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the current thinking is no because quantum fields still act within spacetime, which is curved by gravity. there could be no particle that exists outside of this, so every particle …

well the correct theory will have to explain what we actually observe, which is going to limit the nature of what these theories can be. I'm not sure if you have an example of some…

I can accept that in extreme cases people just don't run across the trivia of what a modulo operator does by more or less random coincidence (while learning programming that is. I …

criticism can be positive, neutral or negative.

when did it start that the storytelling around every piece of physics news was framed as a controversy? I know it's been a while, but I feel like it wasn't this way 20 years ago...…

my match will get tmi

the sum here is the sum of wins or losses across all players. for you to win, someone else has to lose. in an economy everyone can be a winner.

in the limit the distinction between something that is learned and something that is programmed genetically is somewhat a matter of definitions. if a species genes makes it so they…

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simple nets for sure, but spiders can easily deal with an uncountable number of corner cases, I somehow think it's not reducible to all-too simple rules (in the 'game of life' sens…

no idea where you got the idea for that nonsense. there is a ton of selective pressure after reproduction. there are really an uncountable number of mechanics affecting survival fi…

there would be an absolute small, at planck scales (from what we know) there's also an absolute big, known in cosmology, far beyond the scales of galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc... …

it is faster in just about every way. less memory, even the cpu instructions (which are usually not the problem) are faster. there's something fucky going on with code gen here. or…

what's morally problematic about emulating something you already own?

the only pay what you use thing is bullshit. because everything you want to use actually costs something. the point being that a better implementation would give you the same thing…

you're likely not exposing yourself to the root cause of your social anxiety and are only doing practical exposure therapy to symptoms rather than the root causes. here it really d…

veach thesis gives me "damn I wish I could read" moments

that's not true. they only ban ai if you don't clearly have usage rights for the data that the ai was trained on. obviously, this includes basically all of the big and popular avai…

those things are not particularly similar. the tree that nobody can hear while it's falling still has a real and measurable impact on its environment in various ways, something whe…

iq 30 take

iq 30 post nobody asked. people asked about why specifically japan stands out here, it is a big statistical outlier.