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- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 6 days ago:
uh, I’m a total quantum layman, but I’m pretty sure its the detector.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn’t give a damn.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 week ago:
My example is more in regards to wave/particle duality as it shows up in variations of the double slit experiment. Putting a detector at one of the slits is an active interaction, giving you the particle-like behavior rather than the interference pattern.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
wooo! comp-sci dropout! I heard way too many of you describe the kind of code that gets written under deadlines and client demands. Programming is fun, why would I want to ruin it by turning it into work?
- Comment on Deez peets 1 week ago:
skittering around on your fingertips
what a vile existence, I cannot stop imaging it
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 week ago:
When researchers say “observe” they actually mean “measure”. And when you’re working with sub-atomic particles, “measure” isn’t some passive activity. It’s an active thing. When you measure small particles you are applying some force upon them, changing them in some way from how they would otherwise act.
Imagine if you were tasked with measuring traffic on the other side of the planet, but you had no cameras. The only tool you had was a gigantic 30 ton, satellite-networked pendulum swinging across the highway. The only way you know if there are cars on the highway is if the pendulum thwacks into one of them. That’s quantum particle physics… I think.
- Comment on A simple solution, really 1 week ago:
Just think! I could have a new Nintendo and a whole 1.42 games to play on it!
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 3 weeks ago:
If you’re organizing protests, you really don’t want your online presence linked to your actions or your identity.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 weeks ago:
yeah, that’s some counter-productive signage.
like getting on a bus and seeing:
please don’t
GROPE STRANGERS
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
it depends on your flavor of flat-earther. for the religious types, the firmament is supposed to be in the way. for secular flat-earthers, I think they just like being contrary?
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
Here’s the super luminescence research paper arxiv.org/abs/2302.01469
although, this PBS youtube video is the summary I actually understand
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s an assumption to say consciousness is non-computable. But it’s also an assumption to say it is computable. Not really a phenomenon we understand.
I agree that fleshy brains are probably not the only things capable of producing consciousness. I think it’s actually fairly likely that a machine could be made that reproduces it, I’m just… really skeptical that it’s gonna look anything like a Turing machine. It would certainly be convenient if it did.
As to it being made of discrete units… there’s some evidence to suggest it might not be. When you put a person (or any living thing) under general anesthetics, the thing the anesthetics target is microtubules within cells. And microtubules themselves have quantum mechanical properties. They’ve been shown to er, “do”, super-luminescence in lab experiments (I don’t understand quantum).
Admittedly, that’s a lot of correlation and almost no direct example of causation. But it does suggest there’s… something… there that needs more examination and research.
- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 1 month ago:
People living in a society that de-prioritizes and under-funds public education:
is-this Is this the result of Undesirables breeding?
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
A brain is several billion living nerve cells all doing their thing, acting and reacting to one another, concurrently. A computer is only ever doing one task at a time, but at a fast enough pace as to give the illusion of multi-tasking.
Emulating a whole brain (everything, not just simplified neural networks, but the actual nerve cells themselves) is currently far beyond what computers are capable of. More then that, not every natural phenomenon can be described algorithmically! It’s entirely possible that consciousness is non- computable.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
No, a computer is just boolean logic. I’m not being reductive, that’s literally all you need.
When people say that thinking is just complicated enough computation, that’s an assumption. A particularly convenient assumption, given all the computers we have lying about.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 month ago:
Currently oxygen is about 20% of the atmosphere. In the Carboniferous period, 60 million years ago, it’s thought to have gotten as high as 30%.
Oxygen is highly reactive, and the 02 configuration is not particularly stable, so over time it gets locked up in other molecules, which are then burred or deposited at the bottom of bodies of water.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 2 months ago:
well they can do the sums, but that may be a far cry from thinknig
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 months ago:
Not just bees, it’s true of all insects.
Consequently, the amount of oxygen in the air determines how big bugs can grow. Get too big, and the oxygen can’t diffuse into the body fast enough. This even shows up in the fossil records, with larger bugs being found alongside evidence of eras that had more oxygen in the atmosphere.
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 2 months ago:
general anesthetics are so neat
like, you can just switch me off with a drug, and after a while I come back? weird, bizzar, and yet also practical. and (as far as I understand) it’s universal. Works on every living thing. They’ve anesthetized plants
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
steamVR works on it
of course, the only good VR game is Alyx and once you finish that it’s only tech demos and chat rooms - nothing else really worth the bother of strapping a monitor to your face.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
45% of men 18 to 25 have never asked out a woman in person
I can’t speak for the whole 45% but some of us have heard stories from women about how that other 55% can behave. I think I’d rather wait for a lady to (never) ask me out then put someone in the position of thinking “Oh, is he gonna take it bad if I say no?”
- Comment on RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE 2 months ago:
…yahoo.com/iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica-revealin…
to save you a click, they found an ecosystem where they didn’t really expect to see one but it’s not a great big novelty, just the normal sort of “never seen that species before” kind of novelty that comes with nearly every trip below the waves.
- Comment on I will not elaborate 2 months ago:
Gen-X is based? Really?
rebellion is when you listen to music your mom doesn’t like and also caring about things is gay
- Comment on Anon judges books by their covers 3 months ago:
the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate
that being said, people will still surprise you and it’s usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 months ago:
tying it to income means in a few decades inflation just shrinks the number of people who can actually benefit
If you own one residential property and also live in it, no taxes on that. Multiple properties? That’s taxes. Unfortunately, most primary education is funded by property tax, so you’d have to change how that works (and maybe actually pay teachers while your at it). Fortunately, none of this has any chance of ever getting implemented.
- Comment on Let's gooooo 3 months ago:
…the coca plant could already do that…?
- Comment on no ragrets 3 months ago:
being human is about communicating and learning new behaviors. Both of those take work and practice, so there’s selective pressure for a narrative that justifies not putting it in. If there hadn’t been the alpha/wolf thing then we’d just be having this conversation about some other silly story that served the same function.
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- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 months ago:
The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 4 months ago:
that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for
