bitdizzy

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by bitdizzy 5y ago
I've been following this discussion closely because I work in adjacent areas and have dipped into Coq and Agda. Now that I see it on hackernews and all sorts of comments speculating on how this is cancel culture and English-centric cha
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
Almost by definition society is the negotiation of our behavior toward each other because otherwise we would impinge on each others' freedom to act as we please in intolerable ways. Perhaps you think that is a bad thing and to be hones
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
What people say are their values and the values revealed by their actions can be different. Moreover one can express certain values in pursuit of goals that are incompatible with those values. This is styled hypocrisy and the bourgeoisie su
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
We live in a society
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
> I am curious as to how? Special relativity describes a flat lorentzian manifold. The uniform expansion of the universe implies that the curvature of spacetime is slightly negative. Special relativity is not simply a theory of causality
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
Non-measurable sets are precisely the kinds of things Arnold wanted marginalized in mathematical pedagogy, instead of placed front and center. They are necessary auxiliaries to the main theory, that of measures and integration but auxiliary
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
The first use of complex numbers was as intermediate quantities in the calculation of the roots of cubic polynomial functions. This use is analogous to using negative numbers in a ledger even though negative amounts of physical things don&#
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
For Arnold, mathematics is rooted in physical intuition and experimental inquiry. Can you name some math that is completely disconnected from that intuition?
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
A lorentz boost is just a change of perspective. Let's say you have a bubble that is at rest with respect to your reference frame. Well, someone flying by your solar system has just as valid a reference frame as you and they see the bu
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
Why is this obviously wrong?
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
So the thing that paper does is it assumes you can make warp bubbles in any reference frame. The original paper makes one warp bubble and this doesn't lead to anything paradoxical. But if I can make two warp bubbles in two different
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
The name tachyonic antitelephone is a bit unfortunate because it need not involve tachyons. All it takes is the ability to send a message outside of your light cone. Along the path actually taken need not be the case, we are reasoning about
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
it's not like a thunder storm. The wikipedia page has a worked out example. If you can go back and forth between 2 places FTL you can arrive before you left and interfere with your departure. You are more convinced by a metaphor than t
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
Volunteering yourself, or others?
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
I got a batch of medlars from a farm this last winter! We ate the first few too soon but the rest were amazing, and very late into the winter when we dont really have fruit besides apples. I'd love for these to become mainstream again.
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
Since ssrn is like social science arxiv let's just throw preprints around. This paper examines the submitted one as well as another. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16084 This paper examines discrimination based on sta
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
The analog hole applies to digital currency, too.
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by bitdizzy 5y ago
He wasn't just a white supremacist, he developed the framework he did specifically because he wanted to elevate certain forms of music as superior and "White". > Using Music theory is like using English as the tech lingua
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I dont know which video you watched but it's basically true that what most people call Music Theory focuses much of its attention on a narrow period of music on a narrow continent within narrow analytical frameworks (Schenkerian, for e
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
MLK was not by any means color blind. The only way you could come to that conclusion is if your entire understanding of his politics were a single sound bite.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
It's not an axiom. It's a fundamental disagreement about how society should be and an understanding of what the world would be like if nazis have the power to change it to suit their vision. > It's people like you that ins
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
It is entirely and issue of the means of communication being concentrated into the hands of a few powerful organizations, like its been since the radio was captured by capitalist regulation. > Who the fuck decides? Everyone decides norm
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Change comes from a great many people acting for it.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
It won't be a great person who saves us.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
It's ok to kiss your spouse but not a stranger. It's ok to punch someone who punched you but dont go to a kindergarten and start punching kids. "Arbitrary criteria" describes all norms.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
No, obviously it would not be okay. What point are you trying to make?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Financialization of everything until tokens themselves become financialized.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
The weirdness of quantum mechanics with respect to bases is very counterintuitive but makes perfect sense internal to the logic of the quantum world. It is a sort of relativity where there can be incompatible viewpoints. Namely, a hermitian
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Do you think the distinction between government interdiction and private is immaterial? I think I regard the distinction between business and government a lot less than most but still understand that there are significant differences betwee

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