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Playing in the Creek(hgreer.com)
347 points by c1ccccc1 1y ago|115 comments
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Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad(arxiv.org)
4 points by c1ccccc1 2y ago|0 comments
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Frequency shifts do not imply quantum entanglement (2022)(benbrubaker.com)
10 points by c1ccccc1 2y ago|0 comments
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Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
98 points by c1ccccc1 2y ago|49 comments
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by c1ccccc1 2y ago
Cryptographers are clever and have figured out a way to let you know your vote was counted without being able to prove it to a third party! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRTvoZ3Rho
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by c1ccccc1 3y ago
This comment is interesting in that it itself exemplifies principle #5. (And also principles #6, #7, #9 to some extent.)
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by c1ccccc1 3y ago
"Below" in this context means "directly below and connected by a line" (the lines are the edges of the cube). So you can have a blue vertex that is vertically below a white vertex, so long as they are not connected by an
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by c1ccccc1 3y ago
The post assumes a 2% annual rate of growth in energy consumption. So, due to the nature of exponential functions, most of the energy loss would concentrated towards the end of the 1000 years, as the energy consumption approaches 400 millio
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by c1ccccc1 3y ago
So I'm not a moral relativist, like, at all. But in this case, it seems like we westerners have constructed one particular set of norms for encouraging innovation, where we decide that it's possible for ideas to be owned. It'
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by c1ccccc1 3y ago
> Hinton and other billionaires are making sensational headlines predicting all sorts of science fiction. Geoff Hinton is not a billionaire! And the field of AI is much wider than LLMs, despite what it may seem like from news headlines.
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Pretty sure the angst is about the AGI killing everyone. What's the connection between not killing people and enslavement? I don't kill people, yet I don't consider myself enslaved. The entire point of worrying about this at
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Weird. Seems like this is a plagiarism of this article: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/agi-strange-equation (Or maybe it's an independent reinvention of the same idea, and something's just in the water.)
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
It's much easier than that! Living cells already have ribosomes that construct proteins and all the other molecular machinery needed to go from DNA sequence to assembled protein. You can order a DNA sequence online and put it into e-co
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
By looking at the weights? Yes, it would be very easy to tell.
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
I have watched it, and it was actually talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor... Ironically Banach-Tarski would have been better suited for a movie about infinity. Poincare rec
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
> Any other vehicle and we would hold the worker accountable for not refusing such a negligent order. Say the worker refuses that order and their boss says "okay, you're fired". Would we also give that worker legal protect
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Current through a solenoid: magnetic field gives a staircase graph (2023)(physics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by c1ccccc1 4y ago|0 comments
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Anyone else do a double-take when they got to the part about Edward Snowden? The author of this article must either really love the NSA or really hate Snowden if he's willing to undermine his entire thesis just to get that jab in.
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Here's some more examples: cos((x - t)) + cos(0.5877852522924731*y + 0.8090169943749475*(x - t)) + cos(0.9510565162951535*y + 0.30901699437494745*(x - t)) + cos(0.9510565162951536*y - 0.30901699437494734*(x - t)) + cos(0.58778525
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Do we actually have that much control over what the fission products are? My impression was that you hit U-235 with a neutron, and you get the same kinds of fission products out whether it's a bomb or a reactor. It's just determin
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Could you expand on why the disappearance time is so much faster for a bomb than for a power plant? If 1kg of uranium undergoes fission, I would expect there to be a little less then 1kg of fission products resulting from it. No matter if i
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
After seeing the title but before clicking on the article, I thought this would be about a legal hack rather than a security hole. More specifically, creating the minimum possible corporation that qualifies as an airline (so that you litera
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
It seem pretty likely that we have to die, based on the second law of thermodynamics. The whole universe has to end eventually, after many trillions of years. There's no physical law that would stop a person sticking around for those t
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
I think the person you're replying to is referring to cryonics (the topic of the original article), which is still illegal in many jurisdictions.
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
As something of a free speech absolutist myself, I'd say this Twitter policy goes directly against the principles of free speech. No twisting required, Elon is simply being hypocritical here.
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Fascinating. Without a detailed knowledge of biology, it seems like this could affect any cell type, why would heart muscle cells specifically be targeted? Are the spike proteins just more likely to get stuck to the surface of certain types
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Yes, in fact. This text shows up at the bottom of the page: > Disclaimer: This essay was generated by StableDiffusion (the image) and ChatGPT (the text). It is based on my tweetstorm, which can be found here: https://twitter.c
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
So which of the following count as "man made" chemicals? Alcohol or vinegar from humans intentionally fermenting things? A metallic aluminum alloy? Sulfuric acid (which sometimes occurs naturally)? Turpentine? Soda-lime glass? I g
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11178.pdf Lots of interesting things I'd want to try here. Eg, the formulation of thinking of your probability distribution as a charge distribution opens up the possibility
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by c1ccccc1 4y ago
> it is hard to find a place where independent thought is so unwelcome. Is that actually true, though? It's true that a higher fraction of the people in that community give credence to the intelligence explosion hypothesis than pret

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