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Comment · 6 years ago
You don't know/understand Chinese. However some argue that the system of you and the instruction manual is conscious, and some other will argue further that the book is an extension of your mind, an external apparatus of thinking, or an organ that are no different from your hand. I vaguely remember some years back that someone was fighting to be allowed having his passport photo with a cyborg antenna because it helps him "hears" colour.
Comment · 7 years ago
> ... I think that people, brilliant or not, can "lose their touch" both because people simply change ...

Alazia is the word that describe that feeling.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I remember from a youtube video that the spacetime inside the black hole flipped around, where space becomes temporal dimension and time becomes spatial dimension (i.e. time is traversable in either direction while the singularity becomes an inevitable place in the "future").
Comment · 8 years ago
Possibly not as in new FahCores. They might be useful in conjunction to each other, as AlphaFold is useful for protein structure prediction, Folding@home can confirm the predicted structure through simulation.
Comment · 8 years ago
Casper FFG research repository is here https://github.com/ethereum/casper . Last committed before the sharding and casper research merger.
Comment · 10 years ago
Encoding choice should cause problems too.

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