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Post by Retric »

exe34 wrote: post #139
Retric wrote: post #136

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What you view as inconsistencies are based around assumptions for how the underlying rules work and what happened that don’t necessarily apply. One of the more interesting science fiction short stories I read seemed to have very inconsistent time travel, but on closer reading you find the two different methods involved had two different sets of rules. It’s easy to say something is inconsistent, but any possible story…

When it comes to Harry Potter, > but on closer reading does not make the inconsistencies go away, but they multiply.

> they multiply

Again based on specific assumptions. The universe of possibilities includes very strange places.

Re: Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

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Post by exe34 »

Retric wrote: post #141
exe34 wrote: post #139

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When it comes to Harry Potter, > but on closer reading does not make the inconsistencies go away, but they multiply.

> they multiply Again based on specific assumptions. The universe of possibilities includes very strange places.

> universe of possibilities includes very strange places.

that's an unjustified assumption.

Re: Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

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Post by Retric »

exe34 wrote: post #142
Retric wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they multiply Again based on specific assumptions. The universe of possibilities includes very strange places.

> universe of possibilities includes very strange places. that's an unjustified assumption.

Why? I mean if we and the characters are unsure what the underlying physics is then the possibilities are literally endless.

If nothing else pure randomness is a unsatisfying possibility as is a full branching search of every possible state for a universe.

Re: Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

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Post by mercutio2 »

opo wrote: post #80
mercutio2 wrote: post #68

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Fascinating. Vinge is about the furthest from “soft” sci-fi I can think of. We must have very different definitions of what makes something soft. It’s certainly true that Vinge doesn’t spend much time on the engineering details, but I find him unusually clear on “imagine if we had this kind of impossible-now technology, but the rest of what we know about physics remained, how would people behave?” He was, after all,…

>He was, after all, a physics professor. Actually, he was a mathematics and computer science teacher at San Diego State University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

You’re right, I was wrong!
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