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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Something like a fuzzball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory) But there I think most physicists think something like the solution to the Einstein field equations does obtain within most of the inter
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This guy doesn't come across as all that literate about the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I think in the grand tradition of western government going all the way back to the greeks there is ample consideration given to the good as it pertains to the entire human race, not just nationals. Read Nussbaum's book about cosmopolit
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
The presumption you're making is that a country would never spend money for the public good, where that is defined to include the entire human race, rather than just nationals. Weird assumption! Generally speaking, academic research is
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Super important to be ultra careful about how many times this man hit a woman.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
He really struck his girlfriends too, I hear.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
These qualities are not incompatible with being hatchet-men or giving shitty advice.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Read Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Its the best you can do as a lay person.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Almost everything anyone does in business, as far as I can tell, is dramatically optimized for speed at the expense of almost everything else. This is a natural result of a very competitive market place and, as far as I can tell, its ration
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This clip. Christ. There are many ways for the conversation to go if you want to get try an understanding of gauge theory. Joe Rogan is not on any of those many branching paths.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't think lectures need to do all that much work. They just need to think for a bit and warn people "Hey, this could be disturbing." That's pretty much it. Its not like trigger warnings impose an onerous responsibili
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
My point wasn't about whether or not you can train people. My point is that you shouldn't, in general, think of human beings as things upon which you perform training. There may be certain contexts in which training is an accept
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
People aren't dogs to be trained. To an extent, to be human and to recognize other people's humanity is to accept and accommodate their irrationality where doing so isn't particularly onerous to you.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Right, avoidance may not be a good coping strategy at large, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't be extended the courtesy of being able to choose to avoid exposure in certain contexts. Ideally exposure therapy for trauma should
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
If all important experiences were universal then communication would be superfluous, if not, in some sense, impossible. We don't need to do much work to explain what we all experience. There is no virtuosity of the obvious. Communicati
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm not advocating for any sort of prescriptive definition of art, obviously. There are certainly lots of ways to talk about art, and in many respects the Marvel movies meet the definition. But just as it would be absurd to be totalita
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Bad cinema can (and arguably must) stimulate the emotions, but I don't think that is what Scorsese is trying to get across here. The marvel movies or whatever may stimulate emotions in us, but they do so primarily by dramatizing condit
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Shouldn't your contempt be saved for the devs who are dumb enough to work without royalties or a union contract? It seems like the voice actors are the ones who have it figured out and we are the dumb ones.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
When I started my current job as a data scientist I spent the first three months or so doing all my work in J (a descendant of APL that doesn't need a funny keyboard). I'm a long term Lisper (prefer Scheme) and so I have a high to
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Just calling it like I see it.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
So this user only posts content from one place, which I assume is their blog. That blog says its explicit purpose is to generate interest in their novels on Amazon. So I think this is spam?
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I've started to see _engagement_ as a mal-feature. One thing I prefer about Mastodon is that its much less engaging than twitter, which is psychotically optimized to keep my eyeballs on it.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Move fast and break stuff.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't know, ask someone whose kid can't get medical treatment because they lost their job in a downturn.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
There isn't any consensus on what aspects of our classical ontology are the right ones to get rid of. You can preserve local realism if you have superdeterminism, for instance.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This is as good a description of the ontological limitations of pilot wave theory as any, but many of the criticisms apply to almost literally any interpretation of quantum mechanics whatsoever. As a physicist with a passing interesting the
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Countries have a different purpose than companies. It hardly makes sense to compare them. Companies can fire people. Countries cannot. Companies are typically not democratically controlled whereas countries should be. Companies are not obli
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
So with the expectation that it will either succeed wildly and they'll sell it to google or it will flame the fuck out and take years off of its employee's lives?
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Everyone I've ever met who went to one of these schools strikes me either as a straight-psychopath or someone who really wants to be one.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Seems goofy, but ok. I'll just use Scheme.

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