ac794

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by ac794 1y ago
Do you have any evidence that the empathy free institutions you would implement would somehow be free of fraud and generate better outcomes?
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by ac794 1y ago
You are using words like 'rational', 'dispassionate' and 'coherence' when what we are talking about with empathy is adding information with which to make the decision. Not breaking fundamental logic. In essence
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by ac794 1y ago
What is the evidence that empathy exists to short-circuit reasoning? Empathy is about understanding someone else's perspective.
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by ac794 1y ago
Gemini also has a press release here: https://www.gemini.edu/news/press-releases/noirlab2523
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by ac794 1y ago
The 'ghost' on the other side is an artifact of the speckle imaging technique.
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by ac794 1y ago
I believe the proposed budget is being marked up tomorrow (July 15th, 12:00). Currently the NSF budget is set to be ~$7 billion, a 23% cut compared to FY2025. I'm not sure how this affects LIGO exactly. https://appropriation
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by ac794 1y ago
I see what you're saying and agree that we probably would have noticed the discrepancies in GPS positioning pretty quickly if we had tried to make it work without knowing about general relativity (GR). But it took _Einstein_ the better
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by ac794 1y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that the budget for scientific funding in developed nations is typically ~1-2% of the total budget. Most of that money usually goes to medical research (as it should), which directly improves the quality of l
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by ac794 1y ago
Most of the benefits of blue(dark?)-sky research are unpredictable almost by definition. We're exploring for the sake of finding answers about the universe, and in the process learning 'unknown unknowns' which may pay off lat