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AeiumNE
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I'm super interested in cellular automata.

One thing that particular piques my interest is the diversity of possible automata, not just forms in any particular one, but diversity of rule sets as well.

What do you think is special about the GOL rule set compared to other life-like rules?

Do you think it was a historical accident this particular rule set became so famous, or not?

Are there alternatives you are also interested in?
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Economic value isn't the sum of energy spent.

If increasing efficiency can increase the value of a set amount of energy, it can also increase the value of a decreasing amount of energy.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
As a fellow numberphile viewer, I accept your authority on the topic, and will probably repeat this guess as fact later.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I like the first principles thinking, but what if they do have a secret place?

What if it goes to the roots and then into fungi and bacteria in the soil or something?
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I agree with this mostly, but I do wish my car had stainless steel instead of paint.

Paint is the most fragile part of the car and it's dealing with that is a fact of life but it shouldn't need to be.

With more advanced manufacturing maybe someone can make stainless steel car that doesn't look like it's from a 1994 video game.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I thought it was because apes fight by grabbing and tearing, so with that evolutionary pressure applied you basically end up with the minimum effective protrusion.

Also, this is why I plan to avoid fighting apes or at least try to wear some good pants if I do.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
This guy Dyson spheres
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Isn't this the kind of thing that is possible with less than 100% mortality?

Like the northern cooler part survives and the reef moves that way?
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Why not? It doesn't ultimately require increasing resources extraction.

Increasing efficiency or technological capability could have the same outcome
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Just talking energy density is a little misleading if internal combustion engines can't capture most of it
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
It's a test flight
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Cuda dominance is the darkest timeline.

OpenCL was the utopia timeline.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
It's very arrogant to take your understanding of the benefit of the truth, finding it lacking, and then assuming that this is same negligible benefit the truth will have for everyone else.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I think it could be real.

UV charges water vapor, or something like that, so it's basically indirect solar.

Just like pretty much everything else is.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Did you read the article?

It's like banana-tier level radioactive water that are going to release.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
What is your source here?

I am from DC and it's pretty well known that it is a planned city. Look up the L'Enfant Plan.

I'm not really sure what you are talking about.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
What is sort of ironic is that they were already leading in that area too, they have one of the best labs in the world for that kind of research.

But they didn't really do much public messaging around it.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
It's possible to run with a cpu and then use system memory.
AeiumNE
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Sadly, one of the lessons of Covid Era I think is I think like this kind of windfall would just destroy everyone spending discipline, and then prices would just inflate correspondingly.