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I have 160G of screen captures from Tumblr from my then angsty teenage kid. I think my spouse takes a few Gig of photos for each outing we go on. Several people dress for fancy thing via a process involving many clothes changes and even more selfies.

Finite includes some very large numbers.

What my phone will be able to remember what I use it for at different times and places with better than 50% accuracy? The real tech miracle today is mRNA and solar panels. Not sure why you think being able to generate theory will help u leash the material goods needed to put people on Mars. Even if we get the singularity, would it regard human exploration as worth while compared to to machine exploration?

Having QFT formalized rigorously means a ton of mathematical apparatus can now be applied to it. Where that might lead to is difficult to say, but this gap was a problem in claiming we understand how the universe works, in detail.

Having a sub exponential but super polynomial limit to complexity isn’t that much different than having an exponential limit - in analysis you have excruciatingly fine degrees of asymptotic growth all of which are kind of morally equivalent but not mathematically equivalent.

I am not sure about the harmonic analysis stuff - I was actually working on constructing sets of positive Fourier dimension a few years ago but never really got a big picture feel for it.

Well in the books the nano particles come into your home and show you dream virtual realities of your dead relatives and then offer to transform your mentation into some god like entity in the now ubiquitous compute stratum.

A bigger deal to mathematicians who like physics to be mathematically sounds and precise.

Responding to GP, I know people that de facto work this way and absolutely hire on those rare occasions they are looking. They create substantial value as a byproduct of their quest for beauty in complexity.

On the git thing, it turns out LLMs write better systems when constrained into the same patterns that make human teams write better systems - git and the chance to safely experiment en route to the ultimate solution being key. As well as modularity, iterative design and implementation, tests, documents, etc.

I have taken the golden rule to be a sort of absolute standard: whether or not people treat you well, you still treat them well. This one makes it a sort of utilitarian argument but where you don’t fix your own identity, but assume different people are in the same boat, and then make the decision about which outcome is best. I haven’t read Kant

No it’s flower.

My young (12?) son left his wallet in a pack pack near the bus stop while he and his friends ran around. He had a student debit card which was taken and used to buy cigarettes. A useful lesson in caution.

A rarely talked about solution to ethics: when you decide what to do yourself, analyze it as tho a chunk of other people will make the same decision, and then choose which would is better. Works very well in practice - especially if an answer can be probabilistic - pick up trash on the beach you didn’t put there five percent of the time, not never like asshole selfish people and not always like annoying do gooders.

Like AI will give us the solution to global warming: stop burning carbon and releasing methane. Who knew?

What if step one of the cure is don’t heat up your tissues and fill them with little spikes bioreactive chemicals?

sudo is pseudo for the readers. A fake desire of freedom.

For some content, it isn’t just freedom the requires self-awareness, any sort of sustained action requires self-awareness to have any sort of coherence. I mean some things don’t need coherence, you could just instinctively take care of others without much deep semantics.

You can respond in a way you find fulfilling to each moment without knowing some grand unified sense of calling, or with only a vague description, “enjoying existence and helping others as you can to enjoy existence.”