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wagwangbosyon British naval dominance during the age of sail

The french navy had been super formidable throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. I don't really get how they folded so quickly to the UK.

wagwangbosyon Human

I guess it depends on what you mean by emotions. If you mean emotion as a state of consciousness then you would have to prove that consciousness is not an emergent property of matter and that CPU's don't have this property. Consciousness is hard to debate though since its pretty metaphysical in nature and there's no real argument against solipsism, so all argumentation starts with the axiom that all awake adult humans are conscious.

However, if you mean emotion as a stimuli, ie. a input to the brain net thats endogenous to the system(the human), then there's no question machines can achieve this, in fact the reasoning models already probably do this where different systems regulate each other.

wagwangbosyon Human

This idea that machines cant have "emotions" is ridiculous.

wagwangbosyon Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities

He's probably talking about the walgreens on 4th and townsend and that area (also near where i live) has been getting worse in the past year. It was 1 of 2 neighborhoods that had an uptick in crime to the tune of 50%+. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-neighborhoods-d...

wagwangbosyon Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder

Who is comparing 2 burgers to 1 burger.

wagwangbosyon Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder

How is that weird? Socialization is generally healthy, which is why there's less of a stigma. It's not like the average alone drinker is doing pushups while shooting whiskey.

wagwangbosyon Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)

Its a weird comment, but the eastern empire did contract bigly after the plague