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2018-11-25 at 10:48 AM UTC in Twisted Ferret / AdMechAdMech was a broThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-24 at 11:24 PM UTC in That first hit after a "going to see the fam" thanksgiving involenraty T-breakThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-24 at 1:43 AM UTC in shut the fuck up you christmas niggersjesus fucking christ it isn't even december yet. Fuck this holiday.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-11 at 12:44 PM UTC in Infinityshock's BanInfinityshock was permabanned for shitposting in that thread originally. He was allowed back for no more reason than I felt like being kind and agreed not to be a shit in the way that got him banned in the first place. I told him very clearly when I removed his last ban not to do the same kind of shit that got him banned the first time. He managed to stick to it for several months, then he didn't, and he didn't listen when I told him to stop. So he's gone again. You're welcome.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-23 at 11:11 PM UTC in Infinityshock's BanCuuuuuuuntThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-19 at 7:19 PM UTC in Single paragraph stories.¶ For Sale
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2018-11-21 at 5:26 PM UTC in I just got my ass kickedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-21 at 1:52 AM UTC in Lanny blew this website, too, with his stupidity and jealousy.while my cock is structurally rigid AFThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-20 at 2:57 AM UTC in Transhumanism: Sanctity of the Human Essence
Originally posted by PhD in Condom Mechanics With prosthetics getting better and better, it is only a matter of time before engineering and advances in material science will create prosthetic body parts that are superior to the ones fashioned by mother nature.
This is speculation without, I think, great support. Yes, science and engineering has made a lot of "progress" in recent history, but it's not like there's a singular track along which these fields move, as the term "progress" seems to imply, and no promise that any such track passes through the set of things necessary to create the prosthetics you're describing. I'm not saying it's impossible by any means, perhaps even likely, I'm just saying it's not inevitable, it's not a mere matter of time.According to many philosophers, such as John Searle, human consciousness and the mind are an irreducible product of our physical, biological processes; that the neurochemistry itself is integral part of your human experience, and the process is important, rather than just the functional outcome. So you might be able to create a computer that can directly output the same answers as a human, but the subprocesses themselves are irreplaceable in generating the experience of consciousness and experience.
Would you care to present Searle's arguments for the, or your own?What is not to be ignored, is the fact that you have important neurons in every living part of your body. Very important, in fact:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140901090301.htm
Yes, it's been a well understood fact that some degree of information processing happens in the peripheral nervous system. Lettvin was doing research along just those lines in the 50s.Evolution is a thrifty artificer: it finds hacks and shortcuts to cut corners wherever it can, and reuses absolutely everything, because every excess calorie can be a matter of life and death in nature, so these tiny advantages do statistically change the gene pool. And every inch of our skin does math, and surely many other clusters of neurons must have similar properties and values, because it's a fact of neuroscience that our brain receives reports from every part of the body, the neural system is somewhat "irreducible", every neuron that dies within you constitutes a significant change in the state of the broader network. Your "consciousness" is pretty much spread throughout your whole body.
What's significant here? You (the speaking agent) can essentially lose communication with half your brain and not be able to notice. It's well understood that the brain is a massively redundant system that's constantly damaged without losing measurable degrees of function.
The fact that information processing happens in the peripheral nervous system doesn't seem to be sufficient to say your whole body is conscious. We can find brains not connected to hands that seem to be having pretty similar conscious experience to when they were. When we find hands not connected to brains, they don't really show any indication of having experience.
Are you familiar with theories of extended mind? I'm actually pretty sympathetic to them, I think you would be too. If you think information processing that happens in your skin is part of your consciousness, why not information processing that happens when you consult a notebook or interact with some tool which provides tactile feedback? But have we lost any of our "essence" when we loose a book, or some tool we're using breaks? We may lose some function, in some sense, but it seems quite intuitive to say that there is some conscious kernel of ourselves that survives loss of both biological and non-biological (a basically arbitrary distinction) information processing faculties.Furthermore, the nature of processing in our nervous system is fundamentally different than it is in silicon computing presently.
The nature of processing that happens in some neurons is fundamentally different than the processing that happens in others. Our nervous system is composed of a heterogeneous collection of neurons that work in different ways. Are just some of those neurons actually part of our conscious experience and others are inert? Which? When one sort of neuron takes on the role of another, as can happen after damage, is that experience not actually restored, and the recovery of associated function somehow non-conscious?
Of course not. It's a fact of neurology that parts of our nervous system are functionally replaceable, and unless you hold some really strange ideas about what what happens to consciousness in such situations, for which I don't think you can gather any evidence, then you're committed to the notion that replacing parts of the nervous system with functionally equivalent but materially different parts doesn't necessarily affect the conscious experience that's actualized by its working.Your consciousness is not as accurate as a silicon computer. It would processes the gentle softness of the lover's skin rather than tell you the exact amount it deforms under what stress. It is imperfect in a way, but it's process and specific nature is integral to producing the richness of the manifest image of man.
Suddenly, the scent of a woman becomes the report of the chemical composition of your air intake. You lose your qualia and you receive data.
At the physical/chemical level all you ever had was data to start with. From nose to brain, woman-scent was never anything other than electrochemical signals. Conscious experience is an emergent property of that physical system, and in fact an emergent process of many very similar but distinct physical systems across the span of the experience. It should be obvious that different physical configurations can give rise to analogous, similar, or identical experiences because cookies smell the same this week as they did last week but the physical system facilitating that experience is in a different, potentially quite different, state than it was last week.
So if different configurations of neurons can give rise to the same experience, why not different configurations of matter which give rise to the same structure?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-21 at 2:01 AM UTC in Lanny blew this website, too, with his stupidity and jealousy.I'll have you know I'm on a spiked eggnog binge right now.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-21 at 1:21 AM UTC in Do You Guys Think Rust Was A Little Obsessed?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-20 at 8:16 AM UTC in Do You Guys Think Rust Was A Little Obsessed?
Originally posted by -SpectraL I have a lot more admirers than you do, kid. A lot more. Several polls were already initiated over the years on this very subject, and I came up smelling like roses every time.
"admirers". I talk about friends, fun, and learning and you start talking about a literal fucking popularity contest. This is whats wrong with your spectral. Like what the fuck? How do you get "admirers" out of me asking if you have a single friend to show for the fucking endless hours you've poured into these forums, if you've had fun here, or learned here? You, apparently, are looking for admirers while the rest of us would rather have peers.Also, you're wrong. I never got an infraction from xip, and never ever received an infraction in my entire Totse history. You are thinking of someone else. Probably your alcohol-addled brain at fault.
Nope, actually you're wrong. I'm 100% sure that xip gave you an infraction, I remember you crying about it for weeks afterwards. You're lying because, uhh, you don't want us to know that you got an infraction on zoklet? Like really? How fucking sad do you have to be to be embarrassed of your infraction history on zoklet lol?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-20 at 7:31 AM UTC in Do You Guys Think Rust Was A Little Obsessed?
Originally posted by -SpectraL You're full of shit, Lanny. I never got a single infraction in my entire time on Zoklet. Only thing on my account was a bad perma-ban from you Nazis.
Well that's just a lie, I remember xip giving you an infraction and you whining about to him over PM and on the forums for like a week. I remember that because he complained about what a needy bitch you were while we were on IRC or playing games. See, that's how other people spent their time on zoklet. They got to know each other, they had fun, they learned things. You on the other hand have been doing nothing but complaining about whoever is mod or admin or anything else for literally as long as I've known you, and god help me that's like 10 years. In all that time what have you learned? What friends have you made? Has this last decade of complaining, without end, been fun for you?
Truly spectral, you are the spirit which negatesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-20 at 7:11 AM UTC in Do You Guys Think Rust Was A Little Obsessed?
Originally posted by Sophie Lol i don't even remember Kinkou being a mod of anything.
She was mod of LLR while she was dating zok lol. Kinks is cool, but I have to admit there was a, uhhh... conspicuously female sequence of mods of LLR, and in M&A in general relative to the total community gender ratio.
Originally posted by -SpectraL Well, of course you Nazis like each other. Nothing surprising about that.
There's people on that list I loathe, and have said so openly for years. I don't like or dislike anyone there on grounds of being a mod. You on the other hand are salty, years later, at xip and ygg (although you don't apparently know who he was) for no conceivable reason other than that they were moderators. Oh, you didn't like xip because he said don't post torrent links and you did and got an infraction for it. Like a 3 point infraction on an internet forum that's what? 5 years in the grave? You remember and maintain a grudge over that? That's fucking sad bro, I'm honestly starting to feel sorry for you thinking about that. 5 years of anger over internet demerit points. Jesus fucking christ. What in the fuck is wrong with you that you became like this? -
2018-11-20 at 9:26 AM UTC in Spectral feels that he has been a victim of electronic tyranny, over the years...and a corporeal cock in this material assholeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-20 at 9:47 AM UTC in The Yerkes–Dodson lawYeah dude, I'm all about taking normal to large doses of psychedelic drugs as just a really cool experience or possibly for inspiration for something. When I heard about microsoding I thought "this has got to be awesome", like it sounds like something that could be really useful. But every time I try it, it's just garbage. Either I just feel come up effects without any real psychedelia, or I feel nothing at all. At best it's baseline and at worst it's distracting muscle tension and nausea. I really wanted it to work, but it's just like blehhhhh for four hours with zero noticeable benefit, at least for me.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-20 at 8:03 AM UTC in The Yerkes–Dodson lawIn development/CS there's this folk concept known as the blamer peak which is basically Yerkes–Dodson as applied to alcohol and programming. Not really useful, but it's a phrase you see come up and kind of a fun piece of culture.
Also "take a bunch of meth" isn't really what you should get out of Yerkes–Dodson, since for "complex" tasks they found over stimulation harms performance.
From personal experience wrt programming: noots are a meme, don't waste your time. Low, but not micro, dose stimulants are great. *afinils aren't bad but only because they're basically stimulants, I don't really consider them "nootropics" as distinct from stims. If you can manage side effects and addiction risks of stimulants that's the ticket. Alcohol helps work through tedium but I'm a heavy drinker and my response has changed over time. Long term there doesn't seem to be any real benefit besides feeling slightly better while performing at exactly the same level. Benzos are like a straight debuff. Psychedelic microdosing is not helpful at all, but based on reports I've heard from people I think I may have an atypical response to microdosed psychedelics.
Also from personal experience but also objective fact as someone who's spent some time in professional industry programming: 99% of "programming methodology" stuff is bullshit. Kanban is a meme-generalization of todo lists. I have this elaborate kanban system rigged up to jira at work and to this day I just keep a todo list and reconcile it with the stupid task cards at the end of the day to keep the PM for bitching at me. If you name a piece of "methodology" I'll tell you how it's a scheme devised by vampire consultants to extend their parasitic existence.
Which is not to say it's wrong to try out that kind of thing, I guess if you try out kanban or whatever else and find it's actually useful then more power to you. My experience has just been that high performers tend to just do their thing, and no amount of methodology or "time management" or anything other than simple experience/practice will turn low performers into high performers. In general any 30 minutes spent reading some kind of life-hack time management thing is worth less than 30 minutes of sitting down practicing and/or working at the thing you're trying to do, even amortized over a lifetime.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-19 at 12:09 AM UTC in Lanny blew this website, too, with his stupidity and jealousy.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-19 at 8:52 AM UTC in Problem setting up ISSNo problem, ask away. The setup can be a bit daunting, and it's only minimally documented so that's not really a clueless question.
So when you run the `gulp generate` command to produce the frontend resources which live in `ISS/static` from the sources in `ISS/static-src` you can pass it the `--optimize` flag and that will spit out minified and combined JS and CSS and associated sourcemaps instead of the split async-loaded ones.
I do recommend doing development with that turned off since it increases the recompile time significantly, but you definitely want the minified files for deployment.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-19 at 12:13 AM UTC in socializingI'm great at socializing. They key to socialization is to first seize control of the banks, then socializing the rest of the economy becomes much easier.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
