Just criticises? Not “slams”, “destroys”, or eviscerates? Weak. No rage click from me.
Just criticises? Not “slams”, “destroys”, or eviscerates? Weak. No rage click from me.
DOJ wants to get in on some of that hot euro DMA action
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. A long time.
… But it was the organizers self censoring their entrants based on just the idea that the Chinese govt would take interest in/offense to some of the stories from what I can read. Haven’t seen any reporting suggesting the Chinese govt was actually involved at all. My thought is, why would the organizers hold the event in China if it was going to cause them to act the fool like this?
That was bad but at least short. I can’t ever hear “we’re going on an adventure” again without flashing back to that nightmare of a sequence of events.
Maybe don’t hold it in China again if they’re so worried about this sort of thing? They didn’t think that through did they? You think they might with, you know, science fiction often commenting on real life things through speculative analogues. They cowardly caved to just the idea of repercussions. Nothing in the article says the committee was actually under pressure from anyone to do what they did. Weak!
Classic red/blue loctite situation.
I get preferences but the distinction is overblown. I’ve never baked anything that didn’t rise right or came out salty because of the butter distinction. 1/4 tsp per stick of butter isn’t likely to mess with anything. The only time I’ve ever noticed the difference was unsalted butter on toast. I was like “why doesn’t this taste like anything?”
The article explains it as tagging your own cells in your body with a marker that makes the immune system ignore them. Doesn’t seem like a foreign body encountered sporadically would work. Allergies and autoimmune (like CL IV celiac) are different classifications of hypersensitivity with different mediating mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity
I mean, it’s making it to human trials so seems a lot more real than most of these “kills cancer cells in a petri dish” sort of things.
one with wheels on it, right? Maybe important to note
then we get to really specifically define individual, perspective, and perception (can you perceive while unconscious? I guess?), all sorts of fun knots to tie oneself into. I always thought the difference in sense vs. perception was the thinking about it, but if it's processed at all by the "unconscious" I guess it's still perception? I mean, I'm gettting twisted up thinking if my individual consciousness has a perspective from which it perceives the world
I think it's more they are murdering the current instance of a pattern of matter and with it the biological implementation of the pattern of consciousness. Another instance of the same pattern is created near simultaneously. To flip it, aren't they life creating machines as much as murder machines?
Is there a clear cut distinction between consciousness and self awareness? I think based on common usage, most folks wouldn't say you were conscious when sleeping, as usually it's said when sleeping you are unconscious. Sure your brain is still doing stuff and it's not just "keep the heart beating" stuff, but you're not aware of it.
That last one isn't really fair, we're animals and have attachments that can't be logically reasoned away. Our brains aren't entirely controlled by our conscious thoughts. You can believe 100% that the patterns of matter, not the matter itself, make the person but still not "feel" good about it.
Agree for Occam's if someone is actually suggesting they are replaced nightly or your last Thursdayism, but as for conceiving of parallels to a made up teleportation technology and its philosophical implications, is the break in consciousness/self awareness for sleep not a reasonable comparison?
I mean, is there a scientific consensus on what constitutes consciousness? I thought that was a stumbling point on trying to pin down the various parts of the study of it. I wouldn't say brain activity ceases while sleeping like that other comment but I'm in the camp that thinks the break in consciousness/awareness-of-being in a ST transporter is not really different than the break when sleeping.
discussion in here looking like old r/teenagers with predictable takes
I knew it!
You know I thought it was copypasta but thought maybe it was rude to say it (if it wasn’t). I must be delirious after making my 2am chili. I need to take a refreshing shower with icesoap.
4 billion even!