cuppaconcrete @ cuppaconcrete @aussie.zone

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I totally agree! Although I think modern medication would be more useful than gold - pure quantities of modern meds weigh next to nothing. If you save enough lives of the rulers and their families they'll give you all the wealth and resources you need. They'll consider stealing the medication from you but they won't know which medications should be used for which illnesses, until they torture you I guess. I can't really think of a way of making sure they "be nice" rather than forcing you to give them everything you have. They weren't afraid of doing the unspeakable in pursuit of power back then.

1. The observer effect at the quantum level does feel like a CPU optimisation - the location of a particle is a probability field until measured. 1.1 In my experience these 'optimisations' recur at different levels - eg. economics, gravity, mass distribution, weather, even politics. Generalised models perform very well until you take local measurements - but they're less scientifically provable.
2. Dark matter/energy feels like a hack rather than a waste of CPU resources - it's a vague effect unmeasureable in the baryonic reality we inhabit. In the meantime it alters the structure of solar systems, galaxies and the observable universe itself and it's not clear how.
3. Occum's Razor actually works against your argument. If it's possible for base reality to contain simulated universes then there is already an [almost?] infinite probability our universe is simulated, as base reality could potentially hold [almost?] infinite simulations. If entities within those simulations can also create their own simulations then the chance of our reality being base reality becomes vanishingly small.

I agree that most people don't really need to worry about our universe being a simulation or not, but your statement "You can view our universe as a computer program, you can also view it as the universe." concerns me. This is true until you start trying to analyse how the universe works, but then all kinds of weird things crop up. It feels like you're saying we don't need to investigate this so why bother?

I sometimes joke that some entity created our universe to find the solution to the Travelling Salesman Problem and if we ever figure it out they'll switch our universe off. I'd like our universe to keep going a little bit longer so it would be nice to know if it's simulated.

Yeah they would have been releasing chaff and flares, you just can't see the chaff in the dark

Specifically, fuck the Russian government and Putin in particular - who are already fucking Russia up more than any one else could.

Obrigado ❤️😎

Megalo, Megalo, Megalo :)

Rectally B)

It's interesting that as we're supposed to be trying to fix climate change Yank Tanks are more popular than ever. Truly the Lucky Country.

And eggs 😋

And as the mug heats up it reveals an insult vaguely relevant to how I really feel about you!

Congratulations, you can now view one of 5 types of superhero movie with incredibly expensive snacks and drinks available for sale!

https://panchds.com.au/ in Preston too

Yeah I saw it dumping down to the northeast from the train, don't know how it skipped us

They probably don't have enough capable staff to manage all the regeneration, it's never been a top priority for them. They should hire people to do it.

+1 for Digestives, cheap (Aldi), delicious, available in dark chocolate and sugar-free and really high in fibre (which helps to regulate the glycaemic response).

I haven't heard anyone say recently "I have too much fibre in my diet".

That pallet of pickles ain't gonna buy itself.

Well played, most attempts to help them will lead to them telling you about more things they don't like. I guess kinda like I'm doing now?

Ahhhhhhh!

Peanut butter sandwiches!

PS. https://theconversation.com/with-the-pogues-shane-macgowan-perhaps-proved-himself-the-most-important-irish-writer-since-james-joyce-218038

Aye, but I reckon he lived 3 times more life than the average picanick basket, he'll always be a great person. I only got to see them in the flesh once but my god was it fun