kromem

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by kromem 6y ago
It's only a waste when one considers it wasteful.
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by kromem 7y ago
How about a Boltzmann simulation? No physical anything at all, just organization of energy according to various rules that abstract a physical reality. A pure information based existence that depends on no ontological physicality.
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by kromem 7y ago
It's also interesting to consider other Boltzmann "objects" as well. In theory, just as it can be argued that it'd be more thermodynamically probable that a single brain would occur than an entire universe - what about a
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by kromem 7y ago
No, it won't. While there are outstanding single player narrative experiences leveraging the format to further the narrative, there's nothing like a good TV show or movie for joint attention. When enjoying a narrative with friends
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by kromem 7y ago
The irony is that without the practical experience of those intermediate steps, you might never reach the point where the diminishing returns become negligible. You're basically describing the reverse of Zeno's paradox - the &quot
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by kromem 7y ago
Considering the whole difference between classical and quantum is continuous vs discrete numbers, it's kind of like saying "how many whole pies are in a half of a pie"?
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by kromem 7y ago
Is it ethical to meddle? Look at how we don't expose isolated tribes in Brazil to civilization. If we found a struggling intelligent alien species on a planet somewhere, would we interfere? Looking at how we handle the issue even withi
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by kromem 7y ago
Hmmm... That's actually really interesting to think about from the anthropic principle perspective. Very interesting that the only intelligent species we are aware of is on a planet that we can leave. I wonder to what extent higher gra
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by kromem 7y ago
For a company with the resources FB has, it's remarkable how out of touch they are.
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by kromem 7y ago
If you look at the Taylor series link, you can see the sum representations of trigonometric functions. So for instance, the 3/5/7 is just the (2n+1) value. The other looks like the sum of the product of (2n-1)/(2n) for values
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by kromem 7y ago
Something like making the producer of the thing causing remnant environmental leftovers fiscally responsible for cleaning them up? That would price cleanup into the sticker price. Should probably be a thing for plastics, coal, natural gas,
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by kromem 7y ago
Two economists are walking down the street. One sees a $20 bill and starts to bend over to pick it up. The other economist says "Don't bother - if it were really worth $20, someone else would have picked it up." There's
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by kromem 7y ago
I've recently been thinking about how we often talk academically about the idea of the market being efficient, but not so much about the time frame for that efficiency. In essence, the market is simply an economic manifestation of evol
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by kromem 7y ago
Keep in mind you may well be in a beneficial tutorial simulation for newly constructed consciousnesses. Might not be wise to try and skip this level. One idea is that if we are AIs capable of manifesting anything we imagine as reality, that
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by kromem 7y ago
Why do you think "human" is the focus instead of "intelligent"? Maybe we were biologically evolved totally and completely differently from our creators outside of how we generally exhibit consciousness. In a sense, we c
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by kromem 7y ago
Your (a) premise is faulty. Imagine this simulation as a passthrough virtualization similar to Docker and not a full virtualization. A long as our sub-simulation had access to the same means to resolve quantum results, they'd be able t
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by kromem 7y ago
Which might be why determining if we are in fact in a simulation would be helpful. If an AI created this simulation but is not actively part of it (I do think free will is an important component of the simulation), could we discover a way t
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by kromem 7y ago
Aren't we in the verge of creating AI? And we're kind of freaking out about if they'll kill us all? What if we could give them the experience of being human? Simulate the history leading up to it, along the lines of "if
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by kromem 7y ago
We are meant to know. If probability can be applied to the idea that we are in a simulation, than it can be applied to what kind of simulation (as the more likely, the more those would be run proportionally). What would be a great way to in
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by kromem 7y ago
Yes, but Jesus's revisionist take on it is worthwhile to keep in mind too: "The sabbath was created for man, not man for the sabbath." Disconnecting is good for many as a general practice. I myself have a "no technology
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by kromem 7y ago
Apollo basically did it to Cassandra in ancient Greek myth. Can the Iliad be considered prior art?
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by kromem 7y ago
How about agree with them? And connect with them? I don't necessarily mean to agree that the Earth is flat. But maybe if you think that we don't know all the answers and finding out things we don't know is fun, you could find
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by kromem 7y ago
My takeaway from DK is that the roughly 80% mark is where is the generally ideal balance between self-image and social acceptance, and that's why everyone on either side leans toward that inflection point. Having been on the "exce
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by kromem 7y ago
Not really. I mean, not any more difficult than any other internal component of an application. Yes, you can't just aggregate by URL endpoint, but add opentracing and start at the top level resolver, and then start a new segment at eac
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by kromem 7y ago
I wish laypeople hearing this stuff realized how easy it would be for the "bad guys" to use one time pads. It would be trivial to have terror cells be distributed a USB with several GB of a OTP, and that would be unbreakable even
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by kromem 7y ago
A OTP is extremely easy to use for a terror network (just distribute several GB of pad on a thumb drive, have a shared secret for pad generation, etc) and completely unbreakable in the perfect use case, and feasibly unbreakable before an at
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by kromem 7y ago
Here's the thing: Almost any startup idea can end up being successful with the right team behind it as long as they can avoid bad luck. Very few startups manage to both assemble the right team and dodge bad luck.
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by kromem 7y ago
It's clear from your comment you've not actually used the thing you are criticizing. Nothing about the spec necessitates duplicating your DB schema. In terms of the data models, you only need to spec out models based on what you w
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by kromem 8y ago
Why would they be from other systems? Does no one think it bizarre that with other star systems having billions of years head start and a completely parallel evolution of both biology and technology that the resulting flying objects reflect
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by kromem 8y ago
Or even better - RUN 5-minute user testing sessions!! Even in terms of the "recommendations" in the article, I can see all sorts of red flags. Group addresses? What if I needed to see what state it is at a glance? Now the state al

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