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In Topic: The "Post what ever the hell" you want thread
Yesterday, 09:06 PM
Article today in Science (one of the world's most prestigious and influential scientific journals):
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What's at stake is nothing less than reality itself.
[...] In high school in the 1980s, he attended a Texas Boys State summer camp at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. He hated the predawn calisthenics and the right-wing politics, but for one moment, fortune smiled on his sci-fi fantasies. [...] In Wheeler's vacant office, Fuchs found a manuscript draft with a passage that read, "There is no law except the law that there is no law." Fuchs saw this as his ticket to the stars: "Ca-ching," he says.
[...] Support for Fuchs's and Rovelli's ideas is growing—and branching into various offshoots—amid a wave of recent work on extensions of the Wigner's friend thought experiments.
[...] "No matter the angle you choose, quantum mechanics forces you to bend your mind," [...] "Even performed measurements do not have absolute results," [...] To Fuchs and Rovelli, these efforts only confirm what they've been arguing for years. "They're breaking a window which was already open," [...]
[...] Still, a precise implementation of an extended Wigner's friend in the lab requires complete quantum control over an isolated system containing a sufficiently complex observers. To that end, Cavalcanti and colleagues have proposed experiments on large quantum computers [...]
[...] "It takes away a sense of anguish because I don't access the ultimate reality," Rovelli says. "What's real is what's real relative to us." Fuchs uses a similarly mystical tone, appreciating that "the universe has this character that what you do within it matters,"
https://www.science....ality-us-center
"Breaking a window that was already open"... I love that. In addition to "black hole" and "worm hole", Wheeler also coined the phrase (and was the first known person to realize the concept of) "quantum foam" (the inspiration for vitr?).
It's important to bear in mind that the proposed subjectivity typically only applies at the extreme microscopic level.
Still leaning towards the many worlds interpretation myself, and hoping that new theories incorporating gravitation will resolve the question of measurement... though QBism is interesting, at least as a practical philosophy in the (hopefully only the) interim. -
In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
03 December 2025 - 02:12 PM
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It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics [Quantum Field Theory, or QFT] and gravitation [General Relativity Theory, or GRT]. [...]
"It's a bit like the Cinderella fairy tale," [...] "There are several candidates, but only one of them can be the princess we are looking for. Only when the prince finds the slipper can he identify the real Cinderella. In quantum gravity, we have unfortunately not yet found such a slipper—an observable that clearly tells us which theory is the right one."
[...] "dark energy" [... which] is responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe on the largest scales[...] can also be included in the q-desic equation. "And when we did that, we were in for a surprise[...] The q-desics now differ significantly from the geodesics one would obtain in the usual way without quantum physics."
[...] While the deviations at small distances will probably remain unobservable, at length scales of around 10^(21) meters there can be substantial differences.
[...] we may finally have identified an observable that allows us to distinguish between viable and incorrect approaches to quantum gravity. A slipper has been found—now we have to find out which theory it truly fits.
Geodesic approach links quantum physics and gravitation - Phys.org
More like: they've identified a plausible slipper.
Of course it might fit more than one foot... and other feet may be altered (or mutate) to fit the Holy Grail (slipperY as it may be...). -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
03 December 2025 - 12:49 AM
Macros, on 03 December 2025 - 12:17 AM, said:Seriously guys.
Hate to ve the Debbie downer here.
But none of these cunts go to jail
They might go to jail to gloat and torture people---and pose for more photo ops...
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In Topic: Algorithms and automation
02 December 2025 - 08:59 PM
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More than half of the 258 published novelists in Britain recently questioned for a Cambridge University study, along with 74 industry figures, believe the technology is likely to entirely replace their work. Romance, thriller and crime writers feel they are the most threatened.
[...] Generative AI is a useful research tool for proper, human writers – a third of authors in the Cambridge study admit to using it to speed up non-creative research tasks [...]
The unfortunate fact is that people absolutely love undemanding sludge, and that an awful lot of those threatened authors, as well as film and TV screenwriters, blog writers and so on already produce it for a living.
[...] Mediocrity is hugely prized across the board. A hugely successful travel blogger, who I follow for the perverse amusement of it, writes so boringly about his adventures that he's saved me a fortune by making everywhere sound uninteresting.
https://www.independ...k-b2874430.html
Unfortunately the author mistakenly assumes that AI---even future AI---is necessarily incapable of being creative.
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I lead product strategy at a creative agency. We're using AI 'hallucinations' to come up with ideas for brands.
RYA is our creative AI tool. We position it as: radical ideas that are acceptable to your audience, because they're all grounded in data.
We put together a weekly survey that asks Americans: If you had extra time or money in your day, how would you spend it?
We serve up 180 genres and 20 different actions, things like "I want to go on a trip" or "I want to go out to eat." And then the genres add a little bit of nuance: "You said you like to go out to eat. What kind of food do you like? You'd like to go on a trip. What kind of traveler are you?" That's where we can really pinpoint passion points.
With that dataset, we then figured out how to train large language models to be creative and come up with ideas just as if our teams were coming up with ideas on their own — but at a rapid pace. We found that Anthropic's Claude is the best at generating creative ideas
https://www.business...g-ideas-2025-11
What about anti-AI bias among audiences? Some interesting news on that front:
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An “AI” label fails to trigger negative bias in new pop music study
A study in Singapore found that, contrary to expectations, study participants rated pop songs labelled as AI-generated more highly in positive emotions compared to pop songs (which were also AI-generated) that were labelled as human-composed. The positive emotions included happiness, interest, awe, and energy. Consequently, this study found no evidence of negative bias towards AI-generated music. The paper was published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans.
An "AI" label fails to trigger negative bias in new pop music study
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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
02 December 2025 - 01:31 AM
Cause, on 02 December 2025 - 01:07 AM, said:
2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end.
So that's why the Mayans did all that ritual bloodletting and human sacrifice... it was draining down to all the vampires lounging in the shade underneath (or inside) the ziggurats.
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