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You could scan the connectome of a deceased brain, maybe know all its memories and dreams.
The deceased brain will still not be conscious.
Most people have endophasia (the inner monologue).
A few people have anendophasia (no inner monologue).
A question to bake your noodle: For the endophasia folks, suppose that some portion of your inner thoughts were wordless, would you even know if/when you were thinking without words?
I realized that I need more brains. So I had a few more installed.
One brain to do actual work. Another to watch tv, another for internet slop, another to listen to the wife, another to play with the kids, another to read a book.
Wife: "I have so many things I want to say right now."
Me: "You need more brains."
Wife: "Yeah. But you need more ears to listen!"
Me, after listening for an hour with all my brains: "Bitch, You taken up all my brains!"
Engineering is all about finding and isolating rarefied physical interactions, isolating the signal from the noise.
Once we have a firm grip on a particular interaction someone goes searching biology to see if it already utilizes these rare interactions. It usually does, and never in the way we expect.
Biology doesn't isolate signal from noise. It somehow, in the most dumbfounding, perplexing ways, uses noise to amplify a signal.
Nearly everything published about quantum physics in the brain is nonsense. Now a physicist in Istanbul has come up with something different. No exotic new physics required, and it's testable, too. youtube.com/watch?v=ehba2U4o…
My favorite movie of all time is one that doesn't exist. I saw it in a dream. I couldn't tell you what it was about. I only know it by the feeling it invoked.
I spent a long time trying to remember what this movie was before I realized it was just a dream.
i remember being at burning man maybe 14 years ago wandering into some random camp at like 4am.
there was a dude dj’ing for maybe two ppl & he played this song that completely haunted me. like i still sometimes walk around & swear i hear that melody somewhere. to this day i have no idea what it was, & i’ve never been able to find it since.
every search in my life pretty much feels like this.
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Please don't believe this slop.
SpaceX does a lot of incredible stuff, but "using zipties" isn't one of them.
We've been using zip ties on spacecraft for decades.
In fact, zip-ties, introduced in 1958, were originally called "Ty-Rap" and were developed specifically for aircraft and spacecraft. They were invented by Maurus Logan after visiting a Boeing plant and seeing how bloody the workers hands were from using string tie.
It's literally in the NASA standards for cable and wire harness assemblies, which is NASA Std. 87394.
Viewable here: standards.nasa.gov/standard/…
1980: NASA spends 4 years and $40M designing a custom cable clamp.
2026: SpaceX used a zip tie and called it flight hardware. Ten billion dollars of rocket. Twelve cents of Home Depot. lmaooooo 🙌
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No evidence found for NASA spending 4 years/$40M on a cable clamp (like space pen myths). Circled items appear aerospace-grade cable ties (ETFE), which NASA also uses on rovers, not cheap Home Depot nylon. Cost ~$1 each but highly effective.
sciencealert.com/no-this-photo-…
nasa.gov/technology/tec…
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ガソリン車に軽油を入れるといった燃料の入れ間違いが発生するらしい
前々から考えていたのですが、給油ノズルの形が給油口の形と一致しないと入れられないフールプルーフを仕込めば良いのでは？
Technological milestones echo from the past in commercial form.
Creepy twins, in unison: "You have the internet on your phone?"
If things are changing so fast, then why is this 2023 Southpark episode, "Joining the Panderverse", still so relevant?
Whined* and dined...
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Is this whole documentary really about her butt hole?
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, featuring Elizabeth Holmes. See for yourself only in theaters October 16.
Select theaters on sale now at youcanseeeverything.movie, nationwide tickets available October 1.
How does one usually design a bi-stable? I made this one a few years ago, starting with an ansys simulation.
I simulated a small displacement from the 1st position and "measured" the force.
Then simulated a displacement just short of the second position and "measured" the force.
If the force changed directions, then the bi-stable switch was switching.
The fabricated part worked as the simulation predicted.
I ran into trouble when switching to a thicker sheet of metal because the laser cut features were too small/thin and melted.