What I'm getting at is the difference between subjective experience ("chills") and any theory describing it. ("Qualia", "no amount of simulating water will make anything wet", etc.) Although personally I prefer…
There are only "spiritual" "things". Where do you think "biology", "chemistry" and "synapses" come from?
I have a hunch that a lot of complaining about "light mode" is because people's monitors are too bright. I always make sure that my monitors are set so that a full white screen is comfortable to look at indefinitely.…
It was already the case that "90% of everything is garbage". Now with AI humanity can achieve 99.999%.
I think we cannot know anything at all, in the sense of completely understanding and knowing the "essence" of something. All our knowledge is instrumental. We have pragmatic theories and that's all we'll ever have. The…
What I'm getting at is the difference between subjective experience ("chills") and any theory describing it. ("Qualia", "no amount of simulating water will make anything wet", etc.) Although personally I prefer…
There are only "spiritual" "things". Where do you think "biology", "chemistry" and "synapses" come from?
I have a hunch that a lot of complaining about "light mode" is because people's monitors are too bright. I always make sure that my monitors are set so that a full white screen is comfortable to look at indefinitely.…
It was already the case that "90% of everything is garbage". Now with AI humanity can achieve 99.999%.
I think we cannot know anything at all, in the sense of completely understanding and knowing the "essence" of something. All our knowledge is instrumental. We have pragmatic theories and that's all we'll ever have. The…