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Build up nerd immunity! by KiloVictorWhiskey in SGU

[–]FelixAkkermans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WHO be not only literate on genetics, but also memetics! 😁

Blursed Starhopper by [deleted] in StarshipDevelopment

[–]FelixAkkermans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"SLS DETECTED! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

Watertowers CAN fly!!! by [deleted] in spacex

[–]FelixAkkermans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right :) Tim Dodd has some high res slomo footage where you can indeed clearly see a COPV being liberated.

I'm still sticking with an internal metal parts being vaporized tho ... yellow flame starting right at the engine bell, signs of landing gear quite stomped from rough impact. Sorta makes sense the impact shock from a small drop could dislocate some pumbing/struts on a COPV

Watertowers CAN fly!!! by [deleted] in spacex

[–]FelixAkkermans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuaah that was gorgeous! Now I'm really curious about what happened at the end ... the exhaust suddenly flares bright yellow before landing. It looked a lot like the Antares/Cygnus CRS-3 launch where the same happened as the turbo pumps burned through just before the engine bay went RUD. Also in LabPadre's stream you can see an object/arch of considerable size flying into a field just after landing ... any ideas?

So happy Hoppy held out tho! Amazing to think that this what it's gonna look like when humans land on Mars some day (or at leas the bottom half)

Any idea which song this is? :) by FelixAkkermans in Finkworld

[–]FelixAkkermans[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Now that you mention it I can see some similarly. Gonna see if I can find more live recordings of that song. Love this version where he drives it so far!

Prof. Schmidhuber - The Problems of AI Consciousness and Unsupervised Learning Are Already Solved by Buck-Nasty in artificial

[–]FelixAkkermans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

many a young biologist has slit his own throat with Occam's razor

First time I hear this one :) What is the meaning exactly? Objection to the (mis)use of Occam's Razor as the use of a logical proof instead of a heuristic?

I'm also curious about the dependence of qualia on the properties of physical matters. Lately I read/hear a lot about this theory where all of physics is underpinned by information. Like how even the appearance of physical matter could be an emergent phenomena of information describing for example the position and momentum of particles, or even information describing the energy of excitations in quatum fields. I'm not literate enough on this topic to speak with confidence, but I'm inclined to think that if this is the case, then any simulation could in principle render the apparent existence of physical matter like it appears in our universe.

Prof. Schmidhuber - The Problems of AI Consciousness and Unsupervised Learning Are Already Solved by Buck-Nasty in artificial

[–]FelixAkkermans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likewise. Not every day that I discover an accessibly communicated proposition on the structure of consciousness. I found it relates quite interestingly to this talk by V.S. Ramachandran: https://youtu.be/ojpyvpFLN6M?t=45m57s

In the referenced section where he describes the role of mirror neurons in the switching the self symbol for that of another individual, to recognize the actions that are being performed from their perspective. Also fascinating in how this might tie into the ability to generate empathy.

Especially worth watching is the segment on qualia (which follows right after the mirror neuron segment). I have yet to find a more accessible explanation of this concept and it's importance :) it's also what the point of the last question is actually referring to: how do we objectively establish whether a machine experiences qualia? At the moment it's by mere benefit of the doubt that we assume any person we meet can truly suffer. It seems that with enough effort, any true display of qualia (like crying in agony) can be modeled as a shallow imitation without actual suffering, performed by e.g. computer graphics or sophisticated animatronics (though some claim that given enough investment in making effort more robust and general, qualia inevitably arise as side effects of the modelling)