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by cgmg 9y ago
What do you mean by “a nation-state not being a deviant”? Any nation-state that used nuclear weapons to attack would most definitely be a deviant.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> the quote boils down to "Life is suffering" Not in any meaningful sense. Clearly the quote contains more than that. It's like saying "everything boils down to A = A" (Aristotle, Metaphysics), therefore anything
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by cgmg 9y ago
> To be clear, Peterson's commentary is not original. M. Scott Peck, the Buddha, and literally 100s of other philosophers and psychologists have shared similar insights. Remarkably, those thinkers managed to share this insight with
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Nobody (in the general sense) actually cares about decentralization; it serves no utility in and of itself. What evidence do you have to support this ridiculous claim? The vast amount of interest in cryptocurrencies seems to indicate o
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Ireland had a market economy, Ireland had enough food to feed everyone, ergo the free market caused the famine. That is a non-sequitur. What makes you think “the free market” caused the famine?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Do you have a source to support your claim that "the free market" was responsible for killing a quarter of Ireland's population?
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by cgmg 9y ago
The examples you mentioned are not Gödel sentences, but rather Russell’s paradox and the liar paradox, respectively. A Gödel sentence for a theory T says “This sentence is not provable by T.” Truth is very different from provability and,
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by cgmg 9y ago
Do you realize that none of what you said contradicts the GP?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Vampire squids don't feed on blood.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I think comments like these are more likely propaganda than real experiences. So you are calling redm a liar. Do you have anything to back up that accusation? Or are you calling them a liar purely because it suits your poorly-construct
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S&P Global Platts deploys blockchain to track U.A.E. oil inventories(forbes.com)
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by cgmg 9y ago
What?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I posited that the author was pandering to an audience with such beliefs Why did you posit that?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that the author believes “if one doesn't sell, one has incurred no loss”?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why are they in the wrong (on this issue)?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Can you present an example?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Related: http://tensor-compiler.org/codegen.html . This converts an expression in tensor index notation into executable code.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Introspection allows one to develop plausible axioms, conditions, or properties that are satisfied by a conscious object (e.g. ourselves) and move on from there, as Giulio Tononi did with Integrated Information Theory.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Some relevant papers: An Approximation of the Universal Intelligence Measure https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-44958-1_... Measuring universal intelligence: Towards an anytime intelligence test
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by cgmg 9y ago
Where is the contradiction?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Is your particle moving with the reference frame? I believe so. It is not moving with respect to the reference frame. > Do you have motion when you are in a plane? Or do you say you are at rest because the passenger next to you is
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by cgmg 9y ago
> If so how can you claim that the ship is at rest? The ship is at rest with respect to its own reference frame. > So do you deny that the earth is moving? I assume not. The earth is at rest with respect to its own reference frame. It
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by cgmg 9y ago
> The statement is: "Nothing is absolutely at rest." An object is at rest with respect to its own reference frame. > The academic descendants of the same academics who believed in absolute rest now call themselves physicists
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by cgmg 9y ago
> In your case you make the assumption that absolute rest exists. This is a straw man. No one is making that assumption. Something is in motion or at rest with respect to a reference frame . For some reason, you keep misinterpreting thi
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by cgmg 9y ago
My favorite formulation of Maxwell's equations is ◻²A = J where A is the 4-potential, J is the 4-current, and ◻² is the 4-Laplacian or d'Alembertian ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_an
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by cgmg 9y ago
Also, the magnitude of the momentum 4-vector is a Lorentz scalar, meaning it is invariant. Hence the rest mass m = |P| is invariant.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Motion is absolute. What are you talking about? Motion is definitely not absolute, and only Galilean invariance is needed to see that.
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by cgmg 9y ago
This. The quantity that “truly” exists is the energy-momentum 4-vector P. A vector exists independently of any particular reference frame. Its components, on the other hand, depend on such a reference frame. Seen from a given reference fram
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by cgmg 9y ago
Do you not see the irony in your comment?
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by cgmg 9y ago
The problem with the glove analogy (i.e. having a local hidden variable) is that it cannot explain quantum entanglement. Bell's theorem shows that entangled systems are correlated in a strictly stronger way. Quantum indeterminacy i

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