It is a matter of vocabulary. You denied my saying that the moon existed relative to a rock because I used words you feel can only be used for human i...
Well, the alternative seems to be every world leader voluntarily ceding power to a non-human entity. I'm sure none of them will have a problem with th...
No, I’m asking for vocabulary that you would accept in describing parts of the world that are not in a laboratory or anywhere else where attention is ...
OK, I thought you were suggesting that AI would have avoided war with Hitler given the same circumstances. You are instead proposing that the entire w...
My comment was just reaching for real-life non-war scenarios that demonstrated the trolley paradox. I've come across many. I hope you personally never...
Fine. I googled ‘what is measurement in quantum mechanics’ and got this This seems more a classical physics definition of measurement, but I concede t...
That's the relational view, yes. I didn't get that whole list. To exist is a matter of definition. Objectively seems to be in the absence of measureme...
Well good then. I was beginning to wonder since all the conversation kept turning to human discourse on physics and not the actual physics. Not even o...
War has always been about sacrifice of people here and there for a greater goal. It is unavoidable. If you could not have lived with yourself after ma...
This seems to be a point of contention because I’m not in any way talking about the meaning of the word trees or the human experience of one falling o...
All else being equal then. In the organ thing, everybody is around 40 year old and part of a family and is loved. The 5 will die within 3 months witho...
My point was that this abductive construction isn’t in any way something unique to quantum theory. That’s not what make it different, and it certainly...
That also seems true of say Newtonian theory. Is there some way in which human agency or observation makes a difference in (grounds) QT in a way that ...
Your opinion of the plot is noted, but I was speaking of the food scenes, which seems to be what you’re trying to describe in your future socialist ut...
That comment was what made the moon the thing to exist (or not) based on watching it, sort of like the cat became the classic thing in the box. But I'...
Even looking at the measurement dials has no impact on the collapse or not. Of course, the descriptions you quote give a special role to an observer (...
First of all, my cafeteria suggestion satisfies your description of being a variety, suited to all tastes. There will be more than one of them, each w...
The prediction wasn’t based on it being automated. It was based on it being fully socialized, with everyone being equal and not getting special treatm...
Until Walmart opened its otherwise impervious doors. Contrary to most of the posts you’re getting, it has nothing to do with anybody actually looking ...
OK, my mistake, since I was envisioning an enumeration of the rationals to prove that there are irrational numbers. But the proof of that is less comp...
I imagine what was once a restaurant will become more like a dorm cafeteria. You just come in and eat what you will of what they’re serving that day. ...
But that number (from Cantor’s proof) is generated from a countable list of rationals, not an uncountable list of reals. So it can be computed. It doe...
From what I see, all the efforts have been aimed at reduction of the acceleration of the train, not even reduction of its speed. It’s not a fault. I c...
You seem to be deliberately avoiding the analogy, which is everybody on a train trestle (or tunnel) with nowhere to stand with a train present. The pe...
I pondered over this for several days trying to understand the arguments. I still hold to what I said. The section you mention nicely shows that the x...
And you remain consistent with the optimism. I’m sure somebody will fix it. Just somebody else, and please not while I’m around. I am glad that I don'...
Not to disagree, but an assertion like that requires a demonstration that they’re countable. Interestingly, the real number generated by Cantor's diag...
Clearly those who maintain the zoo, the automations that do the actual (unpleasant?) work, who provide all the Purina human chow to all the people tha...
True, and I mentioned this above, but that’s like trying to solve global warming by frying Earth with a giant magnifying glass like we did to the ants...
Both qualify as a computable number. The diagonalization method used with an ordered list of all rational numbers nicely produces a number that isn’t ...
And yet the total available renewable energy is fixed. Do you see what I’m trying to illustrate? A line that is going up has to eventually cross a hor...
OK, maybe, but it’s a very different definition. Is there an example of something that isn’t in this set? Maybe my prior example of the half life of c...
Unclear what your question was. I think I can take apart an assertion of a discrete granularity to space and time, especially if there’s any kind of r...
I think you’re referencing a different sort of efficiency. Not even sure what you mean by that statement. Yes, fusion would be nice, and would likely ...
Maybe it does, such as if our universe is digitally simulated. In this case, the amplitudes of the split beam would not be ?2, but close. Going to get...
Not quite. All motion can be specifed relative to a frame, specifically an inertial frame. Light speed is specified relative to (and is fixed only rel...
How much carbon would be released from the production of the energy needed to fill those spaces? It’s a sort of efficiency question. The point is, ER ...
They are very different things, and I meant ‘bigger’. Still one universe, but more of it than the story you found comfortable as a child. There were o...
There is no one Christian doctrine. There’s the bible at best, and I don’t think it encourages environmental destruction, but I’m sure one would be ab...
But I did it with integers, so I guess it's not 'ontically fractional'. I don't see elementary particles with charges with those ratios, so no. Yes, t...
You still haven't defined what you mean by 'ontically fractional', so the question is unanswerable. The numbers assigned to the charges of various thi...
’Many’ is a strong word. There’s plenty that actually stress betterment in this life. Would ‘the’ Christian church actually agree that it is OK to tra...
By definition, elementary particles cannot have parts. I don't know in what way you might consider a quark to be fractional (or worse, 'ontically frac...
Wayfarer, I know you have a hard time with a 'bigger' universe, but many of us don't. These same sentiments were expressed when it was discovered that...
OK, that’s just assigning a completely fictional long-term goal. I agree with that, but was trying to say that they don’t address long term goals in t...
Thanks for the post and transcript effort Andrew. This seems to suggest that it is quantum theory that would be falsified given, well, apparently some...
No, that statement was not a criticism. Just noticing that they don’t really seem to be vocal about this subject. They do indeed not seem to address t...
A limited resource constrains the usage to which it can be put. Running power for no likely gain will drain that resource sooner than if it wasn’t bei...
Theism doesn’t waste resources that others will have to pay for with their lives. On the other hand, plenty of lives are lost to theism, so go figure....
The context of the ‘granting wishes’ phrase is the Cryonic one, not extending a normal life for a human. And in either case, one will be forced to com...
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