MotoAsh

But what if it’s just a copy of that relation R? Is it the same mind in a new body? Or a new body that’s so utterly similar that it will merely continue on believing it’s the same person?

I don’t like that philosophy, because it pretends the mind exists outside of the brain.

Does the difference of the literally unobservable matter? Yes absolutely to the person stepping in to the machine! Sure, everyone else doesn’t have to care, but the teleported person sure probably should care, so that philosophy does less than nothing for answering the question.

He’s basically saying, 'I don’t care if you die if I cannot tell if the new guy is different.". Saying, “I don’t care” is not an answer.

IMO, even the digitally sent person could be the original, depending on the philosophical concepts being applied (same ship of theseus style questions). If it’s just the process of reading your atoms to that level of detail that makes you disappear, and the only information that is literally ‘you’ is being transferred over and reconstituted in a similarly one-way-by-function process, it’s almost more of a phase shift to digital and back than a copy. Pretty much just side-stepping matter’s inability to travel without acceleration.

If the machine is basically ‘digesting’ the person only to send over the results for reproduction, though… that’s definitely a copy. Pretty sure Trek describes their transporters as the latter? They’re definitely killing a bunch of people in that show. ha Though to answer it with any kind of conclusive result, I’d think we’d need a technical description for how it works, and it cannot exist, so… lol

That’s why the late showers are “wisdom” teeth. Your brain is finally getting big enough to shove 'em out of there.

Y’know, the more I think about free will as a religous concept, the more I’m convinced it’s supposed to be an allegory for how to treat others, like a more convoluted Golden Rule. The source was shifted to “God” simply to make the garbage people that don’t normally care about others hesitate before they just ignore others’ advice on how to treat people.

The reasoning is pretty simple: Nobody can actually do anything they want because others will interfere. Individuals restrict others’ freedom all the time. If you’re restricting others freedoms, you’re doing an even worse version of judging others. The Bible pretty clearly says to leave such critical stuff that idiots can screw up in God’s hands, because idiots can and will screw it up.

Same with free will. Peoples’ freedom is, according to religous teachings, a gift from God. They describe such things as “from God” solely because idiots respect their flavor of Sky Daddy over other human beings.

If it’s actually a gift from God, then it makes little sense that humans can simply remove a gift an all-powerful diety bestows. So… either historic humans are insanely stupid and bad at logic … or it’s actually an allegory for not trying to control others so much.

Because most people conscously or subconcously expect better treatment towards pets than other fellow humans. It’s like children. Unless you’re an Israeli or conservative looking at a brown child, nobody stans child abusers.

Not all advertising is equal. Yes, increasing awareness pays off.

That doesn’t mean your product putting a one minute ad up on YouTube that gets pasted in front of a 10 second cat video will have a positive response.

lol so you defend that which you do not even use and that which you do not undertand? What a joke…

My hatred is anything but blind, and you calling it such is sealioning beyond belief. I love your hypocrisy… An Apple user without even using Apple products… Truly, your lot in life is more dreary than you could ever admit.

Definitely wrong, although I do not have a collegiate off-hand understanding of biology to really fully decribe it.

But it comes down to what does a “cell” mean in biology? Even your case in point specifies an object with many cells in it.

Cell membranes don’t use simple diffusion to transport chemicals across. That’s the entire point of a “cell”. It’s a defined region that at least attempts to control its own various chemical balances. Cells do have many gates that allow many molecules across, unfortunately including many viruses and prions. Unfortuntely, cell walls are also not impervious to truly toxic chemicals, either, so a “cell wall” still can absolutely break down with minimal effort with the right chemicals. They do attempt to control their own balances though, including basic ionic content. That’s the whole point. The attempt.

I really have to ask… Why do you think humans aren’t so big on the scale of life? Your perspective really come across as human-centric. Not “bad” by itself, but still wholly incompatible with reality.

The thing that does change in relation to diffusion at scale is the necessity of circulatory and respertory systems, which is a massive order of magnitude or few increase in complexity than cells.

Try literally trillions. Billions is literally several orders of magnitude less than reality.

Again, most people literally cannot fathom the scales. Not as an insult, but to point out the literal scale. (god I’m such a millenial with all those ‘literals’, but it’s true…)

Agile SHOULD have a lot of the things ‘traditional’ management looks for! Though so many, including many college teachers I’ve heard, think of it way too strictly.

It’s just the time scale shrinks as necessary for specific deliverable goals instead of the whole product… instead of having a design for the whole thing from top to bottom, you start with a good overview and implement general arch to service what load you’ll need. Then you break down the tasks, and solve the problems more and more and yadda yadda…

IMO, the people that think Agile Development means only implement the bare minimum … are part of the complete fucking idiot portion of the industry.

Fuck man, why don’t more ethical-ish devs join to make stuff? What’s the missing link on top of easy sharing like FOSS kinda’ already has?

Obviously programming is a bit niche, but fuck… how can ethical programmers come together to survive under capitalism? Sure, profit sharing and coops aren’t bad, but something of a cultural nexus is missing in this space it feels…

The new Naked Gun, actually. The idea falls in to the same FUCK NO camp as every other god damn nostalgia grab from Hollywood in recent years. The plot is stupid, even compared to some of the old Leslie Nielsen movies that worked the plot developments in to jokes a bit better and naturally had more of their own humor than references … buuuuut, the execution still had me straight up laughing out loud at quite a lot of it.

Really proving how intelligent Apple fans are with that reading comprehension… The argument referenced there is obviously referencing the arguments you brought up elsewhere on the internet between Apple fans and other fans.

It’s not out of nowhere. This is a topic about how people maybe should not give Apple money if they don’t want to support a corporation that will bow to fascists.

How stupid and captured their dumbass fans are is DIRECTLY related to how easy it’d be to convince them to not keep throwing money at Apple.

The fact you cannot even follow a basic conversation is the only pathetic thing here.

You’re right, they shouldn’t be stressing either resource. Though my point was that referencing how much RAM is in the system is a bit silly when referring to a CPU being pinned at 100%. There is a HUGE swathe of CPUs with an even bigger range of performance that are all sold in 32GB systems.

I’m positive the low end of that scale could be rightfully pinned at 100% for certain common tasks.

Nah. You are assuming a red blood cell is a common size. It’d be like aliens coming to Earth, seeing Humans, and assuming life’s average scale is that of a human on this planet.

There is a MASSIVE scale of difference between cells of different animals. Some cells can be seen with the naked eye. That doesn’t magically mean other animal cells have to also be large.

There are entire living organisms that are smaller than Titin. Several species of eukaryotes are smaller than Titin, and they’re single celled orgsnisms by definition. A single celled organism smaller than a human blood cell by an order of magnitude.

That says nothing of prokaryotes, which are also celled organisms that are multiple orders of magnitude smaller still.

Again, it’s amazing only because you assume humans aren’t fucking insanely huge. An understandable perspective for sure, but a wrong perspective none the less.

Exactly. I don’t know why I’m being downvoted for describing the thing we all agree happens…

I don’t blame the students for not being seasoned professionals. I clearly blame the executives that constantly replace seasoned engineers with fresh hires they don’t have to pay as much.

Then everyone surprise pikachu faces when crap is the result… Functionally idiots is absolutely correct for the reality we’re all staring at. I am directly part of this industry, so this is more meant as honest retrospective than baseless namecalling. What happens these days is idiotry.

Again, it is amazing … but because we cannot fathom how big it still is.

I’d give you a Vulkan, “neat, curious even, but not mind blowing”, as to what I mean a truly aware response would be.

It’s neat, but if you’re aware of the developmental stages of even just human babies, it’s really not surprising nor unique as to how small something with such differentiated parts is.

Probably because all the dummies are finally realizing it’s a fucking stupid slogan that’s constantly being misinterpreted from what it’s supposed to mean. lol (as if the dummies even realize it has a more logical interpretation…)

Now if only they would complete the maturation process and realize all of the tech bro bullshit runs counter to good engineering or business…

So they’re more of just skill sets (lol obviously).

I guess my mental dissonance came from you saying “it’s a class, not a job …”, when naturally, skill sets are critically important to jobs! I guess a bit of a Venn diagram type confusion. lol Saying “not” about overlapping circles can get interesting with interpretations.