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- Comment on just one more bro 10 hours ago:
Yes and no. Nothing that we know about the universe preclude it being a simulation, so learning only that it is a simulation is more expanding out fundamental understanding of the universe. However, as things stand, we are pretty damn convinced that nothing violates causality while following the internal rules of the universe, so if the genie did that without invoking some power we might call “outside the universe”, then we learn that the universe can internally violate causality - THAT might destroy our fundamental understanding of the universe.
- Comment on just one more bro 1 day ago:
Potentially. Douglas Adam’s imagined a lot of weird shit, and was also good at combining words in ways that drove imagination in the readers even if he didn’t have any specific thing in mind when written.
His words here could be taken to mean “God” didn’t want to be known/understood, like the Tower of Babel.
Unrelated to the previous, the Elder Scrolls mythos contains a sort of transcendence concept called CHIM, which involves coming to fully understand reality and the person’s relationship to it. Since that reality is, according to at least some, a dream, that means accepting that you are just a part of a dream. Managing to fundamentally internalize that without winking out of existence is apparently extraordinarily difficult. All that to say, perhaps a similar mechanic could drive the “dream” to reset itself, or start anew.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 1 day ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
tl;dr: Gandhi in Civ V had the capability of going crazy nuclear, and apparently there wasn’t really a bug in any earlier games about this. Sid Meyer says such a bug wouldn’t even have been possible. Mandela Effect? Groupthink? Mass delusion? Who knows.
- Comment on just one more bro 1 day ago:
This assumes the genie doesn’t have access to some weird higher-reality or higher-“dimensional” power. For instance, if the universe is a simulation, then perhaps the genie has access to a console.
- Comment on just one more bro 1 day ago:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams
- Comment on Smöl 2 days ago:
“Titin, or, as it is also known, […127 double-spaced pages later…], …”
- Comment on Smöl 3 days ago:
That’s, like… half a novel long.
- Comment on soda 5 days ago:
I mean, there’s just no way it’s entirely AI, at least. That Coca-Cola logo on the machine, the soda labels on the Coke machine… the odds that AI would get all that right are so low. I’m not speaking to any other aspect, because I didn’t spend a lot of time studying the whole image.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
Re: inflation, growth in pure gross/intake has to increase to match the currency devaluation, and that can mostly be done by adjusting your prices in line with inflation. Employee count, market shares etc. can all hold steady, all else being equal.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 1 week ago:
Niece playes Smash. Calls DK “Donkey Donk”. I corrected her for awhile, then I decided her way was really better.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 1 week ago:
Correlation correlates to causation, but doesn’t cause it.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 2 weeks ago:
I love the one response I saw, “wouldn’t that make Katie Miller a sexual bull?” Because there are so many different ways to take it from there, and many don’t paint Stephen Miller in the lights he’d rather be seen publicly.
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 3 weeks ago:
One interesting consequence of the rise of AI is that fools place them in higher and higher positions of information parsing and decision-making, it will be the AI marketers will have to bullshit, and depending on how decent that AI ends up being, this could be quite difficult.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Im not a Bible scholar. I have always taken the distinction between abolish and fulfill here to be, I’m not here to say the old law was wrong and so let’s get rid of it, I’m here to say we have completed the period of time for which the old law was right, and we have a new way going forward for this new time.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Maybe not anymore.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
The Federation doesn’t attempt communication or diplomacy.
I understand where you’re coming from broadly with your thesis, and I agree with you more than I want to. The above line struck me, though, because The Left writ large at least has been trying to communicate and attempting diplomacy with our Bugs for decades, and especially lately it’s become essentially useless.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
I get the slightly-downvoted state I found this comment in, but I thought it was a perfect reference.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
I know, right? Jack Thompson called, he wants his shtick back.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
Proof:
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 4 weeks ago:
His only regret was that he had Boneitis.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 4 weeks ago:
I saw the reply in my inbox and had a reaction to “females” there, like “ugh, not one of THESE folks who still talk like that.” Because I didn’t remember the nature of this thread until I got back into the comments :)
- Comment on Foolproof advice 4 weeks ago:
Bonus points if you instead say she is being hysterical.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
I definitely get that from a reasonable perspective. But then I think about the words being used, and part of me wants terms like “upper” and “middle” to represent portions of a whole that have broadly similar sizes. But that doesn’t really reflect the realities of the meaningful differences between two different lives usually meant by the terms, so that part of me needs to take a back seat.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure I would say we are arguing. You provided your version I offered mine. We disagree, maybe, but I don’t think either of us is concerned enough to make a concerted effort to change the other’s opinion.
Yes, I did just argue over the semantics of argument itself. What of it?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
Not to mention “an object” is just a construct describing a collection of molecules that themselves don’t necessarily sit still or all stick around.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
Dark energy would like a word
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
I’d go with 20% as upper class. I think of “wealthy” as having money that lets you come and go as you please, just buy a fancy car if you want without really having to think about the finances of it.
There is a D&D-type game that measures wealth as a rating of 0 to 5, and you can make essentially unlimited purchases of items costing up to 1 below your wealth rating essentially at-will. So someone can buy a sandwich whenever, someone else could take a decent vacation/cruise whenever, another could buy a decent car without worry, one could buy a nice house like it’s nothing, and finally someone who could buy a mansion or private jet without real concern. Those in the couple-hundred-million to billions range.
I’d draw the Wealthy line somewhere in the mid-4 range on that scale. You could also consider it as “the point where safe/moderate investments could continue supplying a family plenty of comfort without working for two+ generations”.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
Next: replacing the customers with kiosks
