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[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Trogdor was popular way before Reddit

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be

https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html

MATLAB can ruin all sorts of coding experiences, programming included

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Examples? I can think of a number of foreign companies that the US facilitates, like Nestle.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh, I switched. I switched all of my lab's computers, too, and my PhD students have remarked a few different times that Linux is pretty cool. It might snowball.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You're normal in that respect:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.1962

In fact, the idea that autistic individuals are immune to propaganda is, itself, media propaganda. The study that those articles report on was a single study that found that autistic individuals show less of a framing effect on their own preferences. It's much more easily explained by autistic individuals having strong, internal preferences for their own likes/dislikes than it is by autistic individuals being immune to propaganda.

Speaking from experience here, too.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Desoxyn would like a word.

Edit to add: more commonly prescribed amphetamines are neurotoxic, too. Whether they are neurotoxic at clinical doses is still debated.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never understand why lemmy downvotes someone who is trying to help by providing accurate information, presumably because they think that there's a very small chance that the person they're replying to isn't being sarcastic.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A fellow Julia programmer! I always test new models by asking them to write some Julia, too.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Fair points. My use of "primary" was a poor choice; I meant something along the lines of "most common among individuals who aren't philosophers, in my experience."

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting take! Is lightning conscious, then? The idea of Thor isn't too far off if so, haha.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone finds it persuasive, yeah. It's an appeal to intuition that many people, though not all, have.

 

Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

 
 

I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

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