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by drdeca 4y ago
Appears to cause redirect loop on mobile? Not sure if that’s what happened. (I am on iOS firefox)
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by drdeca 4y ago
By “framework” I don’t mean “sequence of steps”, but overall structure of the theory. Newton did not know e.g. the formulation of stuff in terms of Hamiltonians, even though it is still in a sense in the same framework. I don’t think studyi
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by drdeca 4y ago
Blasphemy/heresy isn’t speech and banning it isn’t censorship. Now, I want to be clear. While many people when they give the examples of blasphemy and heresy, they mean those as things that they think are actually good, but which peop
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by drdeca 4y ago
There are people who understand the implications of Newtonian mechanics better than Newton did, yes. We can tell because they can make predictions within that framework which he could not.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t think it really is a particularly math-specific concept. I mean, it is mathematical in the same way that “how many fingers am I holding up?” is mathematical, but it isn’t specific to any particular axiomatization of something, and i
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by drdeca 4y ago
Ok, so you are just using an IMO mostly useless definition of the term. Fine. That mostly just means you aren’t talking about the same thing as everyone else. Though, what do you call something which isn’t finite then? Or perhaps you define
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by drdeca 4y ago
yes, though, it is generally prefered to call it "omega" rather than "infinity".
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by drdeca 4y ago
> Because, in order to be infinite, it must contain everything This is wrong (or at least, using a poor choice of definition of infinite). I don't get why people think this?
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by drdeca 4y ago
Yes, seems like a mistake to mention that without saying that the difference is that they have different order types (and that there is a sense of some order types being "much bigger" than others, even if they have the same cardin
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by drdeca 4y ago
Oh! I thought it meant “seventh”! Thanks for the correction.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Quantum entanglement does not allow you to communicate information faster than c (though it does allow you to correlate behavior, in a way which the benefits of which can't be seen until after a light-speed delay)
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by drdeca 4y ago
So you have the day before "seventh day" be called "fifth day"?
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by drdeca 4y ago
Well, yeah, the Sabbath should be Saturday. That doesn't mean we can't have Sunday be the day we go to church.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Is the reason you view it that way due to having anti-anti-porn sentiments? Suppose instead of a app where a church community can see whether the person who has installed the application has viewed pornography, you instead consider someone
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by drdeca 4y ago
Because the week has two endpoints: the initial day of the week and the final day of the week.
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by drdeca 4y ago
It isn’t something with “ceasing to exist” as one of its symptoms, no.
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by drdeca 4y ago
That isn’t enough if the plans which are enacted have unintended undesirable consequences.
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by drdeca 4y ago
If large language models trained on cross entropy loss for the next token prediction in the limit aren’t dangerous, then they aren’t enough by themselves for AGI. An AGI, by virtue of being at least as general as a human, would be able to e
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by drdeca 4y ago
Current safety techniques are far from sufficient for accelerating AGI progress to be a good thing.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Aiui, it doesn’t at all matter which one is measured “first”, or if the two measurements are spacelike separated such that which one is first depends on frame of reference. Whenever the two measurements are made, they will be correlated in
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by drdeca 4y ago
As in, the number of oxygen atoms in the banana?
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by drdeca 4y ago
It occurs to me that it would be easy to fake this claim. Has anyone independently verified it?
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by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t think the idea that all sexual preferences are innate, really holds much water. There’s no genetic or development-while-in-womb explanation for why some people are specifically sexually into the idea of someone taking on the prope
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by drdeca 4y ago
To me the individual notes sound fine and usually normal-ish (except for the really extended ones), but I have difficulty hearing the overall tune? Or, it sounds like there are parts of a tune with other parts on top which I don’t hear how
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by drdeca 4y ago
Do you mean by claiming that the block containing it is invalid when it is valid, or visa versa? Or something else? Also, how can there be a fee to trying to send an invalid transaction? Such a fee would have to be sent as part of a transac
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by drdeca 4y ago
Evaluated in the same way that “does this address have enough to send to this much to this other address” is evaluated? If it isn’t valid, then a block containing it isn’t valid, and this is a thing which any client can automatically check.
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by drdeca 4y ago
The problems with eugenics are mostly from it being done in a coercive (and often even violent) way, or from it being done in at a large scale. People making individual choices which respect the rights of others, with eugenics being part of
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by drdeca 4y ago
Huh? They care enough about your comment to ask “who cares”, but does that imply that they care to know the answer to the questions you posed in your comment? I don’t think it does.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Maybe have the signed content include a timestamp and location? But... GPS can be spoofed I think.
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by drdeca 4y ago
> Claiming someone is a liar is almost always a gross oversimplification and a form of propaganda in and of itself. I don't buy this. Seems like fake information to me. Now, to be clear, I do agree that tech companies must not be tr

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