Notices by cobratbq - cranky-by-design (cobratbq@mastodon.social), page 3

@freemo was there any particular reason for showing this? (Subtext)

@freemo 😂 your post could mostly fit if you would have completely mistook the context. I had to be sure. 😅😂😂

@freemo wait .. uhh .. is this a comment on my use of "bias" in yesterday's posts? If so, I meant bias as in an epsilon deviation such that any interaction between atoms (or quarks or whichever unitary concept) is not/no longer equally likely. .. I'm not sure I'm on the same page now. 😅😁 (sry, not currently in the same mindset so I'm expressing myself less precisely)

@freemo sure, of course. If the math works for it, then you can use it. I'm just saying that there are some alternatives that sound interesting that may just work because it turns out to be a simplification of a subset of the math formulas involved. It's not unthinkable, and I'm just left with the idea that the current mainstream models seem complicated. Also, different math could end up approximating just slightly better/worse. (I'm a CS guy, so no physics background, just casual interest.)

@freemo it's like having a alternative view to not get stuck in the hype too much.

@freemo well, sure, but you're approaching it statistically now. Looking at the theories there's all the juggling with fields and particles, force-carriers, etc. There such a comprehensive framework.
Julian Barbour mentioned in a recent presentation that I watched with a casual "letting the information flow" kind of attitude, that his recent work may have removed the need for wave function collapse. Now I have only very superficial idea but I know his ideas make a lot of things simpler.

@freemo Julian Barbour researches this idea where time is just changes in configuration space.
I have been (casually) wondering for quite a while: what if gravity is a consequence of some sort of bias in interactions, i.e. out of number of viable interactions the bias determines the actual interaction that takes place. As-in, gravity is such a subtle force that I wonder if it is a subtle side-effect of something else. (It would reduce the whole time-space-mass thing by a lot.)

@freemo I've seen this one before, and everytime I'm thinking .. this doesn't look all that bad. 😋

@freemo nope, it's not. Sorry to burst your planet.

@puniko thanks for keeping up that quirky vibe throughout all the changes in fedi. 😄 It's refreshing to see some things don't get worse.

@kaia something similar is happening now. Rich people buying up loads of land now that it is taken from poor people by devisive means.

@puniko what are those fuse files about? I don't recognize them.

@kaia actually, I am not sure why I mentioned the sugar .. was my intuition speaking 🤔

@kaia drinking, extra sugar?

@puniko why this message? Who asked you to send this? I know this is not just random

@methyltheobromine sorry man, :cool-doge: is still not working for me 😋

@GNUxeava @inference I only know about Manjaro because in early days they were the most well-prepared distro to run on Pinebook Pro. Had some nasty stuff happen so decided to go another route there.