We have house parties in the city, too. And they might be bonfire parties on the beach or rooftop parties in a penthouse or anything in between. If your idea of a city life is $15 beers in the a loud club, then it sounds like you've only had the tourist experience.
FYI As of last night, the going price for a 22 oz craft beer in an arthouse movie theater was $8. When you make up prices that aren't even realistic, it just proves that you don't know what you're talking about.
Making and maintaining meaningful relationships usually takes more than just "being around people". If relationships are not your priority, then I'm glad you have a situation that works out for you. But please understand that most humans being place higher value on the social aspects of life.
Automation doesn't replace software developers or any other profession. What automation does is make workers more efficient so that fewer workers are needed. Ditch digging still a job, but instead of dozens of people with shovels, its one or two people operating a backhoe. Likewise new tools are always being created to make software development more efficient. And when the efficiency catches up with demand, then the value of software developers will decline.
More jobs as domestic servants, with salaries subsidized by the government, isn't going to convince many people that society is headed in a the right direction.
What do you expect? For more than 20 years, we've been saturated with messages of impeding climate doom. Outrage is psychologically exhausting. And there's only so much people can take before they become numb to more bad news.
Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
A Level 1 parallel universe is just a region of the universe that is outside of our Hubble bubble and thus unobservable. It has nothing to do with the type of multiverses being discussed.
And I have a really good feeling that this will be the year that humanity finally gains the upper hand in our millennial struggle against the Arctic ice cap. Once the ice cap melts completely, even temporally, it will shift the equilibrium of seasonal oscillations. Every winter it will freeze a little less; every summer it will thaw a little sooner. Until our final victory is inevitable. Congratulations everyone. And keep up the good work.
And I can't believe that someone at least educated enough to name drop perturbation theory thinks that numerical methods are anything other than an approximation. In many cases, approximations are a useful solution, but you can NOT solve an arbitrary set of differential equations with absolute accuracy using numerical methods which would be a requirement for a true simulations of reality. And your own link the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis acknowledges it as being incompatible with classical computers and only speculative regarding quantum computers.
You're talking about a very common homework problem in almost every introduction to quantum classes. THose same quantum classes should have taught to the limitations of the approximation.
https://web.stanford.edu/group...
Just go ahead and skip to slides on experimental error. Perturbation Theory gives you a nearly about a 2% error from experimental values even for the simplest properties of the simplest systems. This is not convincing evidence that reality can be modeled using simple differential equations on classical computers.
If the simulated brain is working in a simulated lab and conducting simulated experiments, then the simulation still need to capable of computing all of the physics required to simulate Life, the Universe and Everything.
How did you deal with the correlation and exchange between the two electrons? You probably used some approximation that only works because helium can be assumed to be non-reactive. As soon as one of those electrons gets moved from a ground state S orbital, your numerical simulation would start to fall apart. These issues cannot be waved away as a "complexity" problem; these equations have existed since before digital computers and the solutions for non-trivial problems still allude us. The TFA addresses this when she points that that quantum mechanics will never be accounted for by a classical computer.
Heck, all of physics we know can be simulated even in a classical computer, they are just differential equations
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to simulate those differential equations for an non-trivial problem. Those simple equations, like the Schrodinger equation, become mathematically intractable as soon as you simulate something more complex than a hydrogen atom.
An equation is only a mathematical description of a model. Even once you have the equation, there is no particular guarantee that a solution is computable.
So you're making the same argument as Intelligent Design advocates. You're saying that because an artist can paint a realistic representation of a sunset, that the real sunset must have been "painted" by an artist too.
it is very likely that an advanced civilization would have the ability to run very accurate simulations
That is an unfounded assumption. You're taking a mere 50 years of computational progress and extrapolating to infinity. But there are physical limitations to computational density and mathematically intractable problems (like the many-body problem) that don't go away no matter how many iterations of Moore's law that you throw at them. Even simple, well-defined sets of differential equations, like the Navier–Stokes equations, are a struggle to simulate.
You've got it backwards. If a state were to choose to leave and was willing to negotiate mutually agreeable terms, who would pick up arms to stop them? By 1988, even the Soviets weren't willing to use force to oppose popular secessionist movements. You have a low opinion of the US government if you think they would be more tyrannical the Soviets.
It is very generous of Richard Branson to offer a free flight on his imaginary spaceship. And to do so in such a discreet manner surely means this is not a ploy get free headlines for his struggling company.
But if you already have a full-time job that covers your cost of living, then driving for Uber part time gives you an extra $600/month in your pocket after expenses. Is there no room in your structured economy for people willing to work extra to earn extra income?
I'll never understand why local law enforcement, like Palm Beach and NYC, would spend extra funds on protecting the President without receiving compensation. Make the President fund protection from his own budget or let him fend for himself.
So what? How is Russia reporting on hacked emails any different than Rachel Maddow reporting on Trump's tax return? The only thing that has changed is that its now every easy for Americans to get their news from international sources. And that is scaring the crap out of the American corporate media that is accustomed to controlling political narratives.
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FYI As of last night, the going price for a 22 oz craft beer in an arthouse movie theater was $8. When you make up prices that aren't even realistic, it just proves that you don't know what you're talking about.
Making and maintaining meaningful relationships usually takes more than just "being around people". If relationships are not your priority, then I'm glad you have a situation that works out for you. But please understand that most humans being place higher value on the social aspects of life.
Poetic irony is appreciated, but are people in rural areas really any better off?
Automation doesn't replace software developers or any other profession. What automation does is make workers more efficient so that fewer workers are needed. Ditch digging still a job, but instead of dozens of people with shovels, its one or two people operating a backhoe. Likewise new tools are always being created to make software development more efficient. And when the efficiency catches up with demand, then the value of software developers will decline.
Most important perk to living a in a big city: social life. Finding people who have common interests gets easier as population density increase.
More jobs as domestic servants, with salaries subsidized by the government, isn't going to convince many people that society is headed in a the right direction.
Do you call the fire department if your house is 1C warmer than usual?
Do you understand evolution? Massive species die off *is* evolution. These are not mutually exclusive paths.
What do you expect? For more than 20 years, we've been saturated with messages of impeding climate doom. Outrage is psychologically exhausting. And there's only so much people can take before they become numb to more bad news.
Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
A Level 1 parallel universe is just a region of the universe that is outside of our Hubble bubble and thus unobservable. It has nothing to do with the type of multiverses being discussed.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...
And I have a really good feeling that this will be the year that humanity finally gains the upper hand in our millennial struggle against the Arctic ice cap. Once the ice cap melts completely, even temporally, it will shift the equilibrium of seasonal oscillations. Every winter it will freeze a little less; every summer it will thaw a little sooner. Until our final victory is inevitable. Congratulations everyone. And keep up the good work.
And I can't believe that someone at least educated enough to name drop perturbation theory thinks that numerical methods are anything other than an approximation. In many cases, approximations are a useful solution, but you can NOT solve an arbitrary set of differential equations with absolute accuracy using numerical methods which would be a requirement for a true simulations of reality. And your own link the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis acknowledges it as being incompatible with classical computers and only speculative regarding quantum computers.
You're talking about a very common homework problem in almost every introduction to quantum classes. THose same quantum classes should have taught to the limitations of the approximation. https://web.stanford.edu/group... Just go ahead and skip to slides on experimental error. Perturbation Theory gives you a nearly about a 2% error from experimental values even for the simplest properties of the simplest systems. This is not convincing evidence that reality can be modeled using simple differential equations on classical computers.
If the simulated brain is working in a simulated lab and conducting simulated experiments, then the simulation still need to capable of computing all of the physics required to simulate Life, the Universe and Everything.
How did you deal with the correlation and exchange between the two electrons? You probably used some approximation that only works because helium can be assumed to be non-reactive. As soon as one of those electrons gets moved from a ground state S orbital, your numerical simulation would start to fall apart. These issues cannot be waved away as a "complexity" problem; these equations have existed since before digital computers and the solutions for non-trivial problems still allude us. The TFA addresses this when she points that that quantum mechanics will never be accounted for by a classical computer.
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to simulate those differential equations for an non-trivial problem. Those simple equations, like the Schrodinger equation, become mathematically intractable as soon as you simulate something more complex than a hydrogen atom.
So you're making the same argument as Intelligent Design advocates. You're saying that because an artist can paint a realistic representation of a sunset, that the real sunset must have been "painted" by an artist too.
That is an unfounded assumption. You're taking a mere 50 years of computational progress and extrapolating to infinity. But there are physical limitations to computational density and mathematically intractable problems (like the many-body problem) that don't go away no matter how many iterations of Moore's law that you throw at them. Even simple, well-defined sets of differential equations, like the Navier–Stokes equations, are a struggle to simulate.
You've got it backwards. If a state were to choose to leave and was willing to negotiate mutually agreeable terms, who would pick up arms to stop them? By 1988, even the Soviets weren't willing to use force to oppose popular secessionist movements. You have a low opinion of the US government if you think they would be more tyrannical the Soviets.
No need for a civil war if both sides think they'd be better off without the other.
It is very generous of Richard Branson to offer a free flight on his imaginary spaceship. And to do so in such a discreet manner surely means this is not a ploy get free headlines for his struggling company.
But if you already have a full-time job that covers your cost of living, then driving for Uber part time gives you an extra $600/month in your pocket after expenses. Is there no room in your structured economy for people willing to work extra to earn extra income?
I'll never understand why local law enforcement, like Palm Beach and NYC, would spend extra funds on protecting the President without receiving compensation. Make the President fund protection from his own budget or let him fend for himself.
So what? How is Russia reporting on hacked emails any different than Rachel Maddow reporting on Trump's tax return? The only thing that has changed is that its now every easy for Americans to get their news from international sources. And that is scaring the crap out of the American corporate media that is accustomed to controlling political narratives.