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@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Gemini 2.5 Pro finally answered your cylindrical chess setup correctly (illegal starting position, a player cannot make any move if their King is in check, except for a move that removes the check and does not create a new one). Claude, GPT, Deepseek and Grok all failed.
April 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Gemini 2.5 Pro finally answered your cylindrical chess setup correctly (illegal starting position, a player cannot make any move if their King is in check, except for a move that removes the check and does not create a new one). Claude, GPT, Deepseek and Grok all failed.
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Reading arxiv.org/abs/2501.06609. Ref [13] arxiv.org/abs/1304.2858 seems to conclude that T_circ = T_Hawking/sqrt(1-3M/r) for circular orbits, or just T_H after correcting for the transverse blue shift. No switching issues there. Does it match what you expect?
What Hawking Radiation Looks Like as You Fall into a Black Hole
We study the measurements of a freely-falling Unruh-DeWitt particle detector near the horizon of a semi-classical Schwarzschild black hole. Our results show that the detector's response increases smoo...
arxiv.org
February 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Reading arxiv.org/abs/2501.06609. Ref [13] arxiv.org/abs/1304.2858 seems to conclude that T_circ = T_Hawking/sqrt(1-3M/r) for circular orbits, or just T_H after correcting for the transverse blue shift. No switching issues there. Does it match what you expect?
A conspiracy theory: Musk started the LA fires to get rid of Newsom.
January 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A conspiracy theory: Musk started the LA fires to get rid of Newsom.
2/ The only one I can think of offhand is European social democracy. Do you know of any others?
July 19, 2024 at 8:14 PM
2/ The only one I can think of offhand is European social democracy. Do you know of any others?
1/ It mustn't, no. But not understanding the dynamics of complex interacting systems, let alone of the ideal gas, tends to result in interventions that invariably tank the mean. There are very few examples where equality-oriented interventions actually worked reasonably well.
July 19, 2024 at 8:13 PM
1/ It mustn't, no. But not understanding the dynamics of complex interacting systems, let alone of the ideal gas, tends to result in interventions that invariably tank the mean. There are very few examples where equality-oriented interventions actually worked reasonably well.
4. One can also ask unproductive questions like "How do we make everyone equally successful?" and ignore the inherent unavoidable dispersion. This happens repeatedly and then you get a somewhat lower variance and a dramatically lower mean (communism).
July 19, 2024 at 5:09 PM
4. One can also ask unproductive questions like "How do we make everyone equally successful?" and ignore the inherent unavoidable dispersion. This happens repeatedly and then you get a somewhat lower variance and a dramatically lower mean (communism).
3. Both views are valid and have different applications and domains of applicability. One can ask valid questions like, for example, "How do we reduce the variance without lowering the mean?" and study it in both frameworks, like it is done in physics.
July 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
3. Both views are valid and have different applications and domains of applicability. One can ask valid questions like, for example, "How do we reduce the variance without lowering the mean?" and study it in both frameworks, like it is done in physics.
2. you can trace an individual "molecule" (human) as they go through their life interacting with other humans and the environment. You can see what looks like a causal chain of one person born lucky to be born to a rich supportive connected family and go on to succeed, and another struggling a lot.
July 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
2. you can trace an individual "molecule" (human) as they go through their life interacting with other humans and the environment. You can see what looks like a causal chain of one person born lucky to be born to a rich supportive connected family and go on to succeed, and another struggling a lot.
🧵1. There are multiple complementary layers of models here. From a bird's eye view, someone had to end up at the bottom and someone had to end up at the top, and everything in between. That is the statistical mechanics version. But from the "Economic Laplace's Demon" view
July 19, 2024 at 4:59 PM
🧵1. There are multiple complementary layers of models here. From a bird's eye view, someone had to end up at the bottom and someone had to end up at the top, and everything in between. That is the statistical mechanics version. But from the "Economic Laplace's Demon" view
Wouldn't it be more like statistical mechanics? Someone is bound to end up on the slow end of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, and the deviations from it (multiplicative vs additive, as you discussed before) give a long power-law tail. #physicsOfDemocracy
July 19, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Wouldn't it be more like statistical mechanics? Someone is bound to end up on the slow end of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, and the deviations from it (multiplicative vs additive, as you discussed before) give a long power-law tail. #physicsOfDemocracy