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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes I know what vacuum decay is, and the thing I referenced, the inflaton field, is a hypothetized false vacuum near the very start of the universe, that went through this exact process, giving rise to our current vacuum and ending the hypothetized inflation era

    I know there’s a hypothesis that our current vacuum could be metastable as well, but that’s a seperate thing



  • Astronomy is critical towards understanding the foundational principles of reality. Observing the universe around us is the guide for where physics should follow

    And I think most people would agree that understanding how our world works, the physics of it all, is very very useful in unforeseen ways. Cannot hope to make a circuit if you don’t know how electricity works, right?





  • The funny thing is, is that the goalposts on what is/isn’t intelligent has always shifted in the AI world

    Being good at chess used to be a symbol of high intelligence. Now? Computer software can beat the best chess players in a fraction of the time used to think, 100% of the time, and we call that just an algorithm

    This is not how intelligence has always been used. Moreover, we don’t even have a full understand of what intelligence is

    And as a final note, human brains are also computational “tools”. As far as we can tell, there’s nothing fundamentally different between a brain and a theoretical Turing machine

    And in a way, isn’t what we “spit” out also data? Specifically data in the form of nerve output and all the internal processing that accompanies it?






  • But hair is still made up of discrete quantity of “stuff”

    Well, eventually you get to a point where hairs grow quickly enough that the haircuts effectively stop. I think the sum total of hair material you trend towards at the limit would be the sum of length of hair that grows during the time it takes to do a haircut. Whether it’s 1x or 2x of the hair growth amount depends on whether you measure at the start, or end, of the haircut