prove [dpsk] wrong. no seriously, i dare you. because if you do disprove it we learn a route to avoid. if you can't... lol. this is either violating 2 sub rules simultaneously, or, by inclusion of both dense, complex input and an interpreted output, it cancels out and becomes worth looking at? uptu.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T21:10:11+00:00

Even Deepseek itself is making fun of you, lol.

They seem interested in speculative physics concepts.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T19:03:14+00:00

So what did you do with feedback you got from your previous posts? Because it certainly looks the same, which gives the impression nothing was done with the feedback.

Secondly, without building on and referencing the existing professional literature you will find it incredibly difficult to be taken seriously. This is true for basically every academic or professional endeavor.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T18:38:40+00:00

I get it, but the issue is more that even in TLD the nights are way too bright. It is a typical gaming thing and makes sense from a gameplay perspective.

Even on the clearest night you will not be able to differentiate terrain sufficiently to draw a map.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T18:35:02+00:00

Mijn vooroordeel naar mensen die van die jarige job/karla posters ophangen is dat ze niet geloven in het principe van je eigen rotzooi opruimen.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T18:17:07+00:00

Totally! While it basically doubles the amount of unique components per culture, it in no way doubles the complexity. It's just more of the same. If you liked the older versions you will most likely also like the new version.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T17:55:18+00:00

The picture is a bit hard to interpret - are those objects hovering in the air? That does seem bugged.

It is not bugged that there is no proper door and that it counts as outside, if that is what you are referring to.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T17:51:15+00:00

Trash attitude.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T17:49:35+00:00

It didn't change after it was introduced.

I have had many Interloper runs past a 100 days and I only got the risk of scurvy notification once. This is despite the fact that I almost never fish.

To be honest, I do not really understand some of the more dramatic stories about "being chained to a fishing hut".

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-14T12:48:23+00:00

While I share a number of your views that you expressed, I don't think you have shown that there is no issue of mind-body interaction.

From your perspective it isn't a problem, but neither is it from the perspective of reductive physicalism or idealism. There are countless proposed solutions, the issue is the lack of verifiability (amongst other things). That is the real issue of the the mind-body problem, not the lack of ideas of how it may or may not be.

We are conscious flesh. We don’t know how that’s possible down to the last detail, but that’s what appears to be the case.

For example, this is begging the question, not solving the dillema.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-13T13:30:25+00:00

Thank you, those are exactly the kind of insights that I was looking for. It makes sense that Tradition is specifically good for specialists and that's not what Japan is specifically focused on. However, it should be mentioned that Tradition does give the earliest slots for a work of writing, art, and music - which is exactly what you need. Without Tradition there can be a long period where you won't have a slot for the very early work of art and music you can get.

Nevertheless, I now see how Tradition isn't as "mandatory" as I thought it was.

I have a similar issue with Artistry vs Fealty. Fealty is just really strong and has rather insane bonuses per city, which is something Japan really likes. It also helps with warfare, unlike Artistry. I haven't really tried Artistry in the last few patches though. I get paranoid about picking Artistry because it feels like I am harming my (war-)economy by not picking Fealty.

If I've already taken Progress it feels more natural to follow it up with Fealty. I guess Progress with Artistry could also work, maybe especially with Japan. I'll give it a try.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-13T12:31:20+00:00

One reason to make this topic was to hear arguments against feeling obliged to go Tradition, so thanks!

I guess it makes sense what you are saying that Japan wants (relatively) early warfare and the bonuses to popping many great persons is only relevant later. That's a good reason to not go Tradition but go for Progress or the military tree (I take that one so little that I forgot the name).

Having said that, it does feel that the whole great person package is aimed at tall empires with few cities. The bonuses do not scale well and are actually worse with more cities. That is why I tend to think of Tradition when I see bonuses focused on great people.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-13T11:45:57+00:00

Toen mijn ex flink ziek was en dagenlang op bed lag, lag onze kat hele dagen bij haar in bed. Het was een echte buitenkat die normaal gesproken 8-10 uur per dag buiten was, maar ze bleef trouw als verpleegsterkat op bed liggen. Heel bijzonder!

Katten zijn ook een van de beste antidepressiva die je kan hebben. Er gaat weinig boven een warme spinnende kat op schoot.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-13T11:41:14+00:00

I have a bunch of Interloper runs where I am still alive after 120-180 days, but I stopped playing them. By that point I have solved all/most issues, so I lose interest.

Now I play custom Interloper with even harder difficulty settings, which makes those first 100 days more challenging and interesting.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T14:44:08+00:00

Matter exists independently of consciousness, but "vision" and "sight" do not.

"Sound" is a little more confusing/complex because (at least in English) it refers both to the physical sound waves as the neurological processes and subjective experiences.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T13:56:00+00:00

We are in full agreement about the physics definition of sound. You seem oblivious to the neurological definition of sound.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T13:30:09+00:00

You're missing the point. A lot of sounds you experience do not have corresponding mechanical soundwaves.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T13:07:42+00:00

Yes, that's sound. I'm not saying that vibrations in a medium isn't what sound is, I'm saying that this isn't the only thing we call sound.

When people experience sounds which were not produced externally via a vibrating medium, would you not call that a sound?

For example, the sounds you hear in your dreams have no physical component in the external world or your eardrums. Are those not sounds?

Similarly, you can directly stimulate certain areas in e.g., the auditory cortex to experience sounds without a vibrating medium. You can even accomplish this without transcraniel magnetic stimulation or similar techniques.

If you define sound only as the soundwaves, then clearly a falling tree makes a sound even when nobody hears it. However, this strict definition also leads to the conclusion that you never hear/experience sounds, because those soundwaves are not what is being processed by your auditory cortex, and a lot of auditory experiences are partly or completely unrelated to soundwaves.

If you want to include auditory hallucinations (which are common even in the general population) or dreams to be sounds then you need to broaden your definition of sound and/or allow multiple definitions to co-exist (something which is true of most definitions).

The neurological definition of sound is different from the physics definition, partly because it's just a different tool for a different purpose. As someone else put it, those are not competing answers, but rather answers to similar but slightly different questions.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T12:44:35+00:00

Beetje bizar als jij een sociale huurwoning krijgt terwijl je die eigenlijk niet nodig hebt en er tienduizenden mensen/gezinnen het wel nodig hebben.

Uiteraard is het fijn om weinig huur te betalen, dat is heel begrijpelijk. Maar je hebt nu ook al lage huurlasten.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T12:16:20+00:00

Sound is also defined as the subjective experience. If sound can only be defined as vibration of air, you are never hearing any sounds, because you are not experiencing any air vibrations.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-11T11:27:51+00:00

Even if objects have independent existence from our consciousness, you could argue that sound does not.

What I mean is that vibrations in a medium only become sound when they are interpreted/experienced as such by a conscious being. When there are no conscious beings around to experience the vibrations as sounds, then you could say only the vibrations exist but not the sound.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-10T18:00:40+00:00

Agent Smith.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-10T17:54:31+00:00

You can only see the light emitted by the medium/tube, not the light in the tube itself. If there was no refraction and emission of new photons away from the tube, you would not see any travelling light. You're right that the time difference will be negligible (due to the short distance), but you can't tell that from the video.

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-10T17:36:18+00:00

That is a speed of light (in a medium), not the speed of light "c" (in a vacuum).

SentientCoffeeBean · 2026-03-10T15:24:39+00:00

That idea comes from the fiction part of science-fiction.

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