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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. Reproduci…

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 ?

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 tr…

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 spe…

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 ho…

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.

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 t…

> 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 ther…

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 su…

> 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 ass…

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…

> 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…

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…

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 peop…

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-t…

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 cle…

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 m…

Plus, with extensions, it’s easily a huge vim as well.

Yes.

Ok, that’s fair. But, then the number makes more sense in relative terms than in absolute. Still, absolutely impressive.

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 w…

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…

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…

Bro, what's negative energy?

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 …