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by meroes 5y ago
I view the GRU stealing private data and using Wikileaks to coordinate releasing for the purpose of sowing discord and possibly to help Trump win the election as disinfo. > After the Soviet term became widely known in the 1980s, native s
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by meroes 5y ago
I view the GRU stealing private data and using Wikileaks to coordinate releasing it as disinfo.
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by meroes 5y ago
The leaks were subversive...to the camp that thinks Wikileaks didn't also spread state sponsored Russian disinfo (unwittingly or not).
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by meroes 5y ago
Religion is more easily codified because it does not change as quickly as the secular world. I do not think codification is realistic or desirable tbqh.
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by meroes 5y ago
And Copernicus was still wrong about the ontology and there are many critiques of MWI not just by people scared to accept its metaphysical weight. I think it's unfair to criticize too harshly those who aren't ready to dive in with
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by meroes 5y ago
But the Born rule required empirical content to come up with. Empirical content which is (possibly) fundamentally random. You can't simulate that (fundamental randomness) purely classically. The classical world can be simulated with
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by meroes 5y ago
It is interesting though behind the scenes of this description, David Deutsch really does think the worlds of MWI are interfering with each other to allow quantum computations.
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by meroes 5y ago
What I still am left with is, yes we can write down a classical description of superposition, but SOMETHING RANDOM still happens. When you imagine a fair coin being flipped and describing that with a probabilistic mathematical model, you ca
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by meroes 5y ago
I've wondered if the future posed in the last story in I, Robot gives a taste of an alternative. I've felt like Asimov tried to explore similar ideas. Four "supercomputers" are so advanced and powerful that countries w
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by meroes 5y ago
Are you sure Ergodic theory does the trick? When I hear people like David Albert or Sean Carroll speak, they always make clear you need some kind of initial/prior conditions or else stat mech does not guarantee why we only see the forw
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by meroes 5y ago
But when we apply statistical mechanics to "microscopic" arrangments like a few particles in an idealized rigid box or in a vacuum, there is no arrow of time. The laws of physics themsleves are totally symmetric (CPT theorem), an
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by meroes 5y ago
I personally experienced more of my property stolen while living in the Midwest than out West. If it's anecdote time and all..
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by meroes 5y ago
George Bush was giving everyone $10k back on new fullsized pickup trucks. Why not get one was my question at the time.
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by meroes 5y ago
Isn't there no "proof" within the laws of physics for the second law? - you must posit a "Past Hypothesis".
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by meroes 5y ago
I appreciate your criticism! I never read much of Penrose, and find a lot of what he says outside of mathematics to be questionable. I also think I have an incredibly loose idea of consciousness and remain fairly uncommitted. I actually hav
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by meroes 5y ago
> In the end, the very basic purpose of physics is to be able to tell, given state 1, what state 2 will be. Totally. But I would say your idea of predicting is still unnecessarily involving a "flow of time"; of things "bec
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by meroes 5y ago
Ya I am not an expert to judge if Bell, Grete, and Mermin also misunderstood von Neumman, and I see a few papers argue that. But the larger physics community does seem to agree with Bell's take. I do find it a bit weird that paper is
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by meroes 5y ago
On the contrary: "Many generations of graduate students who might have been tempted to try to construct hidden-variables theories were beaten into submission by the claim that von Neumann, 1932, had proved that it could not be done. A
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by meroes 5y ago
According to this plants can tell time. https://youtu.be/CA-YsWXRSHU?t=453
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by meroes 5y ago
Maybe this will change your mind slightly?: There's a bouncy ball in a box with pressure sensing walls. Each wall feeds the pressure data to HDD physical storage. The ball is released from the top wall at some random angle toward the b
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by meroes 5y ago
It is kind of circular - which suggests there is nothing unique about time. "The only evidence for time is change". Not "change (of particle position say) is one evidence of time passing". No - the ONLY evidence is cha
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by meroes 5y ago
No one actually has a working model of consciousness so that programme has a long way to go. But if the only evidence for time is change as Barbour likes to say, and change basically boils down the relative motion of particles, why not desc
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by meroes 5y ago
Does a triangle have a duration? Does a line? An equation of a line is very close to 1+1=2. X=2 and y=2 are lines. Nothing in math has time or duration. 1+1 = 2 = area of a triangle with base and height 2 = 362/181 = -2(-1). These are
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by meroes 5y ago
This goes for San Francisco retail shops but also I'm sure other places: Some of the stores don't open till noon. Some are only open 3 days a week. Some stores are open the days the other stores are closed. I'm talking about
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by meroes 5y ago
You've done all this supposed work and don't know the difference between heritability and genetic? Someone's favorite soda is hereitable too.
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by meroes 6y ago
If I buy a semester at a private school, I still have to pay for the entire semester if I'm expelled (sometimes a smaller but still substantial early leave amount). I know neither of our analogies mirror exactly is going on, but that&#
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by meroes 6y ago
Some nice demonstrations of 2d cellular automata https://oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html
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by meroes 6y ago
That's what Harry Potter is for LotR is to teach you Christian God likes certain people better and makes them win and there really isn't free will I really think those are loosly the overarching lessons of the two works. Hamfisted
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by meroes 6y ago
I had the complete opposite impression with compspci grads I met in Germany. For undergrad they had a lot of diverse job skills, opposite for US
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by meroes 6y ago
> I no longer need someone to show me around a physical space. Yes you do. Sellers get to be picky. Especially in Covid. They aren't letting in looky-loos. At bare minimum you need to have an agent and pre-approval as a buyer so you

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