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wdbm··on The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness
Why assume there has to be a one-to-one mapping? Why assume one physical process can't correspond to an infinity of different qualia?

We assume an infinity of wave-functions correspond to a single physical process without difficulty.

wdbm··on Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh
There is an absolutely beautiful rendering of the Mona Lisa encoded at some point in the digits of pi. If you know the position, it's really easy to plot the image.

But first you have to find that position.

wdbm··on NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
>What benefit is there to keep this antiquated method around, aside from just as an historical reference?

Analogue clocks are, by design, also visual progress bars. Digital clocks just give you the time. There's a little video talking about this by Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag

wdbm··on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
You're describing ZeroNet.

It has ZeroTalk as a Reddit-like thing, ZeroMe as a social network and ZeroBlog as a Twitter-like thing.

https://zeronet.io

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroTalk

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroMe

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroBlog

wdbm··on Arthur C. Clarke predicted a computer-dominated future in the ’70s (2024)
Hey, let's not forget 1927's Metropolis, where an authoritarian government uses deepfaked bots to manipulate the population.
wdbm··on Ann, the Small Annotation Server
How would this compare to hypothes.is?
wdbm··on The death of the middle-class restaurant
Would you consider something like the Ikea cafeteria to be someways similar?
wdbm··on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)
The trick, Muad'Dib, is not minding that it hurts.
wdbm··on Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device
My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022