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- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
Everybody reading these comments and considering the implications needs to go read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It’s a first contact story set in the near-ish future, and really goes into consciousness and intelligence. Very thought provoking if you thought this comment chain was interesting.
- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 4 months ago:
Just putting it out there, but the National Weather Service has a free API here.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 7 months ago:
You have to discover it somehow, and that’s what they’re asking for help with.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 7 months ago:
Sounds from the example like OP doesn’t want to miss out on media they might enjoy just because they’re not hanging out with young people anymore. Seems like a reasonable thing to want.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 8 months ago:
Just because something can be automated doesn’t mean it can’t be performed by humans still, especially if it’s something you do for fun.
- Comment on "I could hire half the poor to kill the other half." 8 months ago:
Anyone know the song?
- Comment on If I construct a huge glass box and cover a fully grown tree - then fill the entire thing in water, what would happen to the tree 11 months ago:
What would happen then if you took a tree which only has leaves at the top and submerged it to just under the leaves? Does the bark need to be exposed to air as well or would it just rot out like timber does?