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Relativistic aethers are called fields — and are mainstream.

Aether theories (in addition to providing the inaccessible preferred frame needed here) also simplify two issues with relativity:

- what frame does a photon have?

- what conveys gravitational wave memory to future particle trajectories?

In aether theories, photons correspond to the aether frame. But that gets set to nulls in relativity, which is a theory of sub-luminal perspectives.

(I suspect you knew all that, but other readers may not.)

That’s only true about material or dollars; it’s less obviously true about, eg, ownership of a company they founded.

Humans still successfully compete in chess status because other humans like watching humans compete.

I suspect it will be similar.

There’s a less cynical take:

We create new hobbies and niches because human scale arenas are important for us psychologically — so we branch culture to accommodate the necessary number of role performance arenas.

Everybody is playing status games, but we’re avoiding Calhoun-style behavioral sinks by not all playing the same game at the same table.

The language construct is exactly that if-then-else, you’re just making the intended inference.

A ? B : C => !B -> C

This is where Bayes bites in practice: we can know that impatient and long-minded behaviors are correlated to outcomes, ie p(quit | impatient), without the outcome meaningfully informing which case we have, ie p(impatient | quit).

That’s because people are complicated and do things for many reasons, so people quitting when we cut their pay might not tell us they’re impatient.

I suspect the intent is what you say, but I don’t think the outcome is.

If you chart money in your pocket per unit time, it takes a dip around 18 months where your average pay is less than your first month’s pay. (When I was there, using RSU numbers for that time.) Guess when average quitting time was?

HR swore it wasn’t on purpose and I was somehow measuring pay “wrong” by looking at money in my pocket over time; but knowing their HR, I’m sure the valleys in transition from signing bonus to vesting are intentional.

Also food safety.

For example, community supported agriculture programs cross traditional political boundaries.

What do you mean?

You seem to think I’ve said something very technical, while I’ve merely pointed out a well-known effect of Lorentz invariance and interferometry: you can’t detect an “aether” signal coincident with the detector, because the detector is distorted synchronously.

Michelson-Morley was never going to work because it relied on the assumption matter wasn’t subject to aether wind — which turned out to be wrong, as matter is subject to relativistic effects and fields unify. You needed that independence to generate the differential the interferometry amplified.

By contrast, LIGO measures an effect far removed and not co-moving with the detector. So it works.

Also why LIGO works but Michelson-Morley failed: you can use the ruler distortion as a signal, with some caveats.

In LIGO, we detect the far away distortions propagating through our rulers and the differential effect of those waves.

But Michelson-Morley failed because the ruler distorted synchronously with the signal we tried to measure — since we mistakenly believed EM and matter were different fields.

> measuring the expansion of space using a ruler that inhabits the same space

We do that, routinely: that’s how we do cosmology.

Also to move up the first step of the ladder: if you can reliably intercept (eg) a dozen missiles, then an adversary must launch more than that.

But a few dozen launches removes pretenses like “limited strikes”, which may allow for easier on-ramps. Missile defense can ensure the first step is a full step.

Obama used race (and in particular, neo-Marxist theories like intersectionality and equity) to displace conversation about class with conversation about race. At exactly the moment class-unity was driving meaningful capital reform in the fallout of the 2008 GFC.

There were numerous memes at the time pointing out the shift in the language of NYT et al from discussing class issues to racial grievances. Clear as day in Google’s metrics of media terms.

That shift in focus is what broke Occupy Wall St as a class movement — and was adopted by Wall St to appoint commissars of that ideology in exchange. Woke.

The Obama -> Bernie -> Trump pipeline is a cohort of working Millennials, ie, the proletariat who have lost faith in Democrat politics serving capital and racial tribes rather than the working class. So they elected someone with the right platform they believed would break the system — following the rigging of the 2016 primary. They’re one of the relatively small (1-2%) but engaged cohorts that switch teams, eg, when the election comes down to under 1% difference, which way they vote matters — and they generally vote anti-establishment, with increasing aggression.

Democrats have completed failed to perceive that reality and engaged in name calling instead — eg, the multiple replies calling me a racist to slander me and poison the well for debate.

I usually don’t reply because there’s no point making serious discussions to people who have already made up their mind, eg, sibling replies.

US was less racist in 2008 and more united around class solidarity.

Yes — because there are many non-equivalent statements that are easier to prove.

So the Lean proves something and the question is whether that something is actually what we care about — or something similar, but ultimately not the question.

I’m genuinely curious:

Which part are you struggling to take as in good faith?

I’m sure it’s not your preferred narrative of the times, but we both knew that before I answered; so what is it that strikes you as in bad faith rather than my genuine interpretation of events?

Bad random in games is also a problem, eg, reversing the poker seed.

That sounds related to the pigeon hole principle: if you have n objects and m buckets, and m doesn’t divide n, then some buckets have more objects than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

Circa 2008, into 2010, you had the Democrats running on holding Wall St accountable and a genuine class movement to reform capital in the US, Occupy Wall St.

Obama et al instead tore open old racial wounds, thereby destroying class solidarity in exchange for Wall St promoting their ideology, thereby creating “Woke”.

This was the origin of the Obama -> Bernie -> Trump cohort, who helped bring Trump into power a decade later.

If we have variable c, it would be indistinguishable.

We even use the Lorentz transform, developed for post-Michelson aether theories, precisely because you cannot tell whether you’re in a varying aether or a varying geometry.

We define distance and time relative to c, so we cannot measure it in the usual sense.

An extra sprinkle of race-baiting and you’d have the Obama-era Occupy Wall St special.

We previously were more accepting, eg, if you read the accounts of various socialites trying to include shy, reclusive, or eccentric friends in high society, you see real effort and concern to include them despite the difference in behavior.

We dropped all that social connection/obligation and associated support it provided for various people when we stopped doing things that historic way.

Talking about a thing to virtue signal is not the same as doing a thing.

There are cars that market based on only being track legal — and even more that market on requiring being tuned down for street safety.

Most sports cars do the second, exactly like OpenAI.

They don’t get VAT only, but also income taxes on wages to support that activity and additional rounds of VAT.

Yes — people who emigrate to work there pay more in taxes, but they generally also consume more: the job they’re working displaces a local, they benefit from social medicine, etc. Digital nomads bring jobs from elsewhere to spend locally, while not benefiting from (eg) local healthcare or schools.

Dollar multipliers and sources.

A digital nomad is still economically positive when a) their money circulates locally, eg at cafes and restaurants and b) comes from outside the region. That’s because they’re bringing wealth generated elsewhere (ie, at their employer) into the region.

While you’re correct the state misses out on income taxes, they get taxes on further spending, eg, when those digital nomad supplied dollars are used to pay wages at the cafe.

Not specifically about digital nomads, but Amazon used to estimate their salary dollars induce $2.5 of additional local economic activity — as Amazon employees bought from local stores, the store employees did in turn, etc.

Those drop out in holography too — eg, information local within the interior can get smeared out across the surface.

I’ve worked in a finance department — and this is a very idealistic view of how such decisions get made.

How would you observe that?

We have something like a spinor network in 4D space, where some portions are opposite others in parameters.

Is this a diagram of particles interacting or a single thread weaving through time? Pick your metaphor.

Your criticism of LLMs also applies to humans and so implies humans don’t possess knowledge.