miika

You say “if I ask you to choose” but if there is no free will then I cannot choose.

Also if there is no free will then we cannot judge anyone, no matter what they did, because they didn’t have choice.

Actually my argument is that the best evidence for free will is that the world is such a mess. Without free will we would live in perfect harmony with nature, like all the other species do. We are so free that we can even deny the existence of our freedom, hence avoid taking responsibility of our actions.

There are always more than two choices.

Do you believe it's all about the brain?

When you say "you fool yourself" then I have to admit that I don't know who am I or how I could define myself anyways. I have been sitting with that question every day for about 12 years now.

Only reason you believe there is a mind is because the mind says it exists. But have you investigated where is that mind and who is that which mind if speaking to?

Thanks for the comments.

Yea I also like to say that if my will is truly free, it's not under anyones control.

One thing I want to add: I think will and intention is also a question of scale or perspective. Bacteria is capable of making "their own" decisions but they probably cannot dictate which direction body is going to walk.

In similar way Planet Earth is under influence of the Sun, and the Sun is under influence of larger forces of the Milky Way and so on.

You could say that every level of existence is probably under a will of some level above and maybe each level can impose their will on levels below them.

From this perspective we could say that pure awareness is beyond physical body, brain and mind, so then if you want to really will your body it must be done from the state of pure consciousness - and then the body, brain, mind must follow as they're level below.

Anyways, don't take me seriously, this just entertainment.

The question is never if we have free will or not. The question is if we are in a state where free will is available or not.

For example, when I’m aware that there is space around myself, then I’m also aware that there are thoughts, feeling in the body, breath etc. In this state, I believe, it’s possible to choose. In this test I can choose the only press the other key and this algorithm doesn’t do so well.

Then something triggers my attention, I react, I forget that there is space, breath, thoughts etc. and I start to execute my conditioning, which is highly predictable and free will simply isn’t available at that point.

Then eventually something pulls me back to the presence, awareness. I remember there is space, breath, mind, feelings, emotions. I’m home. I’m free.

Cool. Gotta try if this compiles into wasm. Having this in a browser would be amazing.

As above, so below?

Mobile phones, WiFi etc a have been under the same classification by WHO since 2011. The industry didn’t take it too seriously, and probably this one doesn’t mean anything either.

https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E....

Look at bullet train network in China, which is probably inspiring EU now. Today it’s about 40,000 km. Total amount of time spent traveling is about same as with airplanes (less time waiting on airport but more time on vehicle) but price is cheaper, ride much more comfortable.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-rail-cmd...

This was discussed quite a bit after 2004 asian tsunami, which was triggered by an earthquake near Antarctica and there was also some massive gamma ray burst (or something) occurring about the same time.

I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s a connected universe. No thing is an island.

I doubt SETI could detect even our own signals, when it’s encrypted digital data. I mean it’s just noise like any background signal..

Then, we people are very soon capable of communicating using quantum entanglement, which means it’s beyond wireless and you simply couldn’t tap into it with some antenna.

For these reasons I suspect that SETI is waste of money.

Long story short. Sumopaint used to be Flash based painting app. When Adobe killed Flash obviously there was a challenge: how to rewrite the app.

Few years ago we tried HTML5 approach but we weren't able to match the Flash version. The result was "ok" but many users were disappointed. Then we discovered WebAssembly and started rewriting from scratch. Now we are quite happy with it, although there are still many things we are going to improve.

Tech stack: - C++ OpenGL ES2 graphics engine compiled with Emscripten - React UI

AI features: - Stable Diffusion generate, reimagine, instruct - Remove background - Upscale and enhance faces

Special features - Symmetry - Gravity - Spinner Mode - Perspective tool - Object remove (our own patch matching algorithm) - Coloring mode

Imports: - JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF, SVG

Exports: - JPG, PNG, SUMO, PDF

- Optimised for Chromebooks - Optimised for iPad + Apple Pencil - Supports all browsers (as we know of)

This application can be integrated to 3rd party services for product customization purposes. There are already some examples of this, such as you can design fishing lures (unique.kuusamo.app).

We're currently working on some audio features (yes!) and support for 3D objects (you can paint directly on the object).

Thanks for saying that. I have just come to notice that this HN community can be ruthless and lacking sense of humour and imagination. Even with apologies I always get downvoted. I don't really care but it's a funny game :)

Who knows, our Earth could be one of those.

It would certainly explain things, like why we seem to be out nowhere.. I mean there is no signs of life, against all the odds. Deep mission alright.

It would explain why we started agriculture, civilisation etc so suddenly. It would also explain many of the myths, such as the ones about star people visiting us.

I would obviously create and seed a planet first, then monitor its development upto a point before going in to live onsite. Maybe we had created some folks there to do some gardening. When you arrive and they're treating you like a king and after you left eventually the stories started to seem like fairytales.

It would fit with the idea that there was an ancient advanced ciliation, who was wiped out about 12,000 years ago, because of something like flood, solar events or asteroids caused floods etc. or they decided to reboot the experiment. But few who survived were able to restart civilisation at some basic level at least.

Since our ancestors were wiped out there has been this state of amnesia, like Graham Hancock puts it. We have been left wondering in the dark, asking ourselves who we are, why are we here and if there is anybody out there.

Maybe "the gods" will return some day and offer us way back home, but we will probably try to shoot them. All thanks to Hollywood brainwashing the world to imagine that aliens are some space insects who want to turn us into batteries. Why not imagine it would be more like the final episode of Battlestar Galactica or the world of Expanse? But who knows, maybe they're already here and some suspicious folks are freaking out.

Anyways, sorry about that. Just felt that this train of thought was supposed to be spilled out here. <InsetAllTheDisclaimersRequiredHere />

You can setup your own iTunes music server, host it, and connect from anywhere.

My Buffalo network drive also supports custom iTunes libraries which can be used. Here is another kind of setup:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/software/applications/how-t...

No. Actually when you have a vision and do something you love, really, then you don’t need motivation or discipline. Then you just need every possible moment to execute it, and you will feel relaxed while “working” on it. So consider to just sit down quiet until you know what ignites you like that.

So now they can call it steering wheel. Before it was steering rounded rectangle.

Maybe problem is they do consider Space to be empty. Maybe if they would take into account all those quantum fluctuations in there and add that energy maybe they would land at critical mass of the Universe.

To paint this idea with other example, if you were to figure out mass of a world, but the world was just an image reflecting off a surface of water, then they would focus only on the light particles coming off the surface and ignore the water. At some point they would come to realize that something big is missing. They could find out the value for how much it should be. That’s exactly the case with dark matter I’m quite sure. Space is like water they ignore.

But I don’t know anything, really (sorry to hear if that’s a problem for someone). Why there is possibility to comment on these articles anyways?

Nightmare for who? How hard it is to admit that their equations are incorrect? Even amateur like myself can see that the dark matter is adhoc value that was calculated in order to patch the standard model. There are several better alternatives but do we need to wait until these stubborn believers have passed away until the world can move forward?

Ask any DJ, if bass makes people dance? You don’t need to research everything! Waste of academia

Recently I was driving an old car and got lots of bugs. So maybe it’s just that every modern car has been designed with wind tunnel and the bugs simply miss the windshield.

In that case, universe doesn’t behave according to “the laws of physics”. Because the laws we’ve determined is the map.

Check Bernardo Kastrup’s interviews on YouTube. Really inspiring and academically solid work regarding mental universe.

Yea, also, maybe we should try to make Sahara green before attempting to terraform Mars? :)

What I have learned so far structured water is not same as ez water by Pollack.

With structured water the idea is that single water molecules are somehow capable of forming clusters. These clusters are said to be able to hold electromagnetic charge. When “structuring” by physically forcing water through spiral geometries etc (various methods) these clusters are said to get broken.

As far as I have seen the claims of water having memory are based in these clusters, which supposedly even look like neural networks.

But I haven’t seen any real evidence for this stuff. Just wanted to say that in this article they seem to confuse two entirely different concepts.

In cartoons when someone is really hungry they might see friend as a roasted chicken :P

AppGyver has done pretty good job.

It’s React based web app where you can build mobile apps from drag’n’drop UI components, and also define application’s logic in visual way.

The end result is React Native application that can be targeted for Mobile, Tablet and TV.

There are few enterprise apps built with it. Although those are quite simple apps, nevertheless they’re real commercial products.

I see that this “no code” stuff is quite natural progress and will get extended to lot more places. I mean how many standard website today was hand coded? It’s taken for granted now that you can build nice standard websites without knowing any HTML or CSS. Most websites have almost identical structure and functionality anyways so it’s not very hard to create such tools.

And now you can create standard business app without knowing Swift, React Native, Flutter or whatever is out there. It’s only starting now. You could say that AppGyver is at Wordpress 1.0 state.

Also these visual tools can be replaced with other UI systems. Like soon you can talk to computer and describe what kind of app or website you would like to have and watch live preview as it’s coming into existence.

There is also another model about memory which I totally love. In that memory is not stored but brain is more like an antenna which can retrieve information from the space time coordinates where events actually took place.

Because everything is constantly moving around something each event in the universe probably has unique location, a real physical place where it happened.

So, the idea is that as we’re moving through space we’re leaving a trail as the events are (lack of better word) “printed” in the fabric of space. Then as apparently Space is not empty at all but filled with Planck scale micro wormholes entangling all things into this one universal neural network, then our brains should be very well capable of tracing back our unique trails through space and retrieve information through those micro wormholes.

As developer I think it would make most sense to only save references rather than trying store all events inside everyones brains. That would be huge waste of resources and just damn stupid.

And probably the way we humans have built our computers also reflects how the universe really works, because after all we are bits of the universe doing whatever the universe is doing.

Peace

What goes in must come out. 1st law of common sense LoL