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I shared it as I though it might be interesting alternative view on the topic often discussed here. It was somewhat new to me, at least.

Sharing is not endorsement, if you're asking that. But it might be a discussion starter.

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Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

Maybe, disclaimer.

I have no formal philosophical education. Nor do I have much exposure to the topic as an amateure.
Neither do I have any formal logic education but I have some exposure to the concepts in my professional endaevours.
These are pretty much unedited notes as read OP. At the moment I don't have much left in me to actually make a coherent argument out of them so you can treat them as random thoughts.

There might be something it is like to be a computer or robot at salamander levels of capability at least, or there might not. But it’s a well-posed possibility, at least if you start with Strong AI assumptions. My fellow

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Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

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A philosophical argument against "the AI-fear".

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Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition

The books are unavailable anywhere. Can we expect more anytime soon?

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

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Abstract
We acquired a rapidly preserved human surgical sample from the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex. We stained a 1 mm3 volume with heavy metals, embedded it in resin, cut more than 5000 slices at ~30 nm and imaged these sections using a high-speed multibeam scanning electron microscope. We used computational methods to render the three-dimensional structure of 50,000 cells, hundreds of millions of neurites and 130 million synaptic connections. The 1.4 petabyte electron microscopy volume, the segmented cells, cell parts, blood vessels, myelin, inhibitory and excitatory synapses, and 100 manually proofread cells are available to peruse online. Despite the incompleteness of the automated segmentation caused by split and merge errors, many

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The Best Software For Every Need

Have you tried radare2? If you have, how does it stack against IDA?

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Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick

How does one uncover shadow values?

On format: a little bit of editing might improve reading experience. Just joining some paragraphs might be a great improvement.

Replying toWhy Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

PointlessOneDec 24, 2018

Why Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

Technical difficulties of development and maintenance of own platforms have been mentioned in other comments.

However, many own platforms lack revenue opportunities provided by centralized platforms. YouTube specifically has a huge benefit of built-in monetization. Most content creators on YouTube start earning money much earlier because YouTube manages ads for them. General trend I see is creators start getting sponsored videos sometime between 500,000 and 1MM subscribers. Depending on channel that can take about a year getting videos out at a regular pace. I hazard a guess that many would've given up much earlier if they had to think about monetization on their own instead of relying on the platform for that.

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Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

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Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

Abstract