Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology

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1. Should We Shut Down All AI?

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   By Leo Gura, 7 hours ago
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2. Petition to pause giant AI development (link)

   By Basman, 16 hours ago
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3. New Windows

   By UnbornTao, 14 hours ago
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4. The Sound of Food and Plants

   By zurew, 17 hours ago
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5. GPT-4 Is Out Now

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   By Yimpa, March 14
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6. Awesome repositories on GitHub

   By Understander, yesterday at 11:39 AM
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   • Yesterday at 11:39 AM

7. TikTok Has a Eugenics Problem

   By Epikur, Wednesday at 09:15 PM
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   • Wednesday at 09:15 PM

8. 6 Humans vs 1 Secret AI (Video) Can you guess the mole?

   By Juan, Wednesday at 07:35 PM
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9. What is more ethical to kill: A blue whale or 800000 shrimps?

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   By Jannes, March 23
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   • Tuesday at 07:57 PM

10. Meet the living fossils, when evolution reaches "perfection"

    By LSD-Rumi, Tuesday at 05:39 PM
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11. The Embodied Mind - Book Summary

    By DocWatts, Tuesday at 03:32 PM
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12. HARKing in a bachelor thesis - I feel tormented

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    By Carl-Richard, March 15
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    • Carl-Richard
    • Sunday at 08:02 PM

13. beauty of randomness

    By Hojo, March 6
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    • ucan99
    • March 26

14. A Technical Problem to Have My Screenshots to Be Included in My Private Message

    By AndylizedAAY, March 25
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    • AndylizedAAY
    • March 25

15. What is the most impotrant question of all time?

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    By Eternal Unity, February 16
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    • OnePointTwo
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16. Replika vs. GPT-4 “Can AI have feelings?”

    By Yimpa, March 24
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    • LSD-Rumi
    • March 24

17. Sam Harris Accidentally Argues for Antinatalism

    By Epikur, March 24
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    • Epikur
    • March 24

18. Just go down to the source

    By StarStruck, March 23
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    • Israfil
    • March 23

19. Stack Overflow's current policy on ChatGPT

    By Gesundheit2, March 23
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    • Gesundheit2
    • March 23

20. Thomas Sowell: The Genius of Common Sense | thomas sowell quotes |

    By Epikur, March 23
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    • March 23

21. How to become more politically aware?

    By Swarnim, March 21
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    • March 23

22. AI Conquers Animation Software

    By mmKay, March 21
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    • mmKay
    • March 21

23. What ereader do you use?

    By StarStruck, March 19
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    • UnbornTao
    • March 21

24. Why are plants green? Nature's inteligence exposed

    By mmKay, March 21
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    • mmKay
    • March 21

25. Epicurus

    By Epikur, March 21
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26. Will humans become immortal soon?

    By Nilsi, March 19
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    • Squeekytoy
    • March 20

27. We will deextinct mammoths within a decade

    By Nilsi, March 19
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    • March 19

28. Chris Langan on IQ, The Singularity, Free Will, Psychedelics, CTMU, and God

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    By Epikur, March 18
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    • Leo Gura
    • March 19

29. Microsoft's Al Future of Work Event: Everything Revealed in 8 Minutes

    By Yimpa, March 17
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    • zurew
    • March 17

30. How do I merge bookmark categories?

    By AndylizedAAY, March 16
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    • March 16

31. do paradoxes exist

    By GLORY, February 22
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    • SamC
    • March 16

32. Science vs Programming

    By at_anchor, February 27
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    • Squeekytoy
    • March 16

33. physics versus chemistry

    By at_anchor, March 12
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    • at_anchor
    • March 16

34. Microfactories deserve more attention

    By vindicated erudite, March 8
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    • Danioover9000
    • March 13

35. Cure for cancer is a detector, not a pill

    By MarkKol, February 28
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    • player1995
    • March 13

36. For my scientific buddies

    By Mixcoatl, March 9
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    • Extreme Z7
    • March 12

37. Essence of God

    By GLORY, March 11
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    • Sucuk Ekmek
    • March 11

38. Would this business idea be legal?

    By Jannes, March 5
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    • Jannes
    • March 11

39. What would it take for AI to become lively and human-like?

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    By Gesundheit2, January 19
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    • Swarnim
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40. So I asked ChatGPT if it’ll have emotions in the future

    By Yimpa, March 7
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    • axiom
    • March 9

41. Bad Design With My Computer and the Forum

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    By AndylizedAAY, February 5
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    • Sincerity
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42. Jordan Peterson on the problem of morality

    By Nilsi, March 2
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    • Devin
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43. How are computers built?

    By at_anchor, February 3
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    • Carl-Richard
    • March 5

44. Science learning app?

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    By at_anchor, February 16
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    • Jacob Morres
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45. The evolution and survival of Alphabeth

    By Rafael Thundercat, March 1
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    • supremeyingyang
    • March 4

46. The Quest for Cosmic Justice- Thimas Sowell

    By Rafael Thundercat, March 2
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    • Rafael Thundercat
    • March 2

47. Difference between ethic and morality

    By Ima Freeman, February 22
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    • Ima Freeman
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48. AI alignment - The greatest existential risk?

    By Dryas, February 25
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    • Dryas
    • February 25

49. Do not blame cows/meat for causing climate change?

    By Alfonsoo, February 20
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    • FourCrossedWands
    • February 23

50. How to be motivated for intellectual pursuits?

    By at_anchor, February 10
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    • Jannes
    • February 22