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541.
by meroes 5y ago
Waiters are officials now?
542.
by meroes 5y ago
This goes against the idea of strong emergence (mainly the bottom up causation part). I’m not arguing for or against it, but the SEP has an entry about it https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ “T
543.
by meroes 5y ago
Is there a chance this was his only meal of the day? For example I knew someone who ate once a day at an all you can eat buffet.
544.
by meroes 5y ago
My muscles get tight if I don't eat roughly every 4-6 hours. (8am/12pm/6pm meals for instance). I stretch and walk every day. Maybe "peak productivity" isn't at a desk for hours where your primary energy expend
545.
by meroes 5y ago
I guess I thought I was describing non locality
546.
by meroes 5y ago
Bell nonlocality is not the exact same thing as contextuality from what I’ve been able to find.
547.
by meroes 5y ago
"If statistical independence is violated, this means that what a quantum particle does depends on what you measure." But in standard QM without superdeterminism, what a particle does already depends what you (i.e. the experimente
548.
by meroes 5y ago
Aubrey de Grey said in 2007 and earlier a lot of people alive then will live to be 1000. It's a very catchy thought, but so were Theranos's blood tests. It's almost the perfect scam, way better than Theranos's...investor
549.
by meroes 5y ago
Sellars, "Sellars thinks that science’s aperspectival description of the empirical world is the measure of reality", and Carnap, "Since science in principle can say all that can be said, there is no unanswerable question left
550.
by meroes 5y ago
> that's what consciousness is How do you go from computation to feeling a toothache? It's like telling me a cucumber is really a Porsche (but worse).
551.
by meroes 5y ago
What's worse: Gitmo and extrajudicial killings ordered by the executive are illegal yet we do them, or we've interpreted the law so they are legal?
552.
by meroes 5y ago
> What exactly is so absurd about two physical entities interacting with each other to produce an outcome? That seems inadequate to explain Bell nonlocality.
553.
by meroes 5y ago
Makes me think further...are there any documented cases of a three letter agency being on the board of any company? I'd guess they tried it once or twice, and it was too slow so they went for more forceful means. This just reasoning fr
554.
by meroes 5y ago
So the gov't it got exactly what it wanted and instead of getting Congress to actually pass a law, they just effected a much simpler solution by force. Winning!
555.
by meroes 5y ago
I've had a similar experience in Covid with muscle tightness. It's unbelievable how much our bodies compensate. It started with a muscle injury to my upper back. Well to heal it, unbeknownst to my conscious awareness, almost an en
556.
by meroes 5y ago
> every moment of possible universe has always existed and will always exist, but over time they switch from "off" This also seems to imply the MWI forces us into block time, then having to recover the experience of time flowi
557.
by meroes 5y ago
I think a definition of Conway's is that there is no mathematical function possible in principle, assuming his three axioms SPIN, TWIN, and FIN, that predicts a free outcome.
558.
by meroes 5y ago
Absolutely, free will may be a feeling and largely due to incomplete knowledge and not fundamental. But is it the simpler explanation? That is hard to answer. On the one hand Many Worlds is "simple" and deterministic, on the other
559.
by meroes 5y ago
One theorem that gets little discussion is John Conway's Free Will Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem IF our choices and actions are free, quantum particles' behavior is free in the exact
560.
by meroes 5y ago
You think as part of some larger dragnet it just happened the US Marshals called them the next day? If it's a a dragnet, they aren't calling about every single post in under 24 hours of it occurring unless the investigating team i
561.
by meroes 5y ago
Thank you. I've been circling this thought process for a while and didn't know if it is completely incoherent. The thought process began thinking all mathematical equations can be translated to English and vice versa. There must b
562.
by meroes 5y ago
Arabidopsis thaliana is at least interesting because it tells time https://youtu.be/CA-YsWXRSHU?t=418
563.
by meroes 5y ago
If chaos is not a problem for computation, why do we always hear weather simulations needing better and better supercomputers? If simulating/computing chaos is just about getting precise enough initial measurements, then that wouldn&#x
564.
by meroes 5y ago
Wait, let's be clear. In the real world a lava lamp is basically impossible predict as it evolves. And that is due to chaos. So far so good. But this chaos is deterministic. Chaos means highly sensitive to initial conditions and involv
565.
by meroes 5y ago
For an extreme example, there are finite patterns behind the lava lamps at Cloudfare or the chaos of Jupiter's storms. These are sufficiently random for any current need I can currently imagine though. But then I also see that "cl
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by meroes 5y ago
Perfectly except for random number generation right? The randomness of QM can never be decoded or attacked. If we are talking about fudging/"simulating" randomness with classical pseudorandom number generators and relying on
567.
by meroes 5y ago
Not true for sugar: ": Our findings agree with the long held notion that each gram of glycogen is stored in human muscle with at least 3 g of water. Higher ratios are possible (e.g., during REHFULL) likely due to water storage not boun
568.
by meroes 5y ago
> Quantum physics can be represented and calculated by Turing machines. 1) Where does the randomness of QM come in though? You need a random number generator alongside your Turing machine. We coud debate that one can never prove true ran
569.
by meroes 5y ago
Where in there did Turing prove computation can "exactly reproduce the behavior to...(any physical system)"? Because we humans seem to be able to describe and write down the behavior of any physical system? I'm not sure that
570.
by meroes 5y ago
Personal anecdote about a book of his: I had a lunch interview and the CEO winced when I quoted What the Dog Saw , and corrected me using their actual experience running a large corporation. I think about not having to get along with cowor

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