I categorically reject your implied definition of "win". I agree.
The only way to win is not to play. If I just had two mod points left, you would both get them.
1) The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
2) A gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
3) The sun is hot - the sun it not a place where we can live, but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives. I don't think the probe is being built by Captain Obvious.
We've made it into a civilian domain, but don't forget it was originally ARPANET, and was intended for military use, before it became the Internet and the american MILNET broke away from it. There might be some people in the US military that think the Internet belongs to them.
developers and obsessive geeks are users too, they just happen to use the software differently...
user-friendly is such a broad term these days, there's no sense in arguing over it.
2. Such a simulation is possible, and will be infinitely recursive.
If 1 is true, then that is that, and we live in reality. But if case 2 is true, then there's still a possibility that we aren't yet in the simulation. It's an infinitesimally small possibilty, with the likelyhood of us being in one the loops being much greater. But It's still possible. And even if it possible, we still have no way of knowing that yet (whether we are in fact in one yet).
What? Our singular overlords? Our eschatonic overlords.
Is it just me, or does all this poorly-reasoned "singularity" crap have a religious feel to it?
I was going to end like something along the lines of "Post-human" or "AI-enhanced" overlords.
And yes, it definitely does have a creepy religious feeling to that. I'm Catholic, and I feel creeped out.
We're all living virtualized lives of our lives prior to the singularity happening. It's an infinite loop, but our only way of dealing with it.
But then, the singularity really is meaningless, it's not a change, it's just switching the sides of the cassette tape. That sounds like a boring theory.
Singularity, that's the thing at the center of a black hole right? What's that got to do with nanotech and AI?
Mankind has been progressing technologically in steps that seem to get closer and closer together. The theory is that at some point, technological advances will begin to happen all at once, with the emergence of things like sentient AI and usable quantum engineering. Basically, technological transcendence.
It's a pretty silly idea, but everyone has their own vision of nirvana.
If they were forced to admit any errors, there would even more time spent in an inquest of some sort, as well as possibly calling into question any of the ISO's past decisions. Rectifying these errors at the moment would likely make everything work even more slowly, or just ruin ISO altogether. Maybe later, but right now it might ISO's deathblow to acknowledge it's own flaws.
maybe think less doughnut-shaped, more ring-shaped. There's tons of things in nature and astronomy that are ring-shaped. Doughnut-shaped can't be that much of a stretch.
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space-QUEST is probably the best name for a science experiment ever.
If the UK-USA, U8, and ECHELON are all the same thing, then the question is this: Who are the good guys, them or the chinese?
I'm not exactly proficient in french, but I wouldn't have minded either.
We've made it into a civilian domain, but don't forget it was originally ARPANET, and was intended for military use, before it became the Internet and the american MILNET broke away from it. There might be some people in the US military that think the Internet belongs to them.
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They're composed of hard feelings on the outside, it keeps them from falling apart.
Wow, someone's about to make me feel like an ass.
Three bonded Hydrogens != Tritium
A Hydrogen with two neutrons = Tritium.
Helium-3 != Tritium
Three bonded Hydrogens = Tritium
just in case there's any confusion.
Isn't that the opposite of a violation?
Like if a man was inviolating a woman, that means he would be buying her dinner and making polite conversation?
It doesn't matter if it will bomb. People won't figure that out untill after they play it. And, everyone will play it.
developers and obsessive geeks are users too, they just happen to use the software differently... user-friendly is such a broad term these days, there's no sense in arguing over it.
And still no mention of his anti bubble-sort agenda.
Wait, no.
People are entitled to their opinions, and unless they're a respected judge or something, there's nothing wrong with being on the fence.
And I'm sure there's something to be said about looking past hate. Tolerance for racism doesn't imply that Cornelius is a self-hating psycho.
I can just see two possible situations.
1. Such a simulation is not possible.
2. Such a simulation is possible, and will be infinitely recursive.
If 1 is true, then that is that, and we live in reality. But if case 2 is true, then there's still a possibility that we aren't yet in the simulation. It's an infinitesimally small possibilty, with the likelyhood of us being in one the loops being much greater. But It's still possible. And even if it possible, we still have no way of knowing that yet (whether we are in fact in one yet).
I was going to end like something along the lines of "Post-human" or "AI-enhanced" overlords.
And yes, it definitely does have a creepy religious feeling to that. I'm Catholic, and I feel creeped out.
But then, the singularity really is meaningless, it's not a change, it's just switching the sides of the cassette tape. That sounds like a boring theory.
Mankind has been progressing technologically in steps that seem to get closer and closer together. The theory is that at some point, technological advances will begin to happen all at once, with the emergence of things like sentient AI and usable quantum engineering. Basically, technological transcendence.
It's a pretty silly idea, but everyone has their own vision of nirvana.
aw, I just can't do it.
Make them enter their banking information as a password. Then they'll be careful.
If they were forced to admit any errors, there would even more time spent in an inquest of some sort, as well as possibly calling into question any of the ISO's past decisions. Rectifying these errors at the moment would likely make everything work even more slowly, or just ruin ISO altogether. Maybe later, but right now it might ISO's deathblow to acknowledge it's own flaws.
maybe think less doughnut-shaped, more ring-shaped. There's tons of things in nature and astronomy that are ring-shaped. Doughnut-shaped can't be that much of a stretch.