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by yters 6y ago
But still the diagonalization argument applies. In order for your slightly wrong oracle to work, you still need a 100% correct oracle. Now remove the slightly wrong wrapper, and you are back in square one.
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by yters 6y ago
ikea was founded by a nazi
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by yters 6y ago
Sometimes downvotes mean you are right.
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by yters 6y ago
See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999588... look at section 1.2 it is the non growth theorem for algorithmic information, but also deals with randomness Levin proves randomness + comp
635.
by yters 6y ago
Check out Kolmogorov complexity and the law of independence conservation.
636.
by yters 6y ago
Take an algorithm that halts soon enough. Now scan a bunch of them to find the good enough one. This new scanning process no longer halts soon enough. Even with runtime limits the halting problem is annoying.
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by yters 6y ago
That those who believe there are laws are sure to be wrong?
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by yters 6y ago
Maybe how the board brought in enough money to continue hosting the blog and people could post their content for free? Bloggers can always go the self hosting route if they don't like content farms. Like people complain about online a
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by yters 6y ago
That's the other interesting point about graphing by latitude: the very cold countries such as Iceland also have remarkably low death rates. It is the temperate, winter latitudes that have extremely high death rates. Here's the gr
640.
by yters 6y ago
Even if there is an infinite expanse, there are only finite effect ranges. Does anyone seriously think infinity has any sort of physical impact? I've never seen such an idea in all my years of physics exposure.
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by yters 6y ago
If you graph covid-19 death rate by latitude, all the warmer latitudes (tropics and southern hemisphere) have significantly lower death rate. I'd say vitamin D is a proxy for sunnier latitudes.
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by yters 6y ago
talking about conscious programs is just a category error math is not conscious matter is not conscious neither is any combo thereof
643.
by yters 6y ago
I am not being sarcastic! The threshold for human controlled robots is much lower than fully autonomous robots.
644.
by yters 6y ago
robots with humans in the loop! most robots are quite capable, but the AI isn't there
645.
by yters 6y ago
Laptops and smart phones are everywhere these days, regardless of income level, so accessing remote work is not a problem. I think the only reason remote work might hurt low income people is due to lack of business owners taking advantage
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by yters 6y ago
Nope. Same point there.
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by yters 6y ago
If the CIA was driving down US streets photographing, scanning and sniffing everything, I think we'd have a different reaction. At least with Google we know all the data is in good hands.
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by yters 6y ago
Or is it a typo?
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by yters 6y ago
I blame the lack of philosophical and logical training of the sort that teaches how to spot fallacies, what a good argument looks like, how to outline one's thought process, etc.
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by yters 6y ago
that's a great point! tech seems to lead to magical voodoo incantations to get things done vs principled understandings
651.
by yters 6y ago
and thus scientism ultimately eliminates science
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by yters 6y ago
It's always our theoretical perception that pushes the boundaries, regardless of what tech we have. I would say our theoretical imagination is lacking these days. Probably because scientists aren't trained in broad rigorous thou
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by yters 6y ago
Used to be breakthroughs could be made by a lens maker accidentally discovering micro biology or the president of the treasury thinking through the mathematics behind his observations and discovering the law of gravity or a patent clerk res
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by yters 6y ago
I guess if it works for them, they see no reason to change. Free housing, food, money for the luxuries they want, what more could someone ask for? The 'successful' people work themselves to death and stress out to gain some thin
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by yters 6y ago
I think you should read up a bit more on the Galileo situation.
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by yters 6y ago
It's the logical conclusion of materialism. If the conclusion is untenable, what does that say about materialism?
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by yters 6y ago
The thinkers who founded all branches of modern science were very well read in the classics and significant philosophers in their own right. They were also predominantly and deeply religious. But, I guess only people well read in the huma
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by yters 6y ago
I've never run across anyone who declares what they say is true because of their sociopolitical position. Not even the pope in the Catholic church makes this claim. Who does Sagan have in mind?
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by yters 6y ago
Alright, here's another example. Let's say I'm living in Nazi Germany, and the top population geneticists are unanimous in their opinion that Jews are an inferior and evil race, seeking to undermine the volk. I'm prett
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by yters 6y ago
Alright, so it looks like the conclusion of this discussion is Sagan is not quite correct, there are plenty of situations where arguments from authority are indeed valid, if the authority is conferred by the consensus of experts in the subj

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