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by ganzuul 6y ago
I keep trying to press my friends into watching it. It should be taught in schools and shouted from the rooftops. Ditch Netflix this evening and watch Century of the Self instead.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I disagree because we don't entertain theories which make no testable predictions. It seems logical that this rule makes observation the ultimate qualifier.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
It is a decent model for ontology, and ontology is good training for observing cause and effect. We grow up to make a lot of erroneous assumptions so we need to train to become good observers. Basically wrestling with the idea lets you obse
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by ganzuul 6y ago
It is hard to believe how entrenched locality and realism are in physics. A semester of philosophy should bury them for good. A more modern concern is Boltzmann brains, but those too should offer no barrier to a philosophically aware mind.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
It's almost as if they are saying that their 'real physics' isn't science, because in real science observation is first and foremost. I'm really looking forward to what XFEL can do for material science. Perhaps we c
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I want animated swirly widgets showing the TCP status of individual apps! No more rectangles! Cubism is for simps!
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by ganzuul 6y ago
It might be a limit to precision too if infinite accuracy requires infinite space. For low energy an approximation might suffice, and that would go some ways to explain quantum effects.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I really wonder what interests you represent to voice such an opinion. Democracy isn't a panacea to the world's problems. It needs an informed population in order to function, which directly and without discrimination means govern
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Difficult to believe, but I sure hope it is real! It would mean a substantial leap ahead for mankind.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Just like laser light protection goggles.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
You're right, slower is the right word. I'm very accurate and precise but feel like I am embarrassingly slow. Recollection in particular feels slower, and I don't know if that is because I have much more knowledge to draw upo
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I really hate that I get dumber and dumber with age and that the laws of my country do not let me stop this slow mental dulling. It feels like a group of people physically attacking and overpowering me and I am confused by why I should foll
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by ganzuul 6y ago
That doesn't seem right. Why would they simulate something with no relevance to reality?
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Not quite... GR is classical, so the diagrams don't represent quantum information. At least they are not intended to.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
This gives difficult to grasp answers about what time really is. If I understood this right it implies that the present is a state of coherence, and that the past and future diverges.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
"In tandem with the usual electromagnetic pulses used to control quantum systems, the team applied an additional continuous alternating magnetic field. By precisely tuning this field, the scientists could rapidly rotate the electron sp
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Oh, yes. It assigns a small number of 'moderation points' to random users, and a larger number to trusted users. Essentially their algo picks out random users to moderate just a little, which lets the diaspora bump up visibility o
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by ganzuul 6y ago
This is one of those obvious killer-apps that with a moment's thought was obviously computationally prohibitive or much too complex for a sole developer. If this is in the pipelines then we can soon also expect a bunch of semantic apps
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Slasdot's moderation system is brilliant in this regard.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Oh I see, you believe in the law of the excluded middle. I'm more of a constructivist myself.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I certainly didn't mean to say that. Are you saying that people who don't believe in advanced alien tech also do not believe in God? Or am I having a mental breakdown? I'm fairly sure I know what a subset is and its logical i
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Belief in a "higher power" could be the statistical likelihood of an alien race on the other side of the universe who have technology a little more advanced than ours. A higher power could also be an omnipresent intelligence with
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by ganzuul 6y ago
...Psychosomatic cognitive dissonance? I don't own or use Apple products so this takes more explaining for me.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
For me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration really opened my eyes to post-classical physics. Not only is it a great way to understand entropy, but soon we may have quiet and efficient refrigerators in
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by ganzuul 6y ago
I recently found out atomic nuclei can be bosons. Astonishing but apparently true: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/158070/helium-nu... I wonder if this could be used to lower the temperature needed for
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by ganzuul 6y ago
This is why standardized testing works against improving aggregate intelligence. We probably have not seen anything close to what human minds are capable of if nurtured to express their differences.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
"Associative" doesn't provide any information to avoid confusion when dealing with mixed operators either. Somehow including "peer" in the terminology could help.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Seems meant to prop up an incumbent business network when it can no longer compete with newcomers.
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by ganzuul 6y ago
Misleading title. Personal anecdote: vertical mouse staves off symptoms for a little longer, not indefinitely.
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Ancient Orvonton and a Young Cosmic Web by Nigel Nunn(youtube.com)
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