M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
The spacetime interval should be invariant across frames, so there should be a problem there.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If you're trying to tap the brain that's true, but if you could readout the muscular contractions around the vocal chords, you could translate that instead. It's definitely easier to understand the simple output at the level
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Thanks for that information, it definitely restricts my concerns to motives for suicide, rather than accidental overdose.
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Genetically modifying ants using CRISPR shows how ant societies evolved(qz.com)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
More importantly, who wants to spend their life trying (and almost certainly failing) to fix it, while being cursed by the very people you try to help? When the prescription for a society is a Christ-like figure, that society is in deep shi
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Around the event horizons of black holes, would be the big one.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's true, but I wonder how many of these "suicides" were with pills, or of people addicted to pills. It's not a shock that the places that were hardest hit by opioid addiction, then hardest hit by ham-handed attempts to
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'd be a lot more understanding if Neal Stephenson hadn't foreseen and lampooned the concept in 'Snow Crash'. Seriously, how many people on HN took one look at Google Glass and though, "Oh shit, gargoyles!"
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by M_Grey 10y ago
What really needs to happen is for someone to figure out how to decode the electrical signals generated by subvocalization, train a DNN to interpret them, and use that.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
For me? Leave. When you're fighting for the right not to have your door broken down and be murdered, it's time to leave.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This is the real intersection of games and art, for me. I'd love to see it in person.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I see, and that at least does make a certain amount of sense. By putting timekeeping into the same category as any other measurement regime you would expect to see this kind of measurement difficulty emerging. What I'm not clear on tho
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This is one of my favorites discussion of the Planck scale, I'd strongly recommend it. https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/hand-wavy-discussion-...
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't think it's implying that, at least, I'm not seeing it. The notion of spacetime being quantized though is very much not a proven thing, but it is very interesting. Things like QECC popping up in physical process makes
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That kind of thing is the basis of a lot of crazy orthodoxies. For example Jehovah's Witnesses are often encouraged not to read the bible, but to read JW bibles or writings instead. It's incredibly easy to control people when yo
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Right?! It's not like the TDSE is so easy to manage under the current regime. Plus I like causality...
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't know the man, only what any of us can have heard, but my impression is that he's untroubled by the moral dimension of things. I suspect that a combination of intelligence, self-control, and a substantial lack of empathy ca
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by M_Grey 10y ago
They seem to be saying that any measurement regime, in achieving the necessary accuracy, will cause arbitrarily large measurement uncertainties. The authors at least, seem to think that this is fundamental, but as you say, it might just be
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I understand some of the subject, but I didn't understand the point this article is trying to make. There's a lot of the usual popsci about QM, and then this... "In this case, the physicists hypothesised the act of measuring
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I imagine that it would be intolerable to have a huge amount of money and power, and also accept that you're part of the root cause of the worst the world has to offer. When you can convince yourself that you're a "thought le
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh no, if you were exposed to a naked source of the type used to test the limits of organisms like tardigrades... you'd just die. Really, really, really quickly.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from, I'm just enjoying the discussion as well. I think you're right, it's definitely feasible that we could ease the impact of such mining, but I worry that we wouldn't. The countri
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The ones who weren't trained at least, you can help. The ones who have no pride in what they do, the hacks, should (as you said) not be in the world of food. There are a lot of people like you though, and one good thing that popular
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't think some of those places have "other sectors" that can be shifted to. I'm not arguing for burning fossil fuels, but shrugging and telling people already past the edge of desperation to "adapt" is crue
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sure, they can just threaten to hand off your information to people who will, or will do worse. I'm not excusing the US, but be real, China keeps a file on each other citizens with a "loyalty" score. They're already doin
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sadly, a lot of hacks exist in the world of food. It's refreshing that you're far from being one of them, and definitely it pays to eat at a restaurant that has pride in what it does. I think more broadly, you just have to choose
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by M_Grey 10y ago
People have always been like this... it just used to be that the "doctor" was always willing to bleed you or physick you, or whatever. Now doctors are trained only to render useful treatments, but the desire for woo is unchanged
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well they could do what any hacker does with your personal info... use it. Bundle and sell it. Whatever else they feel like. What you're saying is wildly short-sighted, and frankly bound in a very dangerous false dichotomy.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The countries you've listed... do they strike you as likely to "get prepared"? Even if they did, what could they do?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Why take the risk? If anything goes wrong you either lose the asteroid with unpredictable results, or worse, it crashes uncontrollably. With the moon, you really don't have to care. It's also a useful "base" for any othe

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