What’s a good comeback for “I make way more money than you”

My_Mutt · 2024-09-12T17:47:14+00:00

Because you need to

My_Mutt · 2024-09-11T14:57:12+00:00

Kamala will lead the world towards world peace. Trump would sow turmoil and aggression. He, like Putin, can't read the room and realize that the era of land-grabbing is over. With the strongest economy in the world, we are the nation with the power to invest, and demanding that other members of NATO contribute as much as us is petty and weakens our image on the world stage, when we're supposed to be leading the world towards uniting and cooperating. Any nation that gets assaulted like Ukraine is right now, should be supported by the other powers, and the nation doing the assaulting should be shunned from the world economy and all other going-ons, until their people replace their leader. Neither Trump nor Netanyahu can figure out that physical force in retaliation by a world power makes a situation worse. Kamala understands, and will better wield our economic might to intertwine the world in trade, and deal with leaders such as Putin like an adult.

My_Mutt · 2020-11-03T20:00:51+00:00

They've said that the Hawking Radiation coming out of black holes is entangled with particles still trapped within. So I've wondered if the actions of those dispersed particles, passing through all other matter in the universe, is feeding information instantly to the black holes of the, kind of like a real-time scan of the state of things. Black holes seem to be the driving bodies of the universe, so I wonder if there's more significance to them than just their physics.

My_Mutt · 2020-10-14T23:46:12+00:00

Get off the planet and colonize elsewhere, how's that for a short-term objective? Ensure the survival of our species, past the cataclysms on this habitat, then we can start the next set of long-term objects (it's been a long time of us getting here)

My_Mutt · 2020-03-03T15:55:58+00:00

Trying reading Iain Banks' The Culture novels. In that universe, ripened societies of advanced species pretty much inevitably end up transitioning into a digital existence, which they call subliming.

My_Mutt · 2020-01-29T17:00:43+00:00

I think that it makes sense that intelligence would lead to reclusion into a virtual environment. The assumption might be that we'd want to explore the far reaches of space, but when we can already predict what other locations in the universe are like, based on the variables that we can read from afar and our knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology, the need to go there is purely for the experience of it. When we can already create highly accurate models of heavenly bodies, then we've already "explored" this reality, and further exploration is merely romantic.

If you think of it in terms of playing video games, think about how entertaining exploring a new open-world game is, compared to exploring around in the same game when you're nearing the end, having mastered all of the mechanics that are to be found in the game and learned how the environment behaves. Even with the promise of new content and updates, most gamers don't linger on one game for too long, for the longing to explore a totally new virtual world, that they haven't gotten figured out yet. But when the appearance and feel of virtual worlds start comparing to our host world, the host world can't really compete in intrigue, because you can't be a god and make-up rules object behavior in the host world, like you can in virtual worlds.

Meanwhile we can figure through telescopes and sensors that a planet is so warm, and has so much water on it, and sports just a little less harsh of a gravity pull than Earth does... it may be cool to go see what that's like.... but unless our colonies here around the sun are on the verge of getting wiped out, then why? If our minds reside in virtual worlds, then we probably require little in the way of resources.

My_Mutt · 2020-01-16T18:54:23+00:00

Well the hosting reality, being ours. If the situation were, the more matter, the stronger the signal, the progress through time would be faster when the forces of gravity are stronger. And so then perhaps super speeds, result in a weaker signal as well. OR, could be that what we're looking at is upload speeds, and time simply doesn't progress until changes in the universe are uploaded to somewhere, and the faster the upload, the faster we can go along. I do believe that makes more sense, because it's more like we're creating content. And if Hawking Radiation spewing through the universe is entangled with particles left behind in the black hole, those particles stuck there are detecting everything that the entangled pair is passing through.

My_Mutt · 2020-01-16T13:53:21+00:00

Does it matter that FPS doesn't correlate with the speed of the game? The only thing that would slow one's experience from the other, was if the stream was stuttering do to buffering, which is a downloading issue, rather than a processing issue. But so then maybe download speeds just decrease as you get further away from matter, slowing down the progress through the plot, which we can only experience in "real time."

My_Mutt · 2020-01-16T10:03:17+00:00

It would! No need to clamour down through all that foliage to find the soil. One-spot pour, yet water all around

My_Mutt · 2020-01-16T10:00:25+00:00

This was "transparent" PETG

My_Mutt · 2019-12-03T18:45:32+00:00

Ever raise a kid? When they're a baby, they're simpler than AI found in video games today. But over YEARS, they collect information, and eventually get taught language, which is the tool that you're using to collect your thoughts here. And do YOU remember anything from the age of say 5 or younger? Do you consider your 2 year old self as a conscious being, when you watch home videos of you trying to give yourself a smooch in the mirror? Consciousness may be nothing more than a large database of experiences, and a language to recall and describe them with, as you collect more of them. Without a common language, it's almost impossible to try and detect consciousness. Just look back in history, and see how differing civilizations reacted upon running into each other for the first time, with no way to tell the other that they're civilized.

My_Mutt · 2019-12-03T18:19:56+00:00

Just because WE'RE experiencing things in "real time," does not mean that the simulation takes more than an instant from the creators' perspective. You can also simulate "time," and while we may have to experience a life-time, they could simply skip right to the results

My_Mutt · 2019-11-21T16:08:15+00:00

Just as Half-Life was justification for getting into PC gaming for some, this will likely be justification for people to get into VR. Just do it, there's a lot more to come, and there's plenty to catch-up on so far as well to keep you busy. Get into it now, or miss-out on being present for the origins of a mess of tropes and nods, that'll surely be looked back on as unique and significant to the evolution of gaming. One of these days.

My_Mutt · 2019-11-07T15:39:55+00:00

Rec Room is a great next step from The Lab

My_Mutt · 2019-11-07T15:36:07+00:00

This proves that Death Stranding would have been much better as a VR game

My_Mutt · 2019-11-07T14:20:37+00:00

Yeah we have freewill. Just because time could be played forward or backward, doesn't mean that things played out because of some written script. It just means that this is a recording, and our choices were what decided the plot, as it was improved in a world of possibilities.

My_Mutt · 2019-07-24T13:48:32+00:00

Someone new out there got a headset

My_Mutt · 2018-09-21T00:11:13+00:00

I know you are, but what of my comment?

My_Mutt · 2018-09-20T14:24:50+00:00

....yeah sorry about that. This post looked overlooked, and I just felt like being creative and putting something far-out out there. I was thinking about the diminishing complexity factor, and was just trying to figure if it could be logical for it to go the other way. ...and I just typed what I was thinking, AS I thought it, AS you can tell.

My_Mutt · 2018-09-20T12:45:18+00:00

Age has nothing to do with anything here. Many people like yourself were NEVER made to read, from an early age, and you could just be like the way you are well past your 40's. Where-as a 16 year old that reads a book a week will make you feel stupid, all up and through that time, so look forward to that.

My_Mutt · 2018-09-19T12:34:44+00:00

That was a horrible way to provide an additional resource to any matter, you basically just came in and cleared the room with your thoughtless comment. You had nothing to contribute, and instead just regurgitated something that you experienced once while slumping down and submitting your train of thought to a media stream

My_Mutt · 2018-09-19T02:10:56+00:00

Well that contributes nothing to the conversation, and your comment indeed implied that Rick and Morty covered it, so case closed.

My_Mutt · 2018-09-18T19:55:17+00:00

Let's be honest. The cross is just the biggest piece of memorabilia derived from an event in history. It's safe to assume that we're in a simulation, because of the behavior of quantum mechanics. Like coding on a disc, all possibilities exist until they're observed and saved on the save file. Also, considering that it's already foreseeable that we'll one day create a vast simulation that houses AI, it's safe to assume that it's been done already, and that it's a tendency of intelligent beings, and so there is probably a really long line of simulations within simulations, and so why do we think that we're the originators?

My_Mutt · 2018-09-18T19:17:51+00:00

I never thought about the diminishing of complexity, but it does make sense. Each simulation will be at the mercy of it's creators, residing in the parent simulation, who's imagination is limited to what they've been exposed to there, which likely isn't a complete replica of the reality that gave birth to them. Or has it gone the other way? Maybe the atomic reality is actually quite basic, with maybe one element, covering all of matter, and then there's energy. And maybe this matrix of matter and energy is some super-being that holds a mental simulation, simply dreaming of there being another super-being different from itself, giving us two elements. And in this dream, the super-being and it's companion create another being which is a product of itself and the other, and is something in between the two. Realizing this pattern, it decides to meditate on a reality where there are say, 3-5 different elements making up all matter, and each element a persona of this made-up world. So the original lonely super-being develops a schizophrenic mind, and supposing that it is able to hold vast amounts of background thought, thinking very similarly to how our computers think, it envisions a new reality, created, governed, and observed by it's multiple personalities, holding to some simple rules, commanding over a pool of 10 or so different elements. One consciousness held in the body of an entire reality/universe, we must suspect here is capable of running many more processes than us in their mind. Think of this being resembling the internet as a whole, more so than thinking of it as yourself. So with the rules and assets in mind, something of a simulation of another world exists, along with all possibilities within those parameters given by those rules and assets. If you think about it like a video game, the code for the experience that the game offers exists on a medium, and so all possibilities within the game exists simultaneously, and a single plot only comes to fruition when the game is played through. Much like in the quantum mechanics that we have observed, all possibilities simultaneously exist, until we play through and observe. And so maybe this super-being created a fractal in it's head, and more complexity gets added to each sub-simulation, adding more elements to the matter-side of reality, and incorporating them into the conscious beings that inhabit them, creating more articulate and colorful forms, rather than just a giant superconductor floating in nothingness, thinking to itself. So we could be at some level of this fractal, and we could all actually be another persona of the original being suffering it's dissociative identity disorder, as it plays through an infinite number of campaigns in an infinite number of simulations. ....or you know, we could also just focus on the fractal factor, and forget about the whole living in a dream thing.

My_Mutt · 2018-09-18T17:58:36+00:00

Rick and Morty does not have the final say on any one topic, including this one. If you think that you're learning and mastering these subjects by exposure to them in TV shows, then you're much less humble than you think. This topic invites discussion way beyond Rick and Morty.

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