Search results

https://www.ft.com/content/b8b6c8c4-79cd-4f4b-81ef-f1574b54cb44 "Many put off by ‘disappointing’ performance of companies that were highly valued during 2021 space boom" Space isn't the sort of thing that's gonna bring you a return on your profits in a year or two. Real shame that people are...

This is fucking whacky hahahaha. They took an antenna from a locust and used it to make a robot that can smell. You can't make this shit up! The Locust antenna as an odor discriminator ^original article but behind institutional wall...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/tech/chatgpt-future-davos/index.html

Ahhh yeah that's pretty believable then. I'm used to mostly just thinking about the way things affect the future of STEM fields. Probably true of soft subjects in general that ChatGPT can do passable work. In particular, creative writing classes are FUCKED.

Really? I've seen a lot of educators say that ChatGPT essays are D- to C+ material at best. Well written in a purely linguistic sense but with inaccuracies in the information.

Yeah the show has four distinct three episode arcs, and the shift between them was a little jarring. I almost think they should have released three episodes at a time a month apart instead of going a week at a time.

Yeah Star Wars stories have a lot of kids / teenagers / young 20 somethings. More believable that the adults would be unwilling to risk educating their kids about it. But the universe is still mostly made up of adults even tho kids get the focus on the screen often.

Ah I see the argument you're trying to make, but chaos theory just talks about the large scale unpredictably caused by unknown small scale variables. If we knew all the variables then it might no longer appear chaotic. BUT there is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, that would have been the...

Going back through earlier posts.... ...what was your reasoning behind this? I think that if the world is deterministic then we are MORE likely to be in a simulation. A simulation that perfectly replicates our own universe would ONLY be possible in a deterministic universe. Any amount of...

Despite the objections I received, I didn't say anything that people much smarter than you or I have said. I'm not making up my own shit here. Just repeating the words of philosophers, physicists, mathematicians, and futurists. If you have objections then avoid pejoratives and state them...

I'm not saying that every single planet in the galaxy should have been aware of the Jedi High Council. But certainly it would have been relatively common knowledge amongst the planets that the Republic governed. How many civilizations were present in the Senate scenes? The Senate worked...

Yeah "lack of widespread enforcement" was exactly what I expected, just nice to hear confirmation. Thanks bruv. A GDKP guild is a great cover for RMT too tho haha.

My grandfather used to eat onions like they were apples. It was such a huge part of his diet that his sweat smelled like onions. Onions have made me gag ever since because I can't taste them without thinking about the way my grandpa smelled on a hot summer day lol.

That sounds reasonable. No worse than the gray-market drug message boards I used to sell on anyway lol. But whether or not I can trust strangers wasn't my main concern so much as the potential for having my character progress wiped if I get caught. But Darkpaw probably just looks the other...

The real science version by Ray Kurzweil is a lot more plausible than the Asimov scifi version of course.

Lol There used to be someone around TLPs with the nickname Chewy. Thought he was on this forum but can't find him via search. Must've been an old guildmate I got confused with a forum bro.

If they're in the Republic then they aren't equivalent to indigenous tribes, no? Anyway, again. Star Wars Rebels showed us the HoloNet News Network. We haven't seen it on the big screen but it's part of the universe now. Surely details of the Jedi High Council's decisions would have been...

I have a huge psychological aversion to lying but yeah. Seems like most people that get ahead in this world, that's how they do it... Maybe I should get over it.

How easy is it to offload Krono for cash these days? Wanting to avoid that hassle was part of why I was thinking about just piloting other people's toons.

Tho Isaac Asimov in his science fiction short story "'The Last Question" gave us a moderately plausible explanation for how the universe could be a simulation that has as many atoms as the universe has. ^_^ And futurist Ray Kurzweil expanded on that idea in more serious discourse.

"The computer would need to have at least as many atoms as the universe" was my original objection to simulation theory 20 years ago, and is actually still my favorite response. I think the universe just looks like a simulation because God is a rational / logical being. And the machinations of...

I don't think the universe is deterministic. I just brought up the possibility so I could cover all the angles. I also discussed the possibility that free will exists, you saw, right?

Banshee is a criminal drama. Way more interesting.

There aren't that many parts of this world that are unaware of Coke.... My statement was an overstatement for sure, but that statement about Coke is too. Pretty much just talking about indigenous tribes at this point that are unaware of Coke. I googled it. Coca-Cola is supposedly recognized...

That's a great idea, haven't seen that proposed yet (but I only spend a very small part of my science reading time reading about robotics) Even more basic than that for limited areas is just keeping it attached it a ceiling mounted cable. Programming movements around the cable would be pretty...

Then what's the point of anything? This isn't the philosophy thread go discuss nihilism somewhere else.

You bring up "if" as if I didn't address all sides of the hypothesis.... Just like Nick Bostrom said in his original paper (have you read it btw? I reread it every year or so) it might be impossible to simulate a universe. You're still not saying anything new.

Yeah it's really hard to show an employer that I haven't worked since 2015 and have them believe that it's because I went through stage 4 cancer from 2016-2020 and years of recovery after. Even Chewy probably wouldn't hire me.

Lmao oh 😅

The Boys is one of the few shows I watch as the episodes come out instead of waiting to binge ^_^

If the universe is purely deterministic then it's absolutely true. I already addressed how free will could mess up a simulation. If you mean something other than one of those two things, you're gonna have to spell it out.

But that's literally the point of simulating a universe... If you can simulate the past then there's no reason you can't simulate the future too. A simulation of a universe would obviously rely on a thorough understanding of the laws of physics inside that universe. That was such an obvious...

Once I started to recognize the cause and effect relationship, I was able to adjust the way I physiologically / mentally respond to it. Now I turn it into useful energy. Just wish it translated into actual physical energy instead of just mental energy.

Nick Bostrom's foundational paper on the simulation hypothesis proposes his point by demonstrating that there would be several nested layers of simulations. Any simulation in our universe is likely contained inside a simulation in a higher level universe. Saying "wait what if WE WERE SIMULATING...

I haven't been around in awhile. Good to know I'll look him up. Thanks.

Nick Bostrom's foundational paper on the simulation hypothesis proposes his point by demonstrating that there would be several nested layers of simulations. Any simulation in our universe is likely contained inside a simulation in a higher level universe.

Um. You literally just restated simulation theory in different words and pretended you came up with it...

A civilization that can build a computer powerful enough to simulate a universe could build several additional supercomputers to autonomously analyze the data. And they could have hundreds of thousands of years to do it in. Look at all we've done with computers in the past 50 years even I mean...

Started watching Banshee. Not sure why I waited til now, I knew I would enjoy it. Anthony Starr is great. Fringe was simultaneously awesome and seriously frustrating to watch lol. The later seasons were so much better than the first couple, glad I slogged through. Might check out The...