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Yes, in a month the linux share will be above 10000% of steam users.

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That's even more depressing than "walk around the block"

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"And even so, we do have empirical evidence that homo sapiens"

You're trying to have it both ways by equating "homo sapiens [at times] don't suffer consistent illusions", which is obviously true since we don't all have the same experiences, and "homo sapiens [never suffer] consistent illusions" which is equally obviously false because of the evidence you alluded to in the second part.

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If Homo Sapiens don't always suffer consistent illusions that leaves open the possibility they sometimes perceive reality more or less correctly.

Also, if there were no possibility of some "veridical perception" there would be no way to gather evidence that some perception is illusory. That's a good place to look. Demonstrations of consistent illusion must include some new mode of perception that reason dictates is closer to reality.

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How about a kind of Pascal's wager for science?

Either the axioms of science are correct, or reality isn't empirically testable. In the latter case, believing in the the truth won't get you any farther than a false belief in science.

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How would they prove it?

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Round Earth is a lie, and so are aircraft carriers.

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Looks like Grover picked the wrong side.

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No, Germans just do that.

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300 SPARTANS and 700 Athenians

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does coomb come from cwm?

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In an interview, Douglas Adams said after lengthy consideration John Cleese picked 42 as the least interesting number.

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Buy a cheap house and enjoy having money. In a few years your mortgage will be less than rent for a flat.

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He didn't write GWH, he just said GW. For all we know, assuming this number relates to reality at all, that's just smear across the whole eclipse and no single watt was lost for more than a few minutes.

If we lost "30GW", I'd bet we lost barely one GWH.

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You're assuming she's not shooting into the air on purpose.

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Are you an office drone dreaming you're a cowboy or a cowboy dreaming you're an office drone?

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Improvise, adapt, and improve.

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We'll soon see whether or not it's the same thing.

Only a 50 years ago or so, some well-known philosophers off AI believed computers would write great poetry before they could ever beat a grand master at chess.

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The formalization of chess can't be practically applied. The top chess programs are all trained models that evaluate a position in a non-formal way.

They use neural nets, just like the AIs being hyped these days.

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What on odd thing to write. Chess i/o doesn't have to be formalized and language i/o can be.

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We could use "Writing a Sonnet" as a suitably discrete and limited form of art that's undeniably art, and ask the question "Can a computer creatively write a sonnet"? Which raises the question "Do humans creatively write sonnets?" or are they all derivative?

Humans used to think of chess as an art and speak of "creativity" in chess, by which they meant the expression of a new idea on how to play. This is a reasonable definition, and going by it, chess programs are undeniably creative. Yet for whatever reason, the word doesn't sit right when talking about these programs.

I suspect we'll continue to not find any fundamental difference between what the machines are doing and what we are doing. Then unavoidably we'll either have to concede that the machines are "creative" or we are not.

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Many people do know something about Jane Goodall. Obviously not everyone.

I only read it because her name was in the title.

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Talent definitely exists.

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The difference between Linux and a cult is that Linus Torvalds actually did what he said he'd do.

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    Getting up every day and not doing something stupid is hard work.

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    But not short-sighted.

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    I have some good news about the afterlife.

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    Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."

    The future was there with Newton, but it's still not evenly distributed 400 years later.

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    At what point would you not vote for Biden in order to stop Trump?

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    but not selfish for Biden not to run

    How is that an argument to not vote against Trump?

    This is your argument, tell me if I"m wrong: "I will not vote against Trump because Biden acted selfishly."

    To point out the obvious, nobody prevented anyone else from running for president. Several people did and Biden has beaten them all. How can you expect someone to beat Trump who can't beat Biden?

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    The count is ahead of the orbit, but otherwise, yes.

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    No he wasn't, he was evil and deluded.

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    He isn't stupid. His public personality was all an act. Go watch a video of him before he became a politician. He's smart, mean, and talks with North East accent.

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    You die and become a bacterium

    billion years later: still that bacterium.

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    Falling in love isn't fashionable on these forums.

    To see how dysfunctional this couple is, imagine them having kids after panel 6.

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    I was planning on losing, but since you insist...

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    It's a Jacob's ladder type situation

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    The signs don't exist. It's just a random collection of stars.

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    It used to be boeing made their own planes

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    You're the only person here who's read them.

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    His head is normal sized he has an enormous face.

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    How about them Chiefs

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    You're not pro-fascist, you're just against people trying to stop the fascists. Thank god for nuance.

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    Original peanuts was cutting edge about 20% of the time.

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    No, teenagers are often gifted with some nugget of wisdom or other about their lives, it's just that parents and random commenters online never believe it.

    I knew I wanted to get married and to whom. I also knew it was a good idea. I only waited to mid-twenties because she wasn't sure. 30 years farther along, we're still married and teenaged me is proved right.

    Cynical, older, slower me might have screwed it up somehow.

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    And on the flip side you might plan out your life to begin when you're thirty, wait until youre wise and wealthy, then suddenly die.

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    Likewise, if you live in a place where nobody dies before they reach their life expectancy, waiting might be a good idea.

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    Of course I was lucky. The decisions we make around starting a family can reverberate for centuries. Even if we had enough information (we don't), I don't think people are mature enough at any age to make the right call,

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