/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>2103144
>You are self-centered.
Are you not? I'm willing to bet we differ only by degree.

I hold that people are things. It's leaning towards solipsism, but it's the case that the world I know and experience exists solely in my head. I don't experience reality directly, I experience it indirectly through reflections, holograms. Which means agents outside of me are inaccessible to me and I to them.

What put me on to accepting this was when I realized my family would one day die. I worked out age differences and life expectancies, and I realized I would most likely out live 3/4 of my family members. If I lived long enough, I would see the day when we got arbitrarily close to extending life expectancies by one year every year. Which brought me to the realization that people that I love might make a different choice at that cusp. I would choose to live. I know some of them would choose to die.

The longer I live, the fewer people I can reasonably expect to accompany me. People can not provide me satisfaction. They are inconstant and impermanent.

Therefore, people are not the way to satisfaction.

Lastly, any problem that an oceanographer can pose is a subset of the problems posed by cosmologist and theoretical physicists. Do you see cosmologists and theoretical physicists studying the oceans to see how the universe was made? No. They're not interested in the womb-world of the Ocean. They're interested in the world that existed before that womb-world.

If you want to remain in the dark safety of the oceans of this speck of dust, by all means. No risk, no gain. The greatest gain will come from the exploration of space not from the exploration of the oceans.

>>2008751
Once again, I reiterate. What you say about their equality of expressibility would be acceptable except that we can show that a Boolean algebra or a binary logic is insufficient for describing quantum systems let alone qubits.

Paola Zizzi established in her Ph.D. Thesis that quantum systems and quantum bits can only be completely described in a contradiction tolerant non-structural unary logic. One of the immediate consequences of adopting this logic is that proof by contradiction is generally invalid. A sizable number of computability theorems go out the window if non-contradiction is not assumed or not held as valid.

The amount of information communicated per bit is effectively 0 for a pure-state qubit following the Von Neumann entropy interpretation of information. 1 bit is communicated for a maximally mixed-state qubit following the Shannon entropy interpretation of information.

This is all without speaking about the measurement problem and it's solution.

>>1952111
The first equation gives the number of periods to get from the PV to the FV at a given rate of interest. <span class="math">T_h[/spoiler] is the halving time of a given period given Moore's Law..

I get 1.7 million years till we hit the Planck limit. How about you?