AnthonyAguirre

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by AnthonyAguirre 4y ago
How do you define "the universe"?
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by AnthonyAguirre 4y ago
Actually a quite nice article. After also spending years as a professional physicist not understanding entropy, I finally decided that I was not necessarily the problem, and spent the last 5 years or so trying to understand it better by rew
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Metaculus Launches ProblyMail(metaculus.com)
3 points by AnthonyAguirre 5y ago|0 comments
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by AnthonyAguirre 6y ago
Probably better not to use the term "steady state" here (even if pretty appropriate) in that the "steady state" cosmological model is/was one that is exponentially expanding, with all physical observables statistica
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by AnthonyAguirre 6y ago
For those who happen to like both geometric algebra and general relativity, my former student Joey Schindler wrote this quite beautiful paper extending geometric algebra to calculus on manifolds. https://arxiv.org/pdf/
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Predictions on GPT-3 vs. 4th graders in adversarial general intelligence test(metaculus.com)
3 points by AnthonyAguirre 6y ago|0 comments
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by AnthonyAguirre 6y ago
That was a fascinating read; thank you. Not every day that I learn about a whole new important multiverse!
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Show HN: New dashboard for quantitative aggregated Covid-19 predictions(pandemic.metaculus.com)
7 points by AnthonyAguirre 6y ago|0 comments
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A reductio ad absurdum in simulating conscious beings?(anthony-aguirre.com)
3 points by AnthonyAguirre 7y ago|0 comments
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by AnthonyAguirre 8y ago
A real challenge for prediction markets (with real-money stakes) will be to get sufficient liquidity on relatively small-ticket items outside of sports and politics. For such items platforms like metaculus.com and Good Judgement seem more l
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by AnthonyAguirre 10y ago
agreed! The starwisp paper is really very nice.
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by AnthonyAguirre 10y ago
The plan calls for ultra-reflective coatings that are tuned to the wavelength of the laser. Apparently these exist, though I have not checked the numbers. In my class I abandoned laser propulsion quickly for just this reason (incinerated
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by AnthonyAguirre 10y ago
This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to reach a star in our lifetimes, this is by far the most likel
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by AnthonyAguirre 10y ago
This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to reach a star in our lifetimes, this is by far the most likel
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$100M for “starshot”: laser-accelerated nanocraft for interstellar travel(breakthroughinitiatives.org)
3 points by AnthonyAguirre 10y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Metaculus crowd-prediction engine. Feedback?(metaculus.com)
1 points by AnthonyAguirre 11y ago|0 comments