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I would say this is the simplest, most eloquent deconstruction of the apparent paradox. Simple, linear measurement is supremely...

This is a good description of the first half of the book IABIED. And he cites specific incidents where AIs have been observed...

Yes, Which is why we need to spread awareness. Probably unlikely in practice. It won't be stopped, but hopefully it can be guided. It...

It doesn't have to be nukes. There are ways society can break down that don't involve being consumed by fire. A pandemic is one. And it...

Here it should be specified that it's 99% by mass (not by volume, or by particles, etc.). I think about it geometrically, in terms of...

It's also a big subject. Imagine Newton doing a 10 minute TED talk on his new Calculus to high school students of the time. Or Reimann...

Yeah, that's the problem. I think that's what he is worried about. You cannot come up with a scenario that can cause anyone to feel...

Indeed. What the results would've been if it were a multiple-choice question with the choices, say, a) 25 yo, b) 36 yo, c) not enough...

I would be interested the methodology of the experiment. I suspect many of the subjects are not literally failing to understand the...

I was wondering about that even as I wrote it. Thanks for the catch. Right. Because, in reality, it's not you accelerating, it's the...

No, the deflection by the Coriolis force is anti-proportional to the speed in the rotating frame. So something moving at 100 km/h will...

"Hon, I got good news and bad news." "The good news is: our kitten, Sprinkles, is a mouser..." Actually, it went more like this...

If the enclosure is small enough, yes they will feel the effect. That's why larger enclosures are preferred. And yes, just like...

A spherical asteroid, or the hemispherical ends of a cylindrical asteroid, would make for an interesting walk. Walking along the inside...