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Grinkle reacted to pervect's post in the thread Undergrad How many sorts of time are there in physics? with
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Some recent threads inspired me to want to make a list of the different notions of time we need in physics (As I write this, I am... -
Grinkle reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars? with
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Everyone's Gone To The Moon - Jonathan King - 1965 -
Grinkle replied to the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars?.Klondike is a stint scenario, I concede that one is viable to recruit for. Jamestown is a good analogy for the discussion in the... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars?.I'm sure we are both applying myriad unstated assumptions in our individual 'theatres of the mind' when we make our assertions, and if... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars?.Are there enough people willing to live permanently on the moon or mars to make it viable? I think it likely that there are plenty of... -
Grinkle reacted to Ken Fabian's post in the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars? with
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Whereas I think they are vastly different - the difference between using the pre-existing resources and industrial capabilities of a... -
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I voted no for colony but I do not think it would out of the question to have a permanent scientific base there. -
Grinkle reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars? with
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Maybe the Moon would make a good penal colony, like Britannia's Botany Bay, or Van Diemens Land in Australia, or France's Devil's Island... -
Grinkle reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars? with
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What do you mean? We'll suffocate if we fly too high! Anyway, I voted no. Mars is nigh on impossible. The moon is possible, but... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.As one does. :wink: -
Grinkle reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread High School GRB 250702B, the longest gamma-ray burst in history with
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Longest gamma-ray burst confounds astrophysicists, CERN Courier, 14 January 2026... -
Grinkle reacted to javisot's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with
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And this is not trivial. One indication that we don't know how to predict and define the structure of hallucinations is that the... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.A hallucination is an example of an undesirable output, as is a racist comment. I'm not sure its easier to identify the source of a... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.So what would I call it if not a bug? I suppose its an undesirable but unavoidable trade-off inherent in the architecture. Using a... -
Grinkle replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I am now questioning if its productive (from the software developers sense) to call a hallucination a bug. Certainly its a bug from the...