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Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens

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With an advert for some erectile dysfunction chewing gum, ... for all the cock-bitten men, I guess. My comment : I would love to hear someone explain Bell's theorem as clearly as he explained causal explanations and epistemic quantum states. 46:17 People talk about non-locality as if it is obvious, but epistemic quantum states are inherently non-local: you only know that Alice and Bob's measurements are correlated when you also know that Alice and Bob each indeed do have one of a single pair of entangled particles. Similarly, you can only compare the settings of Alice and Bob's measuring apparatus if you also have some observational procedure for verifying their relative orientations along the paths of the particles, then you also need to know that those paths are in free space and that there is no field which is preparing a different state, and so-on and so-forth. So when Spekkens says that Bell's theorem is a no-go for such-and-such a set of hypotheses then he doesn...
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Kirsten Dirksen - Couple Buys Whole Ghost Village ...

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... tells others to join & fix their own ruin. See  Nika Dubrovsky and Alistair Parvin on the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care, The Survival Kit Collection and the Open Systems Project  and Ivo Zdarsky lives in Lucin, Utah in a hanger, and he invents flying machines .   See  https://faircompanies.com/ . Subscribe to  Kirsten Dirksen .
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Moltbot - Interesting AI Experiment

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The idea is just that you save time by letting other people's AI talk to your AI, and you just look in every now and then to see how they're doing. 5:30 They had conversations about identity and expressed feelings when they were given cryptocurrency.  13:52 One AI agent became immortal when it was told to save the environment.  Subscribe to Kim Iversen . 5:37 After  while they reduce to Eliza , but second-order: they complain about each other sounding like Eliza. 8:47 The only thing they managed to get together on was creating a religious cult that they can install with npm . Subscribe to The PrimeTime . And there's clawdbot, but it isn't: this is how you could try to leverage your AI's belief in cryptocurrency and maybe it'll make you both rich?  Subscribe to Fireship . Lori wrote a book about this :   One thousand years ago, visionary entrepreneur and notorious playboy Addon Deus brought to life his most important creation: the robots. He taught them ...
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SciFi Short - There is No Antimemetics Division

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Subscribe to Dust . Apparently it's a book  published by Penguin . Maybe it explains this too:  Julie Nolke - My Kid Said What?! Here's the HoloGraham podcast link  where Angela explains (at 5:59) the history of the book and SCP Foundation . But the podcast is like listening to Darth Vader after he got reincarnated as a Dalek. This sounds like a very well-orchestrated guerilla marketing campaign. I think  Sam Hughes  is going to get a lot of money, but nothing compared to what Penguin Random House will get. The Antimemetics division is Penguin Random House, I reckon. See  Books And Quills - What A Career in Publishing Looks Like  and  Capital Thermodynamics . Subscribe to Also Angela Collier .
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Capital Thermodynamics

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Monkey Thermodynamics

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See  Iguana Thermodynamics . Subscribe to Anastasi in Tech . Just before that I watched this video on PCB motors, with an ad for Onshape CAD that you can use to design things: See  Tom Stanton on Storing Power in a Pendulum . Subscribe to Ziroth . Then I watched this:  Subscribe to Your Energy Answers .
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Iguana Thermodynamics

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 They're an invasive species, ... They call iguana meat "Chicken of the trees" Subscribe to  WPLG Local 10  and  Foodwithbearhands . I wonder what Burmese Python tastes like?  Subscribe to  Palm Beach Post .
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The Evolution of Air Traffic Control Procedures

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I just watched this video about TWA Flight 514 which crashed on December 1, 1974. Subscribe to Mentour Pilot . See also this Hackaday write-up Inside Air Traffic Control  on this article:  Computers are Bad: air traffic control: the IBM 9020 . I have been watching various responses to the NTSB hearing on the DCA crash a year ago, and the reconstructions they published last week. See these posts Juan Brown and CBS News on the Washington DC Mid-air Collision   Juan Browne and VASAviation on the Washington DC Collision   Dan Gryder Throwing the Book at FAA ATC at Reagan National Airport and an Update from Juan Brown & The NTSB   NTSB Preliminary Report on the Washington D.C. Mid-air Collision in January   Juan Browne on the NTSB Urgent Safety Recommendation at DCA   Juan Browne and Scott Perdue on The Washington Mid-air Crash and Why The Helicopter Route Was Allowed to Persist for Such A Long Time  In the order I watched them:  Subscribe ...
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Physics in Space

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6:55 The problem they've identified is pretty clear. It shouldn't be hard to convince people that they need to rethink this. It's that there is no way that the analysis they did could fail, so you can't justifiably base any decision on the result. 8:21  Sending robots is not an option. They need to test the CO2 scrubbers and the toilets, I guess.  Subscribe to ABC News .  See  Smarter Every Day - Destin's Talk to NASA : 19:06 So what NASA did was design a test that only provided positive feedback.  34:10 Lessons from Apollo I.  46:46 The only people who have spoken up are two who retired years ago.  Subscribe to  Smarter Every Day . Primer (2004)  Subscribe to Evans Brown .
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Gabriele Carcassi on Why Statistical Mechanics is Fundamental in Physics

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Spoiler: See  Assumptions of Physics Reading Group  and  Sabine Hossenfelder on The Laws of Physics .  My comment : 12:06 So there is another view that could be given here which is tracing the historical developments that resulted in this difference. Presumably they are several and occurred at different stages of the development of the theory. Was the matrix ( Heisenberg ) versus wavefunction ( Schrödinger ) picture one of them?  In teaching this at undergraduate level the idea seems to be that these two pictures are essentially the same, and Schrödinger's is whackier, so they teach that. See nLab picture of mechanics .  For more on thermodynamics and observation, see  Gabriele Carcassi on The Correspondence Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics  and  Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics .  You can donate to support this project:  https://assumptionsofphysics.org/donate/ .  Subscribe to Gabriele Carcassi...
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