There's nothing handwavy about renormalization, it's just a way of describing the mathematics which is easier for a human brain to deal with, so we've standardised on it.
An unnormalised wave function can show you the relative probability of any given thing, but it makes like easier if you set the scale so that you can read an actual probably straight off it, rather than having to ask "relative to what?"
Attacking a massive corporation is a very different proposition than attacking individuals, I don't think that parallel is terribly concerning
Light is a subset of the electromagnetic spectrum
No, it's not. In physics, we call the entire spectrum "light", because it's all fundamentally the same thing.
We can talk about "visible light", but that's a subset of light in general. Microwaves, radio waves, x-rays, gamma radiation, and any other section of the spectrum you can think of are all light
It's certainly not as bad as the problems generative AI tend to have, but it's still difficult to avoid strange and/or subtle biases.
Very promising technology, but likely to be good at diagnosing problems in Californian students and very hit-and-miss with demographics which don't tend to sign up for studies in silicon valley
I think the trick is to make an effort to cover as many possibilities as can be dealt with by a reasonable effort (definition of "reasonable" varies significantly by context) when setting up something which you expect the general public to interact with. Not so much assuming that any given person has some disability you can't see, but that any large group of people will have at least a few.
Interactions with a specific person are another matter entirely, as you point out. There, I think the best you can do is roll with it if someone tells you that they're unable to do something without subjecting them to interrogation or scepticism
Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they'll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.
These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part
We really don't. Our history curriculum is much more concerned with ancient history. As far as I can remember, we spent a little time on the colonisation of the Americas then didn't mention them again until the world wars.
The empire covered something like 20% of the entire worlds landmass. If they spent time in school for every part of it which went on to become something noteworthy, they'd run out of time for any other history at all.
The foundation of the US really isn't as important to the rest of the world as the US thinks it is
Israel and trump appear to be claiming to have defeated the Iranian air defense, and achieve air supremacy over the Iranian capital.
If that's true then Iran is in deep trouble, and inviting them to surrender wouldn't be unreasonable. I very much doubt that it is true, but that's what they seem to believe
That really isn't how that works. The US has declared that they won't allow the international courts to get involved, but that doesn't necessarily prevent those courts from disagreeing.
"Jurisdiction" is only a thing when a court answers to some higher authority who has limited what that court can do. Since the international courts theoretically don't answer to the US government, they can make any ruling they like.
They're unlikely to bother, since they probably won't be in a position to enforce any ruling against typical foot soldiers, but they absolutely could if it came to that point
The point is that people are going to see that the post was edited, because most platforms will tell them, and the poster is saying "yeah, it's edited. Don't worry, the meaning hasn't changed".
Asking how you'd tell if they were lying is really missing the point. It's not evidence being presented in a court of law, it's social etiquette.
Handshakes date from a time when the person you're meeting having a knife they intend to stab you with was a serious concern, so the custom of grasping each others dominant hand to say "look, I'm not holding a knife" became popular. Doesn't stop people from having a weapon in their other hand, but would you say handshakes are pointless?
It's only true of badly designed bridges, these days. Modern engineering tools can calculate the resonant frequencies, and they make certain that those are far away from the frequencies which humans or wind can create