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> macroscopic objects

It's not about scale at all though. It's just that small systems tend to be observed with this other, specific property that we associate with causing "quantum" like effects. Not only do those effects happen at mesoscopic scale but aside from gravity, quantum theory already can be and is used to describe things on large scales too. Classical computers and desks are still "quantum" systems. Recently theory and experiments have developed to connect with gravity in many ways. I'm more confused when people say something is mysterious. They're usually referring to apparent randomness but I think even that is explained already with partitions or even just wave math (complementarity).

> nobody really knows what they are talking about

Could you form a specific question that you're wondering about? (Have you looked at condensed matter physics yet?)

Why do I get the nagging suspicion their 1 million LOC codebase is backdoored?
Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:02PM (#47026973)
Then they should decide not to treat certain things and have better criteria around that than choosing to bury their heads in the sand and letting people die out of their ignorance.
Re:Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:36AM (#46866923)
> It can be made to any degree of reliability you desire.

Absolutely false statement.

Re:Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:05PM (#46850747)
What people hope 'AGI' is would at least be able to make confirmations of fact and know what verification means. LLMs don't have 'knowledge' and do not actually 'reason'. Heuristic vs simulation. One can be made to approach the other, but only on a specific and narrow path. Someone who knows something can verify that they know it. An "intelligence" implies it is doing operations based on rules, but LLMs cannot conform themselves to rules that require them to reason everything through. What people have hoped AGI would be could be trained to reliably adopt the practice of reasoning. Necessary but maybe not sufficient, and I'm just gonna blame that on the term "intelligence" actually indicating a still relatively low level of what I will "consciousness".
Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:59PM (#46842583)
What version did you use? What errors did you see? Don't get me wrong, I've spent 20 years with it, and there was a learning curve - but isn't that the case with many good tools? Again, don't get me wrong, I have some feedback for Apple, and there's a reason why we affectionately call it a harsh mistress. But that doesn't mean it's somehow not one of the best designed, best functioning, and most powerful suites for programming with certain other incidentally very well engineered SDKs etc. And yes, things may have gone downhill a little bit, especially at the scale they're at now. If we could talk about Xcode of, say, 2014, it'd be a less ambiguous conversation.
Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:54PM (#46842548)
> Hasn't everybody at least tried everything significant just because?

No, not in the slightest. I would call this one the most dangerous and unfortunate fallacies that so many intelligent people have ever accepted and been cheated by. If it were true, you'd know everything important there is to know, and be a master of philosophy, and would have many answers to some basic questions which most people have been told have no good or concrete or verifiable answers.

Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:15PM (#46842293)
How many of those people who spend their time using other IDEs on other OSs (where Xcode doesn't run) spend any amount of time using Xcode and therefore have the requisite experience to be able to know that it's generally excellent?

And when you say "you hear", you really mean "you", not "me". I hear it a lot.

What motivated your comment?

Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Saturday January 31, 2026 @06:26PM (#46841979)
I know Xcode might struggle every now and then with some of the things you're talking about and I'm not saying that I don't have any feedback for Apple, but Xcode is one of the most powerful and well designed development and instrumentation environments I've ever used.
Re:Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:44PM (#46830994)
no, you missed some of my sentences. you have to take the whole picture together. and I was not making an argument to you to prove the existence of the truth. You are clearly bent on arguing against its existence, which tells me enough about you. We were talking about agents that operate in good faith that know that they are safe. When you're ready to have a discussion in good faith rather than attempting to find counterarguments, then you will find that what I said is verifiable. The question is not whether you think you can come up with a way to make an argument that sounds like it contradicts what I said.

The question is not whether an AGI knows that it is an AGI. The question is whether it knows that it is not one. And you're missing the fact that there's no such thing as it here.

If you go around acting hostile to good people that's still not very intelligent. In fact, I would question if you have any concept of why you're doing it at all. chances are you're doing it to run from yourself not because you know what you're doing.

Anyway, you're just speculating and the fact of the matter is that you don't have to speculate. If you actually wanted to verify what I said, it would be very easy to do so. it's not a surprise that someone who doesn't want to know something will have deaf ears. so I'm not going to pretend that I stand a chance of convincing you when I already know that my argument is accurate.

don't be so sure that you meet the criteria for AGI.

and as for my slam dunk, any attempt to argue against the existence of truth, automatically validates your assumption of its existence. so don't make the mistake of assuming I had to argue about it. I was merely stating a fact.

Re:Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:37PM (#46828864)
It's very simple. The model itself doesn't know and can't verify it. It knows that it doesn't know. Do you deny that? Or do you think that a general intelligence would be in the habit of lying to people and concealing why? At the end of the day, that would be not only unintelligent, but hostile. So it's very simple. And there is such a thing as "the truth", and it can be verified by anyone repeatably in the requisite (fair, accurate) circumstances, and it's not based in word games.
is Chen in custody?

If not, why wouldn't he just transfer the funds to a new seed?

I guess they have a quantum computer.
I'm curious how their search queries were able to be found, if anyone happens to know details about this.
You mean the country which disappears its own citizens for expressing doubt at their "leadership"?
Re: on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:27AM (#45482242)
by the way bro, google Lebensraum.
Re: on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:23AM (#45481717)
You're just proving my point.

You have some growing up to do.

You have become worse than them. Until you admit this, you will not be better. And I know that you don't care about being better anymore. You're just a racist looking to wipe out an ethnic group, not even an ideology. It's in your words.

Shame on you. If and when history confirms that your self-entitlement was the cause of the attacks you would deny it for a long time, just as you are now.

By the way, you're talking to someone whose family is from there as well. You're not the only one who has lost people. What you are doing is attempting to justify the perpetuation of an asymmetric response because you cannot admit your own falsehood, ignorance, and lack of relational depth.

If you really are the stronger and more justified party, you can chill out and allow justice to take its course. Instead, you have lost the support of your allies because you have become the murderers you decried.

This conflict will stop when you can admit that. The obvious solution that you are proposing is the elimination of a group of people, not an ideology. And that is why you can go straight to hell.

Re: on Sunday October 05, 2025 @07:39AM (#45480775)
"the ones who consider themselves"

your words betray black and white thinking that demonstrates obvious externalization of responsibility. look up "splitting". it's a psychological defense mechanism.

if you were on the spiritual and moral ground you represent yourself as being on, no one else's actions or stance would change your opinion on whether they deserve love and a psychologically/relationally secure response from you. when someone is psychologically insecure, they overreact, hold double standards, externalize responsibility, and project their own insecurity as a moral flaw onto others. the term "narcissistic defenses" appears in literature. this is why it's so hard to talk to you. you are perpetuating the conflict by using the "logic" you are using. in reality you are displaying entitlement and grandiosity. and that prevents you from admitting it.

an eye for an eye makes the world blind, big man.

realistically, it's your own people and your own children and parts of yourselves that you are attempting to destroy and alienate. You're being used and you're using people.

Just for some agenda that you don't even understand but are all too willing to deploy propaganda to argue for. You remind me of a cult member or someone my grandparents fought against in WW2. Those "Arabs" are just taking your living room, aren't they?

Re:Oral bacteria linked to Parkinson's via the gut-brain axis on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @09:41AM (#45360230)
was he exposed to Roundup?
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:40PM (#45186584)
lol Yeah they need to fix that. I thought it was some new kind of phone stand.
Re:Collecting All Causal Knowledge on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#45108468)
perhaps in a similar way that it is impossible to directly "observe" a wavefunction without collapsing it into an observale "effect".
i'm not appealing to anything except for asking the dude who replied to me for a damn reference when I'm the one who was friends with researchers who told me about their own work. Learn how conversations work instead of trying to shit on other people. Jerk.
they ran numbers on it. Do you have any references to support what you're saying?
A couple researchers have told me that it's not necessary to even reach 51%. It's probably something closer to 35% to maintain the ability to perform censorship etc
Re:Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:52AM (#44594697)
I don't think I said anything about the lack of existence of complexity. But all those complex things operate by one very simple, fundamental principle, and among other truths we call that principle The Truth. afaict this truth is called a law and it can be found through logical derivations and proven by contradiction. (It has been stated repeatedly by different philosophers in history.

By the way, you claim that the movement of things exists, but that is simply something you saw from your perspective without confirming the reality of that. Buddha would beg to differ given that according to him in scriptures, things were never born and don't decay etc.

If we assume that anything was actually born, then I say that it operates by the law of cause and effect, and the theory of repetition. These two laws create all phenomena and all other laws aiui. they're very simple.

And there is a difference between complexity of structures, and a given persons difficulty in understanding it. I do get the impression that you know this, but my point is that even what we call complex could be of the same difficulty to comprehend for someone who can see the universe whole. "for a real master of philosophy there is no difference in the difficulty of questions."

if you still believe that I'm missing your point please tell me again, so we can confirm.

Re:Signs of Autism Could Be Encoded in the Way You Walk on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:50AM (#44594673)
for some reason, this reminds me of Mahler's "autistic" stage of child development.
Re:Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:15AM (#44520661)
Your question is very simple to solve for someone who has done enough real philosophy lol :) a lie is when you tell something differently than it is. the truth means "what exists as it is".

If you say that "it is difficult to find the truth", aside from the blatant subjectivity of your claim, then , if we believe your statement, then that itself must be a "truth". And yet you invalidate your own claim immediately by saying "different for different persons". Well, if that statement is true, then it invalidates itself as well.

You cannot disprove the existence of truth by using a system that relies on truth and falsehood.

it reaches for stuff
"Hugging face" is also a pretty weird name

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