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by grondilu 10y ago
Some people prefer cash to share holdings. It is, by all means, a preference .
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by grondilu 10y ago
This reminds me of when people claim it'd be better if a company was owned by its employees. This idea influences businesses to various degrees, from stock options to cooperatives. IMHO, this idea fails to acknowledge that ownership i
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by grondilu 10y ago
dura lex, sed lex The problem is that you can disagree with laws, yet refuse to be lured into infringing them. Personally there are plenty of laws I disagree with, yet I comply because I don't want to go to jail.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Erratum: instead of "they still show that in theory seeing in the night is physically impossible.", read "they still show that in theory seeing in the night is NOT physically impossible."
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by grondilu 10y ago
> That's why I answered your wave question with a photon count answer. But how do you count photons without using probability amplitudes? If you count them by using a classical reasoning of photons being small particles falling fro
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by grondilu 10y ago
If the probability amplitude is proportional to the area, it doesn't matter if that term already encompasses a length² term. QM tells you then that the probability should be proportional to the square of that amplitude, even if that m
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by grondilu 10y ago
Interferometry, as its name indicates, uses interferences. So it adds probability amplitudes.
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by grondilu 10y ago
What's wrong with the reasoning, then? Isn't the probability amplitude proportional to the area?
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by grondilu 10y ago
I did mean area. And I thought the number of photons was proportional to the square of the area because the probability amplitude is proportional to the area. Therefore the probability should be proportional to the square of the area, sho
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by grondilu 10y ago
Theoretical limits are probably very high. For one, collecting area can be pretty large. Obviously you don't want a square meter lens, but a foot-wide one would probably be acceptable for a specialized camera. Second, nocturnal anima
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Does this measurably lower the market valuation of Amazon? Only if this sale generates a significant drop in price, which it probably doesn't (after all that price has continuously risen in the last few years). I'm no expert
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by grondilu 10y ago
So the whole thing is nothing but an exercice in survivalism? That is ludicruous. There is no need for that.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> I think the stated reason for building a sustainable city on Mars--to ensure that a disaster on Earth doesn't end the species--is a damned good one. It's stupid. If we can live on mars, we can live on Earth no matter what ha
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by grondilu 10y ago
It's not so much as "should we?". I mean I don't want to put any moral assessment here. The truth is we don't quite know what will happen. Some of the scenarios are great, others are ugly or sad. Like for instan
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by grondilu 10y ago
That's an argument of semantics. I mean people can jump onto giant airbags without either parachute or jumpsuit from very high heights. I wouldn't call that landing, and in any case that's not what Franz Reichet was attempt
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Yet as of today nobody has ever landed with just a wingsuit. You need a parachute.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Think of the old east India trading companies only bigger. There is no spice on mars. Even if there was, it would not make sense to transport it to Earth[1]. It's not clear what would be the business model. The only thing I see
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by grondilu 10y ago
I'm familiar with this article. First, "adventure" is a reason to go there, not to settle. Second, I'm not buying the "drastically improve humanity's chance at survival" argument. There have been several
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by grondilu 10y ago
One thing I don't like is that Musk stated that he expects that colonization project to be a public-private partnership. That means that the government will put money into it, and I'm not OK with the State investing in what is to
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by grondilu 10y ago
Well, there is probably a reason why nobody thought it was worth doing it again ever since. More seriously though, just because many projects were wrongly considered foolish in the past, does not mean one can not point at a new one and call
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by grondilu 10y ago
I've noticed that during the webcast they talked much more about their planetary colonisation project than they usually do. I guess it makes sense since today is the first time they actually implement the re-usability plan they believ
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by grondilu 10y ago
> This is like so many articles and books I've read (several mentioned in this article itself). Ok, AI is a threat to jobs up and down the ladder. I get it. Now what? What are we supposed to do about it? Did you read "Homo Deus
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by grondilu 10y ago
> We need to put the means of production in the hands of the people. They are in the hands of the people. Most means of production can be bought on markets that are open to the general public.
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by grondilu 10y ago
IIRC the client gets a significant discount for accepting an experimental launch.
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by grondilu 10y ago
An efficient brain-computer interface would require a good understanding of the inner-workings of the brain. So any effort in building such interface would motivate neurobiological research to get such understanding. I personally believe
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by grondilu 10y ago
> News outlets reported that people had thrown rocks and a bus window had been smashed. Do poor people really want to settle their resentment issues with violence? Because it seems to me that they will lose, at least if rich people defe
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Today, WASM doesn't support GC, Is that really a problem considering most languages already implement a VM with GC?
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by grondilu 10y ago
BTW there is a nice related course on coursera: "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations"[1]. Also notice there is a rosettacode entry for this[2]. 1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-me
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by grondilu 10y ago
Agreed. An example where a human easily finds a win while a computer fails would be much more convincing of the point Penrose is trying to make. Anyway this position reminds me of the fact that if there is any kind of situation where compu
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by grondilu 10y ago
This second video is of particular interest to me, as it tackles a problem I've been thinking quite a lot lately : is self-modification compatible with volition? What's the point of wanting something if you can chose what to want

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