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I'm confused.

IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as signals of sight, sound, touch, hunger, intoxication, etc.

THEN how is one suppose to conclude that they are not just a consciousness in a box because they 'feel' drunk after they 'feel' they've ingested alcohol.

There's no need to monitor alcohol levels because the alcohol hasn't been proven to exist!

"Does the external world exist, as it so concretely seems?"

I know this is not the direction of the paper (or question) but physics already gives us an astounding 'No!'.

They've gotten it a little bit bigger than a buckyball

https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343

Also what's cool is that these things are visible under an electron microscope (so are buckyballs iirc).

I'm sure it gets used at dry water research meetings all the time.

No. By definition remembering an answer is not the same as doing.

Additionally my experience tells me otherwise.

I don't understand what you're saying or objecting to.

Incase this is what you mean: remembering the multiplication table is the antithesis of multiplying in ones head.

> you have to get deeper and deeper into niche subreddits to find worthwhile discussions.

Which raises the question wouldn't that be better served with a forum...

Additionally 9 * n = [n-1, 10-n] for n = 2-11; where n-1 is the digit in the 10's place and 10-n in the single place. This just an aesthetic curiosity. I know the pattern continues for larger n I've just never bothered to generalize it. Also never compared it to other bases.

"Maybe they are planning for the audience they want rather than the one they have?"

That's definitely a reasonable possibility since it appears to me to be formatted for the Instagram crowd.

"Or maybe they just feel safe since there aren't any alternatives?"

Possible as well but ironic since its creating a space for an alternative.

I like this sites design. Clean, simple, and nothing superfluous. Seems to understand people are here for the user shared content and not the site itself so it stays out of the users way.

First and foremost it's unnecessary and is not fixing anything.

Second, it forces learning a new layout and system. I don't understand instead of gradual changes in UI to improve experience they went with whole new thing.

Third, it's slow, bloated, and really hard to navigate through. Old version can display more pertinent information per screen resolution.

In a nutshell, hinders user experience without any noticeable improvement.

Finish product is bad design because initial idea was bad design to begin with (i.e. the idea to fix nothing and break everything).

Memorizing multiplication tables is over rated. Seeing connections between those early multiples up to 12 is more interesting. Can be helpful I suppose in factorization.

Maybe I just don't trust my memory (as in how am I sure that 7*8 is 56) and why I despise rote memorization and rather retain memory from use and practice.

Regardless a good example of something to remember in math is the quadratic formula Still enjoyable to derive and 'see' why it works but also just used so much. That said, I wouldn't encourage memorizing it without first understanding it.

Always good practice to rename 'bugs' and 'flaws' as 'features' and 'design'.

"This was the key. If you knew hhhhwwhy you didn’t have to memorize equations, or solve equations in the exact same way they did in the book..."

I feel like this is a valuable lesson a lot of people could benefit from.

Honestly I think you make a good point and implicitly they could have used those resources instead to improve the user experience (for example, improve the sites efficiency and load times)

Cool. Maybe these guys should get in touch with the redesign guys and get them fired. Also fire any executive that thought it was a good idea.

Because all the hard work to serve ads more efficiently goes to waste when the site is a mess and unusable.

Apple is great for the privacy concerned

If you want to think even deeper, Romans had complex systems of bureaucracy as well yet clearly even less technology.