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Comment · 12 days ago
> they were so much better they managed to lock up search for long enough to cement their position

There is still a chance for something like this to happen with AI, no?

Comment · 3 months ago
The wear on the pieces and board was not an input for the AI tool they used.

Also, they didn’t “ask” an AI anything, as it was not a natural language AI tool.

Comment · 4 months ago
Maybe it isn’t changing mass at all, and what’s changing is just the probability distribution resulting from a hypothetical flavor measurement. If we could measure the mass (collapse to mass eigenstate), I think I understand we would see no oscillation.
Comment · 4 months ago
Not a physicist, but here are a couple Wikipedia excerpts I found: From page “Conservation of mass”:

“In general, mass is not conserved. The conservation of mass is a law that holds only in the classical limit.”

From page “Neutrino oscillation”:

“Neutrino oscillation arises from mixing between the flavor and mass eigenstates of neutrinos. That is, the three neutrino states that interact with the charged leptons in weak interactions are each a different superposition of the three (propagating) neutrino states of definite mass. Neutrinos are produced and detected in weak interactions as flavour eigenstates[a] but propagate as coherent superpositions of mass eigenstates.[23]”

Comment · 6 months ago
The contest has a cash prize. Why did you put the university name in quotes?
Comment · 6 months ago
Professor Simonton, quoted here, seems to be confused about what is meant by Shakespeare’s “problem plays”.
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
The U.S. itself has been engaging in similar behavior around the world for a long time. The specific relevance of Israel may only be a combination of recency and amount of U.S. attention.

But “scapegoat”?

“Israel did 9/11” is treating them as a scapegoat. “IDF often calls men they killed terrorists with no justification” is just stating a fact.

Comment · 10 months ago
Hey, do you mind sharing any of these other forums? I’m trying to make my way up the satire food chain.
Comment · 11 months ago
I would guess that was not a joke. The benefits could drop all the way to 0 at a reasonable point unless you impose the stronger condition that the function be analytic.
Comment · 11 months ago
I actually agree with your premise of ruling out “not at all”. I was just responding to your characterization of “if ever”.

I’m not quite as certain as you are, though. Just because a technology is possible does not mean it is inevitable.

Comment · 11 months ago
Let’s say there are three options: {soon, later, not at all}. Ruling out only one to arrive at {later, not at all} implies less knowledge than ruling out two and asserting {later}.

Awareness of a fundamental limitation would eliminate possibilities to just {not at all}, and the phrasing would be “never”, rather than “not soon, if ever”.

Comment · 1 year ago
Computing, they propose
Comment · 1 year ago
Not being forced to open a joint account either…

In all seriousness, all the pushback against paternalism comes from people who still believe in free will.

Comment · 1 year ago
That’s the next guy’s job to pressure wash it off ;)

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