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If we start conceptualising poetry as a task a human can do, rather than an expression of a necessarily human subjectivity... What remains if you abst...

It's sort of off topic, but those mechanisms of behavioural modification are already in place. Doesn't need the singularity, just needs flexible enoug...

It isn't so much that philosophy of religion is bad, it's that people who are knowledgeable about it on the site don't post about it much. Even @"Wayf...

:up: Another aspect of it is that entropy is unpredictability. Your body metabolises environmental resources to keep its cycles in a steady state. If ...

There being so much data to feed gigantic models that they're getting extremely close to being functionally indistinguishable from human conduct in li...

Poets making poems out of other poems counts as poetry; why not a machine doing the same thing. Poet style is constrained by what they've learned abou...

When I described the systemic issues in another thread, you agreed with my characterisation, and that the problems were incredibly severe and hard to ...

States' rights in a nutshell.

If you want help with the maths feel free to take it up in that thread or by PM!

There's a thing that text prediction algorithms need to do that makes the full breadth of theme and imagery difficult for them. To a model, a poem is ...

You will never get a socially conscious racist to defend racism. It will always always always be a reaction to negate any specific anti-racist thing. ...

Don't you hope for all their hopes to come true?

I largely agree with this! But I still think metaphysics is valuable. I think you are quite right in pointing out that metaphysical talk is essentiall...

Most of your responses in the thread have been a long form version of that. "It can't be like that now, it's not then!"

There's a discussion in Capital, and popular Marxist trope (you can see it in Endnotes if that's still a thing), that money can't provide a measure of...

This is a ramification of the contents of the thread: 0.999...= 1 started by @"jorndoe". Thanks jorndoe First off, the simplest infinity that we know ...

And the oodles of evidence for systemic racism?

Why is hypothetical unsourced harm more important to you than real harm done on a daily basis? Why does it weigh heavier in your considerations regard...

An attempt at a left criticism of the movements, in the spirit of the forum's old advocatus diaboli. I will not deny the suffering of people in poor n...

When it's so close to the usual definitions, yeah.

I don't think the article says very much. If you give a gigantic machine learning model lots of text, it's going to find patterns of all sorts in it. ...

Almost no one who should post in the introductory subforum would feel the need to post in the introductory subforum.

You just accepted that 0.999... is the limit of {0.9,0.99,0.999,...}, and equal to 1.

Great. That means you accept 0.999...=1!

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That is exactly how it is meant. That is what 0.999... means. The infinite sum notation \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} just means \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} \sum...

What is the limit of the series {0.9,0.99,0.999,...}? Call this x. What does the symbol "0.999..." represent? Call this y. Is x=y ?

1 = \sum_{i=1}^{\infty} 9 \times 10^{-i} = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} s(n) =0.999...

The sequence elements tend towards the limit. The limit is not a sequence element. 0.999... is the limit. It is equal to 1.

That only shows you didn't understand it. @"jorndoe" defines what a limit is in it! It doesn't even need infinity in the definition.

In one respect it is shorthand. The sequence {0.9,0.99,0.999,..} is the sequence of partial sums s(n)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}9 \times 10^{-i}. IE {0.9, 0.99,0....

Which is exactly why you write 0.999"...". It is the limit.

Yes, many people do. Those who've taken the time to study it. 0.999... IS the limit of the sequence {0.9,0.99,0.999,...}, which IS 1. 0.999... is not ...

There are always people that disbelieve in it. It isn't so surprising, since it involves infinity, limits, convergence and monotonicity. What I find e...

Then you don't know what the symbols mean and should read the OP's article!

That ... MEANS the thing on the left IS the limit. 0.999... IS the limit of the sequence {0.9,0.99,0.999,...}, which is 1.

I'm not saying it is valueless to consider; I just think it's not the right time or movement to easily pivot into non-domestic issues. The focus seems...

It's amazing how many people will respond without reading through and understanding @"jorndoe"'s well written proof. Go educate yourself! Someone's ma...

0.999... is equal to the limit of the sequence {0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...} is equal to 1.

Very well said. The police stuff, and social policy to address that mobility issue are domestic, and are what the momentum of this movement is towards...

the ... means the limit is taken. IE, .999... = 1

More concretely; questions of systemic discrimination are also questions of resource distribution and social planning. To the extent those things are ...

Anyone with a problem they don't know how to learn to solve.

If someone thought that, it betrays (1) A lack of trust (2) A lot of insecurity (3) A willingness to constrain their partner from activities they stro...

If I could interject, maybe a good vocabulary to describe it is the distinction between a subjectivity and agency. In one of @"StreetlightX"'s old thr...

That place of ambiguity is where the arche-fossil argument works.

It would be valid when restricted to the real numbers as originally intended, I think. There does not exist an x between the limit of that sequence an...

Looks fine to me! I think there's a common source of confusion related to the one you pointed out, 1 isn't in the infinite series, but the infinite se...

Wrote something related to it here. The history of systemic racism is colonial history; and the majority of current systemic racism is done through in...