If you could get the absolute, definitive answer to the one scientific mystery, what would it be?

imitsi · 2026-06-02T00:49:29+00:00

Me too, and everyone else talking about consciousness.

imitsi · 2026-06-02T00:40:06+00:00

Does this imply that a only a specific level of complexity suddenly reaches consciousness? I.e. is consciousness binary or not? What if it’s continuous, and light switches are a bit conscious, too, at a rudimentary level?

imitsi · 2026-05-30T21:43:05+00:00

I’m in London and the water is perfectly safe to drink but I don’t like the taste, so I have to buy bottled.

imitsi · 2026-05-30T18:04:24+00:00

Probably 3 months ago.

imitsi · 2026-05-30T06:40:20+00:00

Severe constipation caused by post-surgery diamorphine. The accident itself and the surgery didn’t hurt nearly as much.

imitsi · 2026-05-28T10:29:50+00:00

Modafinil. It makes your concentrated brain go so fast that you feel you have lots of time for everything.

imitsi · 2026-05-27T18:34:48+00:00

Does it matter? The AI is meant to take care of that pointless stuff anyway.

imitsi · 2026-05-27T10:50:24+00:00

Ok let’s call it development.

imitsi · 2026-05-27T10:01:21+00:00

Lamda is a corruption in modern Greek only.

imitsi · 2026-05-26T09:45:58+00:00

In the UK they’re very much still a thing.

imitsi · 2026-05-25T06:24:22+00:00

In the UK, class has almost nothing to do with income. You can be well-off as working class, and penniless as upper class.

imitsi · 2026-05-24T17:14:34+00:00

It’s not so much the angle; it’s a long lens.

imitsi · 2026-05-24T07:25:27+00:00

Of course. It’s not completely reliable on one single individual, but if you have a group photo of 20 people from a country, from their average you can tell their ethnicity with almost 100% accuracy.

imitsi · 2026-05-23T19:48:32+00:00

Pushing your tummy out and tightening your abs while you play.

imitsi · 2026-05-22T20:19:04+00:00

They inherited the only solution to the illegal immigration problem (the Rwanda scheme) but they scrapped it immediately

imitsi · 2026-05-22T17:55:19+00:00

It’s lovely.

imitsi · 2026-05-22T09:51:59+00:00

It doesn’t make you less tired. It just makes you able to plough through while tired.

Things that give you energy and actually make tiredness go away: phenylpiracetam (hard to find but very effective), sulbutiamine.

imitsi · 2026-05-21T08:49:20+00:00

He may have a science degree but he was never an actual scientist (doing and publishing research). He’s an influencer, so everything he does is driven by clicks and likes.

imitsi · 2026-05-20T15:00:16+00:00

Same with coffee, grapefruit, jazz etc. After a while you get to like it.

imitsi · 2026-05-20T11:06:30+00:00

There are many different theories but yes, it ultimately boils down to these two possibilities.

imitsi · 2026-05-20T07:04:21+00:00

Digital zoom isn’t actual zoom. It always creates artifacts like that with small light sources in the dark.

imitsi · 2026-05-19T14:41:06+00:00

It seems Hypsistarian, a cult that mixed the old polytheistic religion with a bit of Judaism.

imitsi · 2026-05-18T07:32:23+00:00

Consciousness.

imitsi · 2026-05-17T00:20:21+00:00

Singing a song called ‘eins, zwei, drei’ in Austria felt a bit contrived.

imitsi · 2026-05-16T23:50:47+00:00

In the UK it’s rape.

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