Everything posted by swansont
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Observer-Centric Reformulation of the Black Hole Information Paradox
Moderator NoteRules require that material for discussion be actually posted here. Not via links or uploads.
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What is the legal significance of evidence provided by AI ?
In the US some contractors who controlled the red-light cameras were found to have adjusted the timing so the amber was shorter than required by statute. Invalidated a lot of tickets.
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What is the legal significance of evidence provided by AI ?
Or worse, just reflexively covering your mouth/face from a yawn, cough or sneeze
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How would you counter the "science was wrong before" argument?
This schtick is getting old.
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What is the legal significance of evidence provided by AI ?
I’m guessing this is machine learning rather than LLM-driven. Pattern recognition of seatbelts and not having two hands on the wheel, etc., like facial recognition. I wonder how easily it would be fooled by the t-shirts that display a shoulder seatbelt, or generates false positives from unexpected situations. I hope it’s been sufficiently vetted, rather than using initial deployment as a beta-test. I also assume they send the image of the alleged infraction to you so you can potentially challenge it. (Reminds me of a Columbo episode where he figured out a traffic camera was being spoofed; he realized that there was no shadow under the perp’s nose, so it must have been a picture, thus denying the perp an alibi)
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A challenge to all the Gods in Existence
Nah. There’s a whole section on PornHub showing that sort of thing.
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A challenge to all the Gods in Existence
Oh, please. “some see God in every day life.” is subjective. The evidence of climate change and the benefit of vaccines is objective. Not understanding it or being motivated to look into it, or whatever, is the issue. The objective evidence actually exists. Comparing it with religion is intellectual bankruptcy.
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The Cosmic Ledger Hypothesis
If you’d read the rules you agreed to follow, you’d know that all material for discussion must be posted - not via links or uploads. Also that using AI is a dealbreaker — we have no desire to wade through that slop.
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Marvellous Earth and Life !
Seconded. Technology is a unique metric for thriving/progress, and a very human-centric. Like a tall person insisting that height is the true measure of human value. Bacteria might insist on population as being the proper measure of progress. ETA: you suggest technology as a metric; our technology has allowed us to live in environments not hospitable to naked apes. Some organisms evolved such capability
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Marvellous Earth and Life !
Having opposable thumbs has helped greatly in making tools. A significant part of our issues with water pressure is we breathe atmospheric air, which most sea-dwellers do not. I think pressure is somewhat less of an issue than you imply. But if atmospheric pressure were increased that would mean an increase in gravity (and/or other environmental changes), and yes, that would have affected evolution
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"[Time] is one of concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan
The math is the hard part. Not because math is hard, or needs to be complicated. But it allows for specific predictions, which we require, to allow for comparison with experiment. But you don’t have it, so this is closed
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"[Time] is one of concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan
You need to identify what this substance is. How it’s detected, what the experimental evidence for it is, etc.
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"[Time] is one of concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan
It’s like trying put a queen-sized fitted sheet on a king-sized bed. You get one corner on and another comes undone. IOW it’s likely to fail once you try to make it work with the rest of physics, and if so, it’s wrong. Energy is a property of things, so (like studiot) I’d like to see the actual statement and context.
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
Did the address whether you will know, when the rain washes you clean?
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"[Time] is one of concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan
The consensus is no mass because that’s what the evidence says. Considering only the photon shows the problem; physics has a lot of moving parts and they mesh fairly well, so you can’t only look at a subset of it when considering such a broad topic.
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is x-y = |y-x| ?
“When is it satisfied?” can be addressed with some simple algebra. But you need to show you’ve tried to solve it first; we don’t just do homework problems for others. That doesn’t help anyone learn
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A challenge to all the Gods in Existence
What, precisely, needs explaining? Does ot have to do with the philosophy behind it, or the science?
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"[Time] is one of concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan
Fundamental bosons are not matter. Can you show that they are unaffected by time? W and Z have mass, so they do not travel at c.
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New 200 Mile Record for Battery Train
Slow recharging would help with that, too. Full discharge of the battery might be a factor; IIRC NiCd batteries preferred that.
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New 200 Mile Record for Battery Train
My guess would be swapping rather than waiting to recharge, leading to quicker turnaround, for when this goes into service.
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Adding "my posts" or "my content" ?
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New 200 Mile Record for Battery Train
They don’t mention what load was being hauled, and how that would affect the range.
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Why does Narcissistic Personality Disorder exist in humans?
Moderator NoteA youtube video is not a reasonable substitute for a link to some credible medical/psychology source (e.g the AMA or APA in the US) or a textbook or journal. Searching on that phrase gives pretty much only that one person’s youtube videos. That’s not credible, in terms of establishing it as part of the mainstream, and speculations can only be discussed in that forum.
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Why does Narcissistic Personality Disorder exist in humans?
With all due respect, asking for this sort of clarification is completely reasonable. It’s a discussion forum, not a personal chat.
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Split from The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread
This seems like a complete non-sequitur, as you have not posted here in a year and a half, and there doesn’t seem to be any accusation against you.