Owen Muir, M.D. Gets In a Fight with AI Over How to Deal with Daylight Savings Time.
it has an avoidance of tasks that require sustained mental effort, also.
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Owen: How fast would you have to move a clock to let time dilation address the daylight savings time change?
OpenAI: To explore how fast you would need to move a clock to address the one-hour change due to daylight saving time (DST) through time dilation, we'll use the time dilation formula from the theory of special relativity. The formula for time dilation, which describes how much time slows down as you move faster, is:
Δt′=Δt1−v2c2
where:
- Δt′ is the dilated time (time measured by the moving clock),
- Δt is the proper time (time measured by a stationary observer),
- v is the speed of the moving object (in this case, the clock),
- c is the speed of light in a vacuum (3×108 m/s).
To solve for v, we rearrange the equation to solve for the velocity required to experience a time dilation that would compensate for the one-hour change due to DST. We want to find the value of v such that a period of time (let's say 1 hour without loss of generality for DST adjustment) appears to change by the amount needed to "skip" this hour.
Let's set Δt=1 hour (the proper time period without DST adjustment), and we want Δt′=1±124 days (since we're either skipping forward or backward one hour, but for simplicity, we can just calculate for springing forward). We'll solve for v with this information. Let's calculate:
Owen: (eyes narrow).
OpenAI: It seems there was a mistake in my approach to solving the equation.
Owen: No Sh*t.