The universe seems to have a fractal structure. At every scale we can look there is a huge amount of detail.
Not true at all there’s limits in terms of scale in both directions.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#112And this is one of the main utilitarian arguments for diversity in teams. If everybody has the same socio-cultural background, it's harder to leave the frame.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you mean to reply to me? I don't see how this counters what I said. If you mean to imply that the questions use of statistics is a comparable problem to the current "government experiment" then I don't agree.
No, I was intending to build upon what you said that the question likely isn't actually being asked in good faith, instead an attempt to "anchor" readers into the assumptions it makes rather than really examine the answer, and people may indeed then have issues with it. To really design experiments we really need to be asking meaningful questions about comparable metrics, after all.
Ah, I see. Yes, I agree.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#114> If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
Talk to another human
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#115I attended a woo-woo university course, where the instructor invited a interpretative dancer to give a lesson. The dancer bright out some paper, pencils, and almonds, and had everyone spend half an hour silently writing about their single almond. As it turns out, it's easier than it sounds; time passed quick and I (and most others) never felt bored. There's always more room for observation and analysis. It struck me…
Sounds like the woo-woo paid off
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we please not DOGEify every comment thread? I know that it's on a lot of minds all the time, but we have a whole spot on the front page effectively reserved for DOGE 24/7, and I'd like to see literally anything else in the other 29 slots.
Agreed. People are unhealthily obsessed with DOGE here. And on top of that, basically every DOGE thread turns into a flame war. It's extremely deleterious for the site to have everything collapse into DOGE talk.
If my countries institutions were being dismantled by chuds via dubious and unprecedented means I’d be pretty obsessed.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much of that required a bigger state? The end of slavery was really due to slavery being uneconomic. That's why the Northern states didn't have slavery. It would have ended in the South as well, even without the Civil War (which was a kind of big state thing, of course). Children forced to labour without pay -- also an economic issue.
Even though US is more wealthy than Europe, the average European seems struggling much less than their US counterpart. Just have a look at poverty, homelessness, health figures, even of educated people. The latest votes, and your comment, only seem to indicate that US people on average find that to be fine enough, the price for a (for me weird) kind of freedom.
Perception is not reality. People complain all the time. People will always spend the most they can get by with. There are people earning $million/year who have less spending money after paying their monthly bills (to spend on things like food) than others living below the poverty line. This is all about how they spend money, the person making $million/year is clearly rich, but if they are still having trouble making ends meet.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#118I wonder if this is one reason why AI seems to have scaling limits. If building stairs is decomposed into n-steps, and each of those steps is decomposed into n-steps, and you keep on decomposing for L levels, then each time you want an extra level of detail you need n-times the training data/training time.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely, keeping a 1:1 match between our perception of the universe and the universe itself is a kind of order that would be constantly under threat by the inexorable move towards increasing entropy. The lack of match either now or in the future is what you would expect. Chaos is the expect state, order is the exception. Hence you should not expect for that match to exist by default
You can be born with your perception. For example, opposite sexes generally attract and you don’t really have to teach this. We’re born to see things the same, but somehow we work to obstruct this by modding our perception. When one person mods their perception, they become god ( a creator). For example, you aren’t the tallest one in the room but you see yourself as that. You create a reality, and this is something p…
Where's the proof that humans of opposite sex are intrinsically attracted to each other? I can't see it.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#120I attended a woo-woo university course, where the instructor invited a interpretative dancer to give a lesson. The dancer bright out some paper, pencils, and almonds, and had everyone spend half an hour silently writing about their single almond. As it turns out, it's easier than it sounds; time passed quick and I (and most others) never felt bored. There's always more room for observation and analysis. It struck me…
Reminds me of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea :)