That phrasing was obviously hyperbole, since 100% dependence isn't even a well-defined statement (you can not assign a simple percentage to degree of dependence). Using it as a point to argue against is misguided at best, disingenuous at worst. You should read it as "it is definitely dependent [to a high degree]" rather than "it is entirely dependent".
In my uninformed understanding of humans and their history, unifications happen only in the face of crises and threats (and far from all the time, clearly). Maybe--hopefully--the world eventually makes common cause in order to stabilise the world as things spiral out of control in a few decades, but right now our species appears more concerned about whom gets to dictate what and how humans should live and behave like.
There is no rule that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees. It only holds true in Euclidean geometry, which this is not.
That's disappointing. I was quite enjoying it.
I don’t know which thread you’re reading, but you’re not summarizing this thread. You’re having difficulty following apparently. Here’s the original post:
“It’s funny just reading the headline… Experts warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it xD isn’t research in general just good” This was posted by lemmy user: @Azzu@lemm.ee
I am summarising this thread. This, from what you quoted:
warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it
is precisely what I was referring to with
- why is it bad that X country is doing better
You’re right on this part. Your quote there, and my quote in prior posts which match that, are the answer to that original poster.
...and then you proceeded to convey the same sentiment in the discussion:
the decline of USA’s science research indicates a problem in the USA. That is a problem, wouldn’t you agree?
The strawman I am talking to does not realise that they are being parochial and continues to argue instead of correcting their behaviour.
I don't understand how you think you can argue this point, when the conversation is literally
- why is it bad that X country is doing better
- because USA is doing worse
And so the title assumes that the reader is from the US and would surely agree that this development is bad.
But you know this. You are arguing in bad faith.
"Washington" seems quite convinced of an imminent WWIII, and I'm guessing they intend to spend a lot of time in Asia.
It was posted to this international community. Regardless of the original intended audience, in this place the discussions should not assume nationality.
Dubious is your opinion on any subject.
Whatever your reason for saying that is, there is nothing I could possibly reply with that would make you consider any perspective I have to offer. Yet, here I go.
Al menos hablas español? O sos un chanchito del hemisferio norte jugando a revolucionario?
I understand Spanish to some degree because I have family in Colombia, but I suck at using it. I could trivially use a translation tool to help me compose a witty response, but that would change nothing.
5 M expatriates were held out of the ellection. Even with put the tallies, the ellection is a complete farse…
The fact that this is besides the point is the very point I'm making: stay. the. fuck. out. of. other. countries'. internal. politics. It's really quite simple. Unless you are an imperialist, obviously.
It's a statement and an intervention. Doesn't have to be literal military aggression to qualify as meddling.
So based on suspicion, potential indications, circumstantial evidence, and bloody hopes rooted in political bias and grabby hands it must be the moral duty of the Free West to liberate all these helpless brown people that just can't figure out how to start a revolution.
Actually, IIRC they do know how to do revolutions. I think they'll be ok without your fat fingers in their pie, mate.
Do you think them helpless peasants that require the intervention of big brother USA whenever there is trouble?
Even if Maduro's government is using undemocratic means to maintain power, who the fuck are the US and EU to take stances on and decide what Venezuela needs?
Let the people of Venezuela decide for themselves. Fuck's sake.
At the very least it doesn't handle spoilers correctly
It may be of critical importance in some games that, no matter how low the framerate is, the player never misses an event due to skipped frames.
There are also games that are not real time even in their animations, and so there may be no benefit to skipping frames rather than just letting it run at whatever framerate. Slowed tick rate mostly feels weird if one has certain expectations for the passage of time.
Once. They do not have the ability to learn or adapt on their own. They are created by humans through "deep learning", but that is fundamentally different from continuously learning based on one's own actions and experiences.
We are prediction machines, but nothing like chatgpt. Current AI has no ability to learn, adapt, or even consider the future.
Crossing an event horizon
Tl;dr: Someone please explain to me why some physicists think something could ever cross the event horizon of a black hole.
There is a conflict between my understanding of what the event horizon of a black hole is vs the way that many theoretical physicists talk about them.
I understand that a result in general relativity is that time progresses more slowly in the presence of energy, and this is why light bends around massive objects.
The way I understand the dynamics around a black hole is that the surface of an event horizon is the region of space where the energy is so great that time literally grinds totowards a halt (edit/clarification: from the perspective of an observer farther out). Light moves at the speed of causality, and when causality slows down, so does light. Light is bent and redshifted due to time dilation, and only when time stops does the wavelength of light go
What are your thoughts on the problem of infinite regress?
I think all of us here can agree that seeking to describe our universe in terms of laws and principles that allow us to make predictions about its dynamics is a worthy and fascinating pursuit. It is also undeniably valuable to any species that wishes to live and thrive in it.
However, us humans have developed this need to explain everything in terms of reasons for why things happen. What that means, exactly, varies between different contexts, but some interpretations are
- reasoned (practical or theoretic) justifications for actions taken by an agent;
- (primary) causes of events ("which of recent events was most necessary for this event to occur?");
- teleological purposes attributed to objects or events which explains their behaviours
A police officer pulls over Werner Heisenberg for speeding
"Do you know how fast you were going?" asks the cop. "No," Heisenberg replies, "but I know precisely where I am!"
Possibly the fanciest book I own now
My partner ordered it for me a couple of weeks ago as a surprise, but she had to tell me shortly after because I was talking about it and she didn't want to risk me ordering it too. The anticipation has been torturous.
Steam library sharing isn't working properly for me. Has anyone else had this problem?
My partner and I are sharing our libraries with each other on both the Steam Deck and our desktop PCs, but the list of actually borrowed games constitutes only a fraction of our complete libraries. I would expect all (non-F2P) games to show up under either borrowed or excluded.
From searching around, it seems to be a recurring problem for various people, and it either spontaneously fixes itself or after deauthorising and reauthorising (some reporting they had to clear Steam's cache - which is the only thing I haven't tried yet because that would be a massive inconvenience). But I'm not finding a lot of solutions or answers to what the deal is.
Has anyone else dealt with this?
Edit: it looks as if the listed "borrowed" games are only those that have been actually played at some point, so it's possible the list isn't meant to be exhaustive. Doesn't explain the missing majority of games however.
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Can we keep this community global?
It's almost exclusively about USA right now and frankly I'm sick of this US-centrism.
What proposed law(s) or principle(s) of nature do you find most fascinating?
You don't have to justify your fascination, but you are most welcome to!
'Proposed' includes old and new ideas alike. Consensus isn't a requirement either - it could be speculative, contentious or entirely uncontroversial, as long as it doesn't contradict what is currently known.
Natural Philosophy - exploring the biggest questions
A collaborative space of exploration into questions about the natural world, and meta-questions such as what constitutes an answer, a question, or why we can even ask questions in the first place. We are tortured souls, cursed with an insatiable hunger for answers and questions alike, and the knowle...
A place to discuss and share content about what may or may not be, and why it is so.
63 | Solo: Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics – Sean Carroll
This is one of my favourite episodes of Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. He talks about his recent work in attempting to derive the kind of spacetime geometry we observe from little more than the mere existence of a universal quantum wavefunction.
Shownotes:
I suspect most loyal Mindscape listeners have been exposed to the fact that I've written a new book, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. As I release this episode on Monday 9 September 2019, the book will officially be released tomorrow, in print, e-book, and audio versions. To get in the mood, we've had several podcast episodes on quantum mechanics, but the "emergence of spacetime" aspect has been neglected. So today we have a solo podcast in which I explain a bit about the challenges of quantum gravity, how Many-Worlds provides the best framework for thinking about quantum gravity, and how entanglement could be the key to showing how a curved spacetime could emerge from a quantum wave f
Subscribe and block buttons are broken for some communities
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.It's not a general functionality problem with subscribing or blocking. If you go to any thread in a community, the buttons work from there. It also works to sub from the community list.