I like your elephant rider metaphor..
But I wonder if people like Alex Karp are not also smart enough to invest a fixed pct of his income in (recently, more AI-based) pastoral care for his elephants..
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But I wonder if people like Alex Karp are not also smart enough to invest a fixed pct of his income in (recently, more AI-based) pastoral care for his elephants..
There was a heated thread here about why nursing was defunded as a pro degree while divinity was not..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000015
Turns out the USG recognize that chaplains are great at managing the fear and anxiety that you worry about
Addendum: Taylor whom you often cite, is wrong that "we have never been, and we will never be, at one with ourselves" (according to Larmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age#:~:text=should%2... )
So... to the Protestant Weber and the Catholic Taylor should we also consider non-Christian chaplains?
>You cannot just separate people and say some are violent and some are not.
https://archive.ph/2024.06.28-101143/https://tricycle.org/ma...
https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/can-a-buddhist-monk-become-...
Final note: few of us ride elephants but many of us make omelettes-- it'd be great to be absolved of mass egg breakings
On further reflection, as you said, wavelets are local on space and phase-space so one has a natural cutoff..
Related (stub and theory warning, but closer to my domain of interest :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_on_fractals
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
https://web.archive.org/web/20260115155955/https://r-knott.s...
quantum yields quantify how likely a chain reaction is. It's like r for COVID-19. One usually says "1.3", not "130%"
Quantum yields greater than 1 are possible for photo-induced or radiation-induced chain reactions, in which a single photon may trigger a long chain of transformations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_yield#:~:text=Quantum%...
Diagram from the paper showing the initiation of a light-generated "avalanche"
https://xcancel.com/YoichiSasaki1/status/2036808566011789536
https://web.archive.org/web/20260326005808/https://www.natur...