Or we are an experiment (natural or artificial) that yields optimal information when unmanipulated or manipulated imperceptibly (from our point of view).
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I really like this distinction. The closest I’ve seen is discussion of existential risk from a non-anthropocentric perspective. I suppose the neologism would be panexistential risk.
The desire to know error estimates and confidence levels around assertions and figures, or better yet, probability mass curves. And a default attitude of skepticism towards assertions and figures when they are not provided.
Yes, until the distance exceeds the Hubble distance of the time, then the light from the spaceship will red shift out of existence as it crosses the event horizon. Wiki says that in around 2 trillion years, this will be true for light from all galaxies outside the local supercluster.
Naively, the required condition is v + dH > c, where v is the velocity of the spaceship, d is the distance from the threat and H is Hubble’s constant.
However, when discussing distances on the order of billions of light years and velocities near the speed of light, the complications are many, not to mention an area of current research. For a more sophisticated treatment see user Pulsar’s answer to this question …
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/60519/can-space-expand-with-unlimited-speed/
… in particular the graph Pulsar made for the answer …
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Uzjtg.png
… and/or the Davis and Lineweaver paper [PDF] referenced in the answer.
this claim
Do you mean the metric expansion of space?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space
Because this expansion is caused by relative changes in the distance-defining metric, this expansion (and the resultant movement apart of objects) is not restricted by the speed of light upper bound of special relativity.
Would you support a law to stop them?
Wiki says that desomorphine has been a Schedule 1 controlled substance in the US since 1936, shortly after its discovery. Mere possession is illegal, much less use.
predict with high confidence a Republican win
Odd since most prediction markets have a 60⁄40 split in favor of a Democrat winning the US presidency.
E.g., https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes/Pres16_Quotes.html
Sanders vs. Trump.
The polls have Sanders ahead in this particular matchup …
“Prediction market”. The DPRs implement some sort of internal currency (which, thanks to blockchains, is fairly easy), and make bets, receiving rewards for accurate predictions.
Taking this a little further, the final prediction can be a weighted combination of the individual predictions, with the weights corresponding to historical or expected accuracy.
However different individuals will likely specialize to be more accurate with regard to different cognitive tasks (in fact, you may wish to set up the reward economy to encourage such specialization), so that the set of weights will vary by cognitive task, or more generally become a weighting function if you can define some sort of sensible topology for the cognitive task space.
AngelList says Anthony Aguirre is the founder.
I would say that actions that make a particular person happy can have consequences that decrease the collective happiness of some group. I might use a tyrant or an addict as examples. In answering the question “What else are you gonna do?” I’d propose at least “As long as you harm no group happiness, do what makes you happy,” the Wiccan Rede “An’ ye harm none, do what thou wilt” probably being too strict (rules out being Batman, for example).
When someone is about to be a parent (I think this question stick more to a man than a woman, considering the empathic link that’s been biologicaly created between a child and his mother) is he really asking himself: Will they worth it ?
I think the situation is very different planned vs. unplanned. For me, once the decision was made I had no second thoughts. Also, the little munchkins re-write you emotionally once they arrive ← no one told me about this, so it was actually a bit of a shock.
Often helpline workers are people who formerly needed mental health advice themselves. At least, they’ll have training on how to be helpful. I think it’s very likely they’ll be supportive, and unlikely that they’ll be judgmental.
However, this is from a US perspective. Things may be different in other parts of the world.
That strategy has a good chance of discouraging her from getting treatment later.
Why do you say that? Also, if she is distressed, then she may want treatment now.
Getting her to call a mental health advice line that she doesn’t trust likely won’t be positive.
Granted, but why won’t she trust the mental health advice line? If she is distressed, she may be willing to consider help from new sources.
If she is not distressed, then CronoDAS can use the mental health advice line to get educated on the options in case she does become distressed.
I think “all human interaction is manipulation” is false on its face. I was putting forward Adler as a candidate for being a modern root of this meme. His teachings are still quite influential.
If she is distressed by the symptoms, you could encourage her to contact someone that can educate her about treatment options. There may be a mental health advice line in your area that can refer her or you to free or low cost resources.
My understanding is that Alder thought we all start with an inferiority complex because we all start as small, weak children.
He was the inferiority complex guy …
“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.” (From a new translation of “Progress in Individual Psychology,” [1923] a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.
… everything is about the struggle to gain power over others, which can become pathological …
“The soul under pressure of the feeling of inferiority, of the torturing thought that the individual is small and helpless, attempts with all its might to become master over this inferiority complex. Where the feeling of inferiority is highly intensified to the degree that the child believes that he will never be able to compensate for his weakness, the danger arises that in his striving for overcompensation, will aim to overbalance the scales. The striving for power and dominance may become exaggerated and intensified until it must be called pathological. The ordinary relationships of life will never satisfy such children. Well adapted to their goal, their movements will have to have a certain grandiose gesture about them. They seek to secure their position in life with extraordinary efforts, with greater haste and impatience, with more intense impulses, without consideration of any one else. Through these exaggerated movements toward their exaggerated goal of dominance these children become more noticeable, their attacks on the lives of others necessitate that they defend their own lives. They are against the world, and the world is against them.” (From “The Feeling of Inferiority and the Striving for Recognition,” [1927] a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.
Perhaps look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Adler ?
Apparently being a postman in the 60s and having a good Johnny Cash impression worked out well …
http://infamoustribune.com/dna-tests-prove-retired-postman-1300-illegimitate-children/