gloriousduke

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by gloriousduke 2y ago
I was about to add a similar comment. Definitely interested to read his evaluation and whether there is more hype than substance here, though I'm guessing it may take some time.
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by gloriousduke 4y ago
If that's the case, the QC computer endeavors are still worthwhile since while failing to scale them we may develop another piece of a more complete model of reality.
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by gloriousduke 4y ago
> maybe that he goes to tv news channels preferentially over arxiv publishing https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15213
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by gloriousduke 4y ago
This works pretty well: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/ .
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by gloriousduke 6y ago
> Fix death please, that's a good way to prevent the fear. Even if you were able to postpone your non-existence to some late stage of the Universe, it's all but assured you will have to end eventually in light of postulated Cos
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
A world of only perfect beings does sound pretty boring. I'm not sure if anything worthwhile would actually happen in such a place. That being said, mental (rational) tools that help one recognize the origin of anxiety and reduce its d
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
The article describes how influenza viruses (not coronaviruses) use sialic acid to bind to the upper respiratory tract. Edit: a letter.
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
> nominally has a meaning of merely being aware of, and responding to, the environment, but this is not the self-aware consciousness that is currently unexplained By this do you mean we've explained how "what is it like to be a
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
> then you get a picture of an extraordinarily complicated system, and the nuts and bolts of exactly what that system is running on fall away into irrelevance I think this is a common failing of thought experiments. Gedankenexperiments h
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
This may sound absurd, but you actually need some (mostly settled) philosophy to determine what “facts and empirical truths” are.
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
> But these two things are not directly comparable Correct. You simplified my comment nicely here (though I'm trying to find papers about smaller scales): > While species diversity as a whole in the Hawaiian islands is likely inc
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
It's interesting that the image used for the article, from the windward side of Oahu, shows only invasive species (or maybe that's the point). Ironically, the biodiversity of plants on the Hawaiian Islands has increased tremendous
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
When I was looking at a Game of Thrones subreddit after the episode last night, I realized I was getting more emotionally from the memes (which aren’t exactly the sort of memes Dawkins was thinking of) than long-winded analysis of what was
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by gloriousduke 7y ago
The article seems well-researched and informative. It made me think about the balance between economic growth's positive and negative outcomes. If it takes a modicum of editorial trickery to get more eyes on such a piece, I think we&#x
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
I've encountered an idea similar to this: > The transcension hypothesis proposes that a universal process of evolutionary development guides all sufficiently advanced civilizations into what may be called "inner space," a
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
I suppose that falls under "Part of being a good person is to recognize these deterministic effects and plan your life accordingly." The type of "reshaping" you're referring to would go beyond willpower in a single
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
"When your amygdala is active, you can’t have empathy for others" This is an excellent example of those aspects of our existence that are deterministic. No matter your willpower, you may be bound by biology to act a certain way. P
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
Oumuamua probably isn't artificial, but observations of objects like it and Tabby's star, fast radio bursts and contact binary systems* will likely increase as our instruments and data parsing improve. So, if aliens are the cause
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Kilauea’s 2018 Eruption Was the Largest in the United States for Almost 40 Years(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
It sounds like he did try to change course by moving and applying for other jobs and positions. The tragedy, well one of them at least, is that the system doesn’t value poets (or librarians). This guy had to die for his work to make it out
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
I need to get caught up on new developments regarding Wheeler's "Participatory Universe" to find out if anyone else is thinking along these lines, but if observation does result in existence becoming--wave function(s) collaps
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
Why do we set out to do something? In many cases it's because we've been told achievement is important since a very young age. But since all accomplishments will presumably be lost at the time of the heat death of the Universe, ma
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
How does the rosiness of this assessment jive with the UN’s report that 40 million Americans live in poverty? Perhaps they are an ancillary component of such a Republic?
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by gloriousduke 8y ago
Gardening for me. These are good examples of one of the main benefits of working from home. At many workplaces you need to simply be present at your desk hammering away at the keyboard to signal productivity, but it's easier for remote
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by gloriousduke 9y ago
This idea's been passed around the psychedelic community, even so far as to suggest a drug like LSD or DMT changes your brain chemistry enough that you receive a different form of consciousness, endowing one with everything from the ab
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by gloriousduke 9y ago
It means the deist explanation doesn't stand up to Occam's razor as well as the multiverse explanation. "Parsimony" in this context comes from the latin, lex parsimoniae, "law of parsimony." Adding a deity to t
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by gloriousduke 9y ago
A deist creator explanation is equally untestable, but is probably less parsimonious than a multiverse explanation.
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by gloriousduke 9y ago
Similar to the idea that the downsides of globalism intermixed with potent capitalism, say ecological damage, will be outweighed by the sorts of technologically imbued powers that will take our civilization far beyond Earth.
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The Philosopher Prophet of the Anthropocene(theguardian.com)
1 points by gloriousduke 9y ago|0 comments
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by gloriousduke 9y ago
It's interesting that Trump became the leader of free world by embodying the opposite of many of these precepts (he'd probably call someone adhering to them a loser or weakling). Epictetus would not be surprised, nor care.

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