26 Jan
26 Jan
6:41 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 12:12:17AM +0000, donald donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk wrote:
I don’t trip and fall. I perform gravity checks.
And isn't it reassuring to notice that nobody has turned off the gravity
by accident?
SCNR,
Alex.
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27 Jan
27 Jan
4:35 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 at 14:54, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
And isn't it reassuring to notice that nobody has turned off the gravity
by accident?
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was
that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a
discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said
dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends.
Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah,
there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention.
It is a door within a door, you see.”
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6:37 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, ben via cctalk wrote:
> One factor, gravity may have been .5 G back then.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 at 14:54, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
And isn't it reassuring to notice that nobody has
turned off the gravity
by accident?
On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly
dismissed shrug, "yes, there was
that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a
discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said
dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends.
Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah,
there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention.
It is a door within a door, you see.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
(at risk of offending those who are already annoyed by off-topic, . . .)
Perhaps, instead of gravity being .5 G back then, it was merely only on
half the time?
Perhaps being done at a high enough frequency to not be noticed, similarly
to SCR "phase control lamp dimming"?
Whereas, the catflap may simply be product development/evolution from
gates that were sufficiently porous that cats could squeezze through?
6:51 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, ben via cctalk wrote:
>> One factor, gravity may have been .5 G back then.
It may have been only 4.9 m/s^2 but it would still be 1.0 x the
acceleration due to gravity, wouldn't it ?
11:11 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
>>> One factor, gravity may have been .5 G
back then.
On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, Adrian Godwin wrote:
It may have been only 4.9 m/s^2 but it would still be
1.0 x the
acceleration due to gravity, wouldn't it ?
And, THAT is why nobody noticed any change,
the Gravitometer continued to show "1.0"
7:27 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:37:46AM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Perhaps, instead of gravity being .5 G back then, it
was merely only on
half the time? Perhaps being done at a high enough frequency to not be
noticed, similarly to SCR "phase control lamp dimming"?
Yoy may jest, but...
That old-school dimmer is just doing pulse-width modulation. If you tweak it
slightly and make the pulses equal-weight (e.g. by using delta-sigma
modulation) and call the pulses "quanta" then you basically have one of the
competing credible theories put forwards by proper theoretical physicists on
how gravity works.
The "high enough frequency" for quantum gravity is of course slightly
greater than 50 or 60Hz.
12:07 p.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
Fuck this shit.
I'm out.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:37:46AM -0800, Fred Cisin
via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Perhaps, instead of gravity being .5 G back then,
it was merely only on
half the time? Perhaps being done at a high enough frequency to not be
noticed, similarly to SCR "phase control lamp dimming"?
Yoy may jest, but...
That old-school dimmer is just doing pulse-width modulation. If you tweak
it
slightly and make the pulses equal-weight (e.g. by using delta-sigma
modulation) and call the pulses "quanta" then you basically have one of the
competing credible theories put forwards by proper theoretical physicists
on
how gravity works.
The "high enough frequency" for quantum gravity is of course slightly
greater than 50 or 60Hz.
1:37 p.m.
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Is there any way to temporarily suspend delivery from the list without
unsubscribing?
1:41 p.m.
New subject: How enough is Enough? Was Re: Re: AI? Really?
On 1/27/25 15:37, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Is there any way to temporarily suspend delivery from
the list without
unsubscribing?
I have procmail sort CC into its own folder, and when it gets like this
I just hit "Mark All Read". That way I can still cherry-pick what I
want to read, mostly according to who sent it.
IMO this is FAR from the most tedious or furthest off-topic thread we've
endured.
Doc
3:02 p.m.
New subject: How enough is Enough? Was Re: Re: AI? Really?
On 1/27/25 13:41, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
On 1/27/25 15:37, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I'll just set up a junk mail rule and toss any posts with this topic
into the bit bucket.
Is there any way to temporarily suspend delivery
from the list without
unsubscribing?
I have procmail sort CC into its own folder, and when it gets like this
I just hit "Mark All Read". That way I can still cherry-pick what I
want to read, mostly according to who sent it.
1:47 p.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
On 27/01/2025 21:37, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Is there any way to temporarily suspend delivery from
the list without
unsubscribing?
Most full email clients (e.g. Thunderbird, which I think you're using)
have ignore thread and ignore branch (subthread) - right click and prune
away.
9:32 a.m.
New subject: AI? Really?
Fred Cisin via cctalk [2025-01-27 15:37:46]:
Whereas, the catflap may simply be product
development/evolution from
gates that were sufficiently porous that cats could squeezze through?
Cats don't really need catflags:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls>
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