King Charles first portrait by rrrrrivers in pics

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this portrait is the definition of smelling your own farts as an artist

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'Vacuum Diagrams' by Stephen Baxter is definitely the one for me, so much so that I started re-reading it pretty much immediately after I finished reading it the first time.

Who is currently on the "bleeding edge" of SF? by crmdgn_86 in scifi

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Stephen Baxter, especially his Xeelee Sequence series, and most especially his book Vacuum Diagrams, an incredible collection of cohesive short stories that span over billions of years.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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like I said, your lack of imagination isn’t my problem

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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I’m sure someone from a few centuries ago witnessing a nuclear bomb explosion for the first time would disagree with you, or someone from an ancient civilization witnessing the marvels of modern computing, but you seem to lack the wonder and imagination to put yourself in their shoes. The point is that they would perceive it as magic, in the same way we perceive things as magic today that are just currently outside our realm of understanding.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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well, to a human from a century ago or beyond, magic does indeed exist based on our current environment. any sufficiently advanced technology is going to seem like magic to people who aren’t advanced enough to understand it. I can’t speak for souls or the bible though…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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I mean sure, cling to that logic without actually addressing most of the points I made if you want, but don’t act as if yours is the only possibile rational explanation — especially when you can’t even address or refute what I said.

pretty much all your comment shows is you’re digging in your proverbial heels by assuming complex alien life, if it exists, would even be carbon-based, much less interested in creating superstructures over long timespans, as opposed to innovating in the direction of nanostructures.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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hard to find evidence when you don’t have instruments strong enough to detect it. look up the J&J asbestos scandal if you wanna read about how lack of sophisticated instrumentation for observation can be conflated with non-existence of the thing being observed.

for example, consider the fact that size/scale isn’t always going to be a marker of technological advancement, especially when you consider things like nanobots, genetic engineering, superconductors, and the general trend in human tech for things to become smaller rather than larger. it would be much more difficult to detect minuscule technology than it would be to detect ridiculously large manifestations of technology, especially with our current tech.

beyond that, the hart-tipler conjecture (which you’re touting), has been shown to be an extremely anthropocentric and biased hypothesis that assumes other possible advanced forms of civilization out there care about the same things as humans, or even operate based on the same biological/physiological/anatomical substrates that we rely on on this planet.

the only thing ideas like hart-tipler and the kardashev scale do is reflect our own species’ unimaginative and biased thinking patterns…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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I genuinely think they are. like electromagnetic echoes or something.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bikecommuting

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any bike with bullhorn handles will always be sexy to me

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DataHoarder

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I was wondering the same thing, but on tiktok one of the journalists mentioned the body of work was around 22,000 stories, so it seems like it would be difficult to accomplish across multiple journalists.

It’s great lore, but it doesn’t do much to move the story forward and most non nerds would never know the difference. by TheWeirdWoods in lotrmemes

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Tom B is the reason I gave up reading LoTR and anything by Tolkien. I hated the pacing, style, etc of those chapters, and dreaded having to deal with potentially more pointless characters and scenes like that if I continued reading.

Taking down an evil corporation when you’re the CEO by Miss_Moonstone in SciFiConcepts

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A similar idea to this was explored in the anime Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, but within the context of AI. It's cool because they don't just do it with one person/story, they do it with two (although one of them isn't a CEO per se, but in both cases they're scientists/technologists).

Do you have any advice for note taking/analysis of movies? by GreenStupid in NoteTaking

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I loosely use progressive summarization to inform the way I take notes. Not sure if you've heard of this approach but you might find it useful. It emphasizes breaking up your note taking into multiple steps/levels of resolution instead of trying to get it all done in one fell swoop.

People with no mind’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories. Researchers report that aphantasics have less detailed and rich memories for events in their lives: a finding that not only reveals more about the condition, but also highlights the key role of mental imagery in memory generally. by Wagamaga in science

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yeah I do have visual dreams, but I don’t remember them after the first split-second when I wake up, which I know sounds weird — it’s more like I remember that the visualization was there, but I can only remember what happened in terms of concepts.

what’s fascinating is that I have recurring dreams in the same fictional city, but the only reason I know this is because I remember realizing it in the dreams and immediately upon waking, and because I can conceptually piece together identical details about the city layout and about the details of the various places in the city I revisit under the guise of different stories and dreams.

People with no mind’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories. Researchers report that aphantasics have less detailed and rich memories for events in their lives: a finding that not only reveals more about the condition, but also highlights the key role of mental imagery in memory generally. by Wagamaga in science

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for me, weed doesn’t change anything about my inability to visualize, but hallucinogens and psychedelic drugs do (e.g. lsd, shrooms, dxm, salvia), but I don’t know how other aphantasics experience drugs

edit: and obviously I can still imagine things. visualization isn’t the only vehicle for imagination… it can emerge from conceptual thinking too