When I stay up too late I am often bewildered by my alarm clock when it wakes me up, unable to figure out what the numbers mean for a while. Nonetheless there must be a part of me that knows what’s going on because I always end up setting it again so I have enough time to get ready after sleeping some more.
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It doesn’t seem like I ever process the word like that (gendered) at all when it’s used in a phrase like that, but I suppose other people might experience it differently.
I’m not sure when education becomes an ugh subject, but I don’t think it starts out that way.
if you have to memorize 3x7 and 7x3 separately, you’re doing it wrong
I wasn’t claiming it was the whole story, but thanks for giving more info. I maybe should have said that you can’t have that situation without changing trajectories but I thought acceleration was a simpler way to summarize.
if you are traveling very fast, the clocks of others are speeding up from your point of view.
This is backwards. Everyone in an inertial frame thinks other peoples clocks are slower. Acceleration is what causes the opposite, e.g. turning the spaceship around to come back
Why is that creepy instead of just shy?
Like a cannon from a civil war reenactment?
The fact that they are practiced by existing cults does not mean they are not beneficial. The main cultish aspect is the fear of exploitation, which hopefully is not present.
edit: if it is, please say so.
Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that’s very convincing evidence.
Same essay.
It can’t do exact relativity but it can do exact general AI? Not to mention that simulating a God that doesn’t include relativity will produce the wrong answer.
So, what you’re saying is that the larger number is less likely to be accurate the further it is from the smaller number? Why is that?
Here is a great simulation of two electrons in a wire that looks just like your drawing of a two particle configuration space, and is quite helpful for showing how it moves and what it means about the particles.
In fact, the best indicator of being a masterful cult leader is that no one suspects you! wait...
You can’t have a counterpoint to someone’s experience. He always found luxury cars to have good cupholders. You can’t say he’s wrong about that...
However, make sure that the things you put on your list are things you actually want to do. Otherwise it may take away from the effect.
Or maybe they think that your non-drinking is not a value of yours, but a value of another group that you are choosing over theirs.
I’m not sure why, but now I want Super-induction-turkey to be the LW mascot.
We argue using simple models that all successful practical uses of probabilities originate in quantum fluctuations in the microscopic physical world around us, often propagated to macroscopic scales
Their argument is that not only is quantum mechanics ontologically probabilistic, but that only ontologically probabilistic things can be successfully described by probabilities. This is obviously false (not to mention that nothing has actually been shown to be ontologically probabilistic in the first place).
Thus we claim there is no physically verified fully classical theory of probability.
They think they can get away with this claim because it can’t even be tested in a quantum world. But you can still make classical simulations and see if probability works as it should, and it’s obvious that it does. Their only argument is that it’s simpler for probability to be entirely quantum, but they fail to consider situations where quantum effects do not actually affect the system (which we can simulate and test).
it would be trivially easy for him to arrange a miracle which no other agent could replicate, and for that matter he could allow everybody to see it at once. This would remove all ambiguity and would be a much better way of achieving the goal of making his existence known, or further, of making his will known. If he does indeed use miracles to further his goals, it must be the case that he prioritizes hiding his goals and interventions almost as much as actually achieving them. (after all, nobody can come to an agreement about what God wants or what counts as a miracle) I can’t think of a reason why this would be the case, so at this point I’ve abandoned the project of trying to justify it.
(a standard response would be that God’s ambiguous interventions are a test that only the faithful will interpret as evidence. At that point he is actively discouraging the impartial weighing of evidence, which is another baffling behavior which would need motivation)