panda-giddiness

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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. By "disconnected" I meant causally disconnected, i.e. spacelike separated. Sorry for not making that clearer! And yes, you can always boost to a frame such that the "order" of spacelike separat
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Yup, that's precisely how I interpreted GP's comment.
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
But Meta's not actually ceding the point. They're essentially arguing that (1) leap seconds are an esoteric concept that only astronomers care about, and that (2) we shouldn't care about their esoteric concerns, so (3) we s
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Their point is that Meta's argument is a straw man.
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
The author hasn't neglected to consider light cones – she literally describes them in her post, as evinced by her mentioning 45 deg lines on a spacetime diagram, causally connected/disconnected events, etc. Of course you have desc
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
You skipped the best part of the story! > We [Chinook and the lead programmer] played an exhibition match against Marion Tinsley in 1991. And the computer told me to make this one particular move. When I made it, Tinsley immediately sai
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes. A single anecdote is not comparable to the sweeping restrictions imposed by the pro-life movement.
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Yes, precisely this. Most people are not moral philosophers, so I don't expect them to have a nuanced view of moral problems (this includes people who are pro-choice). Abortion epitomizes a hard moral problem, and frankly I doubt we&#x
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Disagree. According to Pew polling, pro-life folk are more likely to be religious, more likely to be more certain about their belief in God, and are more likely to attend religious services. Furthermore, more than 50% of pro-life folk ident
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
I think this is beside the point. Most religious folk don't possess some special moral wisdom. When a Christian equates abortion with murder, they're typically parroting a belief they've accepted dogmatically from their preac
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
No, they can't. If the defendant is acquitted, that's the end of the line (barring a few dual sovereignty loopholes, as you mentioned, but those also aren't limitless).
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
This is incorrect – most cases are split. The most common outcome is 9-0 (about a third of cases), but the second most common split is 5-4. This shouldn't be surprising – controversial cases are more likely to end up before the Supre
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
1. The OP did not criticize the headline; they criticized the content. If you read the article that you linked, you would find that they do, in fact, evaluate the performance of the model. 2. 540 billion parameters is notable for its size,
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
> So how do you decide who's scale to use? Like the way all other murky subjects are settled, you just decide on one. We don't legalize murder just because some slayings are justified. The existence of grays areas does not prec
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
> There are plenty of people in the world who would think that anything over $500/month is way more than enough for one person. Should your compensation be reduced to that amount? This is an absurd slippery slope, and a bizarre appe
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
> How about we don't ignore things that can help actual people and leave them worse off just because in theory there are also nicer sounding solutions. I appreciate this approach in general, but it's worth remembering that prop
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Absolutely, but those retractions are led by other astronomers/astrophysicists, not lay people presenting straw men. I think people's priors here are out of whack -- perhaps the truth does lie somewhere in the middle, but if so, i
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
> expert witnesses are just a concession the law has to make to get anywhere. I'm not sure why you don't think that applies here? Only a slim fraction of the population is knowledgeable enough to grok the methodology of EHT. I
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
> I don’t know, the criticism in OP seems pretty substantive to me. That's because it's a straw man argument. As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, the OP's concerns are addressed in the actual papers, which the OP
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
Thanks for calling them out (again). Honestly people in this forum are too eager to upvote contrarian opinions. I hold a PhD in physics, and I wouldn't feel qualified to challenge ETH's work.
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by panda-giddiness 4y ago
I mean, this is just factually incorrect – a pion is a spin-0 massive particle, e.g. (for that matter, a photon is a spin-1 massless particle).
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
> It seems the temperature of the coffee is the reason. Well, yes and no. The temperature of the coffee was only partially the reason. What made McDonald's actions appear malicious rather than accidental (therefore increasing their
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
Sorry, I see now that my comment was unclear. I mean of the 5/4 splits, I'd be curious what proportion of cases split 5/4 in the expected manner (Democratic vs Republican appointees) versus other alignments (e.g., Sotomayor,
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
Sure, most cases aren't polarizing, but that doesn't mean that the law is objective -- the other 30% of cases proves as much. Personally, I'd be more interesting in knowing how many cases split 5/4 (or 6/3) the obvi
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
> [Lawyers] are overall much more willing to recognize when they aren't well-versed in other fields, including both substantively and in terms of mental models. That's a refreshing perspective. Any inkling as to why? I'm g
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
When Sabine Hossenfelder wins from the toy crane, maybe I'll take superdeterminism seriously.
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
> The solution for the $5, 45min ride that comes out of the driver's pocket is to guarantee the trip price covers a profit for the driver and let the rider choose if it's worth it. But that would mean fewer trips and lower guar
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
> what happens after the bomb depends greatly on the assumptions you make about damage to structures, weather patterns, the size of the bomb used, the altitude at which it is detonated, and a host of other variables. All of these concern
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
> News shouldn't have bias, full stop. Sorry, but this sort of absolutist thinking is just naive. Nobody ever won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for "just reporting the facts, full stop". Good journalism requires context w
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by panda-giddiness 5y ago
Piggybacking on this point, in a civil lawsuit you only need prove that a "preponderance of the evidence" (51% or more) supports your position. (The burden is greater for criminal cases, of course).

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