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The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis

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2 points·by james-bcn·hace 6 meses·2 comments

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james-bcn
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Kirby rocks. It's so much better designed than WordPress.
james-bcn
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Audrey Tang did a lot of things related to this whilst they were Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
james-bcn
·hace 3 meses·discuss
For me the main issue with Bear is that it does not work with a directory of Markdown files, but locks them away in a database. If you worked directly on markdown files it would be nearly perfect. They did make a standalone markdown editor called Panda, but didn't pursue it for some reason.
james-bcn
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great!

Feedback:

* This is so good you should find a way to keep it open source but also profit from it so you can develop it full-time. You could just have an official app version - I would pay for that.

* Feature creep. I am a big fan of Bear App for it's wonderful simple design, although I stopped using it because it doesn't work on markdown files directly. What I've seen is that equivalent apps/services (including Obsidian, Notion, Craft) are continuously adding new features. You've already got all the core features I think - try to avoid feature creep, and keep it focused on just doing the core things really well, like Bear App does.
james-bcn
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Children of Time is wonderful! I wish Adrian Tchaikovsky would stop churning them out so quickly and write some more of the quality of Children of Time.
james-bcn
·hace 4 meses·discuss
I can confirm that eliminating coffee can make a big difference.
james-bcn
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Get glasses with the correct focal length for the distance you have your screen at. It makes a huge difference.
james-bcn
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Great idea! Someone please do this.
james-bcn
·hace 5 meses·discuss
What is the advantage of using avif over using an MP4 file?
james-bcn
·hace 5 meses·discuss
The Economist rocks. They also have a wonderful daily summary of the news that takes five mins to read.
james-bcn
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Yes Children of Time is very good. Tchaikovsky is excellent at portraying alien/non-human minds. You can tell he studied zoology and psychology at university.
james-bcn
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Paper by Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen. "This essay describes our philosophical position on machine consciousness, including what we mean by “machine” and “consciousness,” and the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions we make in approaching the question."
james-bcn
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I have two

https://thisisjam.es

https://jamjohnson.com
james-bcn
·hace 6 meses·discuss
> overpriced

Seriously? This is incredibly reasonable.
james-bcn
·hace 7 meses·discuss
You can do this kind of thing in Apple Keynote. It's one of those powerful features that you find in Apple software but for some reason they keep hidden.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/keynote/tane2b2f4354/m...

You can use "Magic move" to do the kind of stuff that Immersa is doing.
james-bcn
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Is there any appropriate solution for complex interactive charts and graphs?
james-bcn
·hace 7 meses·discuss
>You literally just need to be in space, because no typical laws apply if you are there.

That makes no sense. Unless you are going to use the data in space (what for?), you need to import it into a country, and it is at that point the crime will have been committed. You can't, for example, circumvent GDPR laws just by sending the data into space first.
james-bcn
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Reminds me of The Chewbacca Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6NoNkDGsU
james-bcn
·hace 8 meses·discuss
It mentions “boskovitch's installation”. I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Fan_(Feel_It_Motherfu...
james-bcn
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Now that Vimeo has been taken over by Bending Spoons it's good to have more hosting options.