whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 3 hours ago:
Yeah I think the recentness of formalizing infinities into math with Newton’s and Leibnez’s calculus (infinite series, limits approaching infinity) in the 1600s and Cantor’s sets (cardinality of infinite sets) in the late 1800s speaks to the difficulty of even conceptualizing the problems they introduce and the rigor needed to handle them
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 3 hours ago:
Yeah I think we’re on the same page there, I was just pointing out a limitation of the thought experiment that draws attention to the fact that infinity only allows what’s improbable possible and doesn’t make the impossible possible. But yeah it doesn’t undermine the idea that introducing infinities gives unintuitive results.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 5 hours ago:
But they still would be limited to only what monkeys can actually do with typewriters given enough time or monkeys to do everything a monkey will do with a typewriter.
Infinity only allows anything that can happen to happen no matter how unlikely to happen, but it doesn’t allow something that has 0 likelihood to happen like a monkey turning into a cup to happen. If there are any 0 probability events necessary for the task then it wouldn’t happen regardless of the number of monkeys or given time.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 5 hours ago:
Those are some of the conditions necessary for the probability calculation to result in a non zero chance of writing the works of Shakespeare. From the article:
Consider the probability of typing the word banana on a typewriter with 50 keys. Suppose that the keys are pressed independently and uniformly at random, meaning that each key has an equal chance of being pressed regardless of what keys had been pressed previously. The chance that the first letter typed is ‘b’ is 1/50, and the chance that the second letter typed is ‘a’ is also 1/50, and so on. Therefore, the probability of the first six letters spelling banana is:
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15,625,000,000.
The result is less than one in 15 billion, but not zero.
But if they weren’t independent, say every time a monkey hits b their lack of fine motor skills causes them to also hit yhb all together, then even infinite monkeys with infinite time wouldn’t be able to type banana. Or if after hitting b they keep hitting b and ignore all the other keys they would never type banana. Evenly distributed just makes sure they can hit every key, it can take some unevenness like you mentioned j and some other letters come up very rarely. But if they never hit a or e you’re never going to get Hamlet.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 8 hours ago:
The defeater is each key needs to be statistically as likely as any other key to be pressed next, i.e. statistically independent events. For example after a monkey pressed S they are then just as likely to press K as W. If there is any reason they prefer a key or sequence you don’t get a normal distribution and they probably will never create any of Shakespeare’s works.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 day ago:
Use your blinker, return your cart to the corral, and mind your business
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 2 days ago:
John Dies At The End. Weird, sci-fi comedy that nobody saw
Budget <$1 million, box office $141,951
The story was originally written as a serial and released on a web site for free before getting sold as a book, the movie cuts out big sections that makes some scenes meaningless or contradicting earlier scenes. I think it’s pretty fun to watch and it has a low budget sci-fi charm, but I get why it didn’t do well. Given another screenwriter/director I think it could be retried.
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 3 days ago:
- Comment on Which shows have you watched this week? 4 days ago:
Watched a few old episodes of AEW and Futurama this week. Also it’s getting late and raining tonight and reminded me of this Joe Pera episode about waking up in the middle of the night when it’s raining, a little niche but if you enjoy it he’s got some good podcast episodes too.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 5 days ago:
Do what you think is right, but spend some time to consider whether you want to reward someone or some organization with your hard earned money if you consider what they are doing immoral or bad.
- Comment on This is not the post you're looking for 6 days ago:
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 6 days ago:
Greenland sharks are pretty amazing
They can grow up to 24 feet putting them at the same giant scale as great whites and basking sharks, but most are usually closer to 5 meters long
They can live for hundreds of years due to extremely slow metabolism and ambush feeding, some individuals found around 400 years old are as old as the Jamestown colony, Don Quixote, and the discovery of logarithms.
They are opportunistic feeders and have been found with polar bear and reindeer in their digestive systems, and can pull/vacuum in water to catch their primary prey of fish, eels, and other sharks.
- Comment on What TV series or seasons you've watched do you think needed a rewrite? Or any TV series taken a writing turn you didn't expect? 1 week ago:
The Prisoner was pretty unexpected through most of its episodes if you want a good retro spy type show
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
There was a game called tribes that combined the surfing/skiing movement with combat before the counterstrike mod levels came out, it was pretty fun the sequel tribes 2 was pretty popular for a minute when it came out too. But the skill ceiling on some of those cs surf maps was wild.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 1 week ago:
Crush, puzzle/platformer only released on PSP and 3ds. It had decent reviews but I guess it didn’t make enough money to get any ports. One of my favorites from the PSP along with Joan d’Arc and persona 3.
- Comment on Petty pedantry 1 week ago:
Who names a planet after dirt?
- Comment on Tony Gilroy Hopes Andor Helps Star Wars Tell New Stories 2 weeks ago:
A new hope came out in 1977, 48 years ago. My favorite era was all of the EU books and comics and video games that came out between rotj and episode 1 with all of the various authors and creators building and exploring stories and characters within the universe. Disney has a few good series, but they’ll continue to strangle the IP until it becomes public domain/commons.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 2 weeks ago:
What are you going to do, just destroy an entire farrier industry? Think of the economy we can’t build roads to other cities when we need to take care of <insert things we can work on fixing today without ignoring new frontiers and technologies>.
- Comment on 9 ‘The Simpsons’ Episodes Dropped From Broadcast 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of this rant from Joe Bob Briggs on censorship and streaming, considering how many times Disney+ is mentioned in the article
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re going to go arch, you might as well go all the way super villain arch
“You’re probably wondering why you’re here, YOU’RE HERE BECAUSE YOU DONE FUCKED UP TOO MANY TIMES! You think you’re hot shit in a champagne glass, but you’re really cold diarrhea in a dixie cup! And if you keep like you’ve been doin’, this is where you’re heading.” - The Monarch, Venture Brothers
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 2 weeks ago:
Gym bro is just trying to distract the giant standing off camera to the right
- Comment on The pilot episode of Futurama 'Space Pilot 3000' premiered 26 years ago today on March 28, 1999. 2 weeks ago:
I am already in my pajamas…
- Comment on Frankie Muniz confirms that the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ revival starts filming in a “few days” 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst? 2 weeks ago:
I usually watch more older movies than TV shows, but a couple that stand out to me are
Star Trek TNG is great sci-fi but skip season 1 or at least the first few episodes, Deep Space Nine is a close second for me for top trek but also a slow start establishing the characters and setting. The original series definitely looks dated but the dialogue and music are still really enjoyable.
There’s not many shows with a laugh track I can handle but I’ve always had a soft spot for Night Court & the reboot
Twin peaks is fantastic if you enjoy some dreamlike melodrama
And if you’ve watched some low budget '80s era TV you might enjoy Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place which satirized a lot of the tropes and bigotry of the time.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 2 weeks ago:
Yeah releasing an unfinished game without any exciting new changes and adding more dlc each iteration has been killing new civ releases and burning many long term fans who get hyped for a new civ. Paradox, Ubisoft, MicroProse, etc pull the same predatory monetization shit and when the price tag is 70 USD their half baked, missing ingredients cake just doesn’t look appetizing to most.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The requirements for justice includes truth (objective facts of reality not merely opinion or belief or rumors) for accountability, attacking education prevents an ability to evaluate if something presented confidently as truth is truth. It’s a fast track to corruption and injustice.
Putin, Trump, Erdogan, etc style of extreme right wing populist propaganda is to attack truth and prevent justice by weaponizing ignorance. They’re spreading a firehouse of distracting lies, for example staged attacks against people representing their beliefs on facebook and twitter, to a public who is at least in part unable or unwilling to critically evaluate facts of reality from propaganda lies. Another more general example is if you’re not aware of confirmation bias and how it’s used and works due to a lack of education you are going to be much more susceptible to it’s effects when used.
People aren’t necessarily getting dumber other than some temporary dips due to toxic environmental things like lead in fuel or maybe some effects of toxicity we’re not aware of yet, It’s just the people who were already susceptible to fascist rhetoric & con artists are being indoctrinated against education as either unnecessary or harmful, which makes them easier to continue to mass propagandize to with more methods that have fewer rules platforms need to follow compared to older mass media propaganda like newspapers or network TV news.
- Comment on Best game ever? 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like an awesome experience, I have a friend with a mame cab in their basement that I would probably spend too much time on it if I had one. I went with the cheaper option for mame and arcade legacy using a raspberry pi running batocera, but for some games it’s just not the same without the arcade controls.
- Comment on Best game ever? 2 weeks ago:
If I go with unique experiences as a criteria just to mix it up a bit I have a few
Playing xwing with a flight stick is really fun and one of my first gaming experiences outside of nes and arcades. Just really fun fast paced fighter combat. A close second would be everspace or Chorus on a controller.
Playing one of the big multiplayer arcade cabinets like Simpsons or X-Men was the original couch co-op with whoever was at the arcade not playing pinball or pool.
Beating your first boss in a dark souls or elden ring game feels like a big accomplishment, sometimes even more than the later ones when you’re character gets more powerful.
Going from small groups with friends to raids in an MMORPG feels like starting a whole new game, EverQuest and wow were big ones for me.
- Comment on Don't make me come over there 3 weeks ago:
Alt: Lester Freamon, character from The Wire played by Clarke Peters who had the ‘glasses down the nose let me school you’ look down perfectly
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 3 weeks ago:
You’ve just contradicted yourself. First you say it’s silly that God is willing to pay and accepts payment for our sins from Himself, then you claim God is evil because He punishes sin to begin with.
It’s not a contradiction to say if this god exists he makes unnecessary rules and unjust punishments for breaking those rules.
How could a sinful person expect their sin to be tolerated around a perfect God?
If this god exists and was knowing, loving, and powerful I would expect he could forgive them and rehabilitate them, not cast them aside to be tortured forever, that’s not an act of love, that’s an abusive intimidation tactic saying love me or else.
Yes, such sin damns us to hell, but God forgives it, and Jesus is the mechanism of God’s forgiveness. If God just let people who were sinful in His sight get into heaven, He wouldn’t be perfectly just.
Who created the system where sin and hell exist and require forgiveness? If this god exists imperfect creations are exactly what a just creator would want to see so he can forgive and rehabilitate them. Instead he punishes them for actions he knew they would take before he created them, why create them in the first place if he knows they will live an insignificantly short life compared to the length of eternal torture? That is an evil thing to do.
You mentioned that we should be able to atone for sin using flour, money, incense and prayer. That’s like a player trying to bribe a Minecraft server admin to not ban him for rule breaking with diamonds. God can create flour, “money” (something that only has value because we perceive it to. What’s God going to do with it, buy His groceries in Tesco?) and incense. As for prayer, He has a multitude of angels praising Him constantly.
Those aren’t my rules to accept flour, money, etc as atonement for sin, they are the rules of the god of the Christian Bible.
Adam and Eve knew what they were doing. God told them not to. But they did it anyway.
If they didn’t know the difference between good and bad, how would they know that disobeying god was bad? That’s nonsense. If a child is too young to know good and bad and they draw on the walls it’s just as unjust to punish them.
If their descendants didn’t sin, their descendants wouldn’t be punished. But their descendants sinned. This “cruelty” is null and void considering God gives us a free way out (compared to your “better” idea where you proposed that you should need to work to get out of Hell)
The descendants had no choice in the matter to eat the fruit, it’s unjust to punish someone for something they did not choose or their ancestors chose. Collective punishment is a crime against humanity under the Geneva conventions for a reason.
I don’t think there is a god or hell, but if I did believe the Christian god exists there’s no reason to think blood sacrifice is required, and there is no free way out if you are required to worship an apparently evil creator to avoid eternal suffering.
