Interesting Links for 31-12-2023
Dec. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- 1. For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism
- (tags:Jews Israel Palestine bigotry )
- 2. The British now basically blame Brexit for *everything*
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 3. Generative AI produces copyright infringements from the vaguest of prompts
- (tags:ai copyright )
- 4. China's Xi goes full Stalin with purge
- (tags:china politics authoritarianism )
- 5. New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
- (tags:gravity relativity physics quantum )
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Date: 2023-12-31 12:44 pm (UTC)3) Good. The fact that generative AIs are currently basically unregulated is ludicrous.
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Date: 2023-12-31 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 12:53 pm (UTC)Yep!
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Date: 2023-12-31 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 02:19 pm (UTC)If someone is selling you access on theirs then they would be responsible.
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Date: 2023-12-31 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 02:26 pm (UTC)2. I'd blame Brexit's organizers.
4. Not a surprise. Disturbing, yes, and still not a surprise.
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Date: 2023-12-31 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 03:05 pm (UTC)Wrong gender, guys!
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Date: 2023-12-31 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-31 05:18 pm (UTC)misleading. "has brexit made X worse" is a different question than "what is the primary cause of X getting worse"
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Date: 2023-12-31 05:18 pm (UTC)The infamous and problematic "measurement postulate" of quantum theory is not needed, since quantum superpositions necessarily localize through their interaction with classical spacetime.
Unless I've totally misunderstood, this sounds as if large superpositions wouldn't be stable – you can still do the thing with one electron and two slits, but nothing involving, say, a cat in a box is going to do anything weird.
So where's the boundary between those? In particular, what limit does it place on quantum computers?
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Date: 2023-12-31 05:20 pm (UTC)Hopefully someone will answer that soon!
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Date: 2024-01-02 07:35 am (UTC)Disloyalty, real or perceived or manufactured;
The delivery systems (or the warheads) have failed a readiness test and, in all probability, the organisation has been concealing reliability and maintenence problems for years;
The truth about nuclear safety standards and disposal practices is starting to come out, and it's catastrophically bad.
Look up Arzamas-19 and Lake Karachay for a hint of how bad it can be, and recall that one of America's plutonium lines in Nevada had to be closed down by the Secret Service.