That puts the Brexit under a new light. EU puts a lot resurces to prevent that kind of thing, at least when european money is invested. I can imagine the people you describe not liking it at all.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 02:15:55 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) -
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 07:14:10 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) In Spain we started much stricter than US. Nowadays, there are zero measures. Not even in hospitals.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:56:56 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Well, it doesnโt seem fair to put the litmus test on english. Why not on spanish? It would be easier for me ๐ And a chinese could put it really hard for both of us. And an alien could make all of us look like a chimpanzee.
We canโt use human rules to measure other animals, it has to be something more neutral.
Anthropologists and biologist had made great efforts to find a really neutral way to measure cognition and conscience in animals, and they havenโt uncovered even the tip of the iceberg.
Thatโs why I recommended Harariโs book; as an anthropologist, knowing the differences between humans and other animals is a key part of his job.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:55:58 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Well, it doesnโt seem fair to put the litmus test on english. Why not on spanish? It would be easier for me ๐ And a chinese could put it really hard for both of us. And an alien could make all of us like a chimpanzee.
We canโt use human rules to measure other animals, it has to be something more neutral.
Anthropologists and biologist had made great efforts to find a really neutral way to measure cognition and conscience in animals, and they havenโt uncovered even the tip of the iceberg.
Thatโs why I recommended Harariโs book; as an anthropologist, knowing the differences between humans and other animals is a key part of his job.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:26:10 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Well, it seems really hard to design an experiment to know if animals have abstraction capabilities.
I think they must have some; knowing if a random animal belongs to your species or not is in itself a form of abstraction.
Creating symbols and managing them is really what language is about; and math is the most formalized and strict of them. Since animals have very limited language abilities, it is not surprising their math abilities are (nearly?) undetectable.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:11:21 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Like any other human cognitive feature, animals can do math, but in a very limited way. See https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200907-the-remarkable-ways-animals-understand-numbers
If you read Harari (if you haven't read his first book, you should, it is really great), he explains very nicely that the main differences between us and other animals are the ones that help us to collaborate and have collective goals and planning: language, creativity, shared ideas and dreams... We are much, much better.
Math and logic are a form of language, so we are naturally much, much better than animals at it.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 13:02:44 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) I always buy a Windows laptop, boot Ubuntu in it (no install), test everything, and if something doesn't work as-is, i return the laptop. After a decade doing it, no support issues. Except for energy management, which has always been terrible, if any. But that's not easy to test, and, from what I hear, it doesn't seem to be any good in Linux anywhere.
Incidentally, my current laptop is a 600โฌ Lenovo. You can imagine what I think of frame.work prices.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 13:02:42 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) The cheapest laptop I found that carried an SSD out of the box 5 years ago: Lenovo Ideapad 320.
The display is terrible, no proper graphic card, and I seriously think I should have upgraded the 8GB of RAM the first day, but it still works like the first day. RAM aside, I don't need anything more.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 13:02:41 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Oh, I see: you want a Thinkpad...
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 06:55:35 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Letโs hope Iโm wrong, but Hamas has put into Netanyahuโs hands all the tools he needed to commit total genocide in Gaza, with a real chance of no meaningful international punishment. My greatest fear is he being the kind of man that decides to really do it.
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Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) (jgg@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 07:16:50 JST Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg) Who knows. The announcement of the first tests of Neuralink with animals seems to be in the same time frame as the start of the neurological decay of Elon Musk's brain. Coincidence?