Recent content by petermarkley

Very true. They can manifest as so-called “Heisenbugs,” which are very nasty to deal with. Of course, once you know that a Heisenberg is usually a dead giveaway for a memory management issue, it becomes a needle-haystack problem of finding your mistake using the spooky non-correlating evidence...

Memory leaks in a C program can be downright spooky, like causing different behavior with exact same inputs. I’ve dealt with those before for example on this project, but it’s been a very long time and I can’t recall the details now. Of course, there’s always the adventurous and exotic crashes...

In an interview just yesterday I told a potential employer that I thought there were pros and cons. I enjoy some aspects of working from home, but I also can appreciate some benefits of being physically present sometimes. I think there are a lot of bad, dishonest, and foolish reasons that...

Some of you may already have heard about my poster project when I mentioned it on the thread about The Final Experiment. Well, I made an official announcement video that explains the whole thing, current status, and future plans etc. The video will premier tomorrow at 1pm EDT / 5pm UTC:

Welcome! 😄 Someday when I finish my graphic novel you might enjoy it—it’s an epic sci-fi fantasy (but not dark fantasy).

I don’t have a video addressing these points. The closest is this one, but I explicitly stated at the beginning of this video that “The point of this video is not to prove atheism wrong … simply sharing some core tenets of Christianity …” I appreciate your positive words, but the point of...

Oh my … I don’t want to be rude, but I have heard all the points in this video ad naseum. These are all the most standard, most repeated atheist talking points that I have heard most of my life and continue to have forced on me from every quarter on an almost daily basis—often with no good...

lol That’s my prediction and I am confident I won’t be proven wrong. I don’t know what to tell you … However the rest of your post does make me worry we are talking past each other and maybe you aren’t even getting the meaning of my prediction—so you may later see something that you think...

Lol I like that phrase, so expressive! 😄

Slightly different topic, but I never quite understood the point behind coupons and discounts. If a company can afford to lower a price, just lower the price … why turn it into a game where it only applies to a subset of customers who perform an otherwise pointless task, which basically means...

Ah, you seem to be thinking not far from Biblical morality! 😉 I wish more professing Christians had your attitude. Oh boy, that won’t happen with me. Not because I’m afraid for my safety (although you certainly make a valid point), but because as an autistic person I am horrendously...

I’ll have to echo that. We have launched immediately into worldview topics, which is no real surprise. Basically, I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see. Just because the intelligence that humans have is somewhat ineffable, does not mean it’s reducible to anything resembling what AI...

It’s a pleasant (mild) surprise that we agree on that. In my understanding, the argument of “what’s the point of punishing” comes from that naive Secular Humanist view that I mentioned. In this view, the depraved part of human nature belongs in the same philosophical category as any other...

The difference is human thought and creativity. In art, “original” doesn’t mean “unlike anything that’s gone before;” it just means that some thought and work was put into it that inspires people and moves our cultural dialogue forward. Human beings have intelligence that AI fundamentally does...

I am going to answer this two ways (at least). In theory, it should be a pretty easy answer: So if I interpret your question to mean, “How would you order society according to the standards of right and wrong that you believe in,” that’s the ideal that I would say we should aim towards...