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It might be correlated with neurodivergence. But it’s also just correlated with high verbal ability in general, presumably. I find it quite natural to think in complete structured sentences, and it’s often perplexed me why other people seem to find this concept so alien. And no I’m not schizophrenic.

> The thought that was comfortable as a vague impression has to become a sentence, and sentences have structure. They have a subject and a predicate.

I already think in sentences so idk what this guy is on about, sounds like a skill issue.

In order to get into Zuckerberg’s position in the first place, you need to have a highly competitive personality type. And competitive people want to win at EVERYTHING, all the time. It’s a constant compulsion. Even if they might intellectually understand the distinction between “just a game” and “actual serious time”, they don’t “feel” that distinction in their bones. They have no off switch.

Why bother with research into fundamental physics? Is there some deeper truth about the prime numbers hidden in the universe?

>1) It's certainly not unheard of for theories have observational or experimental data appears that sends them back to the drawing board for reworking and do eventually get to a consistent state

Sure. But when the socially dominant theory doesn’t fit observations, it’s called “a temporary setback that calls for some reworking”, and when a heterodox theory doesn’t fit observations, it’s called “falling flat on its face”, as you can see in another reply below. That’s not a healthy dynamic.

> There's not some shadowy cabal of cosmologists doing everything in their power to keep the cult of dark matter alive.

No… but curiously, you will get your comment flagged and removed on HN for making such a claim!

>I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red.

Yes! In fact, philosophers have spent a lot of time thinking about this exact problem:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/

There are some specialized terms here that you're unlikely to encounter outside of an academic philosophy paper, but there's nothing complex about the meanings of any of the individual terms. Once you know what the words mean, it all makes sense.

>eliminativist

Eliminativist claims in philosophy are claims that deny the existence of some class of entities. You can be eliminativist about all sorts of things - numbers, objective morals, countries, tables and chairs, etc.

>qualia

First-person conscious experiences. Pain is a qualia. The way the color blue looks, as opposed to say the color red or green, is a qualia. The sensation of hot or cold is a qualia.

When someone stubs their toe and says "ow", you can infer that they're in pain based on their behavior and your knowledge of how pain works, but you can't actually feel or directly observe their pain. That's the "first-person" part.

>phenomenal consciousness

A synonym for "qualia", because some philosophers started to feel like the word "qualia" had too much historical baggage, so they needed to come up with a new term.

>introspective illusion

Exactly what it says on the tin. An illusion (meaning, an impression that something is real, when it is in fact not) generated by introspection.

So, putting it all together:

>illusionism

Illusionism about consciousness is the thesis that phenomenal consciousness is not real. So, to give a specific example, an illusionist would be committed to the thesis that pain is not real. As a corollary, no one has ever felt pain before, because there is no such thing as pain. People have been under the illusion that they feel pain, but they actually don't.

Every field has jargon and specialized terminology. Do you expect to be able to read any random physics or math paper outside your area of expertise and understand every word?

There are… many people who think that cities are worse off because of cars. Maybe not for the same reasons, but still.

You know that ChatGPT writing is still obvious even when you ask it to change its style, right?

Aliens are not woo. Life is a natural phenomenon that is very clearly possible within the known laws of physics. We know life can naturally occur in the universe, because it happened here. Why not somewhere else, too?

Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.

ChatGPT comment?

Video is not the standard medium of communication in academic philosophy. I imagine the GP mentioned youtube because most people are more likely to watch a video than read a paper.

Bernardo Kastrup has a bunch of essays/books up for free at his website https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html?m=1

Biology isn’t magic, but it does do a heck of a lot of amazing things that we don’t understand yet.

We haven’t even been able to reproduce abiogenesis.

>One way to understand the legitimacy and value of non-analytic philosophy

I don’t think HN is even sold on the value and legitimacy of analytic philosophy. It’s best to get people on board with that first, before moving on to the weird stuff.

>a human clicked on the “overtake” button

Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo?

Human drivers make mistakes all the time, it’s true. But there are consequences for those mistakes. If a human drives into the opposite lane that’s a big problem, especially if they end up causing property damage or bodily injury. Why are the same standards not being applied here?

I just don’t understand why you would want or need one except for gaming.

And there are already a lot of more comfortable and familiar input devices for gaming.

Classic solution looking for a problem.

Next time you’re confused about why people seem to hate “techbros”, remember that this is the reason.

That heavily depends on the individual developer and the organization in question.

In general, the most highly skilled developers who are most capable of doing a thorough code review are also the ones who are most likely to be genuinely over capacity as is.

There’s about as much evidence for the existence of dark matter as we can possibly get, short of actually observing it.

In particular we’ve observed some galaxies that seem to have little to no dark matter. Gravitationally, they behave the way that you would “naively” predict without the need to plug in a correction term that represents dark matter. This indicates that there is something physically different about these galaxies (like an unobserved substance), and it points away from MOND-style theories.

I assume that the text is as AI-generated as the picture is.

>money transfer is just a list of rules, transactions, settlement dates and so on.

Surely you must appreciate how obnoxious it is when people assume that software development is just “translating the requirements into code”, right?

I miss the days when professional software development was more akin to this sort of thing, rather than gluing together 20 Javascript frameworks on top of someone else's cloud infrastructure.

>These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense.

But you have time to play their games, apparently?

The majority of HN makes a living from software that by nature can’t be pirated, so they have little sympathy for people who work on software that can be pirated.

Is there ever really a reason beyond “we don’t need you and/or can’t afford you”? I don’t think it really needs to be spelled out.

Do you know the “ending” of a piece of software before you write it?

Obviously it varies a lot, based on the type of project and your own personal methodology. Sometimes you might be able to say yes, sometimes you might have to say no. In some cases the question won’t even make sense. And in all cases you might suspect that the person asking the question is misunderstanding something fundamental about the working process.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This really is a story that should have more visibility.

If aliens don’t exist, why are defense contractors trying so hard to shut down a bill that simply says “show us what you know about aliens”?

Complete insanity.

Don’t plan for the future. Don’t delay gratification. Never save up enough money that you’re allowed to have a taste of true freedom. Always be precarious, always be dependent on your boss for the next handout, lest your food and shelter be in jeopardy. Don’t step out of line, lest that handout be jeopardized.

Keep your hands off my bank account.