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by drdeca 10mo ago
For some senses of “wanting things”, I think it might be hard to make a powerful AI that couldn’t be easily modified to produce one that “wants things” in some sense. So, if it would be bad thing for one to be made that “wants things” in an
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by drdeca 10mo ago
What does "PFC" stand for?
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by drdeca 10mo ago
I think a definition of the security of a signature scheme is that a computationally limited attacker should not have a non-negligibly better than chance guess of the secret key. I think some of the “ZKP” techniques are supposed to only be
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by drdeca 10mo ago
My view is that something exists iff there is any statement that is true of it. I of course don’t mean that mathematical objects (such as the number 2, or some sorting algorithm) have the same kind of existence as my bed. To make the distin
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by drdeca 10mo ago
We can construct a function G, which, given a function f : N -> N -> {0,1} returns a function G(f) = h : N -> {0,1} defined by h(i):=not(f(i)(i)) This h=G(f) has the property that, for all i, there exists a j such that f(i)
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by drdeca 10mo ago
I think this quote provides more of an excuse than an explanation.
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by drdeca 10mo ago
What does transgender visability have to do with any of this? The topic was about including sexual things in ads, not things about gender identity?
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by drdeca 10mo ago
Huh? What about Mountain_Skies comment is "creepy"? They presumably recently came across some muffin shop that has like, a double entendre as a name, or something like that, and took it as emblematic of a larger pattern, which the
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by drdeca 10mo ago
Sure, but it would make the analogy valid.
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by drdeca 10mo ago
p-adics may be useful, yes, as may other fields. They do not constitute a field with a smallest non-zero element.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
With numbers, I can give an explanation for the phenomenon I described above. If such reasoning cannot be done without reference to numbers, then, if such reasoning is correct, numbers must exist. If there is no other reasoning can be give
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Why have you picked that comment of mine to reply with that reply? I was just correcting an error. Your reply seems irrelevant to my comment. I was just saying that “one more than 0” isn’t a function just because in Peano arithmetic, the su
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by drdeca 11mo ago
> For example, S(0) is 1, S(S(0)) is 2, S(S(S(0))) is 3, and so on. S is a function symbol. S(0) (in PA) is not a function. It is an expression involving one.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
I didn’t say others are obligated to do the same. I said the opposite , actually. Rather, for the services to remain viable, some people have to not block ads, and for this reason, I have chosen to be one of those some. How how-well-things-
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Such a thing would not be a field. You can define an additive group $\frac{1}{n}\mathbb{Z}$ if you like. However (for $n > 1$) it would not even be a ring, because it would not be closed under multiplication. (It's closure under mul
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Yes, the answer to the question does assume that 5 exists. You try answering the question without speaking of 5 or 10. That is my argument.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
I don't think this is a good description of mathematicians using infinite objects. It typically doesn't involving something being given the label "infinity". That's used in like, taking limits and such, but there it
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by drdeca 11mo ago
No, but they do pay the costs of hosting/serving the videos, which I thought was the relevant analogy to the service being used when driving on a road and there being billboards next to the road.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Do the billboard ads fund the road maintenance? I didn’t think they did. I thought people just bought land next to the road and installed signs there.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
I think saying that it is morally piracy is a little bit of an overstatement. I think one does have the right to block ads on one’s machine if one chooses. However, personally, because of the “if ad blocking was universalized, the services
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Doing math without it is pretty ugly. (Granted, there are other objects that may seem ugly which can only be constructed by reference to infinite things.) You can do a lot of things without assuming that the natural numbers keep going, bu
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Why is it that when I have a stack of business cards, each with a picture of a different finger on my left hand, then when I arrange them in a grid, there’s only one way to do it, but when I instead have each have a picture of either a diff
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by drdeca 11mo ago
What do you understand “index” to mean here? To me, a family indexed by some set is mostly just a different notation for, and attitude towards, a function with domain the indexing set.
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by drdeca 11mo ago
You can replace `while 1:` with `for x in iter(int, 1):` .
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by drdeca 11mo ago
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that in no state is the product of the standard deviations of what would be measured if you measured position, and what would be measured if you measured momentum, less than hbar or hbar/2 or s
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by drdeca 11mo ago
So, if a traffic light never changed from red to green, you would advise..? Or do you just mean “in that situation, be very careful not to crash”?
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by drdeca 11mo ago
Hm, I’m not saying it is good for America, but it seems to me that there are plausible senses of “good for America” for which it is plausible that illegal immigration is “good for America” in those senses. Now, I generally dislike laws bein
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by drdeca 11mo ago
The meaning of a word or phrase within a community of speakers is determined by what is meant and understood when that word or phrase is used among that community of speakers. You may have preferences about what certain words or phrases are
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by drdeca 11mo ago
This seems like it would be a copyright violation? The result bears substantial similarity to the input, even though it doesn’t have the particular words in common, right? Like, if you translated the Spanish version to English, you’d have d
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by drdeca 11mo ago
They address that. The thing is that when they don’t fiddle with things, it (almost always) answers along the lines of “No, I don’t notice anything weird”, while when they do fiddle with things, it (substantially more often than when they d

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