chromaton

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by chromaton 5y ago
Yeah, I'm reminded of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance where the author was driven to insanity by the quest to define "quality".
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by chromaton 5y ago
Yes, there are legit reasons for this to happen, as well as cherry-picking.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Somehow one of the 3 experimental groups has 16 people, whereas the other groups have 14 people. Wonder why...
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by chromaton 5y ago
Not necessarily. You could just fall back on authority, superstition, or navel-gazing.
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by chromaton 5y ago
>what tools do you use to scientifically analyze the scientific process? Iterating on existing systems to see if you can get results to converge and also testing new systems to see if they also result in known good values.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Yeah, there's also a lot of Mormon-themed artwork and symbolism on the Nauvoo as well.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Yes, having a smarter population is likely a good thing and almost certainly possible.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Yes, humans are #1 in my book. But consider that as technology advances we have less need to disturb the natural environment. I don't think we're living on credit forever as productivity/technology has improved over time.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Of course we must also build an environment where everyone can flourish. Not mutually exclusive.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Maybe. Problems on a global scale would be divided up among fewer people, which would mean that each person would bear a greater burden.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Can you provide a counterexample, hypothesis, or anything concrete?
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by chromaton 5y ago
Maybe. Can you provide an example?
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by chromaton 5y ago
This is also good. And also having more of a network effect for people to interact and cooperate helps as well.
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by chromaton 5y ago
I understand that you're pessimistic about this, but overall the human condition has gotten better as the population has grown.
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by chromaton 5y ago
We've been generally on positive trend.
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by chromaton 5y ago
You can have both.
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by chromaton 5y ago
More people means more geniuses who can help fix what's wrong.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Gary on South Park. Of course, that was 18 years ago. There's also a few very minor Mormon characters on The Expanse.
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by chromaton 5y ago
The population is getting older. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...
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by chromaton 5y ago
SpaceX has said otherwise: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/nyc-to-shanghai-in-40-minute...
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by chromaton 5y ago
Yes, let's wager on that.
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by chromaton 5y ago
Fair enough. But I don't really buy anyone saying it's "on its way", as I've heard that one before. You can see a lot of "on its way" in this thread as well.
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by chromaton 5y ago
I looked into this and IOTA requires special blessed "Coordinator" nodes, so it's not really decentralized.
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by chromaton 5y ago
I looked into it and Solana requires "Validator" nodes to be specially blessed by them to get rewards for running their software, so this isn't particularly de-centralized.
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by chromaton 5y ago
How many transactions per day are currently being run on Ethereum layer 2? I can't find this info.
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by chromaton 5y ago
>a decentralized settlement layer is probably where most of the value is anyway. Why?
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by chromaton 5y ago
Here is the real world, Bitcoin is currently running a blazing 3.3 transactions per second. Etherium dwarfs that at a mighty 14 transactions per second. Meanwhile, PayPal crawls along with a pathetic 488 tps. https://www.statista
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by chromaton 5y ago
More detailed info about the satellite constellations, ground stations, and a map: https://starlink.sx/
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by chromaton 5y ago
I believe he's better known as the author of "The Time Machine of Consciousness Quantum Physics and the Time Machine of Consciousness: Past Present Future Exist Simultaneously. Entanglement, Tachyons, Relative Time, Circle of Time

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