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well the meter and the kilogram themselves are either completely or partially defined by the speed of light. its a fundamental constant that a large portion of nature depends on, so i doubt such surgical changes could be realized.

he also told them something to the effect of ‘is my phone acting weird? the password i gave you wiped it lol’ during the process. doesnt help for a case that can set a precedent

adopting something and having it improve your life are two dramatically different things

> The average person on Earth spends 6 hours and 40 minutes every day on the internet

thats not what the provided link says

Slightly disappointed the all star roster of investors couldnt conceive a better publicity stunt.

if you want to ignore general relativity or pretend black holes dont exist, sure.

probe something smaller than a planck unit and nature operates by creating a black hole

its only the limit we can probe things. just because we can’t measure something doesnt mean nature cant operate at that scale

top quarks exist as lone quarks and decay before they can pair

grace hopper spinning in her grave rn

im enabling skynet but plz admire the vocabulary i used in my post

would not be surprised if shes the first fpotus

append or extend is adding keys without updating existing keys. update can add keys and update existing keys.

put will blow away existing keys if they dont exist in the new payload. which is why it cant be upsert.

put implies overwriting instead of updating.

upsert is for you insert/update.

this whatsboutism comment reminds me of ralph wiggum ‘im helping’

the venn diagram of people supporting golf courses but objecting to data centers has a much smaller overlap than you think

this is a test run to see how humans revolt against the machines. valuable data will be procured

Deepmind team is trying to solve the problem. Not their AI alone. The novel creativity AIs can produce atm are hallucinations.

Id wager quantum computers even in their infancy are more capable of generating valid solutions humans are incapable of.

Not so long ago, noone knew about the weak force, and even the most brilliant minds would never think electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin. Now we have a theory that unites all three under the same umbrella.

In many interpretations of GR it is believed that mass deforms spacetime, but is also influenced by the spacetime it moves through. In the absence of mass, spacetime expands. Carrying along any mass with it. When mass is present this default expansion is overpowered by its influence which causes a contraction. Hence black holes.

Gravity is still colored by classical definitions so most assume its power is unidirectional. However there is a quantitative factor for expansion in the very same Einstein equation which defines GR.

We need to stop thinking of gravity as a force acting on objects, and rather something that acts on spacetime. Many people advocate this but stop at the rubber sheet analogy, which is completely devoid of the idea that the sheet actually moves as well.

i walked around and it involved force and energy.

i will clarify. in the absence of other forces, matter is indeed pinned to the space it is in.

you talk about gravity as if its something distinct from what is driving the expansion of the universe.

we have that model, its what newton proposed.

Matter is very much pinned to the space its in. If the space between two galaxies expands, the distance between the two galaxies grows. If matter wasnt pinned the distance between the two galaxies would remain the same despite the expansion.

Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it. See the river model of general relativity for a more thorough explanation.

seems like this is just giving up on quantum gravity and saying the pauli exclusion principle will hold regardless of the gravitational force.

stuff can still happen after the heat death. the universe will keep expanding, and quantum foam will keep foaming.

heat death just implies no work can be done. time still flows

the big bang happened everywhere

if you use planck units instead of anthropocentric ones gravity isnt weak. its the mass of the proton that is much less than its charge. but why should those two values be equivalent to begin with?

even if you want to accept the ‘copyright is less important than getting to AGI before a government we deem less moral than us’ argument, i find it hard to believe things like emulating studio ghibli art styles, are a necessary part of that path.

special relativity is undefined at v = c. so no from a photons point of view the trip doesn’t happen in an instant nor does the length of the universe shrink to zero. there is no definition for a photons point of view. time dilation and length contraction only apply when comparing a moving frame of reference to one that is at rest and photons have no rest frame.

there most certainly are absolutes. theres an absolute maximum amount of distance a massive object can travel through spacetime. theres an absolute maximum amount of mass/energy that can exist within a volume of space before an event horizon forms. universal constants which have dimensions are more or less measurable absolutes. differences maybe more apparent but that doesnt mean absolutes dont exist.

melting glaciers are revealing territory previously inaccessible let alone unexplored

is the spatial curvature described by general relativity due to non euclidean 3d space, or euclidean 4d space where we can only perceive 3d?