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by posix_me_less 8y ago
> But Bell's theorem and subsequent experiments show it to be false. I think this is an unfounded conclusion. Sure, Bell's theorem and the experiments it inspired did make lots of contribution to investigation of these foundati
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Thanks for the links. > "That is because it is not the case that measurements have one outcome. Measurements appear to have one outcome from the perspective of a given classical observer [but actually have none]" is a big cla
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> And the answer is: the classical world emerges by a process of decoherence, which is to say, by the creation of large (O(10^23)) networks of entanglements which (it can be shown mathematically) have behavior that is indistinguishable
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Quantum gravity "theories" are speculative extrapolations of current knowledge for extreme situations, not accepted general laws of physics. They have problems with consistency (discretization of lengths and other quantities break
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Of course it is difficult to do, but the point was that uncertainty principle by itself does not limit precision of single measurement; there are other reasons, but those are practical (we do not have the technology and understanding to bui
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All measurements have limited precision (number of significant decimal digits gained), so the amount of data that can be gained indeed is limited. But there is no general law preventing increasing the precision with better instruments and b
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Long live the inventiveness and free spirit of contributors who brings us useful improvements and progress to what would otherwise be a cumbersome legacy computer interface.
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> "Violence is already endless. It’s just a matter of moral vanity whether or not you feel better about not being personally involved." Nonsense. Violence is still limited, in time and extent, by economic and political forces
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> the argument that if you reduce the human cost of wars, you make wars more likely Very good point! Drone attacks make the operators into drones themselves, detached from feeling the consequences of their actions.
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> "and technology which improves the effectiveness of killing terrorists and enemy combatants (and thus saving American lives) is a good thing." There are other than American lives at stake. I suppose what you say would be tr
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> "a lead-sealed, windowless, Faraday cage in your house (but the smart power meters can identify a lot of your activity anyway)" To get as close as possible to perfection isolation, also ground the cage to make it produce mu
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They are a threat to U. S. in the sense they do not align themselves well to U. S. interests and have lots of nukes. But they are no Germany&Japan level threat; sure, their actions and demands need to be taken seriously, they cannot b
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> Russia is fading away and fast. How can you say that? They have more active nuclear warheads than U. S., plenty to overwhelm any current AB system. Do you count on the AB system getting better so as to eliminate MAD?
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You mean 'anti foreign war involvement' sentiment. It did exist, the U. S. power structures were divided on the question of involvement in the war in Europe. The sentiment of the opposing ex-Googlers is about something different:
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In a hierarchical corporation, individual employees execute the will of their superiors. They can tweak the implementation of the product, but in this case they most probably have no power to prevent it from being implemented.
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Yours is an interesting opinion - what makes you 'believe a strong US military helps make the world a better and safer place'? Did you think about the probabilities that this strong military will be misused to do the opposite?
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> "The history of technology and the military in the US is more complex than the myopic "Military is Bad" style of arguments that have been vogue as of late." It seems to me the "Military is Bad" idea goes
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Which is a very plausible assumption, considering dropping traditional bombs is much more inconvenient for the killers. With drone attacks, the cost and political fallout is minimal. And with more meal available, the appetite grows - the ki
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> "So the “moral” engineers have an incentive to stay and act as a front line against “immoral” actions, or at least have an insider’s position for whistleblowing." This is true if the engineer is in such a position of power
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> "This is how one can tell a rookie just learning to program in shell: usage of $() syntax is limited to Bourne family of shells which implement that particular POSIX specification aspect. Backticks, on the other hand, although th