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Broadcasting police ineptitude does seem like something good to make known. Might motivate them to do their job.

Bee proceeds to ask if you like jazz. You normally cant hear them, but in this case the sound waves have no where to go but to your jaw bones and then ear.

Not sure what the irrational or paranoid bit of this is about

I hear Zuckerberg is starting a company selling yogurt from bulls. He personally tastes each sample to ensure their quality.

His eyes- fucked up

Her face- actually terrifying

Overall- good job

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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.

Edit: This wikipedia article doesnt mention the anthropic principle, but it very vaguely gestures towards the idea on an individual scale rather than a cosmological. I think that is where my confusion came from, I have only heard of the "anthropic principle" in terms of cosmology, whereas im pretty sure ive heard of the "self observation bias" or something similar as basically the application of the anthropic principle to an indiviual. I started this rabbit hole here years ago.

I thought it was the self observation principle?

More likely infinite energy just became a thing and you explode 🔥

Well, thats the objectively wrong answer

No clue if this is common among adhd, but i find chemical addiction absurdly easy to stop. To the point that i would say ive never had a chemical "addiction" despite imbibing a lot of chemicals.

Habitual addiction, though, suck. I can vape 0 nic perpetually just as well as 21 nic. The important bit is the smoke, not the chemicals in it. Its a habit, not an addiction.

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

You have a ball on a trampoline. Wind might knock the ball around, but its very likely to return to the center of the trampoline. This is a psuedo stable arrangment.

Now imagine that someone kicks the ball, or the wind blows much harder than normal. The ball might roll up the sides of the trampoline, and then roll off the side onto the ground. This is a truly stable arrangment(eithin the bounds of this metaphor)

Now imagine that there is an invisible field all throughout the universe, and that everywhere along it there is some amount of energy. Because this energy is roughly the same everywhere, there is no gradient to take advantage of, and therefore this field does no work.(Think trying to roll a ball around on a flat surface, the only way to do that is for you to put energy in)

But someone or something decides to inject a ton of energy into a very small space on this field. That allows the field(or ball) to have the energy required to randomly fall into a more stable state(fall off the side of the trampoline)

The issue is that during the process of falling into a more stable state, energy is released. Such as the ball falling off the side of the trampoline, you can harness that energy of motion. But in the case of the field, such a large amount of energy is released that it can cause other, nearby, bits of the field to fall into a more stable state. This causes a chain reaction where the entire field starts to "decay" into a more steady and stable state. This would expand outwards at the speed of energy(the speed of light, or causality) and envelop the entire universe within its sphere or influence(the observable universe from the spot where the reaction started, kinda)

That is vacuum decay. Where what we think of as a mostly empty vacuum of space suddenly decays into a much closer to empty state. But reality and physics as we know them are built upon this semi stable field, and its removal could be massively detrimental(think the destruction of everything at a subatomic level) or it could not do anything at all. The latter is much more unlikely because something had to interact with that field to get it to decay, and if something interacts with it, its likely most everything interacts with it.

Contrary to the other commentor, I actually think this is a very reasonable, well rationalized take. I never claimed that biden did better, because I havent looked into that specifically. My only issue is that a lot of trumps policies and actions specifically made it worse. And as far as the spikes under bidens term went, what percentage of those people were unvaccinated, despite a vaccine being available and effective at that point? I havent verified, but id be willing to bet its almost a 1:1 correlation. Just like there is a nearly 1:1 correlation between a certain political party and antivaccine views.

My point being that trumps cult is largely still responsible because he massively helped the antivaxxer movement, despite one of Trumps major 3 good accomplishments (IMO) being the creation of the vaccine. (Created during his term, obv he did not create it himself)

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.

I mean, he basically said industrialization is bad. Not sure why he's saying that online, via his computer.

I feel awkard at literally all times, even when alone. Got any tips for that, aside from not sucking?

So 2020, which by your inaccurate account, was the start of covid. When dealing with a global disease that has the potential to overload the medical system prior to getting a vaccine, what year do you think is the most important?

Of course Trump couldnt have stopped covid from destroying the rest of the world. But he could have lessened its impact on the US. Instead, he thought it would magically dissappear by easter. Due to his cult of personality, people were explicitly attempted to spread covid. He constantly undercut what actual scientists and health experts were stating, in favor of pushing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin, both of which have been shown to be ineffective in treating covid, and can actually make your issues worse. He failed in his response to covid across the board and reaulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.

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.

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On fire fox click in the top right corner for options, there should be something similar to "display page contents" or "text only mode"

Id like to see them stop you from copying that