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Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...
| Quick update on Tesla's newest software update to its self driving tech.
They pushed out a revamp (supposedly based on the emerging LLM tech) to all Tesla owners and gave a free month's worth of "s...
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Thread: Free will and obesity
Post: RE: Free will and obesity
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 09:13 PM)
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I don’t think going this route with personal responsibility does anything good for our society.
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Thread: Do New Findings Make Fine-Tuning of the Universe Harder to Deny?
Post: RE: Do New Findings Make Fine-Tuning of the Univer...
| Not to be pedantic, but I fully understood the lack of explanatory power from the Fine Turning argument. (i.e., didn't really need the elementary walkthrough ;) )
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Thread: Do New Findings Make Fine-Tuning of the Universe Harder to Deny?
Post: RE: Do New Findings Make Fine-Tuning of the Univer...
| I didn't hear him propose an explanation for the anthropic principle per se. What I took from his comments is that it continues to be a viable explanation in light of current, known science. That's ...
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Thread: Fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
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Thread: James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger than our Milky Way
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sbu Wrote: (2024-02-26, 08:50 PM)
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cannot directly refute the Big Bang theory; it can only gather data that may present discrepancies with current models. It i...
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Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread
| While I share concerns with the ongoing evolution of AI tech, I find myself wary of being alarmist. I'm not sure this is fundamentally any different that many leaps of human technology/industry/engin...
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Thread: Any thoughts on The Safire Project / Aureon?
Post: RE: Any thoughts on The Safire Project / Aureon?
| I can't follow much of the science, but it looks interesting. Appreciate your posting!
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Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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tim Wrote: (2024-01-26, 12:01 AM)
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Air tight (or the equivalent of absolute proof) is very difficult to establish, Silence. Isn't that only available in mathematics ? I believe so, anyway. With res...
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Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...
| Again, as a Tesla owner, albeit without full self driving (FSD), the autonomous driving elements are wonderful.
I regularly drive (weekly) two 100 mile trips. While not a difficult drive as those th...
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Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
Post: RE: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model f...
| In sbu's "defense" (and please, I do not want ANYONE in this thread to see what follows as an attack in any form. I truly appreciate being here, taking in what you all contribute, and considering the...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 8: Michael Nahm
Post: RE: Psience Quest Interview No. 8: Michael Nahm
| Will, I echo the applause for you taking the considerable time, effort, and energy to get this interview. Its GREATLY appreciated!!
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Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...
| Hey Sci. Early reports on Tesla's most recent self-driving tech are very positive. Small sample size of users as it hasn't been rolled out to the broad subscriber base, but they've supposed re-engin...
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Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-22, 05:12 PM)
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Even though these people don’t belief the mental can be reduced to energy, forces and their interactions, they don’t believe any imaginary spritual substance is n...
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Thread: Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why
Post: Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is...
| https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/neuroscience-is-pre-paradigmatic
John Horgan linked this article in a tweet (X). I found it very interesting and well written. Curious for the community'...
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Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-01-09, 05:41 PM)
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Yeah for better or for worse we're stuck with this technology.
I can see myself having to integrate some aspects of it, there will likely be no sof...
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Thread: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
Post: RE: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
| This resonates very much with me as I think of our existence in a very similar manner.
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Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-01-02, 01:48 PM)
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Physicalism is not a useless endeavor and has revealed the universe to be wild, random, uncaring place with potentially no grand narrator at its core given purpo...
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Thread: New developments on the UAP disclosure battle
Post: RE: New developments on the UAP disclosure battle
| Fascinating and, for me, worthy of some sympathy. Man's search and relentless yearning for meaning is strong.
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Thread: What are Conscious Sensations?
Post: RE: What are Conscious Sensations?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-12-14, 07:29 PM)
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If anything this needs to be brought out into the public if the potential threat is so large, otherwise we will simply be under the control of those w...
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