The Communication Cube

[Null]

It presumably would be like before you were made. Wasn't so bad, was it.

I seem to remember encountering a brightly coloured being, who most certainly wasn't wanting to eat ice cream while simultaneously complaining about being cold.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

I seem to remember encountering a brightly coloured being, who most certainly wasn't wanting to eat ice cream while simultaneously complaining about being cold.

You most certainly plugged into the simulation from somewhere else than me.

 

[FBnil]

There's lots of proof that an organism stops functioning sooner or later.

There's a vague line in what we could call organism, that, under the right circumstances can duplicate itself eternally
for example, a tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
or a frozen dormant virus: https://plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13007-018-0312-9
If we also factor in that eventually the sun will stop nuclear fusion, or that that piece of ice will eventually fall in a black hole (although some Universe models say that some matter has enough escape velocity to stay in space without ever coming back), or consider our law of entropy, then yes, you are right in absolute terms; but what if a random seed generator, with the same seeding values generates the same organism.

Presumably one's perspective ends, when their perspective machine stops functioning.

But what, if that perspective machine is like ssh, where you get a "connection reset by peer", but come back to a local shell you do not remember.

One stops functioning. The end. Your tv stops working -> dead (the tv, not you).

What if that TV was a gosub, and your registers get updated back to the caller routine?

with words being different than what I remembered.

This is very interesting to me, tell me more.

The reason I don't think we're in a simulation is due to the surprisingly small number of bugs.

What if it is because they restart the simulation each time? Would we know about it?

Fifth World (mythology) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The bible says that one day G*d is like 1000 years for humans (https://www.openbible.info/topics/1000_years_is_one_day_to_god)
could this not be like the simulation is running at 365000 times the normal speed, just like, say, the Sims:

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[Djoga'Ro]

but what if a random seed generator, with the same seeding values generates the same organism.

You mean another individual after the same model or a clone?

What if there's a tea pot in orbit around saturn?

What if the tooth ferry carves dildos from collected teeth?

What if Jesus, Santa Claus, and Hitler are one and the same?

What if rain could fall upwards, if only you knew how to ask it to?

 

[Null]

You most certainly plugged into the simulation from somewhere else than me.

It may have actually been an occurrence that happened earlier today + the aforementioned being may also be currently nagging me to read to them.

What if it is because they restart the simulation each time? Would we know about it?

Pepperidge Farm would remember.

What if the tooth ferry carves dildos from collected teeth?

I bet you anything there's a Rule 34 of that.
Also I didn't know that large boats collected teeth.

 

[FBnil]

You mean another individual after the same model or a clone?

Exactly, what if an individual with the exact same code can be created, and would it inherit the same knowledge? (is the "knowledge" really stored in the brain, or does it act like a level 1 cache, and your experiences are stored in-the-universe, so a clone could tap into it, because it has the same "key"?)


>>What if there's a tea pot in orbit around saturn?
Then that monolith is actually a sugar cube? Since we see flying sauces, all we need to find is the cup.
Also: Does it mean Saturn is an English colony?

>>What if the tooth ferry carves dildos from collected teeth?
Then it would have to carve through the enamel to get to the softer tooth-stone.
All that grinding creates dust... now we know where fairy dust comes from.


>>What if Jesus, Santa Claus, and Hitler are one and the same?
Wait... do Jews hate Santa Clause too?

>>What if rain could fall upwards, if only you knew how to ask it to?

 

[FBnil]

Also I didn't know that large boats collected teeth.

You used to need one golden coin to ride. Maybe that's why some people had golden teeth, as an ensurance that they could die without a friend or family member needing to put a coin in their mouth?

Charon's obol - Wikipedia

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Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin as an obol, and explain it as a payment or bribe for Charon, the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Edit: Comment from Charon: I rather have coins, it's already gross needing to open up the mouth of a corpse. Now I need special tools to loosen the gold tooth.

Edit: Comment from corpse: I used to go to battle with a coin in my mouth. I've swallowed it so many times that I switched to a gold tooth. I'm so happy now.

 

[Null]

Now I need special tools to loosen the gold tooth.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

Also I didn't know that large boats collected teeth.

Now you know.

 

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[Null]

The 10-Year Hunt for the Lost McDonald's DS Game

invidious.snopyta.org

 

[JDTAY]

I'm reminded this morning of a user who used to be active on the NDE subreddit, who said he had hundreds of self-induced out-of-body experiences. He was someone I was obsessed with before Sandi. I've been thinking, most of the stuff he said has been consistent with what Sandi said. He considered himself to be a very powerful spiritual being, and according to Sandi, everyone who comes to Earth is very powerful by spirit world standards.

He said he had been to dozens of hellscapes, and that none of them were as bad as Earth itself. Sounds consistent with what Sandi said about Earth being a rare hard planet. He also said one time a demon came to him and told him it was taking him to hell. He then punched it in the face. Consistent with what Sandi says about demons not being able to affect you unless you let them.

On that note, I have a problem that's sort of similar to possession, but I always thought it was due to Klonopin. I wonder though, if it isn't due to a sort of dream I had one time about making a pact with spirits of unknown origin. They told me what I would be doing would be for the good of humanity, and so I agreed, since my life was being wasted anyway. They also warned me that humanity would turn against me, but I wasn't really afraid as long as it was for their good. That's kinda come to pass too.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

What does it mean if the universe is simulated? Clearly our experience of it is just created in our heads, even though it seems as if it's outside of us. So our experience is just one view of the universe. Does that make our subjective reality a simulated universe? When is a universe simulated and when is it not?

 

[levi]

The distinction between a simulated universe and one that isn't only really matters if you think the alternative to a simulation is a heavenly emission squirted out by a godhood into a newly created patch of time and space, and who is therefore by some peculiar theories responsible for our lives after we've done using them. If on the other hand you're convinced we're really the output of the firing of a couple of neurons that evolved eventually out of the primordial slime either in reality or in some similation then the difference doesn't really matter, as long as there are no bugs in the simulation that might lead it to crash that is. Although to be fair, if it did crash, and were patched and then recovered, would we really be able to tell?

 

[Djoga'Ro]

@levi Of course we can tell. The tell's called déjà vu. Haven't you learned nothing wathing The Matrix. (Well yes, that was, when THEY change something, but I guess it'd be the same for probably not-so-lossless rollbacks. )

 

[Null]

I have a problem that's sort of similar to possession

We can cure what ails ya.

 

[pyrat]

If the universe is a giant calculator, what was gods question?

"What would the antiimage of 42 be for the function of Life, the Universe and Everything ?"

 

[Djoga'Ro]

So, can you EVEN IMAGINE what it would mean for a universe to exist THAT DOES NOT DO CALCULATION AT THE UNIVERSAL SCALE?

Yep. Accepting that is easier. Otherwise you'd have to ask the same question regarding whatever is beyond and the same would go for whatever is beyond that, and the same .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

What could it possibly mean for a universe to exist THAT DOES NOT HAVE DETERMINISM as part of the design, which is required for calculation?

That you couldn't predict the outcome.

Does the idea of free will even mean anything at all given the above questions?

No, regardless of the above questions.

 

[pyrat]

Well, your god has a 286 and mine has a Cray. Not being able to compute the outcome doesn't the universe is unpredictable.

Not being able to compute the outcome means you can take the universe as computable or not as you wish. But you don't always need to compute something to know wheter it's computable.
Anyway, why do you think having a 286 or a craig would change what is computable ?
Djoga'Ro's god has an intel 80286, yours has a Craig supercomputer, Richard Bach's god (a guy named Donald William Shimoda) quitted being god because Shimoda got bored of computing or something ?

The universe may ultimately be computable. We will have to wait and see tho.

So did your universe never know Gödel, Church, Tarski or Turing ? Kind regards to your HIbert, then.