StringJunky

Deluded subject. If anything, it just shows how prevalent racism is. Monocultures don't survive. Looking at you Israel.

Facts never change e.g. velocity of light is fixed in a vacuum. GR is a construct derived from facts, but as more facts emerge ,or are seen in a new light, it's description of that part of nature reduces in scope. In that sense, theories always seem to be contemporaneous in terms of their validity reflecting nature. I find 'truths' to be more tied to human experience than as scientifically objective information.

Facts are temporally permanent (always reflect reality), but truths are contemporaneous (correct at the time). As in science, the facts don't change, but the models (truths) can. Facts exist independent of an observer, but truths are human constructs.

What an oxymoronic subject title.

.... where the number of components/participants tends towards infinity. I have read. Like how many water molecules to make the liquid we know?

I thought it meant to be lost for words.

I thought emergence was the other way around: You can't predict the result, you can only afterwards say "A leads to B by observing what B is.

Wealthy people rarely got where they are by being generous.

If they dished out the yellow cards for grabbing more often, it would knock it in the head soon enough. It was nice to see an Argentinian to get two yellows, leading to red, for such arseholery.

When you respond as you are doing now, it is like talking into a vacuum and makes one feel like they are wasting their time, draining the momentum of conversations to a standstill.

Yeah, that's about right.

There's something narcissistic about calling oneself a 'philosopher'. Can't put my finger on it.

Right, ok.

If computers are glorified calculators, AI is a glorified computer. They aren't AI anyway, they are LLM's. I think still there is a few more evolutionary steps to happen before they become creative in the way humans do it. I mean, is an LLM capable of the equivalent of neuroplastic generation, even on a virtual software level?

It could well be news of the release of that paper I read about, or something similar..

Apparently, human-derived data will become scarcer as it gets swamped by AI chaff. AI, collectively, will be training on its own output. That would seem to me that the training data quality will decrease over time.

On my social media, quite a few Americans are disappointed that this is another nail in the coffin of America's global reputation.

Norway's disciplined passing and Haaland's accuracy may be the undoing of England, although they did hold it together after that red card and one man down.

That was the point about truths. Not everybody aligns with someone's truth, which may only exist for them. "My headache is painful" is true for me but not true for you.

As said by others, I would go along with the idea that facts are objective (have a broad consensus) and truths are subjective (derived from a singular or narrower consensus). Or put another way: a truth is what we feel ("It's beautiful") and fact is what we know (water boils at 100c STP). Not everybody will agree on the former but can on the latter.

From NASA: "On Feb. 11, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay. Halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission. “Normally, Swift quickly turns to view its targets — especially the fleeting, almost daily explosions called gamma-ray bursts — with multiple telescopes,” said principal investigator S. Bradley Cenko at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope will continue to detect gamma-ray bursts, but the spacecraft will no longer slew to observe targets with its other telescopes.” https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/02/11/nasas-swift-mission-transitions-ops-to-prep-for-orbit-boost/

They have a common ancestor from about 12m years ago, I read earlier. They've diverged in behaviour since then. Ignoring the double entendre.

Very contemporary and visually descriptive mentally. I like that.