Jerkface (any/all)

Nobody is creating snapshots, the past is lost, but in a sense it is still entirely, umm, present (forgive the pun). It is apparently not true that there is more than one past that could have evolved into the present. This has bothered me a lot and I don’t entirely understand in this moment why that is, but I’ve looked into it several times and every time eventually assured myself that it was so. Though I haven’t accounted for the idea that spaces that were once causally bound to each other can possibly become causally unbound… oh well, down the rabbit hole again.

cool, no, what’s the concept

and a mathematical inevitability that eventually we will destroy our own past that gives rise to time travel

the reason we don’t have time travelers is that the past is no more concrete than the future. [Current science disagrees with the idea that] just like there are infinite potential futures, there are an infinity of potential pasts that could have evolved into the present [instead insisting that the entire past is fully embedded in the present]. [It’s not supported by any current theories that] the probability of reaching a particular past is essentially zero.

i guess the idea of being able to see a person’s nature and thoughts in their body language and behaviour is genuinely foreign to some people, sorry

jesus the autism this is exactly the kind of obvious thing i spend half my day explaining

It’s true because it’s practically tautological and it isn’t talking about sexual attractiveness or physical beauty?? Are you OKAY???

Would rather see the original!

it was proposed less as a hypothesis about reality than as virtue signalling (in the original sense)

New voices for the patrons

Oh thank god. Not the best assets, those.

*third person shooter, unfortunately. I bounced off DOTA2 about five years ago, but I’m really enjoying Deadlock.

The lines you draw are so arbitrary but at least you’re prepared to die on those hills.

Prey tell, what is this OS of yours that is not coercive and doesn’t contain bloat, yet has a full GUI as part of the operating system?

I have heard people talking about mushrooms that frequently cause visions of “little people” all my life.

jesus STILL you’re on about this. I clicked on this thread just to see if you were STILL grinding this axe and YYYYYYYYYHEUP!!

Young people and progressives don’t vote.

The swing is a global phenomenon. It’s not just about your republican party.

So apparently you haven’t looked at demographic trends over the last ten years because shockingly middle aged dudes have become the progressives among males. Not that they’ve moved to the left, but young men have swung so far to the right, it’s terrifying.

Yeah, we know, you move back home after every one.

And how was your 50th, did the kids come out?

That doesn’t prove it isn’t a language. Many concepts are untranslatable between languages. Formal languages exist which are only able to express things within their formal domain. Etc!

Modern mathematicians use a common symbolic system that is more a language than it is not a language.

Strongly disagree. The possibility that someone might at any time choose betrayal adds a lot to otherwise PvE lobbies. It is what creates the positive feelings when they freely choose cooperation. If it is just built into the game that they have to cooperate, it is emotionally meaningless. Having the emotional experience of trust and support from strangers is very powerful, and I think it’s a defining element of AR.