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What if they told you their products are so fast they don’t need a total bandwidth?

That’s fair, and I happen to agree with you. I just don’t think this particular concern is realistic given some very basic regulations in place.

So lets get this straight. The whole world of heroin addicts will flood to Norway, but then the people nearest to Norway (who likely don't have to fly) are going to be impacted by this illegal trade?

Selling something that is free is not a lucrative business for the Mafia. I think you have to make up your mind about the exaggerated scenarios you're imagining.

Here's two straightforward policies that would ameliorate these concerns:

1) Dole out the drugs on site. This is done already all over the world all the time. No take home doses.

2) This is a last resort of Norwegian citizens who have tried other methods of recovery. If you read the article, you'd see it will affect about 400 people. This is a good start, hardly a global heroin empire.

Or treat it like methadone where you must consume it on site. Not that hard.

If I recall correctly, the Canadian equivalent has a longer term rehab upstairs from the area where the drugs are given out. The staff makes people aware it’s an option. People who may otherwise never interact with medical professionals.

Ok got it. Then I’ve misread what you’re trying to say. For what it’s worth I completely agree.

Simply read what you wrote. No serious person defends a position like this:

'China is a sovereign nation and has every right to Govern itself the way it wants to.'

Rather than taking the human rights abuses seriously, you continually obfuscate obvious facts by pointing to the United States' history of human rights abuses (of which there are plenty), and simply double down on your own indefensible position.

You could also do the most elementary research into your own position, which would immediately reveal that currency manipulation, censorship, restrictions on freedom of movement and associated crimes violate UN human rights laws and countless international trade agreements. Any honest definition of 'legal' would account for this.

There's an honest conversation to be had about how sanctions impact the poorest segments of a country. That conversation cant proceed if you don't acknowledge reality.

No the question was whether or not national sovereignty justifies criminal behavior. You made the ludicrous point that China's national sovereignty gives them the right to commit human rights abuses, and I merely pointed out that your same logic would justify whatever unethical trade arrangement we decide on.

Ignoring how ethically insane it is to justify human rights abuses under the guise of national sovereignty, this same sovereignty would allow the US to cease trade relations.

That’s interesting you say that. I’ve known two engineers who worked at JPL and they said that no teams did anything close to formal verification. It’s an incredibly difficult bar to meet

Clearly you’ve never camped in Death Valley...

I think this idea is really interesting. Perhaps Seattle is temperate enough, but a backup AC system may make sense. You’d still get the energy savings for at least some percent of the year.

Death Valley almost broke the highest recorded temperature ever.

Not sure if there’s a translation error, but since when is an incentive not a form of coercion?

If you’re interested in sticking with Chrome there are extensions that suspend inactive tabs after a certain period.

Or you know, more pizazz!

Have you or your gf been there for a while? Is the homelessness worse than before? I lived there about six years ago so I’m curious.

I don’t consider his position controversial at all...

Awesome! Thanks.

I find this stuff fascinating but so much of it went over my head. Can anybody point me in the right direction to read more about the relevant topics? Is this standard material in compiler design, or another related field?

And human beings, and good luck convincing anybody to jump into one of those things...mostly because doing so is more or less dying.

As much as I agree, let’s obviously not judge people based on accents, I find this a bit ridiculous. I can’t help but raise an eyebrow at the idea of visiting let’s say France, completely butchering pronunciations, and then claiming that anybody who corrects me just has a different accent. There’s obviously more or less correct ways to speak a language...

What does the American holocaust refer to? EDIT: if it’s the initial European conquest and genocide, perhaps the lack of photographic / contemporary documentation makes a museum more difficult?

Why stop there? I don’t think Native Americans lived in log cabins. Antibiotics and modern medicine should undoubtedly be cast to the trash heap as well. I can’t help but feel like simply limiting screen time is the solution here...

Redux is good given how small the library is. Rust stands out as well

My impression here is that intelligent people tend to over complicate this distinction. Consciousness is what separates you from a rock. It’s the fact that you have an inner life at all. That the world shows up for you. The points you make are interesting, but orthogonal to core distinction of what consciousness is. EDIT: as you point out, your examples raise interesting points about personal identity over time, throughout space, etc. These, I argue, are just additional and separate distinctions.

Yes! Much better said.

I'd take your argument further even. We could be mistaken about every experience we've ever had. Let's take the brain in a vat example, in which none of our sensory experiences accurately model reality.

This has no bearing on the hard problem of describing consciousness or how organic material (maybe silicon some day) gives rise to it. It also doesn't indicate how a physicalist picture of the mind could, in principle, capture the phenomena.

I'd argue that any such mapping of inputs and outputs, (fully mapping our mind) would equally describe to a system that is not conscious. In other words, the whole analysis could as well be describing a zombie that behaves like us but does not have experiences.

Put another way, it would fail to capture why that system (our brains) produce any experiences at all. I know this is disputed, of course. But I basically think the hard problem is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

I've always felt that Dennett has side stepped the question here. The 'hard problem' here is to explain how a set of physical processes give rise to consciousness or sensory experience at all. In other words, why the lights are on.

As far as I can tell, consciousness is literally the one thing in the universe that can't be an illusion. Even if, in the extreme case, we're brains in a vat, etc.