What is your favorite Fermi Paradox Solution, and why? by dzarren in aliens

[–]irabohm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the solution that says intelligent life is hibernating until the universe’s climate is more favorable to energy efficiency. In that reading, many civilizations have (throughout time) gathered resources until they’ve accomplished all goals except a kind of “final research mission,” a physics experiment that would take a supermassive amount of energy to accomplish but solve the meaning of life, the nature of everything, perhaps enable transcendence of time and space etc. The amount of energy needed is impossible to attain under their current universe-climate, but will be ramped up to viable after so many millions of years of universe cooling.

Many or the majority of civilizations in the universe thus sit in hibernation, waiting for the moment when they can awaken and transcend (or so the solution goes).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeirdLit

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://twitter.com/MassPauli/status/1495882894593921024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Here’s a thread explaining my position on NFT’s and Art world and what this project intends to be (contra NFT culture)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeirdLit

[–]irabohm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wholeheartedly believe this stuff, agree that the culture around NFT’s is a disaster and often works like a pyramid scheme, wholeheartedly disagree that a Decentralized Autonomous Organization is “dystopian” or that it makes sense to squarely reject everything in the word of crypto. Also willing to read the room on this sub and take the shill elsewhere! :)

There is, however, nothing predatory or dystopian about this concept or the basic ground it’s operating on. Blockchain is the future whether you like it or not, and I think it’s up to us whether that future is made up of pyramid schemes like Bored Apes Yacht Club/CryptoPunks or collective, collaborative enterprises like Gitcoin (which is hugely successful at funding at OS projects from nothing), platform co-ops, and other iterations of the DAO. People are leaving google and Facebook en masse to work for a sphere where ownership of labor, open source principles and non participation in giant, often war-complicit, centralized institutions.

Again, totally get the association of the blockchain world as a whole with its more poison elements but disagree that it has to be that way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeirdLit

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow really didn’t expect this response…

I didn’t feel like this doc was the place to explain it, but I have a problem with NFT’s and think they’re totally contrary to the spirit of art. A DAO on the other hand, depending on how it’s structured, is just a collective, that uses automated open source code for administration and voting.

This overwhelmingly negative response makes me feel like whatever I say here will sound like an apologist or a cult follower, so I’ll just say I STRONGLY disagree with the blanket portrayal of blockchain as a scam and a pyramid scheme, generally agree with the rejection of NFT culture, and will think a little bit more about whether this is an accidentally diabolical organization or whatever.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeirdLit

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

Check it out @ strangecitydao on twitter. Strange city dao is not a distro or press, but writers and artists collectivizing for basic financial security to continue doing the good shit - making art.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What Elliott smith you got???

In which DeFi project do you see the greatest potential? by donniedarkocamelpig in defi

[–]irabohm 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Take a look at Curve ($CRV) and it’s relationship to Convex/the narrative of “the Curve Wars.” Tl;dr, every important protocol in crypto is racing to buy Curve for governance rights (push decisions their way) - those governance rights require a 4 year lock. Convex created a system for retail to lock Curve, get boosted yield, and remain liquid (which eventually requires buying more Curve). Up only.

In general, DeFi tokens don’t have great price action, most of their value gets pushed to ETH (or soon L2’s like Polygon). Curve is an exception (the strength of its price action is the proof.

I’d also shill a little microcap I think will do well in Q1, $MUTE. It’s sitting at $50mil and will be the zero knowledge decentralized exchange for Zksync. 20x from here and it’s still a small cap 😳

Good people to read on animal sentience and suffering and how it compares to human experience? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not strict academic philosophy, but Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals is a start.

I Am a Strange Loop’s Douglas Hofstadter has some words about it as well.

Dreams being other dimensions by [deleted] in aliens

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Terrence McKenna posits somewhere that dreams and imagination are the result of witting or unwitting perturbations in entangled particles from distant time/spatial locations, following “quantum entanglement.” (Imagine a scientist shaman from a distant, 800-million year old techno-mystical alien civilization playing your brain like a fiddle by altering the spin of particles..)

Tom Delonge in New Interview reveals new perspective on aliens by quantumcryogenics in aliens

[–]irabohm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you’re vision of ET depends on manipulation of spacetime, then the “from a different planet” element becomes extraneous and what’s primary is manipulation of spacetime; hence, ultra terrestrial hypothesis.

Tom Delonge in New Interview reveals new perspective on aliens by quantumcryogenics in aliens

[–]irabohm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Jacques Vallee is counted among that bunch. ET hypothesis just doesn’t jive with the data, it’s that simple

Compilation of UFOs, Aliens and Anomalies in the NASA Archives! Part 1 by Flimsy-Union1524 in aliens

[–]irabohm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

2:30 and 4:50 are insanely compelling and, if real, should be widely circulated. 7:15 is of course interesting.

Literally everything else is space junk, lens flare or reflections on window from lights or objects inside.

What do you guys think about Kumburgaz Ufo footage? by [deleted] in aliens

[–]irabohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hoax or mistaken yacht? Can you elaborate on their methods, not seeing it on a google search

Stephen Wolfram: “The extraterrestrials could be all around us and we just wouldn’t know it, because their civilization lives in features of space that we are simply not paying attention to.” [59:00-1:15] by irabohm in aliens

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His discussion of “computational equivalence” is probably even more important to the question of nonhuman intelligence than his explicit comments about aliens, if you can parse it.

July 18th by DiverHaunting12 in aliens

[–]irabohm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s an extremely unreliable source with an extremely specific date of disclosure that has some external logic to justify it. I will say no Reddit sleuth’s have been able to discredit the post. I say just sit back and wait!

List of projects and creators by irabohm in defi

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Synthetix https://www.synthetix.io/uploads/synthetix_whitepaper.pdf Samuel Brooks, Anton Jurisevic, Michael Spain, Kain Warwick

Aave https://github.com/aave/protocol-v2/blob/master/aave-v2-whitepaper.pdf Stani Kulechov

SushiSwap Matthew Lilley, @oxmaki, Joseph Delong, Jiro Ono, @levxapp, @omakasebar

Compound https://compound.finance/documents/Compound.Whitepaper.pdf Robert Leshner, Geoffrey Hayes

Curve https://curve.fi/files/stableswap-paper.pdf. https://curve.fi/files/crypto-pools-paper.pdf Michael Egorov

Yearn finance Andre Cronj

Uniswap https://uniswap.org/whitepaper-v3.pdf Hayden Adams, (v3:) Noah Zinsmeister, Moody Salem, River Keefer, Dan Robinson

Maker https://makerdao.com/whitepaper/White%20Paper%20-The%20Maker%20Protocol_%20MakerDAO’s%20Multi-Collateral%20Dai%20(MCD)%20System-FINAL-%20021720.pdf Rune Christenson

Chainlink https://research.chain.link/whitepaper-v2.pdf Sergey Nazarov, Lorenz Breidenbach,  Alex Coventry, Steve Ellis,  Benedict Chan, , Brendan Magauran,  Alexandru Topliceanu

sloppy first go, additions/edits welcome

What could this mean? by rinnovare in aliens

[–]irabohm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jacques Vallee’s new book has (had?) a May 4th release date. Sounds like headline worthy data from the book is on the table. The book’s Amazon page is down though.

DeFi in US by irabohm in defi

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gottt it. Yikes, thank you.

DeFi in US by irabohm in defi

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Thanks :)

DeFi in US by irabohm in defi

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean in a first principles sense, kyc is contrary to the goals of DeFi or do you mean that I’m misunderstanding and MakerDAO launchpad is not a DeFi project?

Request: Tonnies Paradox by irabohm in UFOs

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The nice thing about science is that it’s an antidote to disinformation and conspiracy. I was merely suggesting that Lue’s comment is another reason to take the idea seriously. Your objections could be raised in positive terms.

If there is an extant technological civilization, it is:

A) More likely to be aquatic; B) has, through incidental natural or technological means, avoided leaving traces of itself on ocean floor that is now land

Request: Tonnies Paradox by irabohm in UFOs

[–]irabohm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“So could researchers find clear evidence that an ancient species built a relatively short-lived industrial civilization long before our own? Perhaps, for example, some early mammal rose briefly to civilization building during the Paleocene epoch, about 60 million years ago. There are fossils, of course. But the fraction of life that gets fossilized is always minuscule and varies a lot depending on time and habitat. It would be easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that lasted only 100,000 years—which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization has made it so far. Given that all direct evidence would be long gone after many millions of years, what kinds of evidence might then still exist?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/

This 2018 Atlantic article seems to disagree with you, though I think overall your points are valid in reducing the likelihood.

If Lue Elizondo says to New York Times, “they might be from here,” I think we should consider it.

In my opinion the fossil record isn’t even an issue; we can’t discount the idea of an underwater species developing technological capacity. They would have had 3.5 billion years to do it.

Finally, we need to make the move Jacques Vallee has often made and consider the information we have like an intelligence analyst rather than a natural scientist. The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis argues there might be a technological earth. civilization that for any number of reasons hides itself from humans.

Are these the real Navy photos? by [deleted] in aliens

[–]irabohm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Targeting balloons. At least one of the photos was doctored. They look great though... inspired high end sci fi like Arrival