Editing Morals (section)

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|content=@VivekGRamaswamy [[Morals|Moral]]: When it comes to mathematics let’s go to the top &amp; take on the French! 

We can do this. Nothing is impossible.

En Garde. 💪 🤺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 

🙏
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|content=America: Our system isn't working!

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[[Morals|Moral]]: you can't just fire people and break things with a government and a nuclear superpower with many non-market functions the way in which you can with a for-profit company you just bought. You can somewhat. But there are limits to the analogy. 

I like the idea of cleaning house. I like the idea of moving fast. I even like the idea of doing *severe* violence to the cancer in our system. Maybe even too much. 

But at some point you realize you can't just sew back everything you just hacked to pieces. Not everything is reversable with money. 

Word to the wise: Real science is easy to destory and very hard to rebuild when you are trying to destroy TheScience™.
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|content=Science is technically a "public good" which means it has twin characteristics that make markets unable to price it.

You can use the Pythagorean Theorem an arbitrary number of times with out 'wearing it out' (i.e. it is inexhaustible). And no one can stop the next person from learning it once it is known (i.e. it is inexcludible).

Anything that is both inexhaustible and inexcludable  *cannot* command a price that equals its value.  Thus it becomes a market failure...i.e. even a knowledgable free market zealot knows that it has to be supported off market.

We don't even let scientists profit from intellectual property rights to their discoveries. We PROHIBIT IT.

To decide that the private sector should sort out science  is actually a repudiation of competent free market economics which is very clear about such market failures of price to equal value. Science has a high value and a nearly zero price. Hence we support it historically at a high level. 

Thus I must respectfully must disagree with my old friend John here. Which is an infrequent occurance.

[[Morals|Moral]]: The private sector isn't magic. You can't just give the private sector final say on whatever is valuable. You can do that only if the thing in question is in the category of standard goods and services. But it doesn't work for an entire category of well known market failures. Like basic research in science.
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|content=Business has many similarities to statecraft.

As does family. 

As does programming with event handling.

As does poker. 

As does sports. 

Etc.

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[[Morals|Moral]]: beware analogies when playing with thermonuclear military capabilities.

There is no real intuition pump. Doesn’t exist.
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|content=I think many of you made a huge mistake about the “Client List”. About “Lolita Express”. About “Pedophile Island.” That is, if the goal was to use [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] to get justice, and put an end to this abuse of children and civilians by the sickest members of the world’s ICs.

You had fun with memes. And you let an IC sponsored pedophile get away. We were supposed to be pushing the press: 

“Why don’t you ask **any** truly detailed questions about a supposed multi billion dollar FX hedge fund that may not have existed at all?” That was…and is…the first order of business. 

We can’t know exactly what he did, where and when. 

But there is no way to fake this hedge fund. Either he had an enormous fund or he didn’t. We can get all the details if he did. Or push as to why they don’t exist.

I don’t know if he killed himself. I don’t even know if he is dead. I don’t know if there is “the [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] client list”.

The thing we know best is that he claimed to manage a multibillion dollar fund that ***cannot*** be hidden. Where are its records and employees?????????” Why does the press avoid reporting on this fund like the plague???? It was headquartered at [[Villard House]] for Christ sake. Madison Avenue. Who liquidated it? Who worked there? wtf?

This manager to this mystery fund is like a captain who supposedly has one of the world’s largest mega yachts…that somehow isn’t registered or flagged. It leaves no wake. No shipyard built it or serviced it. It has no crew. No harbor master has ever seen it. 

“It’s so quiet that Lockheed asked to study it. It’s said to be made of optically neural superconducting ice crystals that form only from the tears of virgin sea lions cooled to absolute zero so it can’t be seen. He brilliantly purchased a Bugis Prahu Charter that was grandfathered in before the 1609 Mare Liberum was in force so that he alone may sail the seas without ever communicating with other vessels or harbors. It is said that his carbon fiber anchor and chain stretched to the bottom of the Challenger Deep so that he didn’t need to approach the shore for years on end.”

C’mon. 

The key was that he wasn’t a “disgraced financier”. He was a construct fitted with a mysterious poorly drawn backstory. And that construct probably belonged to several Allied nation states:

“He’s so brilliant that he only accepts people who surrender total control of their wealth under power of attorney. He is closed to anyone who doesn’t have 1 Billion dollars minimum. In fact: his investor list is so discreet, and is said to be so secretive and closely guarded that he has only one known client.”

Did you not realize that outside investors are a liability to a cover story or front? Beware any super secretive fund that has a story why they dont want family office or institutional money. This is not the only one btw.

Hence…the exclusivity.

Why was he obsessed by Gravity? He was almost certainly a front used for funding edgy science, information gathering, control, etc away from normal channels. 

It wasn’t one thing. He wasn’t a creepy front company…he was a mall filled with different business providing different goods and services. It wasn’t all about raping kids. Some collection of people invested something like 9 figures in creating a weird 11-12 figure fairy tale via leverage. And it was used for a lot of things. It was called [[Jeffrey Epstein]].

[[Morals|Moral]]: focus on the cover story. Not the memes. Go after the press first. Figure out exactly who is stopping the fund from being dissected. Focus on the non reporting. 

This is what [[Anti-Interesting]] is all about. Use it.

One man’s opinion. 🙏 

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|content=[[Morals|MORAL]]: No one wants @WSJ-Style Open Border Utopianism. Mass immigration *as it is currently configured* is an “Elite Program” that no one actually wants. It’s bananas.

[And by “Elite” I mean the social engineers who killed off the actual elite hoping no one would notice.] https://t.co/3aKJdDQhf3
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|content=Ran an @X poll. Here were the results:
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|content=Yet your “Physics” thesis is 153 pages. 

Take care, slugger. https://t.co/LMn2in0Bzf
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|content=Fascinating exchange gentlemen…so odd.

Why don’t you also bring up the metaplectic correction and point out that I don’t mention that? 

Or ordering considerations of classical operators? 

That would allow you both to cast even more (unsupported) aspersions.

In truth you are not making a deep point. You are making the quantum supremacy point that we should take classical limits of quantum systems. Not naively quantize classical theories…like we used to do when we were succeeding. 

Yet the [[Standard Model]] stubbornly remains a classical field theory that got quantized. Mysteriously dodging near certain death on all sides. What are the odds!! 

Well, there might be deep classical reasons for that improbable outcome that escape the quantum supremacists. I mean…it’s just possible.

[[Morals|MORAL]]: Not everyone is an ignorant idiot just because they think your community is 40+ years stalled groupthinking this exact way. I don’t think you are ignorant or stupid. I don’t think you are pseudoscientists. Or grifters. Or any of that. I just think you are wrong in your total approach. That’s just science. The quantum gravity crowd has demanded a victory parade for 40+ years over all other approaches while it fails to launch year after year after year. That is not science. I’m sorry. I don’t make that rule.

[[Morals|MORAL II]]: You might want to bring up polarization independence and the difficulty of proving (projective) flatness in the polarization discussion, if you want to be even more condescending. You might also laugh to yourselves that the classical hadron and lepton sectors don’t even separately quantize! I don’t know why this doesn’t occur to you. And finally, you might want to assert that I am ignorant of Groenewold–van Hove and have a chuckle about that too. Just a suggestion. 

Have fun. And good day, gentlemen. Keep up the high standards and good work.
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|content=Buddy, we're not doing "quantum supremacy". But if you wanna quantise a classical theory you must work for it. You don't get to yell "self-quantising" and call it a day

You must check topological conditions & choose/prove independence of polarisation & the prequantum line bundle
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|content=Which is both INCREDIBLE and difficult as it stands. Yes? No? I mean I think I get this.

Like it’s almost a miracle that it works at all:
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|content=Now you're getting it! :)

And not only difficult but often simply false. Many classical phase spaces dont admit prequantum line bundles. Others don't have a unique one

And the choice of polarisation can be the difference between a finite- and infinite-dimensional Hilbert space!
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“Now you're getting it! :)”

You guys are just so full of yourselves. What are you…in your 20s? Born around AdS/CFT? Am I your problem student finally coming along to “get it”?

You think I can’t understand you! Right? Like you are my teacher or something. Adorable.

I forget what this community is like. You do realize you are still playing with toy models working a million miles away from actual laboratory physics? 

Take a look out your window Tim: No quarks. No neutrinos. No generations. You are on the train to [[Physics got NERPhed|NERPH (Not Even Remotely Physics)]]. You just don’t know it. Before long you will leave for a job so you can buy a house or retire without ever having made contact with physical reality. As a physics person. Wake up. 

You’re not even in spacetime Tim. You are likely playing with Riemann surfaces. Your “Higgs Fields” are often valued in the adjoint bundles. Your metrics are often Euclidean signature. Your SUSY is likely unsupported by any LHC superpartners. Etc. Etc.

You actually think I don’t get it because if I did “get it” I would certainly agree with you. 

Like I can’t read what you wrote here or I wouldn’t be saying these things:
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|content=If those two little interjections are enough to set you off like this, you really need to get your temper in check lmao

Remember, champ: brevity is the soul of wit
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|content=Continued….on the other hand it sure looks like in the 1950s we set up two cut outs and created [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|“The Golden Age Of General Relativity”]].

And then in the wake of [[Howard Morland]] and [[John Aristotle Phillips]], it kinda looks like we stagnated and soft sunsetted real open research in fundamental physics with a preposterous story about [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]]. Which makes no sense to anyone honest after 40 years of failure. 

So that is pretty odd. Scientists don’t shoot down new ideas for 40 years to protect one known not to work. That isn’t how science works. 

So that opens the question, is there a second secret physics program (like a Manhattan Project for Gravity 2.0)  and perhaps a second [[UAP|UFO]] program. A non decoy. And while I see no direct evidence of NHI craft,  we do have a mystery as to why the U.S. would destroy its own commanding advantage in fundamental Physics over string theory and its obvious failure. It just doesn’t pass the laugh test.

The only thing I can wonder about is if we figured a bit of new physics out that lead to new Manhattan Project-level secrecy around all fundamental physics. Maybe 50 high ranking people (e.g. @SecRubio ) aren’t lying with the skill of Pacino and Brando. 🤷‍♀️.

Something is way off. We aren’t doing physics in the open any more. And we aren’t asking our own people for help. So you would be crazy not to wonder…WTAF?

This is, unfortunately, consistent with a second Manhattan project on Gravity. This is exactly how secret science works. For example: We stagnated chain reaction research outside los Alamos and continued doing  successful physics inside the compound. 

Well, the first part of this is true today. We are dead in the water in university level fundamental physics beyond [[General Relativity|GR]] and the [[Standard Model|SM]]. The second part is unknown. Is there a place where you can get paid to succeed at physics rather than paid to do things which are known not to work? I just don’t know.  

[[Morals|Moral]]: Physics when done well and right, is very very dangerous after all. And I want us to get back to doing physics that will go way beyond [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]. 

Even the kind that goes boom:💥 

🙏
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|content=Yes.

I think the US almost certainly has at least one fake UFO program. A decoy. 

Think of that decoy as putting out bad information to confuse adversaries. But what does it due to our own scientists?

Now imagine a post relativistic gravitational theory group PRTG here on earth. You would imagine that our own government would be working with that PRTG. Because that group is trying to figure out if we are trapped here, the last thing you want to do is to have the f****ng decoy program polluting our own understanding. 

I think the morons in our decoy program forgot to bring in their own PRTGs. Because to a PRTG, [[UAP|UFOs]]….real NHI craft….would be key data. And fake craft is just feeding your own scientists poison and polluting their own understanding.

So we don’t have ANY top tier PRTG in this game. That’s what makes me think there is only a [[UAP|fake UFO decoy program]]. OTOH…
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|content=Can you explain your thoughts a little better?

Have you put any thought into what’s actually going on specifically in the null hypothesis case? What’s this all for? It’s not clear to me at all that there is any sensibility in either direction.
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