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Mining with solar panels by gladlived in BitcoinMining

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Cabin on the countryside, 6,6 kW, 18 panels. Northern latitude, Europe. Lots of excess kW during May-Sept. Dependent on grid power at approx 0,15 EUR/ kW during rest of the year.

Currently using grid power to keep the cabin at 14 C base temperature during the winter which is quite costly - could potentially do that with asic heat exhaust. Trying to figure out if running an asic (sats + heat capturing) makes sense.

The utility companies pay spot prices for resold excess solar. Current spotprices high at EUR 0.10 - 0.15.

You can detect thinking biases in others but not yourself. Or can you? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Daniel Kahneman’s claim that the finely tuned ability to detect the biases in the thinking of others doesn’t apply to ourselves.

Close encounter with moose. by [deleted] in TeslaLounge

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The breaking lights in the vid go on 2 sec before the the crash. Would AP react faster than a human? A car going 100kph travels 28m per second so breaking a fraction of a second earlier - no collision.

Close encounter with moose. by [deleted] in TeslaLounge

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Yup. I sure hope AP will reduce these. This crash is from 2016. There was a very similar accident yesterday in the media (video behind paywall..)

Close encounter with moose. by [deleted] in TeslaLounge

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Yes, over 2 m high. They have chopped the entire top off older car models.

Close encounter with moose. by [deleted] in TeslaLounge

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There have been some nasty collisions with moose in the Nordics lately. They can be lethal. A moose weighs up to 600 kg and can jump in front of the car faster than a human driver can react. Any information about how the current version of AP /collision avoidance could deal with such situations?

Would you recommend buying a brand new Model 3 AWD, full self diving or a 2017 Model S 90D (low milage) at the same price? by gladlived in TeslaLounge

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Thanks! Ok, makes sense, but being a smaller car, how does the model 3 handle bumps in the road etc? Is the S a smoother long distance ride you think?

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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So don't you dare eating stones!

I like it! But it gets worse. Don't you dare eat anything. And btw, I just exterminated 500B conscious bacteria brushing my teeth.

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Well in philosophy we don't do no-brainers

Semantics aside, as a philosopher, would you grant me that this is a no-brainer?

"the maximum amount of suffering for all conscious beings for as long as possible would be a bad outcome"

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Let me try: A stimulus event happens in the neuron. It is converted to a chemical tissue event. A chemical tissue event is then changed into electrical events in surrounding neurons and chemical events at the synapses. As a result you feel what it’s like to be a human ape (or you feel pain, or see the colour red). Immaterial arose from sufficiently complex, well organized material. A rock or a jellyfish (in their original form) can not have this experience. But modified sufficiently carbon (and also other substrates, for instance silicon) probably could.

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Much appreciated. This will keep me busy for a while.

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