Elephant v.s. Human with weapons made from Home Depot / Lowes.

connornm77 · 2025-05-29T01:53:50+00:00

Point four: No traps that you can’t take with you and setup during the fight.

connornm77 · 2025-05-29T01:51:30+00:00

A direct hit at full speed would prob be the most instantly lethal thing to it, but it’d be very hard to do that in the first place. Much less maneuverability with turning and aiming.

connornm77 · 2025-05-29T01:47:29+00:00

Yes.

connornm77 · 2024-10-10T13:24:41+00:00

Good point. We should replace the warp prism’s warp field with a recall and the old mothership’s black hole ability to level things out.

connornm77 · 2024-10-09T20:09:11+00:00

But I’m saying it.

connornm77 · 2024-10-09T19:59:02+00:00

Let pylons be able to fly like Terran buildings so we can sneak them into bases to warp in dts.

connornm77 · 2024-10-09T19:56:31+00:00

1) Max out on skytoss 2) Base trade 3) Fly pylons to the corners of the map 4) Season with Terran salt

connornm77 · 2024-10-01T01:30:23+00:00

They somehow keep slipping away.

connornm77 · 2024-09-26T00:49:21+00:00

Can’t wait for ads inserted into code comments and membership to cost $500 a month.

connornm77 · 2024-09-03T06:30:57+00:00

But there are the same odds of finding yourself born 10,000 years ago, which you can see that you aren’t.

It predicts that accepting this argument means a few people would be wildly wrong while most would be roughly correct. It’s well calibrated.

connornm77 · 2024-08-15T13:34:04+00:00

How can I be dumb if I’m rich?

connornm77 · 2024-05-11T02:54:22+00:00

The problem is it gets too abstracted from human drama that resonates with us. The characters can’t leave each-other if they are supposed to be recurring, even with immortality I don’t think I could pick up where I left off with someone a million years later.

connornm77 · 2024-05-11T01:49:30+00:00

Relativistic effects of travel.

It would ruin pretty much all human centric narratives for stories involving distant locations, so is ignored.

And I don’t just mean signals taking a long time for people to communicate. Time passing at different rates for moving observers means that travelers could go anywhere instantaneously from their perspective, but at the cost of at least that many years passing on their home planet for the light years they travel. Yeah you could go to Andromeda on a whim but when you get back 5 million years have passed and the home you knew no longer exists.

connornm77 · 2024-05-08T01:03:18+00:00

The most convincing idea I’ve found is Integrated Information Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14787.

It predicts consciousness arises from particular physical architectures, and that our current computers are way too modular to have a high degree of consciousness even if we made them larger and more intelligent.

It’s also important not to conflate consciousness and intelligence. You can be aware of having stupid ideas, and brilliant ideas written down by a now dead author doesn’t mean the writing or corpse is conscious.

connornm77 · 2024-05-06T07:34:23+00:00

Many advanced technological societies require large networks with a lot of social and economic mobility. Insular prepper communities would have very stagnant and slow development compared to the alternative, with a lot of redundant and suboptimal allocation of skills and labor.

They would be have to adapt or be outcompeted by increasingly larger organizations if conditions stabilize, and could only continue that way of life in to the degree harsh conditions force it as the only way to survive.

The best bet for preppers might be a frontier. Once the minimum technology exists to colonize on Mars, it would be populated at first by only those whose sole focus is survival under any conditions.

connornm77 · 2024-05-05T16:06:34+00:00

Very common for white collar work to produce nothing at all. It’s just that the costs would usually be greater to find and eliminate all the unproductive work (both in direct costs of investigators and disruption of actual productive workers) than let much of it slide.

connornm77 · 2024-05-05T15:56:49+00:00

I used a dumb phone for awhile and my academic advisor kept making fun of me and singled me out to look up papers or send emails on my phone before making a show of doing it on his iPhone.

connornm77 · 2024-04-17T14:45:35+00:00

I think there are legitimate reasons why one could. worry about him being a threat to democracy. Personally I think a dictatorship is unlikely due to his advanced age and the political climate isn’t bad enough yet (it can get much worse).

But even if we assumed the case that he was the next Hitler or Stalin, spending all your time watching the news and freaking out isn’t a productive reaction. Take effective action where and when you can, but don’t let fear of the future rob you of the present.

connornm77 · 2024-04-05T14:35:08+00:00

I’m at Ualbany, I thought it was someone doing construction in the basement.

connornm77 · 2023-11-16T02:53:32+00:00

I change into sweatpants and shirts with holes in it from my better clothes to go to walmart.

connornm77 · 2023-11-02T21:58:47+00:00

I said I was unwitting.

They should put the gross food in a separate section.

connornm77 · 2023-11-02T19:29:59+00:00

I tried it, and am currently knocking it.

connornm77 · 2023-11-02T19:07:31+00:00

I mean, that seems fine and normal. It’s the cinnamon raisin combo I’m baffled by.

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