"... if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
This is what I wrote while I was thinking about the same topic before I can across your excellent comment; as if it’s a summary of what you just said:
Consciousness is nothing but the ability to have internal and external senses, being able to enumerate them, recursively sense them, and remember the previous steps. If any of those ingredients are missing, you cannot create or maintain consciousness.
Mere speculations: they might have been contemplating the integration of their Orbit add-on into the browser. For that, they might need some extra legal fluffs.
This article could not have come at a better time. I was getting ready to learn about the art of bread making with total confusion and disappointments from my past attempts. I hope the resources discussed in the article would help me out with making bread the way it is meant to be made.
Authors with the most problematic papers, i.e. with fabricated date, p hacked, etc., will be the least likely to cooperate (‘Oh! Can’t share the data for legal reasons. Sorry!’). ERROR would end up looking into the least likely places for any infraction. I hope they have thought of that already. But, that was not the sense I got from reading the article.
Loved the last paragraph of the long, justified rant. Hilarious:
“All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole
and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked
monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a
radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children
and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.”
The potential to freeze an HTML page in time with minimal changes at render time is already there. [0] Such an ability can even be baked directly into the rendered HTML page so the viewer would be able to download a copy of the page as it is seen at a given time. Other archiving facilities, such as archive.org, take static snapshots of accessible pages if allowed by the publisher of the page and requested by anyone who wants to make that snapshot.
My point is that it is possible to achieve in principle and in practice, albeit that might be practiced as often as one would like to see.
Sir Arthur Eddington