The article doesn’t describe the nature of the pivotal moment, or what De Jong is coming to terms with.

At first I assumed you hadn’t read the article and I almost mocked you for it. Then I decided to read the article first, and learned that the information is not in the article.

Not unpopular at all.

He totally would not have noticed that she was completely smashed.

Mexico shelling towns in California? There’s no way anybody stands by while that happens.

If somebody attacked American soil then everybody’s attitude would be different. There’s no comparison between “helping Trump bomb innocent Iranians” and “helping Americans in New Mexico and California who are being bombed.” Other western countries would help enthusiastically against an invasion into the USA. There’s no doubt about this.

It’s more than one and one third dozen dozens.

For me, prison is about quarantine. You quarantine unacceptable behavior, not because they “deserve” it, but because they can’t be trusted. I’m not interested in punishment. So I agree that NCR is invalid if the person’s mental problems make them into a threat. It’s not their “fault” but they still need to be quarantined somehow, because the rest of us have things to do. It’s absolutely brutal but it’s less brutal than letting criminal behavior run free.

I agree. Not sure how unpopular this opinion is. Probably depends on who you talk to.

Canada, England, and France would all definitely help the USA.

Dear hollywood please please please go to /r/badmovieideas

I can see this angle too.

There is no excess cheese. There is only cheese.

This is hype to make them sound badass.

NO

You’re all talk.

The premise is - you fucking can’t. It acts ex-act-ly like the real thing, and for all the same reasons

You literally made the simulation, so yes you can tell the difference. And the math is inevitably different, because the math of the simulation includes the math which defines the different substrate. So it is physically different, a different thing. Assume whatever you want, but in the end it is a physically different thing, and it takes different math to fully describe it. We only know for sure that conscious experience happens with this substrate.

Fuck off

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Dog-torturing prejudice.

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fuck off again

good bye

I am the rainbow

They are the dirt from which I grew

Simulating physics from first principles is not “mimicking human behavior.”

Our “first principles” are knowledge, not a new universe. You’re not absolutely re-creating the entirety of reality. You’re making a model that is useful, something that is “good enough” that it will produce outputs that can be used to roughly predict the outcome of real processes.

You think an entire simulated human being, that acts exactly like a living person for the same underlying reasons, must be different - somehow

No matter how detailed your simulation is, it’s still physically different. You’re admitting this every time you call it a simulation. You can tell the difference between a simulation and the thing it’s simulating.

This is dualism

No, because I’m saying that consciousness is a physical process. You’re saying that it’s a mathematical process and that the substrate doesn’t matter. I’m saying the substrate is a physical thing, and that consciousness is a physical processes, and so different substrates enable different physical processes. I don’t claim that consciousness comes from some Beyond, or from Heaven, or from God. I’m saying it’s a physical process, and that a simulation is a different physical process, no matter how detailed.