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This is a paywall-free link the NYT Opinion account posted to Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...

The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.

Also he had been under FBI surveillance, which he was apparently aware of.

The Australian Human Rights Commission discussed many of these issues in its March report, "Protecting Cognition: Background Paper on Neurotechnology":

https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/technology-and-human-rig...

It came to light because some financial records were sent to the CIA's Retired Records Center for some reason and escaped destruction. See page 5 of [1].

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...

This reminds me of the Buddha's comparison of the Dhamma to a raft, which one does not carry around on his or her back after crossing over on it.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html

There's a little more information in this Reddit thread [1]. In it someone references an earlier work by Jason Zimba [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/11zptjo/an_impossible...

[2] https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf

Conversely, these models open up philosophical questions of "exactly what a human is" beyond language abilities. How much of what we think, do, and perceive comes from the use of language?

I wonder how effective it would be at finding exploitable security holes in code.

The relation is virtually always bidirectional, and often forms complex, dynamic feedback loops. Simple causal analysis can fail in such situations.

This is reminiscent of Soviet psychiatry and the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia" for dissidents.

It's already an English translation of a French paraphrase of a text of unknown provenance.

He's using Euler's Tonnetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz

It is a theory in the sense that it is epistemic. Bob's quantum state changes depending on Alice's measurement, essentially collapsing the probability distribution to the conditional probability distribution. As science it cannot be proven, but the empirical results match the model. The paper I cited defines precise protocols to define terms like "steerable states." This is standard quantum theory, so the no-communication theorem still applies.

Is the quantum state also ontic, and in what sense? Those are open questions of interpretation.

In quantum information theory the ability of Alice to instantaneously change Bob's quantum state (and hence measurement probabilities) is referred to as quantum steering. No information can be sent, but the influencing effect can be defined and observed. Steering is distinct from both Bell-nonlocality and nonseparability. See, e.g., [1] and later papers.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612147

They haven't uploaded to YouTube, but that's kind of the idea of this project: http://allthemusic.info/

Check out projectM, "an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop": https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Some other similar projects are Pythran, Transonic, and mypyc.

Bash function names also have a different namespace than Bash variables, so you can define a function and a shell variable with the same name. I used that in a script which defines a function to be used like an alias to change to a specified directory, but where the name is also set as a shell variable that can be evaluated with $ to give the directory's pathname.

Aaronson seems to be using the term Zen metaphorically, as a general path to some sort of "enlightenment" or "Zen state."

In the '90s McGehee claimed that he was being harassed in Herdon, Va. where he lived, in part due to his CIABASE database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McGehee#Controversies

http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/protect.html