In a secular society, public servants have to swear loyalty to the lawful society, above the institutions of religion or their political camp, ideological movement, clan or ethnic ingroup.
@plinz
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US Secularism and Ideological Capture: Governance Implications
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The US is by law a secular society, despite lowkey recognizing the moral authority of higher powers. Unfortunately it does not identify with an operational definition of secularism, so while it won’t subordinate to Christian churches, it is open to capture by ideological cults.
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Universal Computers: Substrate-Invariant Physical Dynamics Design
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Not quite: the purpose of designing universal computers is to construct physical dynamics that can be described as invariant over a wide range of substrate dynamics
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Charge Distribution and Future State Constraints in Computers
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The charge present in a transistor at a given moment is part of the physical state of the computer. The computer is built in such a way that the distribution of charge reliably constrains future distributions of charge
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Programs as coarse-grained projections of physical computational states
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The program is not orthogonal to the physical state of the computer, it is a coarse grained projection of the physical state into a causal model
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TGV and Shinkansen Safety Records Comparison Analysis
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Have a look at the safety records of TGV and Shinkansen https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T
GV_accidents
… https://
japan.go.jp/tomodachi/2014
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Vision Pro Missing Features: AI, Zoom, and Object Recognition
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Here are useful functions that are still missing from the Vision Pro: zoom into small and distant objects using the cameras, out-of-body mode, object recognition, voice activated AI assistant (Siri is crap) that integrates with Vision OS functionality, iPhone screen integration.
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New Technology Creates More Opportunity Than It Removes
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This is an extremely important insight: new technology creates much more opportunity for humans than it removes.
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US Legal Rights Access Depends on Financial Resources
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Protection of individual rights in the US depends on the ability to pay millions of dollars for lawyers, and the US severely limits what owners can do with and on their property. But there *are* powerful individuals, administrations and communities who want to get paid.
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Thesaurus Alternative to ChatGPT: Explainability and Scaling Laws
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Perhaps you should publish this result? The prospect of replacing ChatGPT with a thesaurus is enticing, especially for explainability. What do scaling laws for thesauri look like?