RupertEisenhart

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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
> Penrose Penrose is great but resting your argument on his work is dubious. I would go for a portfolio approach when thinking about these things. > Proof by assertion re physics & intelligence Physics does indeed tell us that int
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Sticking my German sim card into my phone for fifteen minutes in all sorts of random countries and continents and waiting for a number to come through always feels absurd. I pray for the rise of esims! I feel like it's on the cards.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I use Syncthing[0] for continuous file synchronization to/from my phone, its pretty nifty. Way more memory-heavy than something like this though. [0] https://syncthing.net/
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I would recommend trying to set up tailscale[0] in the servers instead of a VPN, its similar to the reply about SSH ProxyForwarding but it has a lot more tricks under the hood. Of course you need somewhere (aka an AWS server in eg. europe)
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Check out the original simulation argument paper[0]. The issue is, if we think we are heading to a world in which we can do simulations, it becomes increasingly likely that we are in one of those (presumably very many) worlds, rather than i
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Have you tried MUBI? It takes a lot of the hassle out of finding quality arthouse films, there is a lot of good stuff on there. Though I must admit that if I didn't have friends holding my hand through the minefield of modern cinema, I
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Overpass[0] is made for exactly these kinds of queries, I'd recommend playing with it. [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_AP...
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
As an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality. Ain't been caught yet tho
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Could you support markdown headers like these: --- date: 2021-09-14T22:51:33+02:00 modified: 2021-09-29T15:40:38+02:00 --- Then it would interoperate with GitJournal perfectly I think :).
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I just pointed GitNoter at my GitJournal repo and it loaded fairly well :). I'll investigate fiddling with the settings (dates get dumped into GitNoter notes), would be nice to have them interoperate perfectly. Thanks for GitJournal!
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Proposals for legal, ethical or logistically undoable studies(marginalrevolution.com)
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by RupertEisenhart 5y ago
For more background and related material, look at Hansons blog[0] or the dedicated website[1]. [0]: https://www.overcomingbias.com/?s=aliens [1]: https://grabbyaliens.com/
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by RupertEisenhart 5y ago
That is incorrect. Good reasoning can lead to conclusions that are strictly false. For example, when asked to be more granular, the turtle could say 'I reason that there is only a 1 in 10 chance that seafaring civilizations exist'
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by RupertEisenhart 5y ago
See my post below, but here is one paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11350
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by RupertEisenhart 5y ago
I have a citation[0] that disagrees with your characterization, suggesting (the obvious) that while it may technically be possible for humans to live in harsh environments, they tend not to, they tend to live in a small subset of all places
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Yeah, I was amazed by good moby dick was. It's rare that a famous book so fully lives up to the expectations that society has set for it.
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
I feel the need to point a finger at the gun death rate, and also point out that many suicides are probably gun deaths too [0] (not in the trivial sense of suicide by firearm, but that many of those suicides would not have happened without
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Imaging doesn't necessarily produce 'images' in the common meaning of the word. You may think that those 'images' of proteins you see sometimes are 'real images', because they are grey and grainy, but they
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Can't you ban the malicious Devs? They keep creating new GitHub accounts or what?
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
I love that this is still a topic-- along with 'is glass a fluid', this is one of the few questions I recall from childhood that turns out to still be relevant serious physics. (Re 'is glass a fluid', my condensed matter
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
I definitely did something like this for column-climbing on occasion, and also tapping shift with fingers from two hands. But yeah n was more about accuracy. (Hey scythe, brocerious here!)
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Thats.. almost literally unbelievable. I almost want to suspect that that's a code name? For any sufficiently large ship that blocks a major waterway? Incredible.
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Letsencrypt provide a really good service. I can recommend the docker image made by linuxserver in particular [0]. Makes Https a (tax free) breeze. [0] https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Is that at all possible on the time scales we're talking about? It depends so much on the distribution networks, health services, willingness of population and everything else of each individual country. Unless I read this wrong. You a
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Thanks for this. Bringing this down to the CPU is as absurd as all those 17th century opponents of materialism. "How can rude matter bring about all the ineffable qualia!" Hilarious.
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
None to add to that, though I was more thinking (as another child post) of poets and thinkers who were clearly self-referentially aware of what they were doing and what was going on generally with literary narrative (Swift and Coleridge com
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Not to be glib, but this reminds me of days spent reading TV tropes. I think the author is stretching a little to say noone considered this since Aristotle. Not only is there a lot of overlap with meme theory, people have been doing literar
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
It's also the incongruence which people like I think. It would be great to see Adolfo Mateo[0] as a 20 year old Japanese girl, not that he needs any improvement as he is. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFC
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
51% hashpower != 51% of stakeholders, this is an important distinction that many comments about democracy are missing. Hence GP talking about bodyguards at a concert-- who would typically be a minority of persons there.
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by RupertEisenhart 6y ago
Even just using text files surely? Even a single document can benefit from git-- or are you thinking that tree-history and other things which are sometimes provided by editors are enough?

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