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This seems obviously contrary to experiment: for example, a model like this, it seems to me, would predict that we should not see...

I don't know whether Coleman's position contains something original, but there is something else that I find problematic. Coleman first...

Thinking of it in terms of top speed puts in an extra step that's not necessary. See my post #34. The mass ratio (for a trip where you...

Ok, thanks!

The operator controls the computing resources the AI is using. If the operator is forced to shut them down, that shuts down the AI...

You don't think it's reasonable that the operator of an AI should be responsible for what it does?

Moderator's note: Moving thread to the Beyond the Standard Models forum.

In terms of capability, it might be, yes--AIs have lots of capabilities that dogs don't have. But in terms of responsibility--the owner...

He definitely did not consider the possibility of an untoward effect. When you have something under your supervision that has a...

A minor point which doesn't affect your main argument: I don't think the energy has to be zero at zero temperature, it just has to be...

The 3rd law of thermodynamics, that zero temperature cannot be attained, cannot be derived within thermodynamics itself. For that, one...

No, if ##\Sigma## is maximally symmetric, which is how it was defined in this thread, it is not, as I've already said several times in...

Btw, an equation for the mass ratio (including the need to turn around and slow down) in terms of just the acceleration and the distance...

No, you're right, it doesn't. But I suspect that that might be the underlying error in the calculations behind the scenario in the book...

I don't think it's all that similar. In the case you reference, an editor used ChatGPT and it gave him fabricated information about a...