Scubus
@Scubus@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on nature be freaky like that 2 days ago:
It’s mostly correct. The only remaining structures are the imaginal discs, which can each be as few as 50 cells. There is also a link to some awesome pictures in there.
- Comment on What year is it 1 week ago:
Where are the alien robots?
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
You are correct.Notably, I don’t believe it’s unfalsifiable, its just fundamentally true. You cant observe yourself in any reality where you are incapable of onserving yourself.
By applying both that and the many worlds hypothesis, the idea of quantum immortality comes up, and thats a real mind bender. Its also a way to verifiably prove many worlds accurate(afaik the only way)
Basically (very basically), anything that can happen, does. Its simply that each possible action happens in a seperate time stream, and each new possible action results in said time streams splitting into two realities; one where the action happened, and one where it did not.
But by the anthropic principle, you will only ever find yourself in a reality where you can observe yourself.
Hence, if you set up an expirement such that if a single atom decays in a chunk of uranium you die, the odds are stacked almost infinitely in favor of you dying, and one of two things will happen.
In the case many worlds is true, despite all the odds, there will be a universe in which you survive, and due to the self observation principle, that will always be the one you find yourself in. You obviously cant observe yourself in any reality where you died.
In the case that many worlds is false, you simply die. You still cant observe yourself in that reality, so for you reality simply stops.
This means that if it is physically possible for you to survive something, from your perspective(assuming many eorkds is true) you will always survive. That is the idea behind quantum immortality.
The downside is that others are still able to observe you dying. So in the vast majority of realities, they observe you die and label the expiriment inconclusive. In the reality in which you live, it could just be a massive statistical fluke. I suppose you could run the expiriment again, but youd suffer the same issues as the first time, where in almost every case, they witness you die and deem it inconclusive. After having repeated this twice and yet you still find yourself in the reality where you survived, id say thats basically proof that many worlds is accurate, but only that reality out of the uncountably high number of realities stemming from this expiriment would have evidence. In all the others you just die.
To reiterate though, assuming many worlds is accurate, the expiriment carries no risk to you. Due to the anthropic principle, you will always find yourself in the reality in which you survive.
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
I thought it was the self observation principle?
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
More likely infinite energy just became a thing and you explode 🔥
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
That seems wildly improbable. What are you going to push off of to get you to speeds faster than light? There could be gimmicky ways like expanding / contracting space, but thats not moving faster than light, thats space changing faster than light. Changing cosmic topology to allow stable wormholes could possibly do something similar, but that could just as easily mean that you and all other matter exist in the exact same location. That would be… not fun
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
In addition to this, the current state of AI is basically just advanced algorithms. Id would be extremely difficult, but in theory you could still trace the connections between bodes and run the optimization calculations yourself.
Soon enough, we will have AGI. Im not a big fan of LLMs, because theyre a fundamentally flawed idea. The only way to get that much data is without consent, and they will always be prone to hallucinations. AGI on the other hand is fundamentally different. It’s capable of learning just like a human, and capable of doing tasks just like a human. By all measurements it will be able to do anything a human can do, and by most measurements, it will do it better.
The issue most people have is that they do not understand that the current state of AI is like the OG printing press. It’s crazy to a layperson, and it has its uses, but since most everyone is illiterate farmers, its not that useful. But to claim that transcribing text is pointless is ignoring an entire world of possibilites, to the point where people who rail against AI almost seem malicious or willfully ignorant. Why do you not want us to be able to almost instantly diagnose new diseases? Or have a nursebot babysitter that is literally a better parent than you are, and doesnt have to sleep or eat? Whats the issue with making cars safer, making construction more efficient, and taking corruption out of the government? Why do people hate the idea of people no longer having to be alone, or having a therapist that is available at all times, perfectly tailored to help you with your specific issues and no biases?
Yes, these things are impossible with modern AI. But to claim that AI is useless… It’s either malice or ignorance.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, he basically said industrialization is bad. Not sure why he’s saying that online, via his computer.
- Comment on Why would Dumbledolf do this 2 weeks ago:
Wailed calmly is pretty great
- Comment on Anon calls the local bowling alley 2 weeks ago:
Thats a cheap ass dildo
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
Theres absolutely no reason an infared camera couldnt survive a microwave. All you would need is for the camera body to be outside, and to have a mesh blocking the sensor. You wouldnt be able to go through the door if the door is glass(not that ive ever seen a glass microwave door) because glass blocks infared, not sure about plastic. either way though, you could just cut a hole, remove the plastic, and then replace the mesh. Youd have to do some software work to ensure the camera is not picking up the heat from the mesh.
- Comment on Actual shitpost 2 weeks ago:
brrp it’s mostly piss, morty. Does that get your… does that get your rocks off brrp morty?
- Comment on Actual shitpost 2 weeks ago:
And 2% magic
- Comment on for those who know 3 weeks ago:
I mean, so will men, assuming the timeline is accurate. That honestly sounds like a good thing given the loneliness epidemic. Sounds optimistic though.
- Comment on for those who know 3 weeks ago:
I dont know
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I show up 30 minutes early because everyone at my job is incompetent so I have to see how things are going so I can plan my day. Im mid 20’s
- Comment on So I cut my wrist and black my eyes 4 weeks ago:
I started out as a fish, how did it end up like this?
I was only a fish, i was only a fish
- Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry 4 weeks ago:
Im in the industry. This is exactly how it.
- Comment on Ring and ru- hop? 5 weeks ago:
Ding, dong, depose
- Comment on Most Americans Feel Good About Their Job Security but Not Their Pay 5 weeks ago:
I definitely qualify here. My job will not survive without me, every level of managment and customers, fellow employees, etc acknowledges that. I put in my two weeks a couple days ago citing low wages and several documented promises of pay increases that were never realised. Instead of offering me any pay raise at all, the higher ups basically said that they are willing to let the buisness fail before they give me a pay raise. Id like to have a FAFO moment but… they seem like they are actually willing to lose 5000/d to avoid giving me a dollar more. And its definitely not a case of them not being able to afford it, new hires make more than I do despite my 4 years of training. The other day I was informed that I am literally the only one currently employed here that knows how to open the buisness.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 5 weeks ago:
Nah, its more that if i had a way to impact the system, id do so in a heartbeat even if it meant my death so that others could benefit. Hence, I expect the same of the people that have been through what ive been through. The customer and the employee have the privileged position because they evidently dont know that hardship or dont care. How you work at mcdonalds and dont understand that rich people are evil is beyond me, so for the employee im leaning more towards doesnt care. Which, again, due to experiancing the trauma of living in the US and not being wealthy, means that he is the definition of a class traitor and is on the level of the CEOs. He saw an opportunity to get his, fuck everyone else.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Holy shit this is the greatest comment I have ever seen on a public forum. Does lemmy have a bestof community?
- Comment on What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today? 1 month ago:
To summarize: America is like 50 years behind culturally rhe rest of the civilized world. They already got the social issues we are currently dealing with sorted out
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
Id love to see him go to trial, and funds raised through gofundme are used to buy off the jurors and judge. It only makes sense that if the rich can use money to make their problems go away, the poor should be able to do so as well. And that is still within our “legal framwork”
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Uh that one life is yours
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
I mean how ya gonna marry someone when you know every time you have to go to the hospital theres a 32% chance your husband allows you to just die so he can save 1000$
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Whats your stance on state sanctioned murder? Overseas murder? Illegal, out of season murder of animals?
Yet murder of the poor is ok with you 🤦
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Its easy, just pay the normies to like you.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Lmfao stop trolling dawg, theres literally no way you actually believe this. Are you a paid shill, from a different country, or just seeking to rile people up?