The essence of the scientific method is that it is based on being able to repeat results. If you get the same results every time you do the same operation, and when anyone else who repeats it get the same result, you can safely conclude that you have a scientific explanation. But quantum mechanics says no, you have to assume everything happens with a probability but not with a 100% certainty. It's always statistical only. The two views are not compatible. Now that gives us a problem, because QM breaks science. Yet physicists tell us that QM is real. Basically they are implying we cannot trust science anymore. I realized this tonight when I realized that quantum connectivity might mean that sympathetic magic might have a real basis, but would be very hard to prove as it would be probabilistic in operation. Holy smoke. Might we want to rethink parts of old-time magic after all? Something to ponder.
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"Do you find vaccines only acceptable if they are completely harmless?"
Thanks for declaring your position on the left.
BTW, Eisenhorn's Reddit account is IronEagleV. Pretty sure. Even on Reddit he gets pretty roundly mocked. LOL
thank you, X. It does me good to know that.
Hey, it's all about detecting patterns, right? ;)
If you check their submissions, overall construction and wording is similar, as is the range of topics.
And then there is the lack of being able to stand up to any scrutiny in the comments.
Also, a little bit too interested in the Ukraine-Russia "conflict". Just like the worldnews sub and their day by day account of the "war" (Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 489, Part 1 (Thread #635)). Counting the days even? It's like really...be more transparent.
All good things to consider if we were to build an AI able to detect troll dopplegangers on the basis of their attributes (characteristics). Actually it is genuinely feasible to build such a tool and use it to hunt for likely alts. And for example, one could use OpenAI's GPT and train it on the speech of known trolls. That would enable searches for all findable utterances of such people and lay them open to the public.
That statement makes no sense. What do you mean?
Don't play games with me.