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by ken47 4y ago
So what are the potential ramifications of this event and why?
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I can't say whether he disliked math, but I think it's clear that he didn't want to pursue it initially, for practical reasons if nothing else. As you can find in his bio on Wikipedia, he performed poorly on mathematical apti
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This passage caught my attention: He proceeds just as deliberately when doing mathematics. Wang was shocked when he first witnessed it. “I have this math competition experience, that as a mathematician you have to be clever, you have to be
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Let's say you take the big bang as a historical fact. Something created the big bang. By definition, the "thing" that created it is a creator. We cannot say whether this creator is a sentient being that has vastly more inte
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Let's cast aside for a moment that unlike gravity, the big bang, if it occurred, is impossible for a human to witness first hand. The understanding of gravity had a tectonic shift about a century ago. Imagine if scientists declared tha
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As a casual philosopher, it seems like the big bang theory as the origin of everything falls apart under a trivial question. To you, such a discrepancy may be "irrelevant" to your life, but you're in the minority. The vast ma
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Isn't it called the big bang theory, not the big bang fact? How many reputable scientists can you cite that would publicly declare the big bang as a fact rather than a theory? I wonder if the person to whom I was originally responding
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I have no desire to discuss particular religions. As I said elsewhere, some religions provide explanations which are provably false.
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I think it applies to humanity as a whole. There's a certain obsession with a false sense of control.
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And that evidence is the state of the cosmos today? Are you a software developer? Imagine that, for testing purposes, you want to test a particular state T in a simulation app that you believe can only occur organically after a large period
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The superiority to which you refer is questionable. If the goal of these explanations is to prove the origin of the universe in some kind of mathematical sense, they all fail. They all belong to the same category. The inferior tier is one w
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Can you prove the Big Bang occurred? If so, can you prove that nothing preceded a Big Bang? If you are as rational as you arrogantly imply, then the obvious answers to these are no. Are you equally appalled when you come across average peop
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Sources for claims would be appreciated.
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Some form of Tesla would exist under this future. TSLA the stock might not.
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Total straw man. The question isn't whether Tesla's are safe to drive. The question is whether "autopilot" is safe to auto pilot.
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Pride goeth before the fall. And this guy has a lot of pride. Pity when intelligence, ethics, and rationality diverge.
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What you describe is not equality of outcome. If you impose some kind of lifestyle on different people, each of them will have different subjective experiences. Some will be completely content in state A whereas others will be extremely dis
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Equality of opportunity is impossible. Equality of outcome is an order of magnitude more impossible. Each of us was born into this world through a randomized process that was not created by humankind: the genes you were born with, the envir
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by ken47 4y ago
Meaningful action will happen by semi-random chance (breakthrough in low-emission energy) or by force of nature (climate changes so much that we have no choice but to act). In general, I don't think the average, or even somewhat above-
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Here's the thing. The average person only cares about their economic growth up to a point. Study after study has concluded that once most people have "enough" money, adding more does not bring them any more happiness (with th
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I'm not taking a side on the fiat vs. crypto debate. I'm inquiring purely about the technical aspects of the blockchain. That being said, with non-blockchain data storage, one could create backups, so that if all the live running
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by ken47 4y ago
As a person who is allergic to trends like this, can someone bring me up to speed on the details of the blockchain? Particularly: 1) Is it resilient to catastrophic failure? Does there exist an N < 100 such that if there is an EMP, a com
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by ken47 5y ago
I understand the audience here, but we don't need more emphasis on iq. We need more emphasis on ethics. We already have the power to destroy ourselves many times over, and within a century, will likely be seeing AI that can best a huma
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As someone who uses to be very good at this kind of "math" in high school...it's not even real math. It's a bunch of teenagers being tested on how good they are at being poor man's computers. And I don't just m
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The example assertions he was making were non falsifiable. However, if the claims were slightly tweaked to say something along the lines of: "historically, a code modification like the one you've requested has taken 5n units of ti
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Yes, the drive for profits extinguishing the beauty from life yet again. If only the prevalent managerial culture was more philosophically sophisticated...
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I disagree with the idea that there is no way to measure code quality. As long as one is willing to sacrifice a lot of precision, it is certainly measurable. Just come up with adequately broad, discrete buckets.
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While not every developer can agree on what good code is, I find it much easier to agree on what bad code is. Bad code increases the risk of bugs, slows maintenance and updates, and is bad for the bottom line. It may be hard to sell non-tec
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The scientific method is absolutely trustworthy. People, however, are a different story.
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Logic makes a compelling case for itself, and some leaps of faith are larger than others.

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