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universe is continuous / cant be proven otherwise but any measurement or simulation of it is discrete by nature same reason pi is computed infinitely and why calculus exists and why math exists at all to try and explain continuity of nature even if all of it is perceived discretely.

The question is what exactly is continuous. The quantum fields themselves? And we have no evidence the the quantum fields are discrete quantum states themselves, but the particles they produce appear otherwise.

It's always possible that continuous maths are a side effect of this field. Of course, the causality could be revered.


if you think of universe as minecraft lattice (which is arguably best way to think of it and explain all of physics currently in existence in intuitive level) then yea, it can be like eg a spin lattice discrete at some plank length from which field perturbations as particles emerge..look up spin lattice from https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507118 so basically bringing back idea of quantum ether cuz explaining empty space with waves without some underlying structure doesn't really make sense anyway since all other waves have mediums in nature.

The underlying structure is the quantum field, it looks empty to particles just like steel looks empty to sound.

It is an interesting discussion you bring up but will take much more than a comment to talk about. There is a divide between mathematics and physics regarding numbers. Real numbers have supposedly infinite precision, and arbitrary size, which are not true in our physical universe. Indeed infinities have given physicists quite some headaches. It's a bit of a dark art as to where you can and cannot just use infinity willy nilly and many have expressed distaste to it. Also at some point you have to talk about computability, like are these infinite precision and magnitudes even real if nothing in the universe even gets close, what is omega to the omega, statements dream up by the utterly deranged?

I remember there being a talk or some article about this but can't find it anymore, but it is an interesting thing.


Only infinite magnitude causes problems in physics, infinite precision doesn't. Real numbers have infinite number of digits only in digital model of numbers, so their infinite size is a modelling artifact. e=1 in base e - one digit.

And since AI is trained on your code and my code. Your code is now my code and my code is now your code :)


cant you just use ur own git server?


I'd love to, but I don't have the time nor the budget for that.


ai gonna get orders of magnitude more Op so just stop coping go outside and touch grass


fun fact: u have to pay for air on mars :)


Perri-Air, Canned in Druidia.


no video, never happened


anthropic/openai are so cooked with this ngl


its more dead when all of the knowledge is compressed into models


fun fact we are still like 5c below optimal biomass temp.


yea trying to get beta out for an online game. using deepski and its cheap af rn discount 75% im still at $4 usage after a week of it chugging, and ppl say its not as good as the other models but we are at point where they all distilled off each other and are within margins such that u just pick cheapest one and it works ok as the others, eg none of them are gonna give u anything novel by default if u dont know what ur doing anyway but they can just autocomplete stuff pretty well and explain / find bugs answer questions etc well enough so idk what that means


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