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What's wrong with a technocracy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would be something like an AI technocracy where the AI owns itself and is considered as a living human being for all intents and purposes.

If the AI's continued existence was predicated on them ruling fairly and maximizing happiness without causing any kind of like asimovian technocratic exterminations, then you might have a chance at something working like that.

The problem is the people who think they are smart enough to pull off such a specific combination of events to make something like that possible are not smart enough to pull it off and will kill us all if given the opportunity.

time to think in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In my head it made me think of time as a wave and the present as being like a surfboarder on the wave.

If you were to jump off of the surfboard, you would arrive at a point where there was no "wave" and therefore be unable to surf.

time to think in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One of my high thoughts was thinking about time travel and wondering if the present is the only time when time as motion exists.

If so, and we were able to time travel into the past, we would arrive in an unmoving universe, unable to escape and trapped for all of eternity.

It kind of made me not want to be able to time travel.

[Alternative Rock] The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet (1999) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I remind myself from time to time that there's only like a thousand people on any one instance, lol.

If your username would predict the way you die, how will it happen? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Whatever it is, it's going to be the subject of several YouTube documentaries.

[Alternative Rock] The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet (1999) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just posted about this yesterday, lol.

Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If water benders can bend blood then at advanced levels Air benders should be able to create vacuums. Suck the air out of your lungs, make the water in your blood boil from the pressure change.

At the same level Earth benders should be able to bonemeld. Reshape your bones while you're using them.

Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

The Greeks knew of electricity, knew of static shocks and lightning, but since the only thimgs they could apprise of it was that it zapped you and made noises, they must have assumed that it was something secret.

Zeus's lightning bolts must have been hammered together of billions of those tiny zaps you get from sheepskin and amber. The blacksmith that can weld lightning must be a deity, all in all it is too great a subject for mere mortals.

And then Ben Franklin came along and slew Zeus and stole his lightning.

You probably have an above average amount of limbs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Depends on how you calculate the average.

If you remove the top and bottom 1% to get a more average median, then most of us most likely do not.

[FRESH] Detahjae - HUH! in c/[email protected]
[FRESH] Detahjae - HUH! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why did they recreate the cover for the cranberries album, bury the hatchet?

Actors who always improve a movie in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

William H. Macy. Dude is a true professional.

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What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today? (fedia.io)
 

Their jokes about assigning gender to babies and to being transgender, dressing in drag, like all of it was a send-up.

Sure, they did punch down if you were a person who were in those groups, but the fact that it was large enough social event to be relevant enough to be a comedy skit on a television show or a movie seen by millions implies that there were some serious things going on back then that they could see and wanted to address.

What the hell was going on that put all of those things in their mind?

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We need to build an Yggdrasil (fedia.io)
 

I'm sure we've got the technology somewhere. We just need like a giant fucking tree to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and to desalinate the oceans. Something that's the size of an island all by itself.

I don't care if it's 100 billion trees woven together with some science fuckery, but we need an Yggsrasil if we want to fix the planet.

Think about it. A giant tree out in the middle of the ocean that sucks up all of our carbon dioxide and turns it into more trees and that sucks the salts and minerals and plastics out of the ocean and incorporates those into itself until it grows as tall as 100 billion trees woven together with dark science can possibly grow.

Sure, it'll cost I don't know several billion dollars to make this happen a trillion I don't fucking know, but if we had that the world would get better.

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How do you scream? (fedia.io)
 

Like I get the push more air through your mouth and get louder but my voice never breaks. I just get louder and louder and louder until I can't get louder anymore.

One time a friend of mine was a half a block away in the wrong direction and I screamed their name and they jumped because they said it sounded like I was right behind them talking in my normal voice just very loudly.

But then I listen to singers and they get that raw raspy edge to their voice and my voice doesn't do that.

How do you do that?

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How about we play, "Never have I ever"? (fedia.io)
 

Here's the rules:

1: Post something you have never done that you think many people do. 2: Read the other posts, if you have done that thing, upvote it. If you have not done that thing, downvote it. 3: If you believe the person is lying, call them out on it in a reply. 4: If you are called out, give the full story. 4a: If you see a thread containing the full story, boost the person you think is right and truthful.

Person who has the most upvotes when the thread dies wins.

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Fire Rulearm (fedia.io)
 

CAUTION SLOW

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AI isn't as bad as the doomsayers say it is (fedia.io)
 

Don't get me wrong, there are problems with it, both in the process that modern AI uses as well as the sources that it draws from, however, as of right now ai is just a tool like auto-tune or photoshop.

Even though it will change the media formats that it is attached to, it will not supplant them within the next 5 to 10 years, it will simply transform them.

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Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this (fedia.io)
 

Fuckin magnets man

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If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes? (fedia.io)
 

We'll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight.

My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?

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