Chris Anderson
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I am no packaged meal expert, but it sounded like proportionately less stuff compared to less price. You and I might have different discount factors for it having moved to the store brand.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I am no packaged meal expert, but it sounded like proportionately less stuff compared to less price. You and I might have different discount factors for it having moved to the store brand.
I think it’s fair enough to point the shrinkflation in the Walmart offering, they probably call it bigger and better even while its material reality is the opposite.
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I think it’s fair enough to point the shrinkflation in the Walmart offering, they probably call it bigger and better even while its material reality is the opposite.
I thought you meant this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Na...
True Names (2008 story) - Wikipedia
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October 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I thought you meant this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Na...
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Nera waited for Malka in the big outer living room of 534a.tower5.loverslump.frankfurt.de -- Jörg's place. It had been six months since Nera was last
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October 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If a Turing machine’s qualia had any impact on its operation, then it would not be a Turing machine.
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If a Turing machine’s qualia had any impact on its operation, then it would not be a Turing machine.
LLMs are intelligent, but cannot experience qualia. bsky.app/profile/j-ch...
The paper is more of an intuition pump. Here is my argument that Turing qualia are logically distinct from embodied qualia.
October 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
LLMs are intelligent, but cannot experience qualia. bsky.app/profile/j-ch...
Quick survey of the philosophical state of the art suggesting it’s not worth arguing with an epiphenomenalist.
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ChatGPT - Philosophical papers on epiphenomenalism
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October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Quick survey of the philosophical state of the art suggesting it’s not worth arguing with an epiphenomenalist.
chatgpt.com/share/68ec11...
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That position is an extreme form of epiphenomenalism, because it argues that qualia are epiphenomenal by necessity, not just as a contingent fact about our universe.
October 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
That position is an extreme form of epiphenomenalism, because it argues that qualia are epiphenomenal by necessity, not just as a contingent fact about our universe.
So there is “logical“ room for the epiphenomenalist here, i’m just not interested in that horn of the dilemma.
October 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
So there is “logical“ room for the epiphenomenalist here, i’m just not interested in that horn of the dilemma.
As far as I can tell, the argument requires you to either hold that first-person qualia are necessarily epiphenomenal, or that “Turing qualia” is a distinct concept from first-person qualia.
I have no rebuttal for those who think that our qualia have no effects, other than common sense.
I have no rebuttal for those who think that our qualia have no effects, other than common sense.
October 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
As far as I can tell, the argument requires you to either hold that first-person qualia are necessarily epiphenomenal, or that “Turing qualia” is a distinct concept from first-person qualia.
I have no rebuttal for those who think that our qualia have no effects, other than common sense.
I have no rebuttal for those who think that our qualia have no effects, other than common sense.
If we imagine the switches are played by human actors then we can see how their suffering would be amplified if they knew the system they were implementing was the torment Nexus instead of something pleasant. Having no agency is worse if you disagree with what you’re tasked with.
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If we imagine the switches are played by human actors then we can see how their suffering would be amplified if they knew the system they were implementing was the torment Nexus instead of something pleasant. Having no agency is worse if you disagree with what you’re tasked with.
Do you understand how my argument is that the definition of Turing qualia must be about something that is different from what we mean when we talk about the qualia we experience in the first person? Which calls into question its conceptual integrity. Probably a better word for it would be tendency.
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Do you understand how my argument is that the definition of Turing qualia must be about something that is different from what we mean when we talk about the qualia we experience in the first person? Which calls into question its conceptual integrity. Probably a better word for it would be tendency.
It might be that the silicone components of the switches are suffering, but that suffering is not dependent on whether they implement a chat bot or a video game or a payroll system.
October 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It might be that the silicone components of the switches are suffering, but that suffering is not dependent on whether they implement a chat bot or a video game or a payroll system.
Emergentists about software qualia have to contend with the problem that what they are conjecturing can only exist in the logical realm, and cannot properly be an aggregate of aspects of the substrate.
October 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Emergentists about software qualia have to contend with the problem that what they are conjecturing can only exist in the logical realm, and cannot properly be an aggregate of aspects of the substrate.
My intuition says that at the Software level there is no way for the physical qualia in various micro components of the computer to coordinate with each other. They have been walled off.
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My intuition says that at the Software level there is no way for the physical qualia in various micro components of the computer to coordinate with each other. They have been walled off.
Human minds can also famously be paused, resumed, and migrated to other substrates without interruption.
October 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Human minds can also famously be paused, resumed, and migrated to other substrates without interruption.
However, I don’t think my argument is stated as clearly as it could be. It would be great if it could be so simple as to be undeniable by anyone who accepts basic logic. We need it to become conventional wisdom among thinking people before it ever becomes a live topic in a government hearing.
October 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
However, I don’t think my argument is stated as clearly as it could be. It would be great if it could be so simple as to be undeniable by anyone who accepts basic logic. We need it to become conventional wisdom among thinking people before it ever becomes a live topic in a government hearing.
I don’t have a good rebuttal to the pure epiphenomenalist, and I’m OK with that.
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don’t have a good rebuttal to the pure epiphenomenalist, and I’m OK with that.
Whether the chess pieces are played by actors or pieces of wood, the game is the same. So a human-powered Turing machine would not have software qualia even if its individual switches do.
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Whether the chess pieces are played by actors or pieces of wood, the game is the same. So a human-powered Turing machine would not have software qualia even if its individual switches do.