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  • for one - it's an infinite warehouse, so the parts of it that are near stars, black holes, planets, moons and comets are destroyed, sucked in etc, creating several stable "rare-Earth" conditions at the Goldilocks distance from heat sources, and using the debris from collision follows the same basic principle of how life on Earth started, but with melted plastic from the burned cds instead of in water. Life - uh - finds a way.

  • I know I'm nit picking here but that's the point of examining infinity, but wouldn't it be foolish to say "there are no examples of hydrogen gas becoming sentient under any circumstances!" because, well, we're both sentient decendants of a reaction between two or more hydrogen atoms.

    Yes the conditions that led from hydrogen > helium > deuterium > ... > ... > ... single celled organisms > ... > ... primates > ... > ... humans are incredibly complicated and specific. But what if we applied the same complicated and specific process (or an infinite variation thereof) to the CD factory. Are you sure it's impossible? and worse yet - can you prove it?

  • yes, I was using the famous example that broke the Fin De Ciele -era snobbery about art and the distinction between artist and artisan to make a point.

    my point is that you can't define it. So you say "should posts about the wheel be included?"

    and the answer is if you exclude all things about wheels where do you draw the line? someone creates a new type of ball bearing that revolutionizes manufacturing, but thats not allowed because it's a wheel? Someone uses a new archeological discovery about an ancient device to invent a modern one? No posts about cars, trains etc? No posts about waterwheel generated activity?

    It becomes impossible to police.

  • So news of an online store doing shady shit constitutes as “tech news” because they run a web site?

    So writing "R MUTT 1917" on a urinal and putting it in an art gallery constitutes as "art" just because they said it is?

    etc etc

  • due to the nature of infinity — a la monkeys and typewriters — you could have not only a single CD that due to a catastrophic series of errors is actually something completely different from a CD — but an infinite number of them.

    Is it entirely beyond the realms of possibility that an infinitesimally small stroke of luck could create a sentient race of CD people? Except "small" doesn't make sense in infinity — "small" just means "a less common certainty"

  • back in my day the police murdered us for not working, or not working enough, or working too much, or wanting to work, for relaxing, not relaxing, relaxing too much, not relaxing enough, sleeping, not sleeping, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough and walking around existing and we liked it that way