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by superposeur 7d ago
The worry “how will people find meaning with super-abundance?” has also me as tone deaf ennui of the already super-privileged. That we should be so lucky to have this worry.
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by superposeur 12d ago
Much of the value of proof is in the development of math definitions and intermediate theorems needed to get you there, Grothendiek-style. This ability seems still to be beyond AI (at least, I haven’t heard of any fundamentally new and usef
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by superposeur 13d ago
Does anyone know if they have been hacked? This is a severe problem.
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by superposeur 2mo ago
1. An NYT commenter clarifies that the “Second Grade Teacher” of the article’s title is from a family worth $30+ billion. If true, this would seem to be egregious omission of context from the article.
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by superposeur 2mo ago
Ok got it, thanks.
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by superposeur 2mo ago
I don’t understand the claim that Kolmogorov lower bounds are uncomputable. Three digit strings are unlikely to run as a program so surely 3 is a lower bound on Kolmogorov of the first million digits of pi, no? To tighten bound, one would n
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by superposeur 4mo ago
Hard agree. Railing against the “mainstream media” is such a cliched and, ironically, uncritical mode of argument.
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by superposeur 7mo ago
If this experiment: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240202618T/abstra... or others like it turn up positive results, MWI is falsified.
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by superposeur 7mo ago
There are several layers of structure here. Indeed, as you say, Decoherence explains why certain bases are special: when a system is in a pointer basis state, it does not continue entangling with environment (or, at least, does so minimal
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by superposeur 7mo ago
Yes, except for the “asymmetrically” part. In other words, Many Worlds.
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by superposeur 7mo ago
These debates over the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (i.e. what ultimately happens when a “measurement” takes place) are important but don’t bear on the effectiveness of quantum computing. Regardless of your favorite interpretation (a
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by superposeur 7mo ago
Yes, the MWI is falsifiable. It asserts that objective collapse does not occur, therefore any observation of objective collapse (such as predicted by GRW or Penrose-Diosi) would falsify it.
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by superposeur 7mo ago
It doesn’t. Decoherence is the technical step in the Everett picture defining what a “classical branch” even is and explaining how the state vector branches. Every claim that “Decoherence” somehow offers a distinct interpretation to Everett
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by superposeur 9mo ago
Can you believe that This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand by Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men were all directed by the same man ? What an eclectic set of masterpieces.
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by superposeur 9mo ago
The Maple syntax may superficially seem easier but actually leads to more problems in practice. The point of the [ ] is that argument of a function is logically distinct from algebraically grouping terms in an equation. Also, Mathematica is
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by superposeur 1y ago
The introduction to Vol 1 of Weinberg’s Quantum Theory of Fields does this really well, albeit briefly. It feels like getting an “insider’s view” of the historical developments.
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by superposeur 1y ago
Ok, to be clear, let’s say I’m dumb and accidentally go with the default (I get the color of the opt out button wrong or something). As if there’s a “publish my private emails to the internet” default-on button in email. Then, I use it to e
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by superposeur 1y ago
Everyone seems to be unsurprised by this move, but I’m genuinely shocked. What a shoot your own foot business decision. Google, evil though it be, doesn’t post the text of your gmails in its search results because who would consider using G
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by superposeur 1y ago
Yes, totally. Relevant study: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
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by superposeur 1y ago
My path crossed Nguyen many years ago and I can vouch that he is a very smart, nice, ethical, and solid dude who knows his stuff. I’m also a physicist and know enough about the relevant math and physics to evaluate Nguyen v. Weinstein, thou
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by superposeur 1y ago
Great ep.
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by superposeur 1y ago
The problem I’ve always had with over-weighting deathbed advice is that dying people rarely think through the counterfactuals involved. What would actually be the consequence of not working so hard and relentlessly prioritizing personal rel
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by superposeur 1y ago
Agreed, if you look beyond the bro-ey tone of the presentation, it is smart and nontrivial advice he is delivering here. It is so easy to get distracted by complexity (esp with so much competing internet advice). Picking a couple lifts then
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by superposeur 2y ago
In any field, what it even means to be good morphs as you go up in skill level. Non mathematicians know only about arithmetic so they often imagine that mathematicians must be really really good at arithmetic. But this isn't so. Likewi
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by superposeur 2y ago
Ha ha, first time I’ve seen another reference to this! Back in the day, I got such a kick out of his description that I began imitating it myself, calling it my “David Lynch Special” dish.
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by superposeur 2y ago
It’s worth mentioning that, brilliant as Dirac’s “sea of filled negative energy states” picture was, no one believes that interpretation now. The Dirac equation is better seen as the classical equation of motion for the Grassmann-valued e
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by superposeur 2y ago
Truly a vision of dystopia.
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by superposeur 2y ago
Photons.
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Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says(politico.eu)
3 points by superposeur 2y ago|0 comments
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by superposeur 2y ago
Yes, because in point of fact this company is the best at what it does — preventing security breaches. The outage — disruptive as it was — was not a breach. This elemental fact is lost amidst all the knee jerk HN hate, but goes a long way t

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