Ah, but the now version of biological me is only an imperfect copy of the now version of me from yesterday. Our bodies change over constantly, our minds are different day to day, consciousness is an illusion that natural selection unearthed as a way for us to value learning and survival in the present moment. The…

Which does NOT sound delicious

Wow, English labor protections sound nice.

Oh good one! I agree, although I would argue that evolutionary programming is a subset of procedural generation

I am also going to have to disagree with your “isn’t a matter that’s up for philosophical debate,” as I see humans as chemical based machines with computing capabilities. Sure, the base mechanism of meaning-making may be different in a neuron vs a transistor, but that doesn’t mean that a computer can’t for all…

I thought insurance did, in fact, do the numbers on these kinds of risks and charge accordingly

A former gf of mine referred to herself as a polock when referencing her heritage. Having never heard it in any other context, I had no idea this was an ethnic slur until your comment today.

Inferiority is a subjective assessment. Weak is a subjective assessment. To expand on what 5teelrat is saying, we are currently breeding genetic diversity, which is sort of like hedging your bets against the future about which traits will be useful and which will not. Eugenics is like putting all your eggs in one…

It’s much easier to just use a generative/procedural process to create unique NPCs. Who is going to hire artists to individually sculpt every single thing in a game this big when procedural is “good enough”?

Darkest Dungeon

My understanding was that we already had quite a bit of residual plastic in our bodies. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/food-thou…

I can agree that 52k is barely getting by for a household. Enough money to not need to worry about survival, but not so much money that survival isn’t really something you think about. I think households making 300k are also worried about survival, or at least ‘falling into poverty.’ As for the 1-2 car issue,…

It might not fit your definition of middle-class but I think the mark makes sense right around the median household income, currently 52k. Also, the two car under 7 year thing seems totally bogus to me...and why would you have 2 cars at all if you have a single-earner household? Middle-class, to me, means able to pay…

By your reasoning, numbers cannot exist, because they are a construction of semantics. There are not “24 dinosaurs” in the example in the video, it’s just a soup of matter without any separation between parts. Hey I’m cool with that, but it’s a bit limiting. It takes imaginary numbers and other imaginary concepts…