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@reedmreynolds @waitbutwhy No system is perfect. Even if you do and everyone will want to press red, there might be many sorts of bad luck (color blindless, bit-flips, etc.) for some to end up blue.

@waitbutwhy The only ethical thing is to convince everyone to choose red.

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

@waitbutwhy Do you have a time series, how the votes have progressed over time? Just wondering if this trolley problem on steroids will be derailed. Also, even if red is the logical choice for survival, it completely ignores risk assessment. If you pressed it but bit flipped to blue... RIP.

for me it's eco futurism

Communications security too, so an exchange with someone trusty about a thought play with the nastiest ideas ever known to humans won't be made a shit show for me during my lifetime, and especially not a quick cash gab for your capitalist asses.

@kate_selig Thanks for the rich and solid @BostonGlobe article about J. Bach! Compared to his life work, this fine piece finally inspired me to go into AGI/LLM research, so that you humble people (with your obsolete becoming jobs) can pin your biased looks back onto yourselves.

@algekalipso Passing the torch for longer hope to typst.app/universe/packa…

This gives me hope for humanity.

@suchnerve @Brian_Phillip Hard mode: Create lightning like IRL: by making ice crystalls collide with each other and charging up.

@Brian_Phillip it’d be sick as hell if you could charge an electric vehicle by resting your hand on the circuitry

(autistic small talk) would you rather have fire powers or ice powers, and why

@_winter_wonders Using poisoned tools equals surrender? What about antidotes?

ngl i would rather kill myself than let any of these occupy real estate on my hard drive

I'm not gonna sugar coat it: if you're serious about understanding reality deeply (and I mean deeply), some people will think you're crazy. That you've lost the plot. That you're lost in outer space. That you've broken your access to consensus reality. Etc. But listen to a String Theorist speak. The average person doesn't understand 1% of what they say, and *project* their own misconceptions, half baked ideas, prejudices, and unexamined assumptions onto the things the String Theorist is saying. Yes the String Theorist makes sense. The framework is internally consistent. But mental data structures to communicate it are missing from the cultural memetic soup. Within the minimal set of data structures to span the actual theory, you don't even see the theory. You see your own projections! Same. Same. Same. With consciousness and reality. If you're serious about understanding reality you can indeed have peers. Epistemic, academic, intellectual peers. But can you do it without many people thinking you've lost your marbles? Not a chance.

If you give up your satisfaction for others, you will lose both.

@XorDev I'd go further: any description would be inadequate and also never complete. Any attempt to do so would just cloth an ungraspable concept with one's own values.

@A_I7 Not one that can be described adequately in a tweet

Praise God

@XorDev Which definition of 'God' do you follow?

Even conceptually, God is worth worshipping. It is a fatal mistake to miss this

Japanese landing pages cannot be stopped

@GHBSmith Speaking of social media problems... >Nobody that has played the game could come to this conclusion. Can you back that up? 😉

This is a large problem with social media. This comment is factually wrong. Nobody that has played the game could come to this conclusion. People listen to loud voices spreading bullshit, peddle it as fact, and then it spreads because people want to interject themselves into everything, even if they don't know what they are talking about. You see it every day. Movies, games, TV. One person notices or says one thing, suddenly everyone has that opinion. This individual was confident enough to question one of the heads of the studio, despite not actually knowing 100% if his claims are true.

"Is mathematics invented or discovered?" Why do we need a single binary output? Mathematics is discovered by observing and invented by writing it down into an approachable form.

@mathladyhazel Where did you find this screenshot? Said paper is available: nature.com/articles/35673…

The growing inaccessibility of science.

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@apples_jimmy Great show! Second season may felt rushed, though, since their budget was cut, and they needed to end it there. Despite that, the final episode made it all worth and beyond.

About to watch this for the first time, hope it lives up to expectations