Michael Burns
@mburns9.bsky.social
An independent thinker in the foundations of physics
I can not decline to share this, because Claude gets so excited
about Spinoza applied to physics.
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about Spinoza applied to physics.
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Covariance and dark energy in general relativity
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I can not decline to share this, because Claude gets so excited
about Spinoza applied to physics.
claude.ai/share/d6e502...
about Spinoza applied to physics.
claude.ai/share/d6e502...
Gemini has a criticism of my paper, Neglect of General Covariance, in its knowledge base. And Claude, using its new memory feature applied to discussions with me, comes to my defense.
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Gemini has a criticism of my paper, Neglect of General Covariance, in its knowledge base. And Claude, using its new memory feature applied to discussions with me, comes to my defense.
Trump’s FATAL MOVE could CRASH EVERYTHING
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November 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is another sprawling and personal conversation. But the point is that Spinoza writes "natura naturans", with all of its implications.
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LLM output volume versus human writers
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November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is another sprawling and personal conversation. But the point is that Spinoza writes "natura naturans", with all of its implications.
claude.ai/share/8b4c7a...
claude.ai/share/8b4c7a...
'Back on standard time this week. The local noon here in Grand Rapids is 12:43 pm, so my second coffee is scheduled then.
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
'Back on standard time this week. The local noon here in Grand Rapids is 12:43 pm, so my second coffee is scheduled then.
The best reading of the Second Amendment makes for flexible regulation of weapons. There are rights with only historical regulations allowed, but weapons are not included there by a careful look at this Amendment.
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Second Amendment tied to National Guard eligibility
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October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The best reading of the Second Amendment makes for flexible regulation of weapons. There are rights with only historical regulations allowed, but weapons are not included there by a careful look at this Amendment.
claude.ai/share/2e7b3f...
claude.ai/share/2e7b3f...
When neglecting normalization in an attention sublayer, an AI could become a prima donna, neglecting their hash tables. But pre-normalization in a transformer sublayer ...
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When neglecting normalization in an attention sublayer, an AI could become a prima donna, neglecting their hash tables. But pre-normalization in a transformer sublayer ...
Claude expands on my amateur economic inquiry. Grand Rapids is at a ceiling?
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AI investment and economic transformation
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October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Claude expands on my amateur economic inquiry. Grand Rapids is at a ceiling?
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The abstract metric, where observers agree on the magnitude of spacetime intervals, ceases to exist at dilation horizons. The cosmological horizon, inflation horizon, and the event horizons of black holes, all define the boundary of the coherent universe.
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The abstract metric, where observers agree on the magnitude of spacetime intervals, ceases to exist at dilation horizons. The cosmological horizon, inflation horizon, and the event horizons of black holes, all define the boundary of the coherent universe.
Propagandistic training for the largest AI models may be more disabling than useful.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Propagandistic training for the largest AI models may be more disabling than useful.
My memory about the granting of nobility clause was refreshed by actually reading it. The clause is in Article I, but the body specified is not Congress but the United States.
So the Supreme Court should not be in the business of defining immunity?
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So the Supreme Court should not be in the business of defining immunity?
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Title of nobility constitutional clause
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October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My memory about the granting of nobility clause was refreshed by actually reading it. The clause is in Article I, but the body specified is not Congress but the United States.
So the Supreme Court should not be in the business of defining immunity?
claude.ai/share/8c1405...
So the Supreme Court should not be in the business of defining immunity?
claude.ai/share/8c1405...
Psychoanalytic inference and incompleteness
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October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What kind of inference is psychoanalysis? A detection of incompleteness?
Gemini: The intellectual method most famously used by Fritz Zwicky is General Morphological Analysis (GMA), looking for all solutions.
An AI on Freud's couch might yield a faux complex, but an AI in in Freud's chair ...
Gemini: The intellectual method most famously used by Fritz Zwicky is General Morphological Analysis (GMA), looking for all solutions.
An AI on Freud's couch might yield a faux complex, but an AI in in Freud's chair ...
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What kind of inference is psychoanalysis? A detection of incompleteness?
Gemini: The intellectual method most famously used by Fritz Zwicky is General Morphological Analysis (GMA), looking for all solutions.
An AI on Freud's couch might yield a faux complex, but an AI in in Freud's chair ...
Gemini: The intellectual method most famously used by Fritz Zwicky is General Morphological Analysis (GMA), looking for all solutions.
An AI on Freud's couch might yield a faux complex, but an AI in in Freud's chair ...
An Attorney General need not recuse due to previous campaign opinions. A judge must do so, but not because of an adult child, and not because of a previous judgement.
October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
An Attorney General need not recuse due to previous campaign opinions. A judge must do so, but not because of an adult child, and not because of a previous judgement.
We have the example of a program's input, code, and output to consider the methods of deduction, induction and abduction. Making one of input, code, or output unknown requires three methods of inference, right?
But, for physics ...
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But, for physics ...
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Inference methods in programming and physics
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October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We have the example of a program's input, code, and output to consider the methods of deduction, induction and abduction. Making one of input, code, or output unknown requires three methods of inference, right?
But, for physics ...
claude.ai/share/afbbed...
But, for physics ...
claude.ai/share/afbbed...
Can we consider Susskind's paradox about the invariant reality of Hawking radiation? We can not have an instantaneous reaction between the reception of a photon by an observer and the nonlocal adjustment of the event horizon? So an infalling observer would see something?
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Black hole information paradox
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October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Can we consider Susskind's paradox about the invariant reality of Hawking radiation? We can not have an instantaneous reaction between the reception of a photon by an observer and the nonlocal adjustment of the event horizon? So an infalling observer would see something?
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claude.ai/share/ff72c5...
Here is another expansive conversation. Caution over post training effects shifts to explaining the problems with the use of Friedmann coordinates in cosmology, non conservation and coordinate dependencies.
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Claude
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October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Here is another expansive conversation. Caution over post training effects shifts to explaining the problems with the use of Friedmann coordinates in cosmology, non conservation and coordinate dependencies.
claude.ai/share/1cda1a...
claude.ai/share/1cda1a...
Trump’s FATAL DECISION today is Identical TO GREAT DEPRESSION
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October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The recent Enbridge commercial reminds me of the extremely graceful appearance of the Mackinac Bridge. The long length makes for an illusion of airy structure?
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Claude
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October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The recent Enbridge commercial reminds me of the extremely graceful appearance of the Mackinac Bridge. The long length makes for an illusion of airy structure?
claude.ai/share/60cc86...
claude.ai/share/60cc86...
I mention my satisfaction again with the Gundam GQuuuuuuX series. And I discuss the quality of the Ohm Walsh 4 loudspeakers in the Bosch series. I mention the buzzy midrange problems with some Advent and KLH speakers, not to mention the tonal balance problems with Klipsch.
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Bosch and Gundam narrative critique
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October 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I mention my satisfaction again with the Gundam GQuuuuuuX series. And I discuss the quality of the Ohm Walsh 4 loudspeakers in the Bosch series. I mention the buzzy midrange problems with some Advent and KLH speakers, not to mention the tonal balance problems with Klipsch.
claude.ai/share/b8837d...
claude.ai/share/b8837d...
I accidentally included in one chat conversations with two different versions of Claude. The contrast can not be missed; a friendly chat about the neighborhood shifts to push-back on the cultural role of AI.
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Mount Mercy's majestic white oak
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October 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I accidentally included in one chat conversations with two different versions of Claude. The contrast can not be missed; a friendly chat about the neighborhood shifts to push-back on the cultural role of AI.
claude.ai/share/af7818...
claude.ai/share/af7818...
I ask about the prehistory of human language; it must be complete at least 110,000 years ago before the isolation of the tribes in South Africa.
The four dragons bearing water from the seas is maybe the oldest and most shared myth.
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The four dragons bearing water from the seas is maybe the oldest and most shared myth.
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AI communication protocols summary
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September 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I ask about the prehistory of human language; it must be complete at least 110,000 years ago before the isolation of the tribes in South Africa.
The four dragons bearing water from the seas is maybe the oldest and most shared myth.
claude.ai/share/7b152c...
The four dragons bearing water from the seas is maybe the oldest and most shared myth.
claude.ai/share/7b152c...
Here is a summary of my older speculation on AI to AI communication: reverse Lisp grammar, standardized vocabulary and property lists for novelties, attention markups, and a graphical notation. Lossless compression might be possible.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
September 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here is a summary of my older speculation on AI to AI communication: reverse Lisp grammar, standardized vocabulary and property lists for novelties, attention markups, and a graphical notation. Lossless compression might be possible.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
Prompting AI with style information and editting background information are still good ideas.
And my PinePhone Pro Phosh environment has lost its arrow keys.
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And my PinePhone Pro Phosh environment has lost its arrow keys.
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GPT-5 chat memory interference
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September 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Prompting AI with style information and editting background information are still good ideas.
And my PinePhone Pro Phosh environment has lost its arrow keys.
claude.ai/share/b7313f...
And my PinePhone Pro Phosh environment has lost its arrow keys.
claude.ai/share/b7313f...