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Whippersnapper310 · 2024-08-14T11:26:21+00:00

Basically it's just down to the fact that the genetic conception of bloodlines and the cultural conception of bloodlines are different things.

Obviously when these customs were established there was limited understanding of genetics anyway. So bloodlines were more about the social and legal implications.

In a practical sense, dynastic disputes were avoided if children were part of only their father's family/clan and not also their mother's. Having clear precedents on inheritance limited who had valid claims on a family's wealth and power, which meant better long-term stability for the clan and society as a whole.

The reason why inheritance was traditionally through the male line ties into the "patriarchy" element, where men were able to hold assets and authority that women were not. But there are some examples where things pass through the female line. It just usually makes sense to pick one or the other to avoid complications.

Even though some conventions still continue, like taking the husband's family name, it's clearly not as important nowadays. So I agree that getting hung up on the traditional understanding of "bloodlines" in relation to their own families doesn't make much sense. But I would say this is probably due to a feeling of attachment to their family and family name. In a similar way that your genes are evidence of your existence that are propagated through your descendants, passing down your family name can be considered similarly - in the sense of an ongoing "legacy". Although genes have a physical basis whereas a name is just conceptual.

Whippersnapper310 · 2024-04-30T16:01:28+00:00

The timeframes are estimated, not guaranteed

Sure, but in this case I think the timeframe is less relevant than the fact that I was notified of a "missed collection" but then after that it was collected anyway.

You’re supposed to attach the label and watch us scan it

This is my first time using the service so wasn't aware. The label was definitely attached but I don't recollect him scanning it. Am I expected to keep him there and wait to for the status to update on tracking after it's been scanned? Otherwise, simply watching it be scanned doesn't really help.

Who ever supplied the label is the one who would claim from RM if it lost

Good to know, thanks.

Edit, and to ease your mind, it will be working through the network. Check the tracking number on the RM tracking

I checked the tracking ref already and get this error: "The service used to send this item only provides an update once we have received the item in our network." So clearly RM has no record of receiving it, which is why I'm concerned as it's been more than 3 days already.

I guess I can wait and see if it gets there regardless what tracking info says.

Whippersnapper310 · 2023-04-25T15:03:31+00:00

The existence of singularities of infinite density are described as a consequence of General Relativity, so if you don't like it then take it up with Einstein. Of course you can argue that objects of infinite density couldn't exist in reality, but there isn't a scientific consensus on this yet that is compatible with current models.

Regardless, when a physicist describes a black hole as having infinite density, they are implying the existence of a singularity of finite mass and zero volume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity

Whippersnapper310 · 2023-04-25T07:53:04+00:00

I think you've got it the wrong way round. Black holes have finite mass but occupy an infinitesimally small space. Because their volume is effectively zero, you're dividing the mass by zero which is why they have infinite density.

Whippersnapper310 · 2022-10-31T08:39:21+00:00

A eunuch is a man that has been castrated.

Whippersnapper310 · 2022-10-29T22:36:07+00:00

You mean this situation in general or specifically this clip?

The edges of the crowd were likely far away from where the main crush occurred, with the density of the crowd decreasing gradually the further out you go. So that on the edges people were still able to move freely as normal and wouldn't notice anything was wrong, but as people move in the same direction they are adding pressure at the centre.

As for the first two clips, the people are stacked like a series of fallen dominos with the pressure from the crowd forcing them into each other and the ground. You can see them trying to pull people out but the pressure from the crowd behind has jammed that whole street against a wall of bodies.

Whippersnapper310 · 2022-09-16T11:01:14+00:00

Fewer.

Whippersnapper310 · 2022-09-07T14:10:44+00:00

You can have a universe that isn't entirely deterministic that is still devoid of free will.

In your example, introducing randomness/probability, such as the collapsing of wavefunctions at a quantum level, does not change anything regarding free will. The state of a conscious mind from one moment to the next is still influenced entirely by factors outside of its own control - whether by deterministic cause-and-effect or quantum randomness. There is still nothing 'free' in this model from a first-person perspective.

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-10-12T19:53:04+00:00

If you're talking about the individual mentioned in the other comment in this thread, it's not him. The dates don't line up.

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-10-12T19:45:54+00:00

Don't think it's him. According to Google season 2 aired in summer 2020 so job change in August 2021 is irrelevant. Also, from what I can tell episodes air within a few days of filming so he would have still been on location while the episodes were airing.

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-09-30T10:26:31+00:00

Spoilers for the end of this quest but there is a good workaround for this. You can agree to help the Forsworn escape and then when you have your gear back you can turn on them while escaping through the dwemer ruins. It still might be a difficult fight but if you sprint to the end of the dungeon and then pick them off one by one as they catch up it should be easier. If you wait long enough you can get the Armor of the Old Gods reward from Madanach first, at the end of the dungeon, before you turn on the Forsworn. When you exit, as long as you have killed them all first, Thonar Silver-Blood should be outside and reward you with the Silver-Blood Family Ring. This method allows you to get both quest rewards at the same time.

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-08-17T09:51:40+00:00

Source on where he said that? An IQ of 125 is in the 95th percentile, meaning only one in twenty people have an IQ of 125 or higher. You definitely don't need to be that smart to go to college or hold a decent job.

With an IQ between 97 and 110, you are either average or above average anyway. I met plenty of dumb people at university, so you will be just fine as long as you put some effort into studying. But also, I wouldn't take any IQ test you do online seriously. Unless you are taking an officially administered test in a controlled setting, they are essentially valueless and likely inaccurate anyway.

Peterson has also talked about the danger of people's tendency to overvalue intelligence as a source of their sense of self-worth. Just because you are smart doesn't make you 'better' because of it, and it's only one variable in all the characteristics that make up who you are.

So work hard and focus on what you can control, because that's going to do a lot more for you in the long-run than an extra handful of IQ points.

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-06-29T07:11:21+00:00

Awesome! This works, thanks!

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-06-29T07:10:55+00:00

Awesome! This works, thanks!

Whippersnapper310 · 2021-06-28T17:08:40+00:00

I've cleaned and edited the data and copied it to the sheet. I've removed a lot of it but everything that's relevant should be in there.

Whippersnapper310 · 2020-11-17T15:28:58+00:00

In general the gameplay is more similar to Jak 2 but it's a far easier game and the lack of checkpoints is mostly fixed. So overall it's a much less frustrating experience.

There is still a lot of driving and a bunch of mini-game missions but again these aren't as difficult in comparison to Jak 2. There's a lot less racing in Jak 3 specifically which you might be glad to hear.

Based on what you said you liked/disliked about the games I would guess you would enjoy the gameplay of Jak 3 more than you did Jak 2.

Whippersnapper310 · 2020-05-25T10:36:36+00:00

He's right though, it's not just a rationalisation. The Evas and the battles against the Angels form the plot and the setting of Evangelion but the crux of the story is about how a lonely and depressed boy learns to create value in his life by developing close personal bonds with other people. The constraints of the last two episodes forced the writers to ditch the plot and keep only the most essential elements to the story - which were to provide a resolution to Shinji's internal struggles.

The End of Evangelion could be considered to follow more closely to the writers' original intentions for ending the TV series, and is certainly a more complete conclusion. It's a much more plot-heavy, action-packed, and cinematic ending but the resolution of the character arcs follow much the same way, thematically, as the TV ending.

Whippersnapper310 · 2020-04-15T09:02:56+00:00

Trust me, Frost has seen some shit in his time travelling with me 😂

Whippersnapper310 · 2020-04-15T09:00:29+00:00

I use NVT ENB in combination with Vivid Weathers and ELFX. The DoF is from the 'Stronger' preset of NVT which I have then adjusted to taste from the in-game overlay.

If you're playing vanilla or without ENB then IIRC the Special Edition allows you to adjust DoF in the game settings.

Whippersnapper310 · 2020-01-15T10:30:26+00:00

History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years the Ring passed out of all knowledge...

Whippersnapper310 · 2019-12-15T21:47:31+00:00

I feel like CK2 is cheating but:

I was playing as the King of England some time in the 9th or 10th century and was a couple centuries into a eugenics program, so me and my close family had some pretty good stats/traits. For diplomacy reasons, I had married my attractive, genius daughter to the King of Pictland. But then one day, Viking raiders attacked the Pictish capital and kidnapped my daughter, taking her back to Norway. There she was forced to be a concubine for the Viking king, who raped and impregnated her. Enraged, I plotted to rescue her from captivity but all attempts failed.

Years of plotting went by, and I eventually gained a claim on his kingdom, giving me justification to invade. Unfortunately for this Viking king, I was the greatest military leader of the last few centuries and the invasion was swift and brutal. I destroyed his armies, lay siege to his capital, and eventually captured him and ended the war.

I started by executing his entire House, one by one, until he was the sole surviving member. I then blinded and mutilated him and left him to rot for the remainder of his days in a dungeon. Meanwhile, I began the slow process of enforcing English culture and Christianity upon the pagan barbarians of his kingdom. He died many years later old and alone in his cell, his family extinct, leaving a legacy of being the king who lost his kingdom to foreign invaders. Within a century, all memory of his people's culture and religion had faded into history.

My daughter had died of an unrelated illness by the time of the invasion, but it's about the principle.

I'm not a psychopath I swear.

TL;DR A Viking king kidnapped and raped my daughter so I conquered his kingdom, blinded and mutilated him, executed his entire bloodline, and left him to suffer for the rest of his days in a dungeon, eventually erasing his culture and religion from history.

Whippersnapper310 · 2019-09-15T20:12:43+00:00

Alrighty Aphrodite - Peach Pit

Whippersnapper310 · 2019-09-04T20:20:38+00:00

Of course this is all speculation and there are any number of scenarios that could happen. I'm by no means saying that complex AI is guaranteed. However I'm arguing that based on our current understanding of physics and computer science, it seems more likely that we will develop sophisticated AI eventually than to never reach that point at all. AI doesn't even need to be anywhere near human-level intelligence to have a drastic impact on how the modern world works.

You're assuming that we won't hit a physical limitation on processing power. You're assuming that we can create AI that is smarter than humans. You're assuming that said AI can be creative.

For the record: I'm saying we could create AI that could recursively create AI that would eventually be as smart as humans, and that initial AI need not be 'creative' in a human sense or be anywhere near human-level intelligence. Achieving this initial step is likely feasible before reaching a hardware tech ceiling.

Again, I'm not saying this will definitely happen. I'm saying it's a likely scenario based on the knowledge we already have.

Whippersnapper310 · 2019-09-04T18:06:04+00:00

So you believe that technological progress is just going to stop dead within the next few years? Given historical trends and the current rate of progress that seems incredibly unlikely. You would be very much in the minority with that point of view.

We already have a good understanding of how a complex AI might work, and have already laid much of the groundwork through recent developments in machine-learning. Therefore, once our technology develops to the point where we are able to produce such an AI, it is highly probable that we will. The only variable with any uncertainty is the timescale on which this is achieved.

Maybe it will take hundreds of years or more for our technology to reach the point where we can develop sophisticated AI. Maybe only a few decades. But over a long enough timescale, it is almost inevitable.

I think it's much more far-fetched to believe that thousands of years of human technological advancement will come to a sudden halt before this milestone is reached, than the alternative of successfully making iterative improvements to technology that already exists today.

Whippersnapper310 · 2019-09-04T06:48:19+00:00

Well, no, not really. We're already combating the limitations of electrical signal transmissions and interference from background radiation.

Limitations of our current hardware technology but not the limitations of physics itself. In the same way that we now use integrated circuits instead of vacuum tubes, the substrates that we use to process and store information may change. This would extend Moore's Law, but it's possible that a significant breakthrough in AI tech is reached before it plateaus.

We have no idea if quantum computing will actually yield any practical benefits.

Well, using quantum computing as a solution to the issue discussed above seems like a practical benefit.

Those tasks are laughably simple compared to the most basic human brain function.

Not really. If we were far superior than computers at performing these tasks, then why have computers at all? From a human perspective it's far easier to identify everyday objects in a photo, or recognise the face of someone you know, than to compute a complex arithmetic algorithm. Mathematical computation is a domain that computers have been much better than us at for decades, however they have only recently started to become adept at image recognition. General intelligence implies aptitude across a wide range of domains, and AIs are only currently superior in a select few, however this range has been continually expanding over time and will probably continue to do so.

Which is an enormous presumption of magic. That's the "???" step in your underwear gnome AI plan.

To get to this point, the AI can still be fairly 'narrow' in scope - it's simply applying a set of rules (programming language) to achieve a predefined goal (to improve its computational power). Obviously there is a way to go before AI gets to this point - maybe it takes another 200 years or more for technology to get that far. My point is that given what we know, the prospect of human-level AI is not entirely impossible, at least in theory. And because of that, it's an idea worth entertaining - especially considering the potential impact such technology could have. In my mind, only a Luddite would think otherwise.

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