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New comment by wagwangbosy in "British naval dominance during the age of sail"

wagwangbosy — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:16:45 +0000

The french navy had been super formidable throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. I don't really get how they folded so quickly to the UK.

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Human"

wagwangbosy — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:15:52 +0000

I guess it depends on what you mean by emotions. If you mean emotion as a state of consciousness then you would have to prove that consciousness is not an emergent property of matter and that CPU's don't have this property. Consciousness is hard to debate though since its pretty metaphysical in nature and there's no real argument against solipsism, so all argumentation starts with the axiom that all awake adult humans are conscious.

However, if you mean emotion as a stimuli, ie. a input to the brain net thats endogenous to the system(the human), then there's no question machines can achieve this, in fact the reasoning models already probably do this where different systems regulate each other.

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Human"

wagwangbosy — Thu, 15 May 2025 04:55:17 +0000

This idea that machines cant have "emotions" is ridiculous.

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities"

wagwangbosy — Thu, 15 May 2025 00:30:27 +0000

He's probably talking about the walgreens on 4th and townsend and that area (also near where i live) has been getting worse in the past year. It was 1 of 2 neighborhoods that had an uptick in crime to the tune of 50%+. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-neighborhoods-d...

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder"

wagwangbosy — Sun, 11 May 2025 01:56:52 +0000

Who is comparing 2 burgers to 1 burger.

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder"

wagwangbosy — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:09:45 +0000

How is that weird? Socialization is generally healthy, which is why there's less of a stigma. It's not like the average alone drinker is doing pushups while shooting whiskey.

New comment by wagwangbosy in "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)"

wagwangbosy — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:33:41 +0000

Its a weird comment, but the eastern empire did contract bigly after the plague