Thomas

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to new beginnings

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I am so prepared to disappoint you

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> No action required on your part That's easy for you to say, what do I do with my useless tat now?

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The paradoxical duality of man

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Trish I thought we were friends

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It worked for the top 3 coins in my wallet, not the rest

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Note: I’ve tried burning mine but apparently $1 worth of SOL is not enough

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It’s clearly centralized, and under Coinbase’s control who also does the sequencing. They did achieve stage 1 not long ago though and have a stated aspiration of achieving decentralization, but proof will be in the pudding, so we’ll have to see. Until then I wouldn’t store meaningful assets on it, I use it when I have to but am much more comfortable transacting on the L1

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Yep, even the Kraken announcement reads like a sycophantic ad for Solana

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Just send to https://sol-incinerator.com/

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Have a look at the daily discussion on the r/ethereum subreddit today, it’s being discussed at length

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We can speculate about what may or may not come next, but for now it’s Solana only and I’m not seeing anything that suggests more chains to come: “Kraken selected Solana as the launch chain for xStocks because of its unmatched performance, low latency and thriving global ecosystem. As the most used public blockchain in the world, Solana provides the ideal foundation for bringing equities onchain at internet scale”

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In fact the randomness that bothers you is also what bothered Einstein. It’s Bell who in the 60s tried to prove Einstein wrong, but his theorem requires statistical independence (≈ free will) to explain the quantum behavior. If you strip away that assumption, you land back at CAI / superdeterminism, which I find is more aligned with Occam’s razor

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I agree that it’s the key unknown here. 1/ If you follow Copenhagen, then randomness exists until the measurement is made / the wavefunction collapses. 2/ If you follow Everett, no need for randomness because every possible outcome will exist in a separate branch of the universe. 3/ if you follow t’ Hooft / CAI, then there is rigorously zero randomness anywhere, ever. I find that appealing because it’s cleaner than 1/ (no dice-playing god, no dead and alive cat, no spooky action at a distance), and it’s a lot less wasteful than 2/ (no infinitely many universes).

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(Keep in mind that all this is my lay understanding — I’m not a physicist so I may be getting the details wrong and I’m probably oversimplifying. I just want to get people excited and curious about this topic because I find it amazingly cool and fundamental to everything else)

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Yes! They actually go hand in hand. All wolfram is saying is that you can’t predict the behavior of more complex cellular automata (even though it’s 100% deterministic), because there’s an irreducible number of computational steps you have to go through. Superdeterminism and t’ Hooft’s CAI claim that the universe is one giant cellular automaton, where each cell is one Planck volume. So (as I understand) the passage of time is just the universe performing calculation on that lattice, one Planck time unit after another. We still can’t predict the future (we would need to perform the calculation for that) but it’s still entirely “baked in” (determined)

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https://sol-incinerator.com/

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And in response to that person, it could be that consciousness is illusory (just like our sensory perception or reality, which is a map but not the territory). Or, said differently, that we’re truly aware, but not able to see the “rails” which guide our awareness and qualia. Just like we can’t picture higher-dimensional hyperobjects in our minds, maybe we just can’t see the strings and puppetmaster (the deterministic hidden variables at the quantum / subatomic scale).

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