subroutine

Not saying it is.

Having to wait for an author to email you a copy isn't a viable solution. Even getting authors to post a free copy, which is NIH mandate is often overlooked...

https://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm

Perhaps, but debatable whether knowledge itself adds something to cognitive capacity. Two thoughts: (1) Some theory of mind researchers equate having strong ToM abilities as roughly equivalent to having consciousness. I think knowing precisely how consciousness emerges may help develop our ToM. It would also be a tough sell to claim a mind with zero knowledge (a so called tabula rasa) has consciousness. On the other hand (2) Do feral or isolated tribes of humans have the same level of consciousness as those in developed societies? I suspect they do.

The problem is, we don't really know how consciousness works (I assume consciousness the the part the author takes issue with; most of our cognitive faculties in isolation are not that special). We don't even have a great definition of consciousness, or good tests for it, or know whether it is a linear spectrum, or if it emerges abruptly with the evolution of certain reasoning and attention faculties, and we don't know which animals have it and to what degree.

So when people say we shouldn't develop AI to think like that, it's basically saying we shouldn't try to understand how consciousness works. Because as soon as we do, I guarantee someone out there will attempt to make conscious AI.

$3.50

As an american, I'm curious how much PTO you guys get. Personally I get 10 vacation days per year and accrue 8 hours PTO per pay period. This ends up being about 34 paid vacation days per year.

Perhaps this is a uniquely american problem, but I doubt very many people at my company actually uses their 30+ vacation days.

Roughly how long does it take to typeset a 5 page manuscript?

PoW isn't necessarily bad, if the work can be made useful.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

I vaguely remember hearing about some coin proposing a Folding@home concept. Does anyone know of any novel Po(useful)W coins?

In your opinion what would constitute a small fee? $10? $100? $3000?

https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees

I understand and respect your position, and think there are some merits to it, but I personally believe it's unnecessary. Typically the 'public persons' within public orgs are their senior / high-ranking officials (e.g. chief of police; director of engineering), and often are directly elected (e.g. county sheriff). If there are grievances to be had within some public sector, we as citizens can and should demand responses from the leaders of those organizations. I don't think making it easy to harass low ranking public employees is a good tradeoff for whatever is gained by requiring them to have a public profile. I think most public servants (mid/low-level employees) should be entitled to the same level of privacy as everyone else.

> If they're taking public money of course they should be accountable to the public.

Really? A public profile for all... military personnel. FBI, CIA, NSA employees, government contractors, employees of corporation that accepts government subsidies/grants.

I think op is saying there's a difference between, for example, the Chief of Police (a public person), and an undercover police detective. I think it's unreasonable to require all government employees, from DMV janitors to CalTrans technicians, to police detectives, to have a public profile. Is there any current law that stipulates otherwise (applies to all gov employees)?

It's funny. You can be precocious in many things academic, and Leopold certainly is. But the 'wisdom' he imparts is still very generically from the mindset of a 20-year-old elitist. For example...

"People say the ivy leagues should admit more people. I actually think they should admit less... there is too much variability in the ability of the students"

He goes on to suggest it would have been a better experience if only the top 10% were admitted. Better, because it would have made his peer group more ideal. He says this without equivocation or qualification, lol. I almost admire the brazen egocentrism.

I TA'd for Tim Gentner at UCSD. He tried to recruit me to his lab; interesting research but I really hated corralling birds. Each quarter a different grad student is responsible for 'the pigeon lab'. It's 10% showing undergrads how reinforcement learning works, 90% chasing down loose pigeons through the basement of McGill & Mandler Hall. I could barely get the pigeons, so I was always in aw of how his lab members gently snatched finches in mid flight.

> They sell derivatives... Who actually uses good or services from these people?

Are you referring to just the BML subsidiary or Binance Group? Binance does provide its own coin (BNB), which can be used to pay fees on their exchange. That they provide access to an exchange people pay to use, seems like a service.

What specific policies (not principles) will most people find to be the biggest difference between LTSE and NYSE? For example, if someone purchases shares through LTSE is there a minimum number of days that must elapse before the shares can be sold? Is there a policy regarding exactly how executive compensation should align with long-term success, or is the policy just that the company needs to publish such a document? Etc.

I agree with your general sentiments. The game idea seems a bit much lol, but it could be fun. To me it seems self-evident, but here's another way to convey/understand the idea that we can perceive many unnamed colors (and in the process, name them)...

https://colornames.org

Title: Speculation on why it took humans so long to engineer long-lasting violet paint.

> weren't stable enough to give a good home to a dog

That was my instinct as well, after John told the story about paying his Belizean housekeepers to shit into his mouth from a hammock.

Agreed. But are we assuming that breaking c means they are timetravelers?

What do you mean "product"? Like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...

Shoot a rocket into outer-space with a bunch of full human genomes (sequencing data), a backup of the internet, and a readme.

The probability of a starship being within 5 lightyears of earth is likely zero. If there is one, it's probably because it's already on its way here.

Looking at the scatter plot [1] from their most statistically significant finding (parahippocampal gray matter change), the effect size is tiny, and the variance is large. Nearly half the case participants had more gray matter after getting covid.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/5YcxJHH/EDB20654-900-A-427-C-8063-B5-FA667-...

(not saying I think this is a solution, but...)

If the goal is to stop companies from paying ransom, then why not just make that illegal?

btw the friend who helped me choose treadmill made a long video about treadmill desks and health:

https://youtu.be/27KT8bvDCw0

Sure I have a few nuggets. I went through a couple cheap treadmills before I finally took the advice of another long-term treadmill desk user and bought a lifespan fitness:

https://www.lifespanfitness.com/workplace/treadmill-desks/tr...

It's an incredible sturdy and reliable treadmill. It has built in shock absorption and can autodetect your steps. Although I wear a clip-on fitbit to sync steps to my phone (wrist fitbit isnt going to work well to count steps since your hands will be typing or whatever).

I transitioned from a standing desk to a treadmill desk and was surprised that walking is actually much easier to sustain for long periods than standing. I started very slow. 1.2 mph. I gradually (and naturally) have made my way up to 2.4 mph.

If you get one, make sure to get good shoes! Something that a marathoner would use (e.g. Brooks, Asic, etc).

Getting a treadmill desk is among the best decisions I've ever made.

I'm not sure which med you are on, but I've been on adderall for about 12 years. Started during 1st year of a phd program.

In my experience with adderall... everything initially good about this particular Rx eventually fades away. Amphetamine makes you feel great. At the beginning really, really, great. It certainly helped me focus on whatever was in front of me, whether it was math homework or an iphone game. It became very important to ensure the right thing(s) were in front of me before taking meds (e.g. homework textbook or open IDE; not, for example, wikipedia, or email, or HN). Not getting enough sleep was the most acute negative effect of the meds. The battle for sleep continues to this day. The meds do suppress my appetite - they still do. It didn't help me lose as much weight as I'd hoped; turns out staring at a computer screen doesn't require a ton of calories.

These days I take as little Rx as possible, and I feel a lot better. I attribute a portion of this mood improvement to using a treadmill desk, which I started using ~2 years ago. I walk about 15-20 miles a day, while working (coding/writing/etc). I feel like it helps me focus, because I am "burning off" pent-up ADHD restlessness while working. And probably most helpful of all, I'm tired at the end of the day, so I fall asleep much easier.

This seems foolhardy.

I know u jest. fwiw at least he's an Argentine pot; maybe he was saying 'if we're to have ecological disasters in Argentina it should at least benefit Argentines'

What do you mean?