Buffalox
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- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 18 hours ago:
Obviously you have memory. Which is a foundation for consciousness.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 18 hours ago:
If you don’t get the right signals, it definitely is detrimental to having the right behavior.
Regarding thirst it is well known that elderly people don’t feel thirst to drink as much as they should.
This harms the kidneys and people may actually die earlier from such a thing.I am not aware that this can be trained. You should ask a professional, if you urine is dark yellow you should definitely drink more water.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 1 day ago:
There are absolutely degrees of consciousness.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 1 day ago:
Pretty normal stuff
For humans its normal. The “simple” function as you call it, is actually the foundation of consciousness.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 1 day ago:
Brain hunger is a very good description for what is probably a conditioned unhealthy dependency.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 1 day ago:
I think this is the general formula:
The Serotonin decides (expected reward). The expectation of biggest reward in the shortest span of time with the least amount of effort and sacrifice of other things.
If time is prolonged, the reward needs to be bigger.Being hungry moves you towards the food, not being hungry will move you towards the TV show.
If he is not that hungry he might choose the TV, but if he gets hungry while watching he might change his mind and go for the food, despite being in the middle of the show.If money is short the dish will decline in priority, especially for people with functioning frontal lobes.
But there can be many many factors that are weighed not consciously but emotionally. Research shows we are way more guided by emotions than we think, we do what our emotions tell us, and then we rationalize it afterwards to convince our consciousness that it was in control all the time, despite it wasn’t. - Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 1 week ago:
Ignorance is being uninformed.
Stupidity is to either ignore or not understand or to intentionally stay uninformed. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
IDK I think resident evil sounds like a more interesting title anyway.
Biohazard is just a generic term, and sounds pretty lame IMO. - Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 2 weeks ago:
3 The overall replication process should sustain itself for an indefinite amount of iterations
Indefinite can mean both not determined or infinite.
It can not make infinite of course, because at some point the Universe according to current standard model will cool out.But apart from that no problem, as long as the physical conditions exist to support it.
- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 2 weeks ago:
In the 80’s we had games to learn touch typing that were very helpful and also quite fun, compared to old school methods.
Here’s a site that claims to have that sort of games:
www.typing.com/student/games - Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 2 weeks ago:
That would seem extremely unlikely, as a brain that’s been inactive for just a few minutes, if the person is revived, there is heavy brain damage.
- Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 3 weeks ago:
Most countries use brain death as the deciding factor.
Meaning you body can be held alive artificially, but if the brain isn’t working, you are dead, and there is no chance of coming back. - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yes without browsers life stands absolutely still, which is the obvious explanation that humans do not exist, your belief in your own existence is a lie. Because there was a time when there were no browsers, but it is impossible to investigate how such times were, because life was at an absolute still.
I guess there is a thing like stupid questions.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely, our oven is very old, and we generally have to run it 10°C above what the recipes say.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 3 weeks ago:
Because less than 5 is not significant and doesn’t matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I finally got the context, and it’s no wonder that shit was vandalized. I don’t see a reality where it wouldn’t be.
Even here in Denmark that shit would probably not last long, and we are famous for NOT doing that.
If you want, see my post you responded to, I’ve included the details there. - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Apparently the “service” is only available for over 16 year olds.
This is so badly executed it’s no wonder people got pissed. - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. 👍
You must be at least 16 years old to join Equip Sport
Big fail, no wonder that shit was sabotaged.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Seems to me the city did something for show that doesn’t work, and might as well no be there.
As I sted before, the poles and trashcan are not vandalized, it seem like these “lockers” were clearly targeted, probably because it’s a shit system for the people it was supposed to benefit.
Hopefully after this, the city will stop wasting money on a system that doesn’t work anyway. - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, I was not aware that clicking the thumbnail revealed a lot more detail. 😳
But it seems to me this “system” is pissing some people off, because the vandalism is only on the “lockers without locks” whatever that is called. And not on the poles or the trashcan? - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
public equipment lockers
I don’t get it, why would such lockers be labeled “Jumpstart bon depart” and Equip at the bottom?
Looks more like some private thing, taking up public space.
IDK, I’m just trying to evaluate if this is just mindless vandalism, or if there could be a reason behind it. - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Context?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely, with more education people on average score higher on IQ tests.
However AFAIK evidence shows that training specifically for higher scores on IQ tests does not significantly increase general intelligence. - Comment on Black coffee 4 weeks ago:
No you were absolutely polite, giving him 100% the benefit of doubt. And yet he made this weird attack.
- Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing in the Turing Test proves intelligence.
This is simply wrong, only Religious nutcases believe so.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 5 weeks ago:
IDK I’ve predicted my own birthday and Christmas correctly dozens of times.
I even predicted in the year 2000 that AI would become a thing around 2030, I admit that’s the most bulls eye long term prediction I’ve ever made. But still to make a blanket statement that it is unknowable is false.
There are trajectories, and there are statistics that can predict a lot.
Like for instance many of us predicted Russia would lose the war against Ukraine already a couple of months in.
And it was predict4ed 2 years ago that USA would go to war with Iran and lose.
I can also predict that the return of Jesus Christ will not happen within the next 2000 years either! - Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 5 weeks ago:
Nope, there’s nothing wrong with the test. It wasn’t designed to test if it was “strong AI”
That was EXACTLY what it was designed for, the argument being that if it is indistinguishably from a human, it has human like consciousness. That’s way beyond thinking.
Computers are “thinking” routinely. Chess programs that have existed since the 80’s are already proof of that. - Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 5 weeks ago:
It is widely acknowledged that many modern AI chat bots can indeed pass the Turing test as well as an actual human, maybe even better.
So the new problem is that something is wrong with the Turing test, and we need to come up with something better.
Because nobody sensible recognize current state of AI to be anywhere near strong AI.
Or maybe we are performing the Turing test wrong? It can probably not be called a proper Turing test, unless it’s someone particularly skilled in it that performs it. Someone able to detect the answers without actual human experience behind them.We know AI can have very basic problems, like not being able to count the number of “r” in strawberry correctly, and act very confused about it when it’s explained that there are 3, and asked to spell the word out and count them.
If the AI had consciousness and comparable intelligence to a normal human, such banal things should not confuse the AI.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 5 weeks ago:
There are also more people. Are streets not real if autonomous driving becomes a thing?
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 5 weeks ago:
So your Google search isn’t real, because the result is based on bots crawling the internet.
Well internet searches were based on crawlers looonngg before Google.
Just like this example you can make thousands of examples, where the sites we used to some degree is facilitated by crawlers.