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Why Is This Happening? — Chris Hayes with David Chalmers

On consciousness, AI, and whether the machines have an inner life

Transcribed from https://youtu.be/NgDIG8u1-CA

Speakers: Chris Hayes (host) and David Chalmers (philosopher, cognitive scientist; professor of philosophy and neuroscience at NYU; co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness). Transcript lightly cleaned for readability; timestamps mark the start of each turn.

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[00:00:09] CHRIS HAYES: Hello and welcome to Why Is This Happening, with me, your host Chris Hayes. I'm very excited today for another edition of our special series where we take a look at all the implications — both terrifying and exhilarating — of artificial intelligence: its philosophical implications, its social, economic, and political implications.

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ʻOumuamua and interstellar space craft

https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/040

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/

Interesting podcast about the astronomical outlier object ʻOumuamua. Harvard Prof of Astronomy, Avi Loeb explores the idea that the object was a light-sail space craft sent from another civilization to check out earth.

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Build-A-Cell

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07289-x

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/07/22/56-kate-adamala-on-creating-synthetic-life/

http://buildacell.io/

http://buildacell.io/engineering/

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import { grad, linspace, plot  } from "propel";

f = x => x.tanh();
x = linspace(-4, 4, 200);
plot(x, f(x),
     x, grad(f)(x),
     x, grad(grad(f))(x),
     x, grad(grad(grad(f)))(x),
     x, grad(grad(grad(grad(f))))(x))

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% ls ~/src/dart-repo/dart/third_party 
7zip  apache_ant  args4j  bzip2  eclipse  fest  gsutil  guava  gyp  hamcrest  json  junit  mockito  v8  WebCore  weberknecht

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for i in $HOME/local/*; do
  [ -d $i/bin ] && PATH="${i}/bin:${PATH}"
  [ -d $i/sbin ] && PATH="${i}/sbin:${PATH}"
  [ -d $i/include ] && CPATH="${i}/include:${CPATH}"
  [ -d $i/lib ] && LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${i}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
  [ -d $i/lib ] && LD_RUN_PATH="${i}/lib:${LD_RUN_PATH}"
# uncomment the following if you use macintosh
#  [ -d $i/lib ] && DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${i}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
  [ -d $i/lib/pkgconfig ] && PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${i}/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
  [ -d $i/share/man ] && MANPATH="${i}/share/man:${MANPATH}"

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I am thrilled to announce the arrival of a new stable version of Node.js.

Compared with the v0.6 releases of Node, this release brings significant improvements in many key performance metrics, as well as cleanup in several core APIs, and the addition of new debugging features.

tl;dr

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hello world

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hello world