dkz999

I agree that classical schooling has fallen far away from learning (as the author defines it). That has even crept more and more into "higher education". This is a travesty and produces worse people, citizens, what have you.

But i'll still make this point: its an oversimplification to say that education (as defined) is bad.

No matter how much it doesn't align with your passion, you will need to have a basic set of book smarts to hope to thrive in the world. If for no other reason than there will almost certainly be some aspect of that passion that touches on those missing rudimentary skills.

I also personally don't want to live in a world where a significant portion of people don't know basic history or understand eating tide pods is bad.

We already kind of see this with search.

Idk, in this instance I feel pretty strongly that cloud, and solutions with unecessary overhead, are the fast food. The article proposes not eating it all the time.

I really like equating faking intelligence to consciousness. Its intuitive because we have all seen that, yet so complex its nearly futile to give meaningful predictive criteria for when an agent is 'being intelligent'.

In addition to having meaningful interactions with others, i would add consciousness also requires meaningful interaction with its-self.

What is 'meaninful' also comes down to language, which, personally, leads me back to the idea that consciousness is essentially a linguistic product/phenomenon. Duck-typed.

And at the end of the day, if you enjoy spending time asking "is this thing really x" where x lies on a vector you can't even begin measure, I got this deal on a bridge you can get in on, real cheap...

'Got it'?

Is someone with a cochlear implant dead? How about someone using a BCI to move a mouse? Or a locked-in patient?

Is there a minimum number of organic connections we need to be alive?

How would you convince this person that their 'I' has died?

I think these questions are exactly along the lines of the question this story begs.

Pretty sure this is correct. Seen a number of unbiased whole tissue seq studies point to 4-6 subtypes. Amyloid may be a driver in like one, same for immune, but mostly its tauopathy, age related, or vascular changes.

Disruption? "Fixing what isn't broken"?

Im going with: Making perfect the enemy of the good.

>... the point where bacteria need to evolve so much to overcome new antibiotic approaches that they...

Can't. Changed it a bit for ya.

This is the zone we need to be in for any successful treatment. This is also why e.g. humans will never evolve bullet resistance.