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My latest blog entry is an off-the-cuff interview of ChatGPT about the meaning of consciousness.
Philosophical Dialogues with AI, by @…
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Philosophical Dialogues with AI
Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

#NowPlaying for some wakeup music - The Cars' masterpiece from 1984, 'Heartbeat City'.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxo8OvVvJ1UqHvsuYGZXb…

So this got me thinking:
Starter primers:
Andor: Leftism/resistance
Barbie: Feminism
Matrix: Philosophy
Good Place: Ethics/Moral Philosophy
Sesame Street: Coexistence
Mr. Rogers: Empathy
Gillian’s Island: Capitalist Theory
https://youtu.be/rsRjQDrDnY8

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Studie: Live-Gesichtserkennung durch Polizei nur rechtswidrig möglich

Russia's main airport in St. Petersburg says its website was hacked https://therecord.media/russia-pulkovo-airport-st-petersburg-website-hacked

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
(Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.)
I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead.

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.

Undecidability of Translational Tiling with 2 Polycubes
Yoonhu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11725 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11725

Undecidability of Translational Tiling with 2 Polycubes
In this paper, we prove that it is undecidable whether a set of two polycubes can tile $\mathbb{Z}^3$ by translation. The proof involves a new technique that allows us to simulate two disconnected polycubes with two connected polycubes. By expanding this technique to higher dimensions, we also prove that a set of disconnected tiles in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ can be simulated by the same number of connected tiles in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ for $n \geq 3$.

Thought: Philosophical arguments are like financial leverage. With them, you can bet on modest-seeming intuitive principles and come out with grand statements about the nature of the universe. But if your principles are even slightly wrong, your conclusions will be extremely wrong.

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Montag: Telekom mit multimedialem Polizeifunk, IAA mit leichtem Besucherzuwachs
Vodafone & O2 mit Gegenvorschlägen Halbe Million IAA-Besucher Biometrische Grenzkontrolle ab Oktober Hin und Her zum Verbrenner-Aus Krise der VR-Branche