CadeJohnson

For a few years, have had a wired pair of Skull Candy cans - I think they cost around US$40 new. I do not like anything to poke into my ear canal or hang on my ear - excema issues (I am old geezer). The Skull Candy cans were a little too small - …

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yeah, if time is a dimension within the universe, then it only has meaning within the universe. If there is some other kind of time outside the universe, we know nothing of it. So if we think of the universe as a four-dimensional thing - a vast …

It could be that the highest order of creature on this planet is the sperm whale (https://www.whalefacts.org/sperm-whale-brain/) - though their sort of intelligence may be quite different than ours: not technological, but perceptual. I am not sure …

I'd say the infinite four-dimensional reality in which we find ourselves is quite impressive enough for me. Whether anything exists beyond it, or what it would mean to be more enduring than eternal - time apparently being a dimension within …

I am sorry, but I have not dug into the information side of things. I don't know the thinking on conservation-of-information as a law or hypothesis or speculation. I am sure there must be stuff on youtube - if you find something interesting, please …

Like you, I find hard determinism disconcerting. But on reflection and after a life of contemplating physics, I am forced to conclued that hard determinism is the way of things. I am still trying to piece together for myself how I can be acting and …

I think the issue of information comes up in relation to phenomena at black holes, but I am not too clear on the details. I remember reading as a kid that all the things that ever fell into a black hole are still "visible" - however redshifted and …

I would say that the fact that "something" created a random disturbance in our universe makes it a causative event. By invoking a multiverse, aren't we just expanding our consideration of the scope of the universe? We'd have to be careful with …

Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can we have hard determinism and causality at the same time? In other words, All of the points of spacetime exist - all the past and all the future. Our future is fixed, BUT it is fixed by our inevitable …

When I was a kid, there was an explanation - probably devised by the tobacco industry - why tests of carcinogenic tendencies of smoking based on lab rats would be invalid for humans. Unlike rats, humans spent about 50,000 years of evolutionary …

I read a book many years ago - The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols -Robert Redford made a movie from it. The story was of a small southwest community of latinos in a water-rights war with a developer. Anyway, the people were portrayed as …

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many complex systems are synergistically greater than the sum of their parts. That synergistic additional something that makes us human, more than our skin and bones - it is immaterial inasmuch as we do not find it between the cells; but it arises …

some ports receive more goods in containers than they dispatch. Moving empty containers by ship is unprofitable if the containers have any damage or are aged; but harbor storage yard space is scarce and expensive. The empties accumulate and prices …

I might be trying to do too many things at once, but not noticing it! Now THAT worries me. ;) But seriously, I used to work as an engineer and I would keep a lot of complex information in my head at one time - a dynamic process simulation. As I …

My wife and I built on a mountainside, and we seriously considered containers for at least part of the plan. So much so that I have the book "Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings" on my shelf; and you'd probably want a copy if you …

> you don't have to like practical engineering concerns but you likewise don't get a say in them. Of course we have a say in practical engineering concerns! Wastewater plants, air pollution scrubbers, and trash incincerators aren't designed by …

> Please differentiate for the class the difference between programmed instructions and ethical reasoning in human beings. Not as a philosophical issue but as a mechanical issue. I think we will agree that the programmed instructions will follow a …

When my wife and I first moved to Florida in 1990, we were out doing some birdwatching and saw these lovely birds - we tried to identify them with our Peterson's Guide, but we were stymied! They looked like white ibis, but they had black bills and …

if a machine becomes capable of ethical reasoning, then I would (tentatively) agree to let the machine share with us the outcome of its logic. However, in the situation where the machine is operating from programmed instructions, it is more ethical …

Hi fellow G+ refugee. I agree with you that Cake is quite lovely. While my interests in social media are different than yours (I actively avoid the tag "photography"!), we can all find good content here. I write to advocate the hashtagging - I …

not to hijack the thread, but yeah I think AI in the stock market is a horse that has already escaped the barn. There is some anecdotal evidence here and there that various micro-spikes and -crashes have been AI driven - somewhat in the realm of …

I, for one, am not looking for outrageous content. I have a theory that the easier it is to find the content you seek on a social media site, the less likely you will be to find a militantly unrestricted free speech element. Certain speech thrives …

LOL - no, it doesn't work like that @lgorrie . Actually, you will find that virtually everyone coming from G+ has fairly refined troll-detection and simply blocks.