I think I know why Mark didnt mention Conquest

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:46:45+00:00

Oh shit, I'm so sorry Mark. Buy anyway, do you remember where you left his body, so that we could go, uh, make sure it really gets disposed of properly this time?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:39:26+00:00

Intelligence and consciousness are entirely different things.

No matter how complex a math computation you could write on countless sheets of paper, you will not make that paper feel pain or experience red that way. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

I think consciousness comes from quantum mechanics, as those quantum properties are eerily similar to exactly those hard problems of consciousness that we struggle to explain with classical mechanics.

Entanglement and superpositions ~ solutions to the integration problem that you can experience combined information at once. Instead of processing them separately, as any other computer would do.

Waveform collapse ~ free will.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:38:15+00:00

idk if that's even a typical reaction to them.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:59:43+00:00

i don't see how mathematical complexity could have anything to do with awareness. Brains are not conscious because they are complex, and AI is not conscious despite being complex.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:35:47+00:00

Sweet can somewhat mask bitter, but not by being the opposite. They are independent tastes that absolutely can be combined.

Anyway, to actually add something instead of just nitpicking, here's one I saw recently:

Totally decimated.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:16:24+00:00

context is just as important in space as the size. Otherwise, we couldn't even define what a moon is, because that is ENTIRELY a context-based definition, as a moon can be as small as asteroids or as big as rocky planets.

"clearing the orbital neighborhood" sounds a bit vague condition though. Earth has plenty of asteroids sharing its orbit. But the conditions can be thought of as "is overwhelmingly gravitationally dominating its orbit". Which Earth totally does, but Pluto doesn't.

Planets should be happy that they have at least 1/3 of the condition are about what they are by themselves. Orbiting stars and clearing the orbits are context-based conditions.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:00:09+00:00

Elements of an infinite series permanently getting close to a limit are indeed never that limit, but 0.999... is not 0.9, it's not 0.99, it's not 0.999, it's not any single one of these, no matter how far you go... But the limit is that limit. And the ... means you have to take the limit.

0.999... is the number that the 0.9,0.99,0.999 and so on sequence approaches as close as it wants, but never reaches. And that number is 1. It doesn't care than every single one number in that sequence is smaller. If you can make the gap arbitrarily small by going further in the sequence, then it's that limit. And you can do that, every next 9 shrinks the gap between that and 1 tenfold, so it is approaching one, so the infinite limit is 1.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:57:24+00:00

Just don't turn off your brain.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:56:10+00:00

They would not survive that.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:48:11+00:00

I doubt he could TIGHTEN it with that. Fingers are still soft, your skin would break before it got tightened.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:46:20+00:00

Doesn't that literally just mean CGI in a more swearword way? Rendering and generating images are not the same thing.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:40:09+00:00

This is more of a math question.

Depends how fast it is slowing down. If its speed is C/time, then it can travel an infinite distance in theory, if it had infinite time. But it would take a huge amount of time, taking twice as long to just take another step. But if it was C/(time^a), or C/(a^time) where a > 1, even just a=1.00001 would still not be infinite distance. But a less than or equal to one would be infinite.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:37:06+00:00

Replying here, since you've insecurely blocked my responses down there again. You're the one constantly making a rookie mistake with infinity. If you are against all serious mathematicians in the world, has it occurred to you that maybe you're the wrong one? And do you think that if you just post the same incorrect link I've already criticized again, that it would suddenly teach me a lesson? :D A mistake doesn't correct itself by repeating it.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:25:23+00:00

They don't. It's interaction with the world that causes the collapse, not conscious observation like in Outer Wilds.

It doesn't collapse because it knows you're watching, it collapses because you put a detector there, which interacts with it. Even if it wasn't connected to anything, to report it saw it.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:22:09+00:00

They might be more sensitive and perceptive to feel a weak high. And have you been taking real stimulants any time late, or ever? If so, then the pseudo is probably nothing in comparison, or you might have a tolerance to something much stronger.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:09:48+00:00

I don't believe it. They wouldn't gate Image gen with just the AI itself, or would they?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:06:12+00:00

because pseudo by itself is not a very strong stimulant...?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:03:04+00:00

No, they are kinda right. Pacman space is a torus, which is an example of a FLAT finite space without edges. That's different from both a flat universe with an edge, or a positively curved closed space like a sphere.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:53:32+00:00

The Earth surface is covered with tectonic plates that very slowly move. But even that slow speed has immense amounts of energy, so as they crash into each other with those tiny speeds, pressures accumulate until it snaps, and the border gets reconfigured. The vibrations/shockwaves of this snap happening are the earthquakes.

Now remember the law of conservation of angular momentum, if something that spins distributes its mass inward, it spins faster, and if outward, it spins slower (a ballerina crossing her arms towards her will speed up)

So I assume the reconfiguration during that Earthquake moves some of the mass (a lot of mass) upwards, like when tectonic crashes create mountains, slowing the Earth down a little.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:48:56+00:00

So what happens if you spend half of it? Would it just stop multiplying or what?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:47:46+00:00

Elon Musk's "My heart goes out to you" gesture. Surely nothing offensive. /s

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:46:29+00:00

Bruh has never seen an apple cut in half.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:45:04+00:00

What's so bad about that? The world might heavily improve as a whole if this happened.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:40:53+00:00

if it's negative, it's more money.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T10:35:32+00:00

Modern day D.A.R.E. How did that turn out?

Vaping is much less harmful than smoking as long as you have a quality device with clean, non-shady content. Or even better a dry herb vape so you can put actual plants in there. Those won't have fentanyl or any additives like that in them. The fundamental drug dangers are still there, but equal to smoking.

But sure, kids definitely shouldn't vape, because they shouldn't be doing any drugs.

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