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by vecter 4y ago
Huh? What about gravity waves allows... backwards time travel?
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by vecter 4y ago
Yes but not in any practically detectable way.
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by vecter 4y ago
That the Kardashev scale exists does not necessitate that any civilizations will ever reach Type II or III.
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by vecter 4y ago
I think a mean a cube with a side of 22 meters.
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by vecter 4y ago
> The only possible scenario where this doesn't hold water There are way too many assumptions baked into what you wrote to make that the only possible scenario where the Dark Forest is incorrect. You basically assume that the be
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by vecter 4y ago
Everyone seems to be overlooking that the costs for this are insanely high. This has to be funded by tax dollars. Why should we use taxpayer money to try to annihilate every other single living organism in the galaxy? The reasoning that &qu
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by vecter 4y ago
Let's say we send 10,000 probes out, each weighing 1,000kg at 10% the speed of light out into the Milky Way. We would do this with the sole intention of destroying an entire planet once we find any hint of even bacterial life? There is
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by vecter 4y ago
It does when traveling interstellar distances. Even traveling at 10% the speed of light, it would take a ship one million years to cross the galaxy. The energy required to accelerate to that speed (and then decelerate to rest) is absurdly h
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by vecter 4y ago
No, I am simply arguing that FTL travel is extremely unlikely since whatever physics we discover in the future will almost certainly not overturn special relativity. This thinking along the lines of "things in the past that were believ
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by vecter 4y ago
I did not assume that "physics and engineering are 'done'". I assume instead that the known laws of physics which seem to prevent faster-than-light travel hold and are inviolable, despite how smart any species may be. Th
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by vecter 4y ago
It takes so much energy to create gravity waves and so much effort to detect them that it's silly to try to use them as a medium of communication.
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by vecter 4y ago
The Dark Forest is a fun idea but sounds so clearly illogical to me for so many reasons: 1. The cost of interstellar travel is so obscenely high that the threat posed by the discovery of an alien species on their home planet would be so min
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by vecter 4y ago
Wouldn't that unevenness only affect 2^31 - 2 and 2^31 - 1, so a negligible fraction of the integers? Was that tiny discrepancy enough to make your calculations? In other words, what do you mean that it was done by doing mod 3 of a sig
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by vecter 4y ago
I don’t understand this reasoning. Besides the fact that it just seems logically incorrect, it totally avoids the question of why a CS education from an unknown state school would be better than Harvard’s. Harvard’s undergraduate CS program
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by vecter 4y ago
Why would their education be worse at Harvard?
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by vecter 4y ago
The trope about successful dropout founders just isn't really true. Most successful founders finished college. That's not to say that college is the end-all and be-all of life (it's barely just beginning), but let's not
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by vecter 4y ago
> Spreadsheets indicated between $1 billion and $2 billion in client money is unaccounted for > Executives set up book-keeping "back door" that thwarted red flags > Whereabouts of missing funds is unknown I know I shouldn
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by vecter 4y ago
I see no reason to believe that general relativity could be taught in elementary school. It requires advanced undergraduate or graduate mathematics, not to mention that the physics itself is quite difficult (to put it mildly). To put the bl
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by vecter 4y ago
In a mathematical sense, special relativity is not particularly difficult. Undergraduate physics students often learn it by year two as it doesn't require much more than calculus and linear algebra. That's not at all to downplay E
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by vecter 4y ago
Can someone explain the decimal constants that are used throughout the proof? For example, on page 52. It's rare to see these kinds of numbers used in mathematical proofs, but I'm sure they were chosen for good reasons.
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by vecter 4y ago
There's no way that they planned a layoff within a week. They take much longer to plan and execute.
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by vecter 4y ago
You raise a good point. Self-love and extreme ownership are orthogonal. You can practice extreme ownership and hold yourself accountable for your life, but you do not need to do it in a toxic self-destructive way. I've always held myse
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by vecter 4y ago
I've always had this mindset, and I believe it's what has helped propel me forward in life: > I am responsible for every single thing that happens in my life. The power in this mindset is that it eliminates all excuses and make
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by vecter 4y ago
This video about metaballs (really about marching squares) blew my mind when I first saw it[0]. The author is great at walking through the reasoning process starting from scratch and incrementally building up the solution in completely logi
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by vecter 4y ago
In this particular case, I imagine that person would have left and found another job. They were certainly talented enough to do so. If so, there would've been no hard feelings on my end given that they're just going for what they
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by vecter 4y ago
At my last startup, one of our employees approached this well. This is a very summarized version, but he came to me and said: "I'd like to be paid $X. I think I deserve it and I believe I can get that salary on the open market. I
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by vecter 4y ago
The first three things you mentioned are still requirements for a successful startup. They're not sufficient, as you've pointed out, but if you have those three then you're off to a decent start. Building a successful company
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by vecter 4y ago
Based on his performance at the US Chess Championship that just concluded, I would say either that, talent, or both.
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by vecter 4y ago
This is just not true. Check out the analysis here [0], for example. His rating improvement has been steep but he's also played a very large number of games, so his rating gain per game as opposed to per unit of time is not so crazy. A
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by vecter 4y ago
Hans is currently rated around 2700 (at least his live rating after his performance at the US Chess Championship). A few other GMs around that rating have beaten Magnus in just the last week or two (Arjun Erigaisi and Gukesh to name a coupl

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