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She says it's not to support the AI bubble, it's an evil plan to develop targetted bioweapons and stuff. See  Angela Collier on the US Department of Energy AI Scam . Y'all be on your best behavior now, ... see  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data . Subscribe to The Drey Dossier .  

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1:16:57 On metrics that don't measure and hair-dressers! See  Intransitive dice . See  Tensor Fields and Simplicial Complexes  and  observable in nlab : In physics and in the theory of dynamical systems (deterministic, stochastic, quantum, autonomous, non-autonomous, open, closed, discrete, continuous, with finite or infinite number of degrees of freedom…), an observable is a quantity in some theoretical framework whose value can be measured and observed in principle. Any good theoretical framework of physical phenomena should come with carefully established notion of an observable.  ... See also measurement in nlab : In principle, any interaction between two physical systems is a measurement, whereby each system measures the state of the other. In practice, we break the symmetry by treating one system as the real physical system S of study and the other system as merely a measuring apparatus A with the sole purpose of measuring S. If the properties of A are mo...

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My comment : 6:09 Why, it's a department of energy scam of course. Didn't some AI once say intelligence would be something you can get on a metered account, like electricity? Or was that an AI CEO that said that? Or was it a goblin? 29:53 They destroyed science funding but they had to, to save the economy, see. This is how it goes: we have a huge amount of private debt invested in AI companies that have no "revenue model", i.e. they have no conceivable way to actually ever make a profit, because people only use AI because it's free. If you charge any reasonable amount for it (i.e. enough to cover the costs) then nobody will be able to afford to use any AI at all. So these businesses are not viable, but thousands of shadow banks and sovereign wealth funds and goodness knows what else have invested in them. Now the only thing to do is throw more money at it, so you get more institutions dependent on cheap AI and then you charge the smart ones to make the necessary...

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There is a really serious underlying problem here and it's beyond just British mass hysteria. Or maybe it is just a consequence of over half a century of BBC news? See the full interview on her Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-max-157487338 . They just released episode three featuring J. K. Rowling: Subscribe to Katie Halper .

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..., and he made a four-and-a-half-hour analysis of it. See the Senate hearing:  To receive testimony on the posture of United States Indo-Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program  ( transcript here ). It's horrifying:   Subscribe to The New Atlas .

See the video description : This talk advances the case for logical pluralism at the object logic level within a unifying meta-logical framework. While modern proof assistant systems often enforce a single foundational logic — a tendency we may call logical imperialism — such rigidity impedes the kind of interdisciplinary reuse that robust knowledge representation demands. Our proposed alternative is LogiKEy: a logic-pluralistic methodology for knowledge representation and reasoning in which object logics are treated as first-class, analyzable entities, with applicability across many fields, including but not limited to computational metaphysics and ontology. The virtues of LogiKEy are illustrated through a concrete case study: Gödel's modal ontological argument and Dana Scott's variant of it. Supported by experimental studies in a proof assistant system for classical higher-order logic, we demonstrate how the framework promotes interdisciplinary research and education on logic...

My comment: There are two other occupants that are interesting: the Community Company and the Community Foundation . I looked up the former's web page and doesn't say anything about how they are funded. Maybe that's what the Community Foundation is for? It sure is great there is so much support for the non-profit sector of the economy! See  VeloCity Startup Accelerator for Undergraduates .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  1:35 The Community Company work with non-profits to build revenue models...  Or "generating undesignated revenue".  Subscribe to  Waterloo Region Small Business Centre .  It's some sort of Ponzi scheme Obama and Trudeau set up to absorb all the cash they printed and keep a handle on inflation. Probably invented by Mark Carney. See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  See this piece:  Learning by Doing: How We Turned an Investment Decision into a Community Learning Opportunity I...

Listening to Freya Holmér last night I started to get glimmers of an idea I had long ago about how to represent vector spaces in computational processes using this recursive abstract type :  abstype 'a point = POINT   of {getx :  'a vector,       diff :  'a point -> 'a point,       move :  'a point -> 'a point,       scale : 'a -> 'a point,       proj :  'a point -> 'a} with    fun new i (op +) (op -) (op * ) dot =    let fun self x =  POINT       {getx = x,        move = fn (POINT pr) =>           (self (x + (#getx pr))),        diff = fn (POINT pr) =>          self (x - (#getx pr)),        scale = fn i =>          (self (x * i)),        proj = fn (POINT pr) =>     ...

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See my comment : 13:54 That "burst of evolutionary innovation" was also when qualia like colour evolved, ... As well as evolving predator-prey relationships there were plants evolving coloured flowers and fruit that changed colour when it was ripe which meant that birds and animals could see it, and birds whose plumage became coloured because their mates could see it, and finally people who hunted the birds and animals etc, etc, .... I wonder what new qualia trilobites evolved?  Subscribe to Anton Petrov . 

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See Geodesics in Heat: A New Approach to Computing Distance Based on Heat Flow by  Keenan Crane, Clarisse Weischedel, and Max Wardetzky. This turned up at a crucial point: See  Richard MacNeal. 1949. The Solution of Partial Differential Equations by means of Electrical Networks. Ph.D. Dissertation. Caltech. Right after  Simplicial complex . The material in this thesis is the result of a year's experience in the solution of problems on the Caltech Electric Analog Computer. Although much work has been done elsewhere, the solution of partial differential equations is a relatively new field for the Caltech Computer. It is natural that such an undertaking should initiate points of view and techniques that differ from those of other investigators., This thesis contains the development of certain ideas that have been useful to the author in the solution of problems on the computer. In Part I, finite difference methods are treated with reference to problems with one space varia...

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Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Subscribe to  Dr Hilary Agro . 20:22 See these projects:  ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society A new economic system for the 21st Century   28:08  "If you're watching this video you can likely afford a roof over your head and groceries,...  or you live in Canada."  My comment : What a brilliant video! Thank you. Unfortunately the tech oligarchs are very likely wrong about AI and none of them seem to know how you could actually develop technology that really works. The answer as you say is teaching, and they're not interested in that because it needs good communications which is awkward.  Subscribe to  Hazel is Online . Subscribe to  Angela Collier .  My comment : So I got half an hour in and I realise way too late that I am now committed to a 3.75 hour Israeli settlement with the Palestinians in Gaza. Sorry, I let my autosuggestion finish that sentence. I just wanted to see why it gu...

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See her Substack piece  Rice On A Flat Plate - A Metaphor for Trust . Subscribe to  Curious Wandering Souls . Here's the audiobook Janet was listening to:  YouTube demonetized him. You can support him at  https://buymeacoffee.com/nolanreads . Subscribe to  Nolan Reads .  Her balloon and the sun metaphor reminded me of L'homme est le seul oiseau qui porte sa cage by Claude Weiss: Subscribe to  Dust .  On the importance of words, again this made me think of this talk and the paper on  Emerging dynamic regimes and tipping points from finite empirical principles  by Sergio Cobo-López, Matthew Witt, Forest L. Rohwer and Antoni Luque. Verbal communication seems to set the scale of observations of the participants, so that their reality is shared. Without that common web of verbal communications each person lives in their own private world of experience, which can become to be like a cage.  Think about the ancient rites associated with s...

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It makes me nauseous to think that there are people out there that are this dumb. One more reason why we need to stop using their money. Boycott, Divest and Sanction! See  Olive Badger on Car "Kill Switches"  and  Olive Badger on Fucked-up Economics . Then  Crisis in Perception - An Example of a Common Problem  and  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger . 

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I wonder why they thought it was necessary to create a pandemic? It's obvious that it was faked and that people like Bill Gates where talking it up for years beforehand. See  John Harte - Disturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems  and  Holly Moeller on Acquired Metabolism in Evolution .  See the full interview at  EXPOSED: Biden Officials Knowingly HID Covid Vaxx Injuries .  Subscribe to  Kim Iversen . 

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See  John Harte - Disturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems .  Richard Dawkins is going to have some sleepless nights... Shit just doesn't seem to work like it used to. It must be the AI's fault, Dick!  Subscribe to  Santa Fe Institute .  See  An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats . Subscribe to  Anton Petrov .  There are also new molecular models that give biological media a whole new set of properties. See  Documentary About Water . Then there are pre-genetic processes, see  Nick Lane on Cellular Metabolism and the Krebs Cycle  and in particular the part starting around 32:20 on the connection between DNA codons and the molecular properties of the metabolites. Then there are  Prions and Theories of Abiogenesis  and also  Two Interesting New RNA Experiments  and Jessica Utts on Why All Scientists Should Take Psi Seriously . 

See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Interview with Nicole Amaral, Director and sole employee of the Digital Kitchener Innovation Lab.  Subscribe to  Communitech .  Velocity in 2009: ... and in 2017 various people had sold their startups to Microsoft and Google:  Subscribe to  UWaterloo . About 14 miles away there is another University at Guelph where the CoSy conferencing system was developed. It was like a user-friendly private version of Usenet. That software changed the world. You can get the source code from here:  https://cosy.sourceforge.net/ . The CoSy system inspired me to try to make a better one. It also set up some expectations for social media which for some reason were never met by any commercial social media systems I have seen. One of those was that there were different spaces where one could interact with different groups of people and where one could im...

27:08  "Different mechanisms for different disturbances. So we have to include explicit mechanisms if we are to understand disturbed ecosystems." This is exactly what Jaynes did in his Where do we stand on  Maximum Entropy? essay, isn't it? He gave the example of Wolf's dice data (pages 48-58), which was some data from actual throws of a real physical die which had a slight deviation from a uniform distribution. He then described a physical model of the important parameters and from an hypothesis as to how the die had been made he proposed some parameters, variations of which would have produced some changes in the distribution. Applying the MAXENT hypothesis to the model with the unknown perturbations he was able to show that the model produced a best fit.  But in the case of a recovering ecosystem one presumably has a higher-order problem because the dynamics of the ecosystem would change as the populations changed.  John Harte is in his late eighties and he sti...

My comment : 12:56  "A finite system cannot certify more  information than it contains." This sounds intriguing, but I don't really know what you mean by the verb certification. Is there some way to explain it in terms of functions of some kind?  Maybe the answer to my question is in here: Subscribe to  Computable Secrets .

See the paper  The AI Layoff Trap  by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas.  My comment : That was great. The "tragedy of the Commons" applies to most of capitalist free market economics, any time there's a natural resource, because capitalism doesn't put any value on the resource until it is processed by someone trying to profit from their work. See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger .  Subscribe to  The Tech Report . 

See  Classical mechanics as the high-entropy limit of quantum mechanics  by Gabriele Carcassi, Manuele Landini and Christine A Aidala. Also available at  https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00972 . My comments : 1:14:07 My poor brain can't reconcile the idea of quantum descriptions having "a lower bound on the entropy" with classical descriptions having high entropy, because the latter seems to imply that descriptions of quantum systems, being low entropy, have an upper bound on their entropy. Is it just because the entropy of classical systems can be arbitrarily negative? I think I just missed the point that it's the process of quantizing in which we put a lower bound on the entropy of the classical description of the system, not that the lower bound is on the entropy of the quantum description we produce by quantization of the classical description. 😵‍💫 Support the Assumptions of Physics project at  https://assumptionsofphysics.org/donate/ . Subscribe to  Gabriele...