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  • Building more isn't going to solve the problem.

    Simply put, the homeless population is exponentially lower than the current number of vacant housing units (which, basically means landlords are almost exclusively the problem).

    From gigafact.org "vacancies have decreased, from about 19 million in the first quarter of 2011 to about 14.5 million in the last quarter of 2022.

    Homelessness has also decreased modestly from 623,788 in 2011."

    So, if each homeless person got their own house, even the kids who are part of a homeless family, there would still be nearly 14 million vacant housing units held by greedy landlords.

    Edit: Even looking at the overall numbers, there are about 142 million houses currently, and there are about 332 million people.

    See? Nearly double the people? We need more houses.

    Families. Families are anywhere from 2-5 people on average. So again, looking at the homeless population, which is listed as individuals, it would take less than 1/14th of the currently vacant housing units for no one to be homeless.

  • So, please read this as serious and no ulterior-motivation.

    I'm hoping to release a game in a few years, and naturally I would like to sell it.

    I am also supportive of this community and understand somewhat about the release date underground release.

    I'd rather either get the revenue from my work directly, or give it away in exchange for donations, trade, or even nothing at all.

    All this especially in light of how often independent creators get their shit stolen by megacorps.

    Is there something I should be keeping an eye out for, or preparing for so everything goes smoothly at least with regards to this community?

  • So, I like the Roko's Basalisk paradox.

    Basically, a super-powered future A.I. that knows whether or not you will build it. If you decide to do nothing, once it gets built, it will torture your consciousness forever (bringing you "back from the dead" or whatever is closest to that for virtual consciousness ability). If you drop everything and start building it now, you're safe.

    Love the discussion of this post, btw.

  • I appreciate your response.

    But, the question is if they could or not.

    Of course, free will is an interesting factor to introduce. But I do not know if it applies to the hypothetical...

    Thank you for adding (and making me think more).

  • To add a bit of fun to this, try the following:

    1. Open your calculator app and enter: 1/0.9

    Does it equal 1? No.

    1. Ok, now add a "9" to the end of the second number.

    Does it equal 1? No.

    Ok, repeat step 2 and eventually it will equal 1. Why?

    Is it that we are incapable of indefinitely dividing? No, the previous steps showed it just takes a few more steps and the answer doesn't equal 1.

    Hope you enjoy!

  • This stuff is not philosophy of religion 101, though it might be one seminary professor's lesson notes in systematic theology for christianity. Specific religions will typically have mental gymnastics or say things like, "It's just too complicated to understand with our limited capacity as mortals."

    Given a being exists outside of this reality, the laws of this reality do not apply to it. And given a being created this reality, that being can do whatever it wants, regardless of this reality and it's laws. So the paradox still stands.

  • If the answer is yes, then it negates "all-powerful" because it cannot withstand it's own power. Similarly, if "no", then it is not strong enough to destroy itself and, thereby, not all-poweful.

    So, it's a paradox because "all-powerful" is typically used as "unkillable", but also carries a connotation of "can-destroy-anything". So, can something that is capable of destroying anything and cannot die kill itself?

    Greek mythology had the dad-god "defeated" by being cut into literal pieces and scattered, but he wasn't really dead. And Zeus' siblings were eaten by his dad so they wouldn't usurp him, but they didn't die and he later puked them up.

    But none of these were touted as all-powerful, biggest than bigger bigly, cannot be killed but can kill everything else.

    A similar question on this line is can an all-powerful god make a rock too big for even said god to lift?