vinhcognito

I like to go with 'I asked my bot|chatbot'

To me, cars are a means to an end. And I can imagine a world without cars more easily than a world without software.

Do you imagine that we just somehow evolve capabilities beyond it? or do we eventually produce universally perfect software solutions and leave it at that?

Less termination of life based on numbers or some version of (sentience * number of individuals)? I find it hard to believe the sheer number of individual insects killed during harvest could match the killing of one cow, calorie for calorie.

Also, what if we increase the calories of the animal we choose to slaughter, say we start raising massive whale-sized animals instead, would that tip the scales?

I honestly can't imagine Kagi being worse than Google. At minimum, Kagi lets me derank and ban domains I don't like.

Maybe theoretically but for our purposes doesn't the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem mean it's essentially lossless to our ears?

> I'd like them to imagine what would happen if after eating 2 or 3 pizza slices they'd still feel like their stomach is empty

Even that is the generous interpretation. Imagine instead of just their regular (or lack of) hunger signals, people had an alarm constantly ringing in the head telling them to eat all the time, that was only ever silenced if they over ate. The persistence of it pushes it in the direction of mental torture.

Yes, technically it can be overcome, but it is a huge tax on your life.

The truth is we can never really know what someone else's inner experience is.

Not much between a cockroach and a lobster though

> Wear clothes - I've definitely seen pigeons sport around a piece of bread like a luxury jacket.

> Theorize - I always thought cats who look at a gap for a while before jumping are theorizing if/how to make the jump.

It's insane to me that this is a frustration I've had back maybe 20 years now and I still feel like there isn't a particularly great solution.

My current iteration is just a "transfer" SyncThing folder that is on all my devices. It's not clean or convenient but at least its incredibly fast.

A movie is not just what story beats it contains. If that is all you consider a movie is, then I suppose you might as well just read the wiki summaries of every movie.

But I wouldn't dismiss an entire form of complex expression because of an inability or unwillingness to engage with it at its level.

A movie is the visuals, the acting, the sound, the camera movements/editing, etc and how it all comes together to essentially give you a 2d slice of a person's realized thoughts.

My own moral duty in that case is rationalized quite simply with the thought that if I were in that position, I would want other people to offer me food.

Anyone with Aphantasia or are curious about it might like this fairly recent article that eventually gets into a theory of the mechanics of different cases of Aphantasia and what might be happening behind the scenes.

Aphantasia: In search of a theory https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mila.12432

I find it incredibly surreal to read current research on how my own mind might be working and finding parts of it quite relatable and insightful.

I've always had trouble with reconciling the jump from DNA to behaviours. These behaviours can be affected by a complex combination of genetics and epigenetic modifications leading to changes like modified neuronal patterning in the brain or changes in neural circuitry that can affect how readily certain neural patterns are forged which is further influenced by biological factors (learned behaviours and experiences).

The teaching salary needs to be competitive with other jobs if you want to attract the right people. Why would any potentially great educator work in a completely unrespected field for no pay?

Also, with higher wages comes increased interest in the position and more ability for schools to actually say no to and filter out bad teachers. It's hard to turn away a warm body when there are teacher shortages everywhere.

Anecdotally, I got very lucky with a newly built public school. I had class sizes of < 15 and overwhelmingly positive experiences as well as one of the best classroom experiences of my life with a retired physics/math professor teaching us 3d geometry and discrete maths.

It was like learning in a theoretical sandbox, having every fleeting thought or hypothetical exploration answered with ease, all completely out of the curriculum scope.

That to me is what i imagine education could be if there was enough money in the system and if people actually cared about the education of future generations.