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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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anyone wanna make this meme
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🦉in the wilderless
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My brain is automatically placing this as a dimwit-topwit opinion, & inserting into the middle sth like “nooo 😭 you have to care what about the hard problem of consciousness you’re living the mind-body problem whether you care or not you must give credence to my thoughterinos!” twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson
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...look into the more recent frameworks. E.g. non-linear wave computing, the solution to the boundary problem, etc. I'd suggest reading this email exchange with Scott Alexander: qualiacomputing.com/2021/10/31/on-
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson
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You definitely care about consciousness, whether you knot it not. I can imagine monistic nihilism would be traumatic enough to cause an ugh field around the whole concept and research area. But I'm pretty sure that's the tyranny of the intentional object.
qualiacomputing.com
The Tyranny of the Intentional Object
> Rats, of course, have a very poor image in our culture. Our mammalian cousins are still widely perceived as “vermin”. Thus the sight of a blissed-out, manically self-stimulating ra…
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson
@algekalipso
In other words, monistic meaninglessness is actually just a low-valence rendering of a philosophical idea, and not an insight into the true nature of reality. I remember being bamboozled by philosophical ideas until this clicked. E.g. Empty Individualism feeling terrible.
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