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I have never understood what the classic Many World Interpretation actually is. Splitting of universes has the same problem as collapse and probabilities become rather nebulous since presumably all possibilities do happen, after all. But th
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Cashing in on Climate Change(nytimes.com)
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How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’(nytimes.com)
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Government can solve this like it solved abortion rights, gay marriage, education, oppression of people by dictators, slavery, prohibition, illegal drugs, ... Violence, the tool that is the government, cannot change the minds of the people.
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A single individual will not and if you broadcast that your life is less good because of it, then you are actively working against your goal. Instead, you should revel in a better life, such as having more energy from a fresher diet and mor
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The climate change cheat sheet embedded in that article was rather interesting. In addition to stating what we know, it also suggests some personal actions, actions which have been routinely ignored by the population for many years. A coupl
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The key is "you need to play with it". The way to get this to work in practice with elementary mathematics is something like Guesstimation. To my knowledge, this is not taught in most math classes. And the reason is simple: it is
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What about a third person, e.g., a mutual friend.
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Intelligence is a tool, not a goal. Where do the goals come from? For humans, there is a drive to survive and procreate baked into our directions with suitable prompts. For AI, what will it want? The answer is that they will have programmed
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Just as adults become models for children (actions, not words), AI will learn from humans. If we stop being in a win/lose mindset and turn to a success/fail, then they too will take that on. How might that look like in practice? I
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It certainly has a basis in reality. The story needs to be consistent with what we know, at least in the realm that it claims to give sense to. Science is not about getting the absolute truth, it is about getting information and a story con
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It is all a matter of what you want out of science. Some people, such as myself, enjoy having a narrative about how the universe works consistent with experiments. This is both satisfying and useful in finding new directions to push or ways
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The tension is not with FTL, but rather with the tension of a seeming need in QM for "now" and that in relativity of "not now". There are a number of ways to work in a "now" in a way compatible with the mathema
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You have to be clear about what is real in the theory. Many worlds presentations often suffer from this as they often talk about splitting universes, whatever that would mean. A nice version which might coincide with what is in mind for ein
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Local hidden variable theories are not possible, but any local theory is not possible, assuming definite outcomes of experiments (many worlds might be considered local, but there is no definite outcome). Non-local hidden variable theories a
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My belief is that humans are pattern matchers, even in the context of abstraction or logical thinking. The pattern of skill transfer is the experience of transferring skills. That opens the mind to the pattern of colliding different learned
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While I understand your sentiment and agree with it to some extent, the other side of the argument is that by releasing a free course, you disadvantage someone who would create this content, for a fee, and use that money to make it accessib
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Particles can interfere with themselves in the double-slit experiment if they are being guided by a wave. This explains wave behavior and particulate events as in Bohm's theory. Sadly, there are issues with photons as particles as thei
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Fairness is a tricky concept. What is fair? Did you have the same exact environment, opportunities, choices, genetics, and everything else exactly the same as the addicts? Upon inspection, fairness is a terrible metric to measure anything b
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Do you have any citations, perhaps a study of what actually happens in some of these cities? My personal experience with direct democracy involving a small community is that while interested groups may show up, they will listen to the other
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GRW (spontaneous collapse of the wavefunction) is a different theory and theoretically experiments could get good enough to prove it wrong. But most interpretations have the same statistical predictions as standard QM. The standard Copenhag
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"getting strong experimental support" makes it sound like it is experimentally distinguishable from standard quantum mechanics.
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You should be careful with the language. Pilot Wave Theory gives rise to the quantum formalism. Anything predicted by standard quantum mechanics is a prediction of PWT. Of course, the PWT viewpoint may suggest new ideas and understandings;
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Why do you say that? There are adaptations that have creation and annihilation of particles in Bohmian mechanics: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303156 The main issue is that QFT does not generate a mathematically
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Just saw this. For the older, look at http://www.sudval.org/05_alumni.html#03 I think the basic answer is that they seek out a challenging and satisfying life. They can get along with people and are generally more emotiona
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It is very important for the school to make it clear that this can happen, is likely to happen, and that they need to be okay with that. This can certainly be a deal breaker. Also a deal breaker is unlimited screen time. Or the freedom to g
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I have seen far more compassion and wisdom from the students on JC than I have when serving jury duty with adults. Reality in this instance speaks better about ourselves than our fiction does. Keep in mind that your experience is with peopl
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No, but I haven't looked. I have been reading about Buddhism lately and working at a Sudbury School so the two naturally are feeding into one another in my mind.
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I work with a young school so the experiences are not quite there yet for me personally. Sudbury Valley School did do a study of its graduates at one point and found that they led very satisfactory lives embracing challenges everywhere: h
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In Sudbury Schools, there are plenty of rules. If a student broke the rules, their would be a jury of their peers and a sentence to follow out. If she wanted to stay at the school, she would accept it all and acclimate. Sometimes it takes a

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