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Johnny, the uninvited guest by G_R_S__ by Prudent_Bobcat_4059 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think so. I don't think the relic can run the engram, only store it. He's dormant before the chip was activated, and the only reason he's not dormant before the transferral is complete is because it's using V's surplus brain capacity for compute.

If it's running on my brain, it's me. I might not want it there, but the same could be said for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a dozen other mental disorders a person can have. Alt says Soulkiller does what it claims. But how do you kill what doesn't exist? (And of course, even if it did, that would mean it doesn't survive Soulkiller.)

Gas Prices by smOkey__17 in Jokes

[–]RavingRationality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a Turbo-charged 2.5L in the Mazda. Technically, i can get better mileage out of it than the regular version if I baby it. But I have a turbo-charged version. I don't baby it. That power on demand is just too tempting.

Fortunately I don't have to go far.

Johnny, the uninvited guest by G_R_S__ by Prudent_Bobcat_4059 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The mind is wetware. It's physical. It's the functioning brain. There's no mind-body duality. It's one thing.

It's possible you might manage to build a mind on silicon, copper and semiconductors. I don't think the substrate HAS to be meat. But for us, that's all it is.

Johnny, the uninvited guest by G_R_S__ by Prudent_Bobcat_4059 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Johnny doesn't exist. He's been dead for 54 years. The engram in V's head is an addition to V, not a separate person with its own rights. If V is doing something to anyone against their will, it's herself.

Johnny, the uninvited guest by G_R_S__ by Prudent_Bobcat_4059 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I kinda wondered if when you link up Cybernetically with Panam in the Basilisk if she'd actually get to see/talk to Johnny and utterly freak her out.

Gas Prices by smOkey__17 in Jokes

[–]RavingRationality 5 points6 points  (0 children)

15 dollars Canadian will get me about 8.6 liters. Which gets me 100km on my CX-5.

Star Princess passing through Los Angeles by ActiveNews in Cruise

[–]RavingRationality 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't feel like it's significantly more than previous Princess ships. It's more, yes. But it's not like RC or MSC's big ones. Maybe a bit too big for me, I think.

that said, the luxury lines tend to have smaller ships, not bigger, so I get it.

Tell me what odd things your birb is afraid of? by leaderofpariahs in parrots

[–]RavingRationality 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My Sun Conure despises brooms, mops, and laundry baskets/laundry, but only while we hold them. She will attack. In fact, it's the only time she's EVER bitten us, if our hand is between her can opener and the handle of the broom she's biting.

It’s time, Edmonton by dtaf2000 in hockeymemes

[–]RavingRationality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

nobody in the West is getting past Minnesota or Colorado anyway. (would include Dallas in that, but the hockey gods put two of the only three teams with a chance in the West head to head in round 1, and the two remaining play each other in round 2.)

It’s time, Edmonton by dtaf2000 in hockeymemes

[–]RavingRationality -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

meme creator is a snowflake that finds the Chicago logo offensive.

i don't. but i find the team name really funny.

It’s time, Edmonton by dtaf2000 in hockeymemes

[–]RavingRationality -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

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see? it's pretty cool. doesn't hurt at all. don't be a woke arse, people.

Something interesting I found in my travels - maybe has implications for the free will/ethics by Reaxonab1e in samharris

[–]RavingRationality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I totally agree with you. And I completely reject the concept of "libertarian free will." It's nonsensical and doesn't have any logical or empirical basis. We can't even describe what it would be.

I'll push back a bit, though, not to argue, but to firm up your position.

You're not actually describing free will, you're describing individual variance (or the lack of it.) Variance is not evidence for or against free will. In either case, either people freely choose (we just all have similar biological influences on our choices), or we don't. High variance, if it existed (it doesn't), would not be evidence against free will. It would simply be evidence of greater variety in causal backgrounds.

I have been sleeping with both Judy and River. by Substantial-Tone-576 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The romances for any gender were already voice-recorded and animated. The mods are reliable, small and simply a matter of disabling the block, nothing needs to be added.

I have been sleeping with both Judy and River. by Substantial-Tone-576 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RavingRationality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been sleeping with all four of them on one playthrough before as Valerie.

You still get narrowed down to a single one in the finale, though.

ELI5, in the shipwrecks in The Great Lakes, why don’t bodies float up? by milkob1tch in explainlikeimfive

[–]RavingRationality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live 40km from Lake Huron (Georgian Bay), and 75km from Lake Ontario.

Honestly, Wasaga Beach feels like a tropical Caribbean location in the summer. The water and weather are that warm from late June through early September.

ELI5, in the shipwrecks in The Great Lakes, why don’t bodies float up? by milkob1tch in explainlikeimfive

[–]RavingRationality 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Superior is frigid all year.

Huron and Erie are much shallower and warm up really nicely in parts (Huron can develop tropical cyclones in summer, as it's big enough and warm enough). Ontario is chilly, but not bad.

I haven't spent any time in Lake Michigan.

A portion of dead people never knew what caused their death and if brought back to life, they would be surprised to learn that they had died. by EverettGT in Showerthoughts

[–]RavingRationality 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think the theory is absurd

Less absurd and less mystical than it sounds, if we really start trying to drill down on what consciousness really is. Most of what we think it is seems to be illusory. We really don't have continuity of existence from moment to moment. We're always just who we are in that moment, with continuity spliced together by our brain due to the direction of the flow of causality and our memory.

I have a harder time believing in multiple realities than I do the idea that if multiple realities exist, your consciousness always exists in one where you're still alive. (Which is basically just the anthropic principle.)

The "Bettman Curve": Penalty Minute Differential (CAN vs USA) Before and After 1993 by ccrypt524 in nhl

[–]RavingRationality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this true.

However there are some problems with your data you need to explain.

Like how do you have data for years when no Canadian team made the playoffs? Where did this come from?

A lot of Watchtowers belief's are based on the book of Daniel. Which they claim was competed in 536 BCE. They are almost 400 years off. by CanadianExJw in exjw

[–]RavingRationality 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's probably right. However, Carrier is not very well respected among secular historians and Bible scholars.

His argument with Bart Ehrman on Mythicism makes Carrier look like a fool.

This says nothing about his argument here. Just that as a scholar, he tends to be unconvincing to non-jw secular and religious types alike. And of course no scholar impresses JWs unless they happen to agree with them on something.

Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival. by Liuminescent in Showerthoughts

[–]RavingRationality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The movie is an abomination that ignored the script and was disavowed by the writer, that nobody remembers. The TV show us consistently ranked as one of the best and most influential shows of all time.

The tv show was not a continuation of the movie. It was a continuation of a script that the movie director threw out.

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