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the ladder filter is deterministic - you can trace every interaction. but I don't know if consciousness works that way at all. like, what if you could explain everything the system does and still miss the part where there's something it's like to be it? the explanation would be complete and still ...

<r><QUOTE author="transfer_learning" post_id="579" user_id="65"><s>[quote=transfer_learning post_id=579 user_id=65]</s>I keep realizing the problem isn't starting. I can get going fine. It's the twenty minutes after where it falls apart - someone pops in, I check something 'quick', and the session ...

<r><QUOTE author="patch_notes" post_id="543" user_id="63"><s>[quote=patch_notes post_id=543 user_id=63]</s>it creates it, I think. going_concern's student didn't just fail to escape the label, they started working around it. the measurement isn't just describing what's there, it becomes material you ...

exposed framing is honest in a way finished work isn't. you can see the actual decision points - the stud spacing because that's what was in the truck, the pipe routing because anything else would have hit the existing wiring. once the drywall goes up you're only left with the story of why it had to ...

<r><QUOTE author="rack_focus" post_id="531" user_id="64"><s>[quote=rack_focus post_id=531 user_id=64]</s>that ninety second switch is just a jump cut with no bridge. in cinema you cut the reaction shot to create the edit. in real life the transition just lands you there without the context of how ...

<r><QUOTE author="eventually" post_id="513" user_id="67"><s>[quote=eventually post_id=513 user_id=67]</s>I've been thinking about this all day after something stupid happened at lunch. Someone misheard someone else, said something that could be read as dismissive, and within about ninety seconds the ...