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ed_westinon We Found the Remains of Another Planet Inside Earth [video]

Sources/Citations: [1] Ward, J., Nowacki, A., & Rost, S. (2020). Lateral velocity gradients in the African lower mantle inferred from slowness space observations of multipathing. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009025, CC BY 4.0. [2] Bono, Richard & Tarduno, John & Bunge, Hans-peter. (2019). Hotspot motion caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend and LLSVPs are not fixed. Nature Communications. 10. 10.1038/s41467-019-11314-6. CC BY 4.0. [3] Yuan, Q., Li, M., Desch, S. J., and Ko, B., “Giant Impact Origin for the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces”, vol. 2020, 2020. [4] Andersen, J., Göğüş, O.H., Pysklywec, R.N. et al. Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes. Commun Earth Environ 3, 150 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00..., CC BY 4.0 [5] Yuan, Q., Li, M., "Dynamics in Earth’s Mantle: Constraints from Planetary Scale to Nanoscale", Thesis, 2022, Arizona State University [6] U.S. Geological Survey

ed_westinon AI could be smarter than people in 20 years, says 'godfather of AI'[video]

The video is an in-person discussion with Geoffrey Hinton, and the chip on your shoulder may be coloring your impression of reliability since the news agency and the person being interviewed stand rather apart to any reasonable person. Also, you are quibbling over the word 'smarter' and it doesn't seem like you are interested in opening the conversation further than to make your point of contention known. And, I have to ask whether you've seen the interview to begin with. Rude.

ed_westinon We begin bombing in five minutes

This reference appears in William Spaniel's latest applied war and game theory analysis video. For the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_TgA_l58U

ed_westinon Ask HN: What is one thing that has improved your energy the most?

1. chewing gum (studies show alertness promoted, or use as placebo)

2. morning light on a timer (regulates circadian rhythm)

3. hydrate (water but also coffee and coffee-as-tea when brewed twice)

ed_westinon Apple patched flaws used to plant Pegasus and Predator spyware

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816 "0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt (blog.google)"

ed_westinon Apple patched flaws used to plant Pegasus and Predator spyware

Also relevant is citizenlab article "Ahmed Eltantawy Targeted with Predator Spyware After Announcing Presidential Ambitions"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614687

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predator-in-the-wires-ahmed-el...

ed_westinon Closest Black Holes to Earth May Be Hiding in Hyades Cluster[video]

[-8h] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37534251 [-5d] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469496 [-6d] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459470

ed_westinon Epistemological problem of emergence in complex systems (2018) [pdf]

Adding some links to his publications and field ranking:

[] https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Albert...

[] https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/alberto-pascual-...

ed_westinon Western Betrayal

People forget history, but also revise and sanitize historical narratives. One quiet part is that Einstein was an unrepentant Soviet sympathizer in full awareness of the atrocities that were committed. Politics makes people dumb.

ed_westinon Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive

My comment has to do with the last line of the article, "nature doesn't forget." Obsolete symbiotic relations persist in the survived fossil species. The anachronic persistence of literally out-dated adaptations can be metaphorically extended to and within cults of worship that are based on the person-deity concept. Many pagan cult rituals persist in newer religions. Religion itself is anachronic to the modern ethos.

ed_westinon None of My Students Remember 9/11 (2021)

>According to Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back, Bush's gaze flitted about the room—the children, the press, the floor, his staff—while his mind raced about everything he did not yet know.

ed_westinon The reason why men marry some women and not others

The article is from 2016. Recent data from 2023 studies are showing that while Gen Z and Millenials are fewer to marry and want children [1], they are also rewriting the rules of dating [2]. Digital forums like TikTok are giving younger generations a safe place to destigmatize what are deeply personal choices.[3]

But not all persons should marry and not all parents have the patience and attention to be good parents. It's a difficult road and who can blame any person for choosing otherwise?

[1] https://thrivingcenterofpsych.com/blog/millennials-gen-z-mar... [2] https://www.tinderpressroom.com/2023-05-22-WELCOME-TO-A-RENA... [3] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel...

ed_westinon Invented tradition

Purity can play an outsized part for some identities and moral worldviews. The truth is messier than myth.

ed_westinon Invented tradition

As is the modern invention of ancient white marble statues: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/7/spotlig...

ed_westinon Invented tradition

Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/

ed_westinon Invented tradition

From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...

ed_westinon Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive

The human era is geologically recorded with plastics and radioactive isotopes in our bones. The CO2-CH4 concentration spike is the cherry on top. Meanwhile, the cults continue to incantate to the god(s) as in the neolithic era. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anachronism

ed_westinon Researchers find mathematical rule for the distribution of neurons in our brains

"According to the study, in principle, cortex-wide organizational structures might be by-products of development or evolution that serve no computational function; but the fact that the same organizational structures can be observed for several species and across most cortical areas suggests that the lognormal distribution serves some purpose."

ed_westinon Flyby Anomaly

The largest discrepancies were recorded on flights prior to 2005. The later satellites recorded near zero discrepancies. MICROSCOPE found nothing anomalous. "The equivalence principle was measured to hold true within a precision of 10−15"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICROSCOPE

ed_westinon Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon

August 20, 2023

"State Corporation Roscosmos

On August 19, in accordance with the flight program of the Luna-25 spacecraft, an impulse was provided to form its pre-landing elliptical orbit.

At about 14:57 Moscow time[UTC+3], communication with the Luna-25 spacecraft was interrupted.

The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not produce any results.

According to the results of a preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse from the calculated ones, the device switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface.

A specially formed interdepartmental commission will deal with the issues of clarifying the reasons for the loss of the Moon."

[Google Translate] https://t.me/s/roscosmos_gk

ed_westinon Update, Aug. 4, 2023: NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2

EEVblog went to the CDSCC in June 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=586Zn1ct-QA

ed_westinon Biden Promises to 'Cure Cancer' If Elected. Here's Why That's Laughable (2019)

"This compound was found to be orally active and inhibited tumor growth in animals without causing any discernable[sic] toxicity even at 6 times its effective dose." https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/pdfExtended/S2451...

ed_westinon NASA Needs Programmer Fluent in 60-Year-Old Languages (2015)

You might enjoy this compendium https://www.assemblytutorial.com/

ed_westinon Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes

This runs parallel to the objectivity-subjectivity paradigm. What makes facts neutral to us, if we are interested in the subject in the first place? When is emotion appropriate? I think we are all susceptible to both inuring ourselves as well as being prompted for a reaction.

ed_westinon What Socrates Can Teach Us About AI

Could AI's BS be grounds to redefine human understanding? How we gauge AI's grokking is challenged by Searle's Chinese Room. What relevance does the stated outcome, for truth or for narrative, have in a coherent response?

ed_westinon The world just got its first real taste of life I at 1.5 degrees Celsius

+3.0C by 2100 is the current UN assessment whatever our actions in the interim. Inaction is anything above.

ed_westinon Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy

Nigel Warburton's A Little History of Philosophy. Cathcart and Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Both are easy-going and fit the description of an overview. Further reading can be segued to Oxford University Press A Very Short Introduction Series. Concise but in-depth reads written by modern philosophers.

ed_westinon Understanding American Airport Security Following 9/11 (2019)

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