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2019-07-04 at 12:22 AM UTC in I am not racist but I do not care for black people
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2019-07-04 at 12:21 AM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
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2019-07-03 at 11:26 PM UTC in Cannabis oil cartridges are a rip off...
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2019-07-03 at 10:33 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
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2019-07-03 at 10:33 PM UTC in I am not racist but I do not care for black people
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2019-07-03 at 10:32 PM UTC in Simulation is Consciousness
Originally posted by Obbe Simulation doesn't come after consciousness - that's like stating eggs come after chickens or chickens come after eggs. I imagine our complex form of consciousness is a complex form of simulation that began in a very simple way long ago. I don't claim to know how.
It very much does, if you don't see that then you are making the category error I've been pointing out repeatedly so far.
If what you are conscious of is a simulation, pointing at the simulation doesn't tell you how you are conscious of it. A "simulation" is not anything in the world, it is a relational concept to our perception.
It's possible that the entire contents of our consciousness experience are what we could call a simulation, but that fact doesn't tell us how the simulation comes to perceive it. There is no reason to believe that a thing of the category "simulation" is inherently conscious. That's simply a link that hasn't been established anywhere.
The fact that a computer is running a simulation doesn't give us any reason to believe the computer is conscious: all it is doing is performing symbolic manipulations that are meaningful to us. I could do the same manipulations on on and paper given enough time, or using arrays of 8 pebbles to represent bytes. We have no reason to believe those pebbles have any connection to one another in any causal way, what makes them a simulation is the fact that you have represented it as such. How you come to represent it as anything in the first place is the issue.
I agree that consciousness probably evolves from some kind of proto state, I'm not saying ontologically, I'm saying epistemically simulation comes after perception because the entire question is how we come to perceive the simulation. -
2019-07-03 at 10:06 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
Originally posted by -SpectraL As it is, they have gurneys with patients with critical ailments lined up in the hallways for days, not even able to get a room. People bleeding to death in hospital waiting rooms. People who have suffered heart attacks being told there's no doctor available to help them.
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2019-07-03 at 10:06 PM UTC in Cannabis oil cartridges are a rip off...One can get the distillate and terps separately, refill them yourself. I hate carts because they are single-use pollution trash but they are pretty convenient so I just reuse one until the coil tastes off.
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2019-07-03 at 10:03 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
Originally posted by -SpectraL You can't get faster service than the service wait times of the people on universal free health care, even if you pay for it. It's illegal. Remember, socialist Canada is based on fairness and equality and the human element, not on any sense of logic or practicality or common sense. They don't let you pay to get faster/better service, because that would be open discrimination on the poor. Everyone has to wait.
Does this apply to private doctors in private facilities or is it just that you can't pay money to jump the list for the public system? -
2019-07-03 at 10:01 PM UTC in I am not racist but I do not care for black peopleThe year is 2280: the Mulatto Militia has launched an incision of the Quadroon Quadrant. 3/5ths of the galaxy are engaged in all out war.
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2019-07-03 at 9:58 PM UTC in I will best the fucking shit out of WellHung
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2019-07-03 at 9:57 PM UTC in I will best the fucking shit out of WellHung
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2019-07-03 at 9:57 PM UTC in I will best the fucking shit out of WellHung
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2019-07-03 at 9:55 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
Originally posted by HTS Up to a month average wait times to start seeing an oncologist once you get a cancer diagnosis. Surgery wait times can be pretty damn absurd (6-12 months) unless it's an emergency. ER wait times also become horrendous.
That said, I think the minimal drop in quality of healthcare/timeliness of treatment is more than made up for by the fact that it's available to everyone. It should be somewhat hybridized ideally, where you can pay for the best treatment/access to doctors if you have the money. Not that I'll ever be rich enough to avail myself of such services, but "equal quality of care for everyone" is pretty shit when you're actually well off. Canadians just go to America when they have the money. If American healthcare turns into Canadian healthcare, then shit.
Pretty sure Canada has private oncologists etc. So you have a choice: free care that alright or pay for better care. In America you don't have an option, you just get raped. Either you get raped by insurance you will never get anything from or you don't buy insurance and get raped if something ever does happen to you. Either way you are raped for having the audacity to be human. -
2019-07-03 at 9:51 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
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2019-07-03 at 7:40 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
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2019-07-03 at 7:04 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
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2019-07-03 at 6:57 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the governmentEven then maplestan's dental care is way cheaper than in the US
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2019-07-03 at 6:54 PM UTC in Healthcare should be completely and utterly paid for by the government
Originally posted by Ghost The only good thing about the healthcare system is it's free here for the most part but it's not as high quality.
Canada also has private healthcare facilities and specialists. Your government basically covers 95%+ of your population's needs pretty well. What do you find to be lower quality? Dental and shit, you guys are cruising private. -
2019-07-03 at 6:52 PM UTC in I will best the fucking shit out of WellHung
