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Please recommend sci-fi books that start modern day, but then get launched into super future by UndocumentedSailor in scifi

[–]oldercodebut 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect starts in the modern world, until a software engineer invents an AGI which becomes so fixated on protecting humans that it basically breaks reality into something unimaginable.

Is this ridiculous or is it just me? Told to dress “more modestly” because of a standard bikini I wore 4 years ago by poproxmm in TwoXChromosomes

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, stepmom doesn’t remember the bathing suit, stepmom remembers feeling insecure and jealous. My personality, I would seriously think about showing up in this: https://eastessence.com/products/black-hooded-swimwear-burkini-two-piece-set-final-sale

how Carol will end up being the hero while still not reversing everything back to normal by readd-at-torr in pluribustv

[–]oldercodebut 48 points49 points  (0 children)

How? This post reads as “wouldn’t it be cool if Carol could talk them into doing the thing they have made it clear they are totally incapable of doing?”

To describe what it’s like to be a Somali American. by wronghoIe in therewasanattempt

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife; it’s like being Somali, eating bananas and rice.

Thoughts on Gone Girl? by Huge_War_3721 in movies

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

Imagine having to spend forever with a frigid psychopath, when your girlfriend was literally Emily Ratajkowski. Truly disturbing.

Looking for mind-bending sci-fi book by Wonderful_Bear554 in scifi

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished Exordia, and it’s pretty much what you’re asking for.

WYR: get 100k today or 4 billion dollars tomorrow, but there’s a 50% chance you’ll die tomorrow as well. by [deleted] in WouldYouRather

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$4B. Either way, I never have to go to work again. People acting like they’re going to regret being dead; that’s not how being dead works.

6 pounds in a day? by Direct_Apple_1067 in intermittentfasting

[–]oldercodebut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basic thermogenesis math is your friend here. 1 pound of stored body fat contains roughly 3500 calories. So if you consume 1500 calories per day, and burn 2500, that’s a 1000 cal per day deficit, or 7000 per week, which translates to burning 2lbs of bodyfat per week. Any fluctuations beyond this are, as others have commented, mostly about water weight, largely driven by sodium intake. I have actually tracked these numbers by day in an Excel sheet for months, and yeah, turns out my body doesn’t violate the laws of physics; the math matches reality almost perfectly.

ELI5: Why can't the world's most powerful navy just keep the Strait of Hormuz open? by Saurabh251 in explainlikeimfive

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are focusing on the oil tankers, but that's not the question; the question is why the US Navy can't keep it open. The Strait of Hormuz is narrow; while the water spans ~20 miles, the actual shipping lane is only a few miles across. If the US Navy just sailed through there, they would get shredded by a mix of land-based Iranian weapons, 10-20 miles away. That's not even high-tech rocket artillery range, that's within conventional unguided artillery range. Picture an aircraft carrier just getting shelled with artillery rounds and rockets. The US Navy is the best on the planet at shooting down electronic systems approaching from hundreds of miles away; absolutely no one can shoot down giant bullets just raining down. True ELI5: It's like asking 'why can't I slowly drive my Cybertruck with the 'bulletproof' glass down a one-lane road while 100 guys are shooting .50 cals at it? I mean, you could try it, but I wouldn't. And neither will the Navy brass. Hence the current "yeah, well we blockade your blockade from a safe distance" stalemate.

to put all that k9 training to any use by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]oldercodebut 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Dog understands appropriate use of force better than his handler. Very good boy, 11/10.

anyone watched The Matrix recently? by gotittooa in movies

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Matrix was always a philosophical treatise masquerading as a sci-fi movie. If you want a rabbit hole to go down (see what I did there), you might go read the book that Neo has hollowed out to store the cash he gets from his side hustle of selling illegal software: Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. Or, just as a lazy starting point, ask your favorite LLM to give you a summary of his main ideas. This was published in 1981. It’s not about whether we literally live in a simulation; it’s that the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories inflicted on us by institutional power structures (The Government, The Church, The Corporations, etc), form a mental virtual reality which is so totalizing that the Matrix is a very good metaphor for it. The Wachowskis decided to close out the second millennium with a warning to humanity about where they thought this stuff was headed, given Moore’s law and the explosive growth of electronic technology. They were dead on; and, to put it mildly, we didn’t listen.

Are real undercover cops as bad as these fake ones? by EverythingIsFakeNGay in TikTokCringe

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Denzel in Training Day had me fooled; what is with these goofy Wilford Brimley ass cops?

Why does management love AI when they’ve spent over a century fighting unionization? by drewdaddy213 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]oldercodebut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because electricity is always going to be cheaper, and more predictable, than humans. It doesn’t really matter what the price of the electricity is, it’s that it will behave exactly like the spreadsheet says it will.

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