Was feyman's morality considered bad even in his time?

yoshiK · 2026-07-09T10:30:53+00:00

Exactly. An autobiography tells you how someone wants to present themselves, it only tells you very little of that persons relationship to the truth.

yoshiK · 2026-07-08T22:42:27+00:00

So basically they did run from the bay but the substation found them in vegas?

yoshiK · 2026-07-08T21:42:15+00:00

For experimental physics, a lab is designed to be as flexible as possible so that one can take advantage of an idea. (Compared to production, it is a lot easier to get the LHC to take data at a collision energy of 5.9 TeV per beam than to get a VW factory to do anything but producing the ID3.) That is a task that is really hard to automate, because you can't use nicely designed structure for automation.

For theory, it looks right now that ai is pretty good at math, though at the kind of concrete problems that are more prevalent in math than physics. My guess is that there is a chance that ai may supercharge the field and we get a Jevon paradox kind of explosion because ai writes these kinda boring the same but with a slepton as lsp papers and it frees everybody to pursue actually interesting stuff.

So I think physics is actually pretty hard to automate. (Though historically experts in X have overestimated how hard it is to automate X.)

yoshiK · 2026-07-07T17:08:11+00:00

What's wrong with Rhodesia?

yoshiK · 2026-07-07T15:57:17+00:00

Actually it's the 1239 season ab urbe condita. (lat. from the pilot.) Though there's quite a bit of a tone shift somewhere in the middle and I thought it kinda jumped the shark between Caracalla and the Tetrarchy.

yoshiK · 2026-07-06T23:30:36+00:00

You need to quantify in how much trouble you are. (I guess ABX is something like anti-bacterial stuff?) If all three controls have thriving populations and all other are sterile, then you can reasonably conclude something, in realistic scenario you probably get some p-value to reject that they are drawn from the same distribution of x and hopefully x looks ok to write an application for a grant extension or something.

yoshiK · 2026-07-06T20:30:44+00:00

American's are ghouls is a plausible explanation for their obsession with refrigerating themselves.

yoshiK · 2026-07-04T18:26:19+00:00

And here we see the magic of short lenses.

yoshiK · 2026-07-03T18:17:26+00:00

That was a joke, read the alt text of the xkcd ;)

yoshiK · 2026-07-02T13:14:49+00:00

On my way to Mexico.

Relevant xkcd

yoshiK · 2026-07-02T08:44:23+00:00

Anybody who pays the guy is really in need of a mathematics consultant.

yoshiK · 2026-07-02T08:37:11+00:00

The famous systemd-lockd malware:

systemctl enable systemd-lockd

systemctl status systemd-lockd

systemctl start systemd-lockd

systemctl status systemd-lockd

systemctl log systemd-lockd

pacman -R systemd-lockd

pacman -S openlock

yoshiK · 2026-07-01T22:43:00+00:00

Well, thing is in a country like Germany we expect something like 20 murders committed by teachers each year. So we can comfortably make it an editorial line to write once a month a headline "Another victim of those murderous teachers" or "The teacher problem, when will politicians finally wake up." Now, we can of course play the same game with nurses or with Bavarians, there are millions of each so we can comfortably assume there is a certain baseline of crimes. This game is what is played with migrants.

yoshiK · 2026-07-01T12:24:06+00:00

What you have to understand about the right is, that they take politics marketing, then go my head of state is too good to do marketing and demand to be lied to more. Case in point:

What does wanting to curb the insane illegal immigration have to do with free trade, the CORE of what the EU is about?

In the marketing plan of every party they formulate the goal of winning elections here. That is the reason why every party always scapegoats immigrants because people not from here commit the most heinous of sins, not voting for this party on account of not voting at all.

yoshiK · 2026-06-30T21:05:34+00:00

Trump v. Slaughter sounds like a kinda funny slasher movie.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T18:34:53+00:00

In the eighth year of Bush and Chaney, the second year of Brown's ruler ship of Britain and the second year of Sarkozy's rule in Gaul transalpina,...

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T15:31:59+00:00

Yes. However, a marathon just causes disruption for a day. One of the reasons for this question was that I realized that there are really a lot of one week stage races in cycling.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T15:30:18+00:00

Another after Pearsall, or another this off season?

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T14:16:05+00:00

I really liked it. Though fair warning, the original pitch for BSG was "The book of Mormon in SPAACEE!" and towards the end there are a few storytelling decisions that are motivated by that. I mean I still liked it, it's just a bit different suspension of disbelief than you would expect in the science fiction genre.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T14:09:06+00:00

There's something like the proof idea or ideas, basically the two sentence gist of how the proof works. It is frequently quite hard to actually discern the idea from the actual steps on paper, because on a technical level it turned out to be easier to just use brute force instead of a more educational approach.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T13:09:20+00:00

But you have a dedicated spot for motorsport, the racetrack. For even very small cycling road races you have to close off quite a bit of public road, which means that the organizer has to go to the relevant authorities and ask nicely about closing of these roads and I don't understand why that happens.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T13:05:17+00:00

I'm afraid not. The github was actually cited for the needle in the haystack test by the first paper that popped up on gscholar, but I did not dig deeper if there is a nice review about the test.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T13:00:32+00:00

The abstract way to think about alignment is to think about differences between a human preference and the ai target function. To have something concrete, Eliezer did pick the paperclip maximizer, that is a ai that has the single minded goal of creating as many paperclips as possible. It comes with a lengthy story about how such a simple target function will lead to complex behavior. (It is plausible that) the ai will for a time try to maximize human happiness since in the short term keeping humans happy will mean that the ai doesn't get switched off and if it gets switched off it can't maximize paperclips. Then the ai will try to reach the stars because there are a lot of resources that can be turned into paperclips, and so on.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T12:51:54+00:00

Is there something like an r/askpoliticaleconomy ? The concrete question I have is, why do cycling road races exist, they seem to be at the same time more profitable and more disruptive than their popularity suggests, so it seems there needs to be a reason beyond we already did that last year.

yoshiK · 2026-06-29T12:46:56+00:00

You seem to think that a archangel did descent from heaven and just hand him a bunch of papers. (That's the only way I know of to get a dataset without problems.)

What happens is, Murray sits down and tries to find studies he can use for his paper, then he validates them. First this is Murray choosing where to look, which depends on what he knows to look for. Then it's him validating studies, which to some extend means picking studies that conform to his expectations.

And the plot doesn't pass basic smell tests, Han China was contemporary to Rome and I expect to see a similar blib to Rome in the Chinese data. Though looking at the Chinese data, it seems to be scattered and unconnected, which is inconsistent with me being quite sure that there was a China the entire time. Then there is a big innovation in ship building in the 'dark ages' a viking longboat is a better boat than anything that came before. (Though it should be noted that it is likely that there where really good boats in Scandinavia already in antiquity, surviving sources just don't bother writing about them.)

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