I don't own a starlink dish, but I assume one can log in and configure some things. It would be a nobrainer to have a way to enter coordinates and system time. Also the manual could have sane advice like recommendation to use "peace time" to establish the locations GPS coordinates and write them down on some sticker or so.
If it can serve a basic web page with a world map, it may be justifiable to include it for the price of the dish (yes will require some flash storage).
You don't need a "Ketar class SCP object", simple conflict of interest from the Medical-Industrial Complex will do.
All those skin banks could turn into liabilities instead of profit centers, since preservation of the product is also preservation of the evidence.
A functioning government would waltz in, keep the power on, start sequencing the tissues and cells to identify at least some of the victims, and do this in a transparent and public way.
The problem is evidence, its not like those urologists like incriminating themselves. Even though my trauma occurred in hospital, its not in my medical file. How does one even start to file an official complaint if it didn't happen according to your medical file?
Thank you for elaborating! Your original comment was abstract and high-handed, but this makes it clear you're coming from a place of wanting to solve your own specific problem.
Practically if you know you were circumcised shortly after your birth, can't you look at the record of your birth and subsequent care, make a list of doctors that attended or treated you in any way, and then make the complaint about all of them?
(this isn't arguing against your point, just exploring the problem)
you can go much cheaper if you use a microscope slide or similar as the "beam splitter". Its not 50/50 so the fringe contrast will be lower, but in interferometry one is typically more interested in maintaining the position of a peak or number of peaks traversed...
alternatively one can use a more grazing sharper angle of incidence to bring it closer to 50/50 beam splitting, but then the internal reflections become stronger and the setup is no longer a nice orthogonal one (but how often is that really necessary for a task?)
> Ok, time to confess: I did cheat a little in calling it the “cheapest” Michelson interferometer, since technically even this beam splitter is like 16 USD, but it is very possible to use a microscope slide instead at the cost of some contrast, which will net out to < 20 cents, even at pretty expensive per-unit prices.
Think of the use of ML towards formal verification, a putative ML generated proof can be easily checked with a classical verification algorithm.
What will happen is that we just translate more and more physics and engineering into a rigorous formal system, and then those deductions become verifiable. Actual measurements are another matter, and its not unimaginable petty humans will HAVE TO organize measurement tools (DMM, oscilloscope, ...) to cryptographically sign measurements, and to also sign schematic connectivity (yeah, so the oscilloscope or DMM probe terminals and the terminals of say an amplifier etc would be "smart" and sign the fact they are connected during the experimental setup. All to prevent people from faking measurements.
BUT if this is done we can transport physics and engineering into the decentralized formally verifiable domain.
After that biology for example could work, but formalizing ethics or (direct) democratically established rules and medicine at the same time will result in collective realization of certain inconsistencies (not unlike intervention vs non-intervention when watching lions hunt zebra's).
> The president became aware of the consultations and warned his wife to be careful because it might look odd if it came out, Nancy Reagan wrote in her book.
> Nancy Reagan began consulting Quigley after the 1981 assassination attempt on her husband. She wanted to keep him from getting shot again, Nancy Reagan wrote in her 1989 memoir, "My Turn." "If it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it," she quoted the president as saying.
> The consultations were revealed to great embarrassment for the White House in a 1988 book by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, who blamed the first lady for his ouster a year earlier. Regan said almost every major move and decision the Reagans made during his time as chief of staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes. He did not know her identity.
> The woman was in fact Joan Quigley, an heiress and Republican political activist. Quigley told The Associated Press in 1988 after her identity was revealed that she was a "serious, scientific astrologer."
A "serious, scientific astrologer", but no such thing exists, does she understand formulating null hypothesis and hypothesis testing statistics? probably not, so not scientific, any scientist actually applying the scientific method to astrology will quickly distance herself from astrology at all.
Of course he now denies this so that never happened, he also said that 'doing so would not have been wrong'. Ever the lawyer. My client didn't do it, and if he did it wasn't wrong.
Nor did he ever claim that 'God influenced his deliberations'...
True, but how is that a problem; it is God. Is a human a better than God to make those decisions?
I suppose all of this assumes that God is infallible, but I imagine God has more information and processing power than the President.
I am not suggesting a theocracy. I doubt God is whispering in anyone's ear today, and humans can still make bad decisions and claim it was God's will. Just a thought exercise.
When people claim that God led their hand what they mean is that they will just do whatever they want to do and there isn't a thing you can do about because you are no match for God. This has caused 100's of millions of people to die so far.
Would he be as equally justified to correct the names of Greenland and Iceland (by swapping their names) as he was justified to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?
I actually believe the majority of children who need to study geography would prefer Greenland (which has a lot of ice) to be called Iceland, and Iceland (which doesn't have a lot of ice) to be called Greenland.
I think a majority consensus would be easily achieved.
Language is defined by how people use it, not decreed top down. It would just be convenient if the very apogee of power (despite the deep state) concurred with and recognized the wisdom of the least represented in the world: children.
It doesn't pose an existential threat to mathematicians as much as it does to the status quo:
Every conversation contains miscommunications, a good communicator is just better at identifying miscommunication earlier, and knows how to remediate.
The mathematicians will always be needed to refine the goals (iterating a wrongly stated puzzle until hitting the sought after solution). Mathematicians will be those who understand the miscommunication between the human and the machine. Non-mathematicians will just see gibberish either way.
The threat is to the status quo: what happens the first time modern cryptography is broken? lots of damage and a lot of drama and discussions in order to "prevent it from happening again".
Then it will happen again. Again lots of drama and this time how to "prevent it from causing so much drama everytime it inevitably happens" (in hindsight this position will turn out to have been expressed in the first round of drama, and then promptly ignored.
Every time it happens the bootloaders and firmwares can be signed by anyone. Open source enthousiasts will write 100% FOSS bootloaders and firmware which they can finally self-sign.
This will disempower nation states around the globe (surveillance state goes blind when it comes to consumer electronics, harder and harder to penetrate the trustzone properly secured.) Surveillance temporarily becomes expensive again (requires actual manpower and bribing people to snitch and manipulate each other Stasi style).
It takes a while until COTS hardware with new hardcoded crypto for the bootloader has replaced the liberated consumer electronics which slowly start failing and need replacement.
At a loss on how to design new cryptosystems at sustained rates, AI will be consulted. AI can just as well be consulted to design cryptography with a backdoor (which it can break itself, but humans didn't know yet).
Different nation states and power blocks run their own AI to generate (backdoored) cryptography hoping diametrical power blocks or their citizens naively adopt it. Backdoored and unbackdoored cryptography become indiscernable to mathematicians. Subliminal communication or other forms of implicit collaboration may cause AI of different power blocks to conspire against nation states.
This results in a race to advance cryptography faster than anyone else. Simple heat dissipation alone voids Earth-based mathematics for finding mathematical breaks cryptography: what is not yet economic or cost efficient today will be in the future, so its a race to bite the bullet and start preparing and doing it now. This is why you see all the talk about putting AI datacenters in space.
It is not secure to shed such amounts of heat on Earth, even if you had the energy to start with. (heat death suicide does not lie on the principal variation)
It is also not secure not to participate in the cryptographic math race. (loss of cryptographic independence from foreign entities is also not on the principal variation)
Hence the computations go to space.
Those who consider space based AI datacenters nonsense are either not comprehending the looming mathematical cryptography race, or pretending they don't (in order not to wake adversaries).
The first rockets and satellites were also not profitable, government can sponsor technologies with reasonable probabilities of success in order to accelerate progress on a front.
Yes it is currently not economic to send AI datacenters to space. But since it will be the race to space based datacenters is on.
If it can serve a basic web page with a world map, it may be justifiable to include it for the price of the dish (yes will require some flash storage).
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