"Artificial consciousness is impossible to build, and also it is very to try to create it" — these statements cannot be simultaneously true, and demonstrate motivated reasoning
@plinz
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Computer Scientists Have 23 Words for Is
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did you know that computer scientists have 23 words for 'is'
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ChatGPT Writing Bills: Quality and Policy Concerns
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This is what you get when you allow ChatGPT to write your bills
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Reclaiming Internet Geography Beyond Search Engines and Platforms
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I think the internet still has geography, but the search engines have obscured it, so now it looks like brands and a handful of platforms. Perhaps we can bring the exploration mode back
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Universe as Mathematical Object: Numbers and Structural Foundation
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Once you got numbers and ways to move between them, you can build a universe. If we accept that mathematical objects are not per default nonexistent, it makes sense to regard the universe as a mathematical object.
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Reviewer Bias: Personal Grudges in Academic Peer Review
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we are sorry to inform you that reviewer 2 thinks he once avoided some people from a field similar to yours at some party
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Atonal AI: Deliberate Emotional Detachment in Generative Experiments
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It's very good but not everyone will get something out of it. Perhaps comparable to atonal music, it evokes no emotional connection. That's not a failing, but very deliberate, and part of the experiment
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Liberalism as Political System Minimizing Coercion and Control
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Liberalism is not an instrument of power. It is a political system that minimizes coercion. The idea that power would be terminal seems to reflect an ideological distortion instead of systemic thinking; in a dynamic evolutionary environment, order cannot persist without control.
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State Monopoly on Violence and Judicial Authority
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Our society depends on maintaining a state monopoly on violence and a monopoly of the courts