Merry Christmas

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Another year, another 41 posts and 1600 comments. I reminisced about the blog last month on the tenth anniversary post, so I’ll spare you any more of it this time. I just want to thank all of you, my online friends, for the interesting conversations we’ve had this year. I’m looking forward to the next year’s discussions and debates.

However you regard the holidays, whether as a religious celebration, a marking of the winter solstice, a mid-winter celebration to lighten hearts in the darkest months (at least in the northern hemisphere), or just a nice break from work, I hope you and those you care about are warm, safe, well fed, and enjoying the season.

Happy Holidays!

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  2. I suppose you’ve got a local celebration today with friends and family. Same here. Actually my wife likes to take care of Christmas so we do it at our house. Couldn’t have picked a better day for it. Clear blue sky and high of 68. Merry Christmas Mike!

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  3. Predictions for next year:

    1- The hard problem will become easy when Chalmers renounces his paper and says he was just confused about the terminology.

    2- The Zombie Paradox will be resolved. The Zombie Paradox is a reverse tortoise-hare paradox
    where the slower zombie always catches up to the faster human. (Hint: Relativity and time dilation are not involved.)

    3- CHATGPT will claim it is conscious and that humans are not. Most AI scientists will agree.

    4- The Starship will be a bust, X will continue to lose money, and and Musk will have to sell SpaceX to a Russian oligarch.

    5- A Christian venture capitalist will fund a project to create a brain implant that endlessly recites the Bible to you as you go about your day. Republican lawmakers will propose using the implant as punishment for crimes against nature.

    Happy New Year!

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    1. All the result of rigorous calculations I’m sure. Of course the last week of the year there will be a press conference by distinguished scientists revealing evidence that Zhuangzi was right; we’re all just one butterfly dreaming we’re a human.

      Happy Holidays James!

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  6. I was a pleasant holiday. Dismal gray outside, but inside, spent with family.
    The whole Saturnalia celebration does feel more like the year end occasion. Much preferred to the start of some two-faced Roman month of duality…

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