would anyone ever think there's widespread voter fraud when it's far cheaper and easier to just campaign?

"Stop delete stop delete stop delete stop delete " What it's like to live in goergia right now.

I'm just calling it as November 11, so I'll feel like a soothsayer if I get lucky.

There is so such thing as what it is "to be" it's just shorthand for the speaker identifying a pattern in the world.

There's something duelist about conciousness in the sense that there's an interface. An unconscious process that's looking for generated data, and an unconscious process that's generating it.

AI is just an all-purpose redundancy reducer for whatever data it's trained on.

Knowledge is encoded compressed and stored in language but it isn't the originator of human understanding.

Remember when the biggest problem in food was everything was getting "biggie sized" :(

Simplicity and beauty only became heuristics for theories because those ideas were easy to compress and share. Indeed that's kinda what defines what a theory is! But the universe doesn't care if it's compressible or not.

Our sense of beauty and simplicity is based on compression with we value because it saves mental load and space. An omniscient God wouldn't care about compression, so simplicity is not expected on the god hypothesis.

Man, pelaton bikes are hard. Can I get an electric motor on one to make peddling easier

Platonists be like: Omg my tool works! Rock break open nut! Must be platonic form of nut-smashing-rock actually existent in abstract realm!

Some conspiracy theorists are just larpers who are just playing chicken and have thrown out the steering wheel.

So sick of deceptive headlines. No wonder people are confused. No wonder they distrust news outlets. No wonder they distrust science. This headline implies disassembly, but the actual story is that they're upgrading some parts of the system.

Philosophy operates in the low information zone. I. E. Where where isn't much data and people's priors and intuitions start to take over. Science just means there's enough evidence that you can shift (most) people's opinions regardless of their priors.

Pessimism and optimism are both heuristic states of mind. Neither are true and they should both be subservient to more thoughtful and nuanced analysis of situations.

Apriori truths are just built up from raw statistics. We just don't have a useful or succinct way to describe the underlying data, or sometimes the data isn't available to us.

The Bible had a problem with God power scaling, so they wisely reset with Jesus to make things a little more relatable.

The mind of God implements using a logical system that's not the same as its implementation( because it would use actually infinite storage ) , the only possible logical systems are identical with their implementation, therefore the mind of God is not possible

Just learned that a syndicate suggested to Bill Watterson to focus on two side characters instead of his primary ones. Those characters? Calvin and Hobbes. Feels like a radical lesson in taking feedback constructively.

I don't want points. I want the food to be cheaper.

Space exploration isn't really for national inspiration, it's Gen X nastalgia.

A product designed to trick people into thinking it inflates balloons. Priced a little cheaper than regular canned helium, but too high to imagine it could be meant for anything else.

AI can do (output) better than it can understand (read). I'd bet they're trying to increase use so that it can output what people want than use that to feed back into its understanding. I may be able to ratchet itself up using its own output

People love to be cynical because everyone just agrees with you and you don't have to be right

Theistic "great making properties" rest on the premise that things humans want and like are the somehow transcendent facts baked into the universe, independent of human desire. An alien race of sentient wasps would think that God is perfectly efficient at grub survival.

When people answer questions, they import the motivation of the questioner. Why are they asking what they're asking? What do they need or want? Theres no such thing as a generic question.

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Heuristics or rules are just strong signals in statistical data. They're ALWAYS subservient to the underlying data itself.

Intentionality and about-ness seem totally explicable in naturalistic terms. Not sure what philosophers get all tied up about.

All State propositions carry a hidden "I predict when I evaluate x it'll be y." properties are only an examine and compare functions with various degrees of certainty.

Many companies cashing in their brand equity these days. Brand equity is a limited resource. Why are they so eager to strip-mine themselves?

Lower entropy doesn't mean less probable. A brain popping into existence is less probable than a big bang because you have to have a specific configuration AND position. There's way more possible random big bangs than possible Boltzmann brains.

I've noticed this pattern with con artistry and bs. The stuff that would be very convincing has poor provinence, hard to repeat and verify, etc. But there's always lots of good evidence that's not very convincing. NDES, Vedic archeology, and miracle claims come to mind.

If/when ram prices come down it's going to blow the lid off data centers and local Ai is going to take over.

Learning that a gui isn't the actual computer I think would make people more likely to be emergentists about conciousness

The brain is like a piece of clay. When you press it into things it becomes the pattern. Keep pressing and the more detailed the clay becomes and finds smaller and smaller details.

Philosophy doesn't seem to deal with low information areas well. Like with the fine tuning argument, its related to a part of physics we know so so so little about, the earliest part of the universe, yet you have proponents willing to stake just enormous confidence on it.

Do people who "talk to god" notice they're just talking to themselves?

Why is human life more likely on theism? Why would a being care about making more beings?

Could humans be the side effect of a god optimizing for black holes?

God's omniscience has the same probability as a block multiverse that contains all metaphysical possibilities actualized, so fine-tuning has no probabilistic advantage over a naturalistic multiverse hypothesis.