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russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Graduate Rotating Disk Method to Attain Light Speed? with
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No, just breaking apart, same as any other matter that you stress too much. Make jelly and put it on a barstool. Spin the barstool and... -
russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Graduate Rotating Disk Method to Attain Light Speed? with Like.
The device distorts and disintegrates from internal stresses far before any part of it approaches lightspeed. If you posit arbitrarily...
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russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread "A good big man will beat a good little man" (boxing) with Like.
Formally, no, because the fact that something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it won't happen tomorrow. Informally, the big guy...
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russ_watters reacted to martinbn's post in the thread "A good big man will beat a good little man" (boxing) with Like.
How many 166 pound guys lost the title fight in the heaviweight division? Probably none because no 166 fought a heavyweight boxer, so...
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russ_watters reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Other Hi, I need some advice about how to publish with Like.
Have you considered simply trying to "run it up the flagpole"? In other words: write a clear paper, send it to the appropriate journal...
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russ_watters reacted to Andy Resnick's post in the thread Stargazing Meteor/meteorite made a big boom this morning! with Like.
https://apnews.com/article/meteor-cleveland-fireball-astronomy-89d1cd3e060774ff897512cb811710d7 Made for interesting discussions in...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Hit pieces like that are generally considered harmful when humans write them. A human can't dodge that responsibility by pawning the...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Whoever put the AI agent into operation. This is standard legal theory. This would be the "human of record" in the terminology you describe.
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russ_watters reacted to gleem's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
AI agents are giving us clues as to what mischief they can cause. From...
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One of the reasons that this seems surprising is that a 1% change seems like a small change. I think the same thing happens with...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.As I've said before, the flaw in almost all AI doomsday movies is that they skip or gloss over the fatal error: giving AI control over...