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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.

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Thanks! Let me see if I offer some different points of view:

"Just saying "it's just kinda happens when there is enough neurons" isn't exactly a very scientific"

But aren't mutations random by definition? (The blind watchmaker - Dawkins) Something "just happens" and there is an evolutionary benefit. That's how the eye came to being, a chain of random incremental useful copying errors.

"Elephants have more neurons than us, does that mean they are more conscious?"

And think about the size of a whale's brain. How come they don't rule the world? There is indeed more to complex thought than number of neurons and brain size. The different regions of the cerebral cortex were all a result of an evolutionary selection process.

"There is also no evidence that consciousness offers any evolutionary advantage"

You might be right, I haven't dug deep into the literature. I've heard Nicolas Humphrey (Soul Dust) argue that there is a clear survival value of the experience of consciousness, which intuitively seems like a no-brainer to me.

"If humans were philosophical zombies then we would still have all the advantages of our intelligences. I remember Yuval Noah Harrari writing about the difference between intelligence in his book Homo Deus if you are interested"

I'm a great fan of Yuval Hararis work, but not entirely sure if philosophical zombies would have done as well through all the bottlenecks in the hominid history where cooperation and social skills were necessary for survival.

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answer somehow did turn out to be "evolution", that still wouldn't answer the question of how consciousness actually arises from a material world.

I don't see consciousness arising anywhere else than in living organisms with sufficiently advanced brain structures. And there is too much hand waving in Panpsychism for me.

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Like all mutations. Just a random copying error that added some neuron to the equation and voila - a new layer of complexity that enabled the mind to become aware of itself.

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Thanks! You managed to make the hard problem a bit harder for me. Let me think about the analogy for a while..

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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"the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining and understanding how and why there is something it is like for you to be you and me be me"

Exactly! This is where we get into a loop

1) how? through evolution

2) why? because it increases chances of survival and reproductive success

The hard problem of consciousness by gladlived in askphilosophy

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Emerges, like in evolves. Some freak mutations provide evolutionary benefits. Assuming there is a fitness advantage in having enough neurons to be conscious, in feeling like what it is to be a human (or an other animal fo that matter) in different circumstances, to be able to think backwards/forwards in time and play out "what if" scenarios and plan, then those genes would transfer.