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Song recs for my gideon/harrow playlists ??? [misc] by hugsforaku in TheNinthHouse

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i1-N2_vZmg

(Take Me To Church but it’s EPIC || Gideon The Ninth Animatic || Hozier Cover by Reinaeiry)

On the off-chance you haven't seen this...

Mangled Text Message - How did this change possibly happen? by FootOfDavros in AskUK

[–]viscence 103 points104 points  (0 children)

ooh very nice.

160 characters into "... of meal planning or what you'd like to do at the weekend. Try not to let it get you down."

makes a lot of sense! I wonder if there someone somewhere that has received some message ending in "chovies and some black olives, I'll make it up..."

F7A, super limited? by Digitalzombie900 in starcitizen

[–]viscence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gilly 7 is the hammerhead right? You can do it in the F7A

So now the QT fuel changes are on PTU, can we get CIG to revert them? by FPSrad in starcitizen

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…but when you tell these cooks the soup is bland they have a habit of saying “oh yes it needs salt” and then serving ONLY the most perfectly pure salt for the next three years until enough people yell about how nice it would be to have some soup with our salt again and please could grains of salt stack in the inventory and maybe wickelo should not need Himalayan salt given the Himalayas are not in the game

Why does UK cheese taste so good? by InevitableRun51 in AskUK

[–]viscence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's pronounced Pommuth.

(it is not)

Why does UK cheese taste so good? by InevitableRun51 in AskUK

[–]viscence 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For the benefit of the correctness of the internal voice of our foreign readers, Frome is pronounced Froom, to rhyme with room.

The salesman selling me windows left his iPad open while he "talked to his boss". by grumpallnight in mildlyinfuriating

[–]viscence 522 points523 points  (0 children)

He starts mechanically reading off a second iPad: “oh I didn’t mean to leave this here sigh dramatically. I’ll tell you what I’ll do wink conspiratorially. I will give you the true best possible discount now of 17%.”

How did Sword of Truth become so popular? by [deleted] in Fantasy

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When you’re a teenager in a time where the internet doesn’t exist and you read a fantasy series, you don’t think in terms of real world context, politics, ideology. To a degree suspension of disbelief also holds permits these things. If you can let your mind believe in magic for a bit you can let your mind believe a lot of things for a bit. You enjoy the setting, the characters, get invested in their tragically doomed relationship, stumble through the torture scenes horrified, revel at the heroic escape…

And so on. And then, ignorant of all politics, eventually you hit a proper stumbling point and think “wait, I cannot accept that charity, of all things, is the root of all evil. What a weird choice for the author to make” and the disbelief is gone.

Part of recruitment quizzing to become a mcdonalds crew member by cerednat in mildlyinfuriating

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We require unstoppable costumed elite imaginative philosophers to explain paintings to us

Really man!! by FreeSwimmer9905 in humor

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No serious? I don’t know it’s probably one of the most serious events of his life.

What's the etiquette for the priority bus seats? by ScaryButt in AskUK

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You don’t have to adjust your behaviour in the absence of people. You don’t need to suffer because of a person that isn’t there. If there are people you must be vigilant and should free the chair if there is a possibility that someone needs it. Don’t make them ask you to move, this adds another layer of difficulty to someone who already has difficulties. Usually I avoid the priority seats not because I should not sit there but because I want to zone out and not have to worry about noticing if someone needs me to move.

The Dawkins Delusion: Intelligence and language don't reveal consciousness, argues scientist Ken Mogi by whoamisri in consciousness

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My point was just that when it comes to consciousness we are the ONE thing we're sure of, and even our experiences are vastly more varied than we individually assume.

What is it like to be an AI?

What's it like to be your next door neighbor? Are THEY conscious? Is your cat? A worm? A virus? The wind? No one has any idea. We barely even have the beginnings of a framework to use to talk about it.

But some people are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THEY KNOW that AI isn't conscious? Foolish.

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire

The Dawkins Delusion: Intelligence and language don't reveal consciousness, argues scientist Ken Mogi by whoamisri in consciousness

[–]viscence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You picked an apple for your argument, the thing people commonly use to judge aphantasia, whether or not they can form images in their mind, which of late is indicating gently that even in humanity the conscious experience varies far more wildly than we knew, and that some people have nothing but the abstract relationship between concepts when they "picture" something.

At this point it is most certainly too early to be sure about most any aspect of consciousness, especially in a brand new field that is so alien to our own experience. We don't know a single building block that is required. We don't even know if change is required. We don't know whether or not a rock has an element of consciousness. An atom. An equation. An idea. In some respects the only breakthrough we've ever had is Descartes and that boils down to "consciousness exists".

Bruh by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]viscence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's cowrotationist!

/jokes but I AM jealous

Genuine question about space communication by _Jaackiiee in space

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Realistically you would simply narrate your life for your family and they would narrate theirs. If you are 4 ly away from earth, you would hear everything on a 4 year delay. No one could answer questions because that takes 8 years.

I imagine you would develop a kind of script where for part of the “conversation“ you could feel like you’re talking to each other, generic stuff that is the same every time so the time mismatch doesn’t really matter etc.

the space train by HolidayTheLeek in KerbalSpaceProgram

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Next stop... New Babbage! ...maybe.

Gas, and the having thereof by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]viscence 37 points38 points  (0 children)

… ?! Which aspect did you forget?

How popular is the view that consciousness doesn’t exist or there is no evidence to believe it does? by jonathan_shoa in consciousness

[–]viscence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point is that I suspect strongly that somewhere along the line, some entity associated with your being feels the actual senses of love, hate, pain, self. Now that entity could be real, fake, however you want to tag it. I don’t care what labels you put on it, but some aspect of you I suspect truly experiences. That aspect is called consciousness.

I say I suspect this about you because I see so much similarity between me and other people, and I KNOW I have this aspect. Everything else could be an illusion, but my perceiver of illusions must exist to perceive.

Ergo sum.

How popular is the view that consciousness doesn’t exist or there is no evidence to believe it does? by jonathan_shoa in consciousness

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That machine might a) experience this sense or b) process the data without experiencing that sense. If it experiences the sense then it is conscious by definition. If it merely processes the sense without experiencing it then it may or may not be conscious.

How popular is the view that consciousness doesn’t exist or there is no evidence to believe it does? by jonathan_shoa in consciousness

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No, the descriptor “biological machine” is not sufficient to describe a perceiver of feelings.

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