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Chris F. Carroll
@chrisfcarroll
Feb 17, 2025
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There is a foundational choice we all must make in life: will we join with those who use violence & abuse to profit? Or will we reject that option. The one leads, we hope, to a rule of law society where we live in safety. The other to Mafia societies ruled by thugs & henchmen.
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Chris F. Carroll
@chrisfcarroll
Oct 9
I think typical mathematicians' feeling is, Excited at possibilities opened up with AI assist, yes. Excited at companies doing braindumps, no.
Chris F. Carroll
@chrisfcarroll
Oct 6
A bargain for the cover alone.
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
Oct 6
Paid a small fortune for this book - I want to understand how the sudden advancement in technology+computing in 1982 should have meant the end of needing any programmers to build software As this topic is very relevant again, with the sudden advancement w technology+computing
Chris F. Carroll
@chrisfcarroll
Oct 6
Although I think, on the whole, illusionists and panpsychists are also materialists.
🐾Eneasz Brodski
@EneaszWrites
Oct 5
the "Hard Problem" in a nutshell: 1. atoms aren't conscious 2. humans are made of atoms 3. humans are conscious 4. so at least one of 1-3 must be false Panpsychists say #1 is false Dualists say #2 is false Illusionists say #3 is false Materialists say #4 is false
Chris F. Carroll
@chrisfcarroll
Oct 3
This is still the state of the art
Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Oct 2
in my 20s I was really into the nature of consciousness, and I read all the popular books about it (Dennett, Chalmers, etc), until eventually I realized that no one had anything useful to say about it, and then I lost interest