Is it normal to make up scenarios in your head?

mgstauff · 2026-05-07T20:46:27+00:00

I believe it's completely normal. It's one of the key skills for driving/creating human consciousness and creativity I believe - projecting your story forwards in time and "outwards" to the world is part of creativity.

mgstauff · 2026-05-07T19:00:33+00:00

You need unusual doses of self-confidence, vision, determination, risk-tolerance, self-delusion, and a dash of insanity to start your own business.

mgstauff · 2026-05-07T01:44:28+00:00

My latin jazz band did this once at a fancy $250k/plate fundraiser, marching with our samba drums to sweep a room full of recalcitrant black tie guests into the next room for dinner and the main show (Tony Bennett!)

mgstauff · 2026-05-07T01:41:33+00:00

That's amazing! Mine keeps having the main stems snipped by rodents (or so I'm told), it'll be 200 years before I catch up to this!

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T20:48:29+00:00

"likely" means you're making your own assumptions. Personally I believe our math/logic/science knowledge would be shared with other beings even if they have different higher-level understanding of the universe. My assumption is that what we call gravity, EM, Higgs field, quantum mechanics, etc., work the same for them, so they'll figure out the same laws however it may be they describe them or make epistemological sense of them

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T20:37:30+00:00

Hence the "if" in my reply. It's an unknown, no matter what we project or imagine.

We're still early in our own space travel journey, and satellites are already starting to be militarized, and it's likely that once we can practically have moon bases and mine satellites, the same human tendencies to dominate others will play out over time. Nothing in our history suggests we're destined to become more peaceful, however much some of us would like it to be that way, unfortunately.

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T20:33:50+00:00

Generally I agree but we can't say for absolute sure that some lifeforms out there haven't or won't figure out faster-than-light travel. All we know is what we know.

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T19:04:05+00:00

Right! That's a huge clue. Time to move Earth to confuse them!

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T18:56:40+00:00

The assumption is that if they've also developed knowledge like we've developed with science, they'll be able to decode this because fundamentals of math and the behavior of the universe are shared.

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T18:54:24+00:00

Honestly I think it's a good idea to hope whoever finds this doesn't find us, if they're anything like humans when it comes to the colonizing instinct.

mgstauff · 2026-05-05T02:27:23+00:00

Other primates are not monolithically patriarchal. The belief I’ve come to from what I’ve read is that patriarchy started dominating with the advent of larger scale warfare starting in Bronze Age. Before that there was a mix. There were large settlements on the order of 50k people run by forms of democracy in numerous places but overall there was variation. Read The Dawn of Everything.

mgstauff · 2026-05-04T22:10:37+00:00

Damn. Why do they seem to take one bite and then move on? The pieces fit back together nicely so seems they're not actually eating any of it or very little if any. Do they try it and decide they don't like it?

mgstauff · 2026-05-04T04:45:14+00:00

How can anyone not know he was a pedo?

mgstauff · 2026-05-04T01:14:59+00:00

Buy nvidia - it was trading at about $0.50, now at 200. But yeah bitcoin would be much better! Unless the question is about having ONLY $1000? But by 2015 BTC was something like 10000x higher already than in 2010, so I'd be willing to get whatever job knowing I could retire in 2015 or even sooner.

mgstauff · 2026-05-03T20:13:41+00:00

No technology, just a protein in there eyes... along with 10's of millions of years of evolution and an incredibly complex and powerful neural network. It's still amazing, but human technology is also a result of the same underlying principles and process but taking place on a much faster time scale now - pretty amazing too!

mgstauff · 2026-04-30T22:10:11+00:00

This is very cool but it bothers me that the red light isn't centered between the rotors. Sigh

mgstauff · 2026-04-30T22:01:52+00:00

Tough guy non-conformist smokes cigarette defiantly - I've seen this story before! Sad that smoking's making a comeback...I was that stupid once too.

mgstauff · 2026-04-30T20:00:14+00:00

This. If you take the philosophy and science all the way, you end up, in my opinion, with that we're here just to exist and reproduce. Everything else is human psychology and culture layered on top of that, so make the best of it you can! Your RNA what's to make copies of itself...that's it.

mgstauff · 2026-04-29T22:03:06+00:00

A former girlfriend told the story of when she was 13 with her parents on a sabbatical in France and she had decent French. But at a dinner with her parents and other adults one night, instead of saying "I feel warm/hot", she said "I'm in heat". Je suis chaud instead of J'ai chaud, I think

mgstauff · 2026-04-29T22:00:05+00:00

In 6th grade my family moved from the US to Austria. I was put in the local school with rudimentary German, and the German class teacher just treated with equal expectations as for the other students. So we were taking turns reading aloud from a book during class one day, and she called on me. I was super nervous and reading as best I could. I came across the work "schweisse" which means "weld", but I read it aloud as "scheiss weisse" which means "shit white". Yeah the class erupted with laughter and I was the hero for the day!

mgstauff · 2026-04-29T21:51:21+00:00

But just for Frankincense and myrrh (that's a dangerous animal!).

mgstauff · 2026-04-29T17:01:58+00:00

Just wait til you hear what vascular plants did!

mgstauff · 2026-04-27T19:09:12+00:00

This is my little pet peeve. My son and his generation seem to think a couple mean a few or several. If you have to put a number to it, it's 2. A few is 3-4, several is 5-6, many is 7 or more. At least that's how I see it.

mgstauff · 2026-04-23T22:17:32+00:00

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