BadThink6655321

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by BadThink6655321 11mo ago
Only because "actual understanding" is ambiguously defined. Meaning is an association of A with B. Our brains have a large associative array with the symbols for the sound "dog" is associated with the image of "dog&
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by BadThink6655321 11mo ago
Wnat about Gödel incompleteness? Comptuers aren't formal systems. Turing machines have no notion of truth. Their programs may. So a program can have M > N axioms in which case one of the N+1 axioms recognizes the truth that G ≡ ¬ Pr
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by BadThink6655321 11mo ago
A ridiculous argument. Turing machines don't know anything about the program they are executing. In fact, Turing machines don't "know" anything. Turing machines don't know how to fly a plane, translate a language, o
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by BadThink6655321 3y ago
I don't remember when I first started using BBEdit. Perhaps not long after the demise of MPW. I still use it for everything but Lisp development.
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by BadThink6655321 3y ago
Does the testimony of the adults who were negatively affected by it, both as adults and as children, count?
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by BadThink6655321 3y ago
Just recently a black child, who was born at home with jaundice, was taken from the parents to be given care in a hospital, because a doctor didn’t think the parents would provide effective treatment. https://www.cbsnews.com&#x2F
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by BadThink6655321 4y ago
Earlier today I came across this on Scott Aaronson's site: "Also, are the ultimate equations that govern the universe “real,” while tables and chairs are “unreal” (in the sense of being no more than fuzzy approximate descriptions
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by BadThink6655321 4y ago
Edward Feser published a review of Koon's book ([0], [1]). I was struck by the number of times Feser argued that a "common sense" view of QM is the one that is "basically correct." Given the documented failures of
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by BadThink6655321 4y ago
They also "broke" the ability to set/remove a bookmark by double-tapping the page. The more Books degrades to become like Kindle, the less incentive I have to buy books from the Apple store.
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by BadThink6655321 4y ago
I'm a theist. His writings wouldn't have converted me, either.
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by BadThink6655321 5y ago
The lock analogy fails. First, the viewer was given the data. Second, obfuscation is not a lock.
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by BadThink6655321 5y ago
Should I be bothered that "=" is (((x•x)•(y•y))•(x•y)) so if he's going to write his axiom in terms of NAND, he needs to write all of it using NAND?
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by BadThink6655321 5y ago
No: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/02/10/medical-error-thi...
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
While I see a lot of discussion about the contents of the article (politics, engineering, etc...) I want to comment on the article itself. Very well done. A delightful read during lunch. Bravo!
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
It’s the same complaint made against the ending of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galáctica. All this has happened before and all this will happen again.
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Thanks!
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
What do we do with a theory that conforms to every measurement ever made, but whose predictions aren’t testable? After all, we’re already there. We’ll never measure the interior of a black hole, for example. I think our theory selection
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
See the <a href=“ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment”>Millika... Oil Drop Experiment</a>, particularly the section “ Millikan's experiment as an example of psychological effects i
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Ah, memories. I wrote a proposed multiprocessing extension for Genesis, et. al. which Apple didn’t adopt. Instead they went in different direction for the multiprocessing library. David Sowell was an extremely smart engineer who did some i
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Until you get information from the measurement, it didn’t happen.
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Excellence is privilege.
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Not a darn thing. Don’t like them, don’t need them, don’t want to need them. I understand this (luxury) might not apply to everyone.
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by BadThink6655321 6y ago
Isn’t the ultimate answer always “we don’t know”, “because”, or “42”? It has to be deeply unsatisfying because we don’t know what the ultimate question is, do we? We can’t stop asking.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is a great short story. It won a Hugo in 1974.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Should the person whose content is blocked be able to face their accuser, know precisely what line they crossed over, and have recourse against arbitrary, malicious, incompetent ... moderation? As it now stands, one entity is judge, jury,
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Not anymore. My wife and I now get more spam calls than real calls.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
You are confusing theory with practice. Back then, computers were expensive and rare. The general student population at my university had two choices: the CDC 6400, or an HP time-sharing system that ran BASIC. A friend and I actually wr
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Supercomputers need compilers, et. al. And now I need to go back and revisit the Pascal compiler for those machines...
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Of all the nails that could be used to seal Pascal’s coffin, the one I use is that I can’t write ‘writeln’ in Pascal. Other than that, it was great in it’s time (mid 70’s for me).
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
The Reference Frame also discussed this[1] and showed why the paper is wrong. [1] https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/04/frauchiger-renner-trivial...

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