Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO

• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your reply kinda reminds me of Thirteenth Floor.

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• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.

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• bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

  Lisp is the true God’s programming language…

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  • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow awesome cover!

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• Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:

  Assumption table

  1. Graduate student in academia
  2. Running a simulation for data
  3. For a conference
  4. Haskell

  The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

  Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Come on, it doesn’t work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it’s stead.

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  • muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

    Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month…

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That’s how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

    I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.

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    • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know; I’m just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments. I’m in the rare cadre of participants who like to roam around on the interior of the sim

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