Ya, I like that they're tech dictators. I think everyone should be more dictatorial with big industry. Do I agree with all the policies and regulations they come up with? Absolutely not. But at this point I'd prefer bad regulation than what we currently have from the completely toothless US regulators.
100%. These people cannot return to being "acceptable" to exist. Purge them from society and force them to retreat to the dark corners from which they've been hiding since the end of WWII.
Wikipedia actually much prefers secondary and even tertiary sources to primary sources. They have rules against original research, and follows the guideline that "secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources". It's only with exception that primary sources are allowed, in which the primary sources "have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them."
I really really love about this show that there's a scene with a slime and tentacles, but no ecchi fanservice in sight. I believe we're roughly at the end of volume 1 now? I look forward to next week's episode, when Claire starts showing some personal interest in our MC-chan.
First off, chill lmao. I don't really want to take a defensive position on this because it's not something I do or can believe, but moreso an interesting idea that I see no clear problems with. I believe in it no more than "the universe is a simulation" or "the universe was created by some exoversal trigger"
Secondly, Math makes it possible. Or maybe some exoversal form thereof off of which our universe builds and adds to.
Thirdly, going beyond the scope of existence within time and space necessarily will kick the can down the road to some extent. That's an absolutely daft complaint given the subject.
Yeah, brining up such a being was merely an analogue. The actual idea I'm putting forward is there is no need for a means of "the universe" to begin. If it can, it does, and we're simply within a figment of possibility and potential.
Genuine question: Aren't you supposed to say "this is not legal advice?" if you identify yourself as a lawyer but you're not their legal council? Or am I mistaken?
Information actually is quantifiable in physics, and broadly refers to the amount of order and structure present in a system. It's generally quantified using concepts such as entropy, wherein lower entropy correlates with higher information content.
So, I was talking about my own thoughts on this, and it can't be disproved, so it's not really something I can believe in per se, but I think it's an interesting idea nonetheless. I'm just gonna paste it here because I'd genuinely like to discuss it.
So like, we agree here that the universe could be a simulation, right? That this could be possible, regardless of whether or not that's true of our particular universe?
I sorta had this idea on christmas last year but I was thinking...
If it's possible for a universe like ours to exist; for it to be created and to live out its life, etc.
Maybe the idea that mathematics predicts a universe like ours, the stars, the planets, the division of anti-matter and matter, etc., maybe this entire thing is actually just that prediction. Not actually having "come true", but moreso a figment amongst other figments that the mathematics of reality predict.
To draw an analogue, if an infinitely intelligent, thoughtful, and knowing being had infinite brainpower running at infinite speeds, any time they thought of a universe, a world, a person, they would think with such clarity and depth that the person within it could live an entire life, could have evolved, would have existed in every way that we can perceive. They would have consciousness in any way we can recognize, and themselves wonder about the nature of their universe, and where it came from. But the reality is that it's just the thought of a being of infinites.
This would be deism, but if even I believe what I said above to be true, I don't think I need to be a deist.
Because maybe simply the possibility of that happening -- the plausible reality of everything existing -- is what all it takes.
It's something that's churned in my head for a long time, and I really have no reason to believe it; it's inherently unprovable, and thus isn't really something I can believe in. But I think it's an interesting concept.
idk maybe I've made some foolish error in the arrogant pursuit of conceptualising all that which I do and don't understand to be real lol
Basically I postulate that the universe could be in a state of quasi-existence wherein it doesn't actually need any sort of trigger or anything to exist, because it doesn't even.
Yea, but all the consoles I listed at launch had nearly full BC with the previous gen. DSi wasn't compatible with Rock Band for DS, or fully compatible with the DS pokemon games that used the GBA slot for pal park, but beyond that, they've been pretty good for not starting any generation without a clean slate before Switch.
This is ragebait.