edna314

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by edna314 5y ago
I think he didn't quite understand the depth of Girard's thought. It's not like that you can really fight mimetic desire, especially not by following any kind of tactics. Reproducing behavior in a certain way is nothing but m
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by edna314 5y ago
What if it is not artificial and only human level ai in a sense that it's run by mechanical Turks which answer the prompts ?
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by edna314 5y ago
I mean yes, but there is a rather specific window where they make sense: at ~1-80% of c. Lower speeds it doesn't make sense to engage in interstellar travel at all, because even travelling 100s of years won't get you anywhere. At
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by edna314 5y ago
I wasn't referring to the author in the article, but rather an unspecified collection of 'popular' SciFi, where this aspect is not explained. It is true that, even if you reach speeds of 0.5c you only get a ~15% time dilation
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by edna314 5y ago
What came to my mind immediately was 'Passengers'. But, reading up the plot on Wikipedia, it is possible that it never actually was mentioned how far away the destination was or how fast they were going. So, maybe it wasn't a
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by edna314 5y ago
I'm sure it has been, but I'm mainly talking about popular sci-fi movies. I'm sure you have at least one in mind where they have these 'sleep' devices.
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by edna314 5y ago
The time dilation aspect in space travel is the most neglected in popular sci-fi. In many of these, there are intricate installations of some sort cryogenic sleep devices because the script authors assume that it takes you 150 years of trav
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by edna314 6y ago
> Probably no reasonable human being would assume that Quantum Mechanic as we know it is the "holy grail" of physics. Fully agreed. This, however, rests on the assumption that there is a 'holy grail' in physics (aka a
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by edna314 6y ago
Depends on what other people do. If no one takes it I’ll take it. If everyone takes it I won’t take it. We need 50-80% vaccination rate overall. So, if I take the values of this survey which is at 70% vaccination rate at the moment, I would
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by edna314 6y ago
> Does the reading of your multimeter depend on the digits of Arnold Schwarzenegger's phone number? Do you have to repeat the experiment if his phone number changes? Indeed, we assume that this is not an "experimental condition
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by edna314 6y ago
Because others already questioned the first part, I’ll question this: > the set of observations it offers is vast Actually, in an experiment there is always only one observation at a time. That we group multiple observations together is
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by edna314 6y ago
> Why are there irrational numbers? Because, a line doesn’t have any holes and a fraction just gives you a point, such that no matter how close you are to another number there will always be gap.
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by edna314 6y ago
No, I haven’t read this one, maybe it’s worth a try. The issue is, even when you are at a stage where you realize what works and what doesn’t, you still wouldn’t know what to write exactly. The only option you have is to write up sentences,
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by edna314 6y ago
Seems like one should write how the people who read your text would expect you to write. This is my main problem with writing, since I have a very hard time to figure out what people expect. I also read a lot of books about writing, but non
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by edna314 6y ago
Yes, it is mostly semantics but the question really is what you think the space-time metric is. In order to attribute the prefactor to time you would need to argue that the space-time metric really is Euclidean, but because time is differen
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by edna314 6y ago
Well, I'm just arguing that it isn't clear whether this prefactor (that shows up in the metric in front of time) is a property of time or a property of the metric. It is pretty clear that the math wouldn't work if the prefact
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by edna314 6y ago
For those who wonder what the bottom line in the article is why time isn’t just another dimension: There is a minus sign and the speed of light in front of time in the space-time metric. It is argued that the minus sign comes about because
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by edna314 6y ago
Plus, with extensions, it’s easily a huge vim as well.
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by edna314 6y ago
Yes.
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by edna314 6y ago
Ok, that’s fair. But, then the number makes more sense in relative terms than in absolute. Still, absolutely impressive.
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by edna314 6y ago
Hmm, but then the b-factor (and therefore also resolution) is dependent on the flexibility of molecule you want to look at? Does that mean that these guys just found a system for which the main chain was rigid enough such that the thermal f
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by edna314 6y ago
Naive question: these images are made at low but finite temperatures, so each atom would fluctuate within its position such that there should be an uncertainty. Is that uncertainty lower than 1 angstrom? Otherwise, how can one talk about at
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by edna314 6y ago
I was always wondering if there is a way of distinguishing a straight line in a curved space from a curved line in a flat space, given that you cannot 'look' at space time from the outside. Would that be possible?
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by edna314 6y ago
Bro, what's negative energy?
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by edna314 6y ago
I would understand spatio-temporal correlations different from spacetime correlations: the first are the spacio-temporal correlations of something which exists in space time while the latter would imply some kind of correlations of space ti
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by edna314 6y ago
Agreed. Still, it mislead me into thinking it was something else and had I known what this was really about I probably wouldn’t have clicked. While it is hard to tell that this technical term was deliberately coined to be click bait, there
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by edna314 6y ago
'Spacetime wave packets' sounded to me like gravitational wave packets. Highly misleading term in this context, but probably also intended to attract attention.
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by edna314 6y ago
Not entirely, people act according to the law as well. I’m sure there was a situation where you were thinking that a law didn’t make sense, but you acted accordingly anyways. And this law was put in place because two people had a problem wi
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by edna314 6y ago
> Generally speaking groups of people that disagree so fundamentally on things should have borders between them. I think disagreeing is not the issue here. I can happily disagree with you on a fundamental level and we live side by side p
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by edna314 6y ago
I think the latter case is not a solution to the problem, but rather a form of procrastination. Instead of trying figure out how to resolve the issues in a peaceful way, you declare peace and hope for the best. Doesn’t work in the long run.

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