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by ridewinter 9y ago
Freedom to me is having the means and ability to follow my heart. I was lucky enough to come from a family that enabled that freedom, and later sold a business that enabled more of it. Maybe everyone should have those opportunities. Maybe t
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Agreed that UBI for everyone is the ultimate goal. But basic income for all engineers and scientists could be more politically palatable in the US and have quicker results.
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What if a stepping stone to UBI was a basic income to everyone that’s demonstrated some technical aptitude? If scientists and engineers didn’t have to work for, say Zuckerberg, to survive and instead because they genuinely wanted to collab
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by ridewinter 9y ago
Well the other explanations say that the atom doesn't really exist, it's just an abstraction. And many-worlds says the atom does exist, and this is why you see these quantum effects. That's a meaningful difference.
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Many-worlds has a concrete, physical, simple explanation for quantum effects. The other interpretations are based in the abstract, and are incredibly difficult to understand. That's all I'm saying.
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It's more of a recognition that many-worlds actually has a physical basis to it, while the others talk about an obfuscated non-physical construction.
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I think Deutsch would say there isn't actually a wave-particle duality. That's just an obfuscation that doesn't have any reality to it. Many-worlds has a much simpler explanation - there is simply a particle that interacts
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That's exactly what I'm saying! All other explanations say something confusing and obfuscating like "there are no photons". Many-worlds keeps it simple and says "there are photons, and the reason they behave like
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Math is used to explain the universe. It isn't an explanation in of itself. We never progressed anywhere by saying "something just works" and leaving it at that. Challenge yourself.
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I'm sure you could confuse the heck out of me trying to explain it. Deutsch would say it's just a clever obfuscation of what's really happening. And his many-worlds explanation is so incredibly simple that my small mind use
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Take the interference pattern built in the famous double slit experiment: what Deutsch and other recognized is that there's computation happening to create that pattern. And similar computation is present in all quantum effects. Quan
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Explain the double slit experiment to me. The single photon somehow calculates the interference pattern with photons that don't exist, in our world at least. If there's not parallel universes, how does a single atom calculate th
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The coolness of quantum computing is that it harnesses the natural computational abilities of reality itself. So a single atom is doing an amazing number of quantum calculations at any moment. These guys like Deutsch figured out how to ha
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Well the calculations to do this elimination would have to happen somewhere. Deutsch and the many-worlds interpretation says it happens in parallel universes. And what makes quantum computing so difficult is that you have to arrange those
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No, nothing stolen. The quantum computer's calculations take place in parallel universes. The difficulty is arranging it so that the parallel universes are identical to eachother other than those calculations in the computer itself.
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The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the only one that's easy to understand. All others seem to bend over backwards to realistically explain quantum effects. It's so rare to find clear explanations, but they do
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That really helps my understanding of the matter. Thanks :)
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Spotify is close to the 50 or 75% threshold. So would they also need to include Shazam's advertisements within their own app? Cause otherwise Shazam would still fail. I'm not understanding how this can work practically.
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by ridewinter 9y ago
So if Spotify creates a music recognition feature that competes with Shazam, would they need to create an API that allows you to choose your music recognition service from within Spotify? This a very slippery slope!
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Agreed. If I search for a jacket, I'm using Google to price compare. If I want to use a different price comparison service, I'll google for price comparison sites instead.
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Let's say Spotify began including a music recognition feature similar to Shazam. That would be really useful! Would this decision force Spotify to not include the feature because they have a monopoly on music streaming and it would f
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by ridewinter 10y ago
Agreed. Traditions have, over thousands of years, established the dangers and pitfalls of meditation. Best to start slowly - a short amount of time daily - and find a good teacher backed by some of that tradition. For me, Shambhala Buddhi