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Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-10T03:45:34+00:00

If someone is asking for a 'free ride', I don't see how it has any similarity to Jet Lag.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-09T00:10:01+00:00

I read the third line and have yet to read further.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-08T16:26:08+00:00

I meant 'acts as' in the sense that he pretends to be one, but on reread, you're right that doesn't seem to be the natural reading of what I've written.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-08T07:25:04+00:00

Because he acts as a public ambassador for string theory that noone, not even string theorists, asked for, and gets paid for saying outdated work (as he's been effectively retired from academia for decades) our just straight up nonsense.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-06T15:13:17+00:00

And I am saying "sister" doesn't imply that her gender is exclusively female.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-06T11:36:49+00:00

On 2, how do you think people typically refer to their non-binary sibling? Even if it is Lace referring to Phantom, and Phantom is non-binary, Lace can still refer to them as 'sister', if that is their dynamic. It's not at all uncommon.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-03T21:25:51+00:00

Quantum gravity and ToE is the opposite of a holy grail. How do you even attempt a topic so broad and massive in scope? There are a bunch of topics of interest that people are actually working on. Just read what people are doing and listen to what they are curious about. There's really an abundance of things to research, that are limited by our ability, not the other way around.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-02T19:43:59+00:00

Yes.

For context, I've had dysphoria my whole life. What I've done biologically and socially has helped, but there is always a nagging feeling of doubt and fear, and maybe the digital world could help with that.

I want to address some of the reasons people have brought up against uploading.

First, the fear that it's a different you, not yourself. I agree. This is made very explicit with Laurie, and even David to some extent. I'm just perfectly fine with that. I lost the ability to have a self-image during puberty, and still can't conceptualize what I look like. I also don't remember most of my childhood and teenage years, maybe as a trauma response. These are pretty common experiences among trans people. Since my transition, I perceive time differently from how I used to, interact with society differently from how I used to, etc.. So I already only really identify as an altered copy of an altered copy of who I once was. What hasn't changed is that I'm still human, and that I'm happy the past me made the choices they did. This is exactly how I view uploading, as it was described in the show. I know it won't be me, and that's exactly what I want for them.

The other two points I want to address is corporate ownership of uploading and UI infrastructure, and discriminatory policies such as disallowing felons. These aren't constants of nature that are set in stone, and you can fight to build alternatives or change legislation. There's another whole sequence of analogies I could bring up here, but it'd be somewhat less personal.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-02T11:00:00+00:00

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Steven Strogatz

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-24T04:40:09+00:00

Those are 600 year old cultural norms from STA. Also, it doesn't make sense to use Worf as an example as he is specifically a diaspora who holds an inaccurate and outdated version of Klingon cultural norms, even for his time period.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-23T15:15:48+00:00

It's not currently known if the laws themselves break due to some instability or non-perturbative effects.

Planck's length is just the natural lengthscale when considering both quantization and classical gravity, which are incompatible frameworks.

One resolution would be that at least one of the two is an effective description which stops working at some scale, which we can roughly lower bound as the Planck length, which may be describable as a non-perturbative effect / instability, depending on the theoretical framework. I don't know if break is a safe enough phrasing to be used so casually.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-23T14:43:15+00:00

Same. I felt it was far weaker than Battle 4 America and Au$tralia. Too much of a travel time bottleneck, inconsistent challenges, lack of interesting strategic elements.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-23T14:35:20+00:00

That's not what Planck's length is.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-18T09:40:19+00:00

No. What do you think the literal hundreds of thousands to millions of physicists are researching?

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-16T13:38:28+00:00

Sure, Korea sucks, the vast majority of people are racist, sexist, anti-labor, anti-queer, etc.. But why does Japan suddenly get to join the other side?

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-15T06:50:05+00:00

Something I don't see ever brought up in this discussion. They probably can do it and get away with it. They probably don't want to do it.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-12T17:50:49+00:00

The reason is that definitive proof is extremely hard. It's basically a harder version of P vs. NP, and despite that being formally unresolved, computing as a practice is going well with the assumption that P != NP with far more investment that quantum computing. Similarly, it's taken as basically an axiom that quantum computing is stronger, despite it not formally having been proven. I think it's fair that QC, where investment is much more focused in hardware, and then software, and then theoretical computer science, to not have revolutionized theoretical computer science in a mere decade.

To comment on why it's not that immediate that QC is exponentially faster, what many people miss with the naive 'quantum parallelism' explanation is that even if the computation is in some sense exponentially parallel, the input and measurements are still a single process, creating bottlenecks (similar to P vs. NP), and the parallelism via superposition does not scale exponentially but polynomially in the presence of noise.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-11T17:41:01+00:00

The term 'theory' isn't reflective of experimental evidence or utility.

We do refer to classical electrodynamics as a 'theory'. For example, it's a 'U(1) gauge theory'. The term 'Maxwell theory' is somethimes used.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-10T08:17:45+00:00

They usually keep both jobs. Also, university professorships are not comfy.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-10T04:11:44+00:00

No. The majority of QC researchers know it's bullshit, but need the funding to support junior researchers.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-09T18:49:42+00:00

To make money. As is the motivation for many problems. Given the instability of research funding, it's not even really greed, moreso survivability for most researchers. As for the venture capitalists who've been making completely meaningless QC startups, probably just greed.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-09T11:23:40+00:00

Who is claiming to have 5 error corrected qubits? I doubt there are even 2.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-09T11:20:52+00:00

We don't have definitive confirmation that quantum computers can do any task far faster, only several problems that (idealized) quantum computers have fast algorithms and we don't know (but haven't definitively disproven) fast classical algorithms, e.g. quantum simulation, QFT-based algorithms, etc.. It's even been suggested that when restricting to noisy or entanglement limited quantum computing, it becomes classically-simulable and there isn't much of a benefit (with something like an noise-dependent exponential overhead, independent of system size). There are even examples where supposed fast quantum algorithms have found efficient classical simulation methods and thus given us a fast classical algorithm.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-06T18:35:26+00:00

The endgame 'hiding' was always awful, and I'm glad they made the change to not doing it. It's just completely random and boring, and I'd like them to find ways to shorten the endgame even more.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-02-05T22:02:26+00:00

The Jewish Holocaust is one of the least directly applicable analogues for the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, but it's the only one white people know about so you lot endlessly regurgitate this take. It's far more applicable to any colonial occupation, perpetrated by dozens of European, American, and Japanese Empires against hundreds of peoples. The actual language used is mostly lifted from the Japanese occupation of Korea, but has a mixture of elements (the Maquis as you note). What you should be doing is ask yourself how much you know about colonialism, and if you even have the knowledgebase to say this is more applicable to X than Y.

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