JayDee Now • 50%
This convo has gone on for centuries at this point. The Brain in the Jar, the teleportation conundrum, Thesius' ship, it's all already been covered over and over. people like you still keep crawling out of the woodwork thinking you know better than every philosopher that already waxed over this problem ad nauseum.
Your 'continuous self' is just as worthless as a concept. The idea that your 'sense of being the same person' is being held together by being apart of your plumbing just as much of an illusion. It's worthless.
To elaborate, you are not the brain. You are the observer, the thing which exists as a byproduct of the brain's processes, perhaps even a process yourself within. There's also plenty of times when you will lose time other than sleep, like concussions, getting blackout drunk, panic attacks, and after those times you have no memory of making decisions or acting in your own accord, but you were. You, the observer, were absent while the brain kept working. So where were you?
You act as though you're sure you are still the same observer as the one who went to bed. That is completely unsubstantiated. You may have just been born into your body when you awoke today, and will only have until your body falls back asleep again before you cease to exist, replaced by another process that thinks itself is you, another observer.
And if 'you' one day woke up in a digital world, like our own, it's you'd be none the wiser, because your self is simply a collection of processes and memories. It's arbitrary. It's all dust. There's not some special 'continuity' that keeps you alive somehow.
JayDee Now • 100%
What does maintaining continuity of consciousness look like to you? As in you are able to talk to your copy? And continue to live your normal life outside while your digital self lives their digital life?
Or are you saying you want the transition to digital to be seamless, where your digital self remembers laying in a chair, a quick pin-prick, and then they're in the digital realm?
Keep in mind, we have zero understanding of how you'd get the meat consciousness to transition into the digital consciousness - it's likely not even possible. The two options for copying are keep both alive or terminate the original somewhere before bringing the digital one online. There's many ways to do both, but those are the two.
JayDee Now • 100%
That continuity of function is arbitrary. In reality it provides people comfort in some idea of a soul but there's nothing suggesting it actually provides anything to the continuity of consciousness.
Between every loss in time, where you stop forming memories until you wake up again, you have nothing to affirm that your current consciousness is the same as your last waking period's. The only thing vaguely providing that illusion is your previously-formed memories, which would exist all the same on the digital mind, in theory.
JayDee Now • 100%
Aren't emojis pictograms and ideograms but not usually logograms? They're direct depictions of concepts, not usually direct stand-ins for words like logograms are.
Better examples of logograms in English I think are &, $, %, @,+,=, etc. We actually have a bunch we use all the time.
Specifically they said 'Kanji', though, so I think they're talking more about the actual character structure of :.|:;.
JayDee Now • 100%
I often view Event Horizon (1997) and Sphere (1998) as sister films that work good together.
JayDee Now • 100%
Not sure how but you made an abstract logo look like a leatherdaddy. Excellent work.
JayDee Now • 57%
Yep, that's an 8.5% mortality increase on freeways and 2.8% increase on other roads. Better keep the brake down.
JayDee Now • 40%
Probably you should be breaking on the hill? Regardless of if your foot's on the gas or you're just letting the slope do the work, you're still speeding which is a hazard.
Yeah, I'm sure it also racks up some revenue too. Why not get a few more bucks while keeping the careless on their toes?
JayDee Now • 100%
- What games? That's a VERY big part of this whole process.
- What are the laptop specs? The hardware is also a massive part of it.
JayDee Now • 100%
It's just an absurd premise.
Researchers are specialists in their fields and have carved out an academic niche. They study a single thing for years at a time before publishing a paper, and the process of studying anything is brutally methodical and likely quite often boring until you maybe discover something. It's then boring again as you write your paper on your work, regardless of whether it discovered something or not.
All of a sudden, your co-researcher just turns to you and goes "Fuck it. Let's research something else tonight. Something fun as a treat".
JayDee Now • 100%
Well, that's a small problem compared to being a pile of dust without power armor.
JayDee Now • 100%
There will be collateral damage. There always is. The idea there wouldn't be collateral damage is already setting the bar higher than is feasible.
JayDee Now • 100%
Probably should go join the Thousand Suns Sons. They might set you up with some nice power armor.
JayDee Now • 100%
I think you mean the hardest Fromsoft game you liked. Go Beat the original armored core and get back to me. you could also give last raven a shot.
JayDee Now • 41%
Y'all are reading this as feminist? It's literally an observation by some chicks on twitter, not some kind of feminist rhetoric.
Feminism is currently more preoccupied with dismantling the gender binary entirely, not reinforcing stereotypes like in this twitter post.
I've never had a wife, nor a daughter, so I can't really say much about how forgiving they are. If this doesn't match your lived experience, stop giving a fuck and move on.
JayDee Now • 100%
I remember reading The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty sometime in late middle school, I wanna say.
teacher let us know after that it was about the Irish civil war, and that things similar to the story had actually happened.
JayDee Now • 100%
upvoting because this is definitely unpopular. tone is not conveyed in text and various sarcastic phrases need the intonation to be understood as sarcastic.
JayDee Now • 100%
literally says: baseline is the average from 1991 to 2020, and the data is from ERA5.
I kind of had this epiphany while talking with some friends about different interesting numeral systems and their various advantages and disadvantages. I ended up thinking this system up while I was in the shower, went back to my desk and knocked it out in an hour or so. It takes aspects of the [Kaktovik numeral system](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut1/) invented by the Inupiaq tribe, and combines them with some aspects of the [Cistercian numerals](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals?lang=en). I think that this numeral system fusion can look very wizard-y, and be easy to write and do math with. I've abbreviated it as b10CK, which I think is pretty clean.
Been studying RISC-V for... I think a year now. Bought the booklet outlining the ISA's modules, and have been working down from there. I have seen various startups and actual products, as well as a bunch of simulators, but I haven't really seen any projects trying to design a RISC-V CPU from the ground up. Are there any groups doing this? I don't think I'm at a point where I could meaningfully contribute, I'm mostly interested for educating myself.
I'm currently trying to get better at reading and am doing that by accumulating a library of public domain books, since they're free and easily available. - If you have a specific work you love that was published pre-1928, or is currently not under copyright, feel free to comment it down below. - if you have any authors you think are worth reading, also post them below. I'm currently reading Jack London's "[War of the Classes"](https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/War_of_the_Classes), and I have "[Carmilla](https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/In_a_Glass_Darkly/Carmilla)" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and "[The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_(1891))" by Oscar Wilde downloaded for later.
I got a Fairphone 4 after security updates were discontinued on my Samsung Galaxy S9 and I figured out it couldn't be flashed with a new OS (it was a fantastic phone while it lasted- was honestly Underutilizing its overall power. Got 5 years out of it). TLDR : read the last paragraph I am honestly taken aback by the transparency in regards to the FP4's construction. The [repair manual](https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FP4_Information-for-repairers-and-recyclers.pdf) gives the part number, quantity, and purpose of every single component on the PCBs. You get the full schematics as well. Obviously I can replace any major part/board until support stops (they're saying they'll support it for 3 more years minimum), but I imagine that I could stock up a couple spare parts and treat the device well and get much longer from the hardware. As for support for the OS, I got the phone through Murena who put their own custom OS on it, but I imagine I could flash a new OS onto it without much problem. The things I am thinking about are past that point. If replacement parts no longer get sold and something fails on one of the boards, I don't know the feasibility of finding a replacement component. Like, I imagine getting a matching capacitor wouldn't be an issue, but can you even find a replacement snapdragon or WiFi chip? And while we're talking about hot-air soldering on replacement parts: do PCBs have a duty lifespan? Is it more likely that my screen'll just die long before anything else? Basically, assuming I treat this phone right and don't break anything in a drop, how long can I glide this fella out? what's the shorest lifespan parts that'll fail first - and what kind of lifetime can I suspect? What are parts I could consider replacing with a similar part? (I own a 3d printer and do diverse material fabricating as a hobby).
Title. How far back has the idea of trying to preserve things for future civilizations been found? Do the pyramids count?
Just got done installing the new shell from JSAUX! Had some pains to go through that I want to let you folks know about. First and foremost, if you have the 512GB steam deck that comes stock with an anti glare screen, DO NOT pry from the side that JSAUX shows in their video. Pry from the other side. They are using the standard screen in that video. For reference, if you look at the [512GB steam deck screen](https://www.ifixit.com/products/steam-deck-512gb-screen?variant=39723210702951), and go to part only, and look at the rear-side image, there is a "buffer space" on the left side (opposite the ribbon cable) of the screen for prying under the adhesive (for whatever reason they have the screen upside down in the image). On the [64/256GB steam deck screen](https://www.ifixit.com/products/steam-deck-64gb-or-256gb-screen?variant=39723210539111), the buffer space is on the right side, with the ribbon cable. **If you try prying under the right side of the anti-glare screen, you immediately run into the ribbon cable and are likely to damage it.** I just barely had to buy a brand new screen to finish this project because of this.   Second thing. When trying to pry the screen off the adhesive, it is very easy to completely slide your spudger directly in between the shell and the screen. You should reference where the positioning triangles are on your empty shell, and pry at one of those locations. It greatly simplifies removing the screen.  Lastly, when removing the triggers, do as shown in the video carefully. The hall effect sensors (tiny little chip on the board under the trigger magnet) used by each trigger on the board are very exposed. if you force one of the triggers off, you can easily knock that hall effect sensor off. I only noticed the little chip sitting on my desk during reassembly. I managed to hand solder the little guy back on and it ain't a pretty job but it works. Hopefully this hard-knock wisdom helps some of y'all avoid my mistakes.
People commonly quote Marx communicating that the possession of firearms must not be infringed, but I'd like more general principles and justifications than an appeal to Marx. I've done some reading but when I cannot I just think about things on my own, maybe bounce ideas off a friend. ::: spoiler Word Vomit Contained inside The view that I've come to currently is that violence (defined in this case as the obstruction or frustration of another's plans and ambitions) is a core universal tool which all living things employ. Language and cooperation were evolutionary evolved as a complement to violence (communication and cooperation allowed group violence which greatly improved survival odds). However, in cases where communication/cooperation with an outgroup breaks down, violence in some form will be fallen back on. What's more, between two non-cooperative groups, if one group can obtain what they want through violence without losing more than they gain, they'll quite often choose that option as it is enticing. Because of this natural progression, force-on-force is almost inevitable. To prevent being trodden upon by others, it is wise for a community to arm itself and train, thus greatly raising the cost of confrontations, hopefully beyond what others are willing to pay. ::: I would like to hear more from folks though, maybe just wise words on operation, maybe some sources to check out in my free time. Anything to better build my understanding is welcome.