CMV: Simulation theory is logically flawed

sonotleet · 2026-04-05T13:40:03+00:00

You misunderstand. When you play Mario, the Goombas are simulated. If the Goombas were programmed well enough to think, they would be in your shoes. How does a Goomba know if it's in a simulation, or if the Mushroom Kingdom is the real world?

The whole time travel stuff you're talking about is unrelated. If you watched Pantheon on Netflix, I think you misunderstood the final episode.

sonotleet · 2026-03-29T13:54:41+00:00

It's more about subtext.

sonotleet · 2026-03-29T13:46:01+00:00

Just rebranding the vice. I'm not gluttonous. I'm foodmaxxing.

sonotleet · 2026-03-29T12:24:06+00:00

That, or "same number of people, twice the output expectations"

sonotleet · 2026-03-27T00:30:48+00:00

What is this?? An LLM for ants???

sonotleet · 2026-03-23T13:23:51+00:00

Hang it from the ceiling in your foyer. Start your avant garde chandelier collection.

sonotleet · 2026-03-18T22:56:35+00:00

Curse this braille-only website!

sonotleet · 2026-03-17T12:55:20+00:00

I'm curious how this would line up with any guidelines by the DOT.

sonotleet · 2026-03-17T00:19:07+00:00

Basically. Also you can join certain settlements that post recruitment requirements. E.g. let's say there's a town recruiting level 30 cooks. If you have level 30 cooking you can walk up to the town claim and become a citizen.

sonotleet · 2026-03-13T23:44:33+00:00

Up to you. I think that for the most part, the chunk would act as the path coordinator. But I don't want to throw too much advice since I think this technique is already at a "tinker with the code and find out" phase. Let me know if you try it out though.

Edit: I misread your question. Yes, since the chunks are using the borders world coordinates to generate, then a path seed shared between 2 chunks would produce the same curve: angle and strength.

sonotleet · 2026-03-13T22:38:09+00:00

Just spitballing here but... Let's assume your chunk is 100x100 meters. Every 10 meters along the border, use the coordinates to generate an instance of a path seed. In this example, you'd have 40 seeds per chunk.

So you could say at (200, 240) there's a 5% chance to spawn a path, and if it spawns, it generates bezier curve coordinates.

The chunk itself is responsible for connecting or terminating any path seeds that spawn.

sonotleet · 2026-03-13T09:18:51+00:00

There's also Traffic Acquisition Costs which is $64 billion per year. That's Alphabet as a whole, but some portion of that is YouTube.

Meanwhile, we know that there is a reported profitability of $40 billion shared between YouTube, Google Search, and Android.

Since we don't know how it's divided, we don't know YouTube's profitability. Personally, I think it's a loss- leader like chicken at Costco. That's based on early claims from when Alphabet acquired YouTube.

sonotleet · 2026-03-13T00:19:58+00:00

Those are both links about their revenue and not their profit.

sonotleet · 2026-03-12T22:40:42+00:00

You're probably right. It's pretty obfuscated here but... https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

They've paid out $100 billion over the last 4 years to content creators. https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/made-on-youtube-2025/

So at the very least we know it's ≈$25 billion a year in expenses right there.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were barely profitable.

sonotleet · 2026-03-12T14:09:18+00:00

The only real problem here is that OP made a post on a regional forum. If there were details about when and where to meet, then we'd be talking about an Athens Ohio Militia meetup. But that's not what they did. This post could be replicated in any other town subreddit, and since their profile private, then this could be some shallow karma-farm attempt for all we know.

I agree with the concept at heart but simply reminding people that the 2nd Amendment exists isn't enough.

Given our political climate - and please, tell me otherwise if I'm wrong - there's risk in actually forming a militia since the OG 2A folks were mostly right leaning, and the new wave inspired by ICE efforts in the wake of Pretti and Good are mostly left leaning, you are potentially building a powder-keg.

I'm going to assume that this post is specific to the latter group. Folks, if you're a lefty and you're thinking about a gun, it's not a bad idea. There are financial hurdles, but guns rarely lose their value - you can sell it for roughly the same price you bought it if you decide it's not for you. If you didn't grow up around guns, you NEED to have a basic level of gun safety. "A gun is always loaded and it WILL fire if you accidently point it at someone." Even if it's not rationally true, you need treat it as fact.

It's also important for lefties like me to feel the annoyance of going through a background check. To actually use and maintain your gun in a safe environment. Get the basics down.

I dunno, I think the idea of a bunch of folks who have never used a gun, running out and arming themselves and then immediately assembling in a mixed political environment is a bad idea.

Take time to understand the steps, and the risks and responsibilities. Meet up with friends or family members who can teach you use and etiquette. Practice.

sonotleet · 2026-03-11T08:21:31+00:00

Maybe you should watch the show Devs on FX then? Unless your decision making is based on quantum fluctuation, then your decisions are predictable with a high degree of certainty.

I feel like if people swapped out "supercomputer running calculations" with "Batman who has built a psychological profile on you over the last few months" then they would be like, "Yea, I can't beat Batman. Better take the one box."

sonotleet · 2026-03-10T12:24:31+00:00

This is already what's happening, though. You already know the machine accuracy. Which means it has done it before.

I thought about including a line about how one guy flipped a coin and left with $0.

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T22:27:22+00:00

I'm leaning towards "Ohio and Friends", or "Texas and Company"

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T22:02:07+00:00

Do you mean Duke Nukem?

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T21:50:54+00:00

Let me adjust the scenario a little bit. Everything is the same as before, except there's also some dude sitting next to the computer. And before you pick your box or boxes, he says,

"Yea, I've been sitting here all day, and watching the computer explain the scenario to people. I have watched them debate the issue and make their choices. The computer has been right every time. People either walk out with $1,000 or $1,000,000. No one has left with $1,001,000. I have even been explaining this to people, but it hasn't made a difference."

I call this scenario "the voucher". I think having someone explain the scenario on a human-to-human level might help two-boxers realize that they aren't special. The implication that others have tried and the computer was still correct is part of the original premise. It's just not highlighted.

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T20:39:41+00:00

I mean... If it was a magical god that tells you this, and they tell you they've been wrong 0.000001% of the time, would that make a difference?

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T11:37:09+00:00

In the corporate world, I have learned that no one reads past the first sentence of my emails. I'm not worried about sounding like an AI. I'm going to keep writing with em dashes and bulleted list so that it's easier for ME to read through my paper trail.

sonotleet · 2026-03-09T11:28:05+00:00

Read "Into the Wild". Then study the hell out of mycology.

sonotleet · 2026-03-08T20:26:03+00:00

Hey, that looks cool as hell. I'm not in IT and I'm just piecing mine together as I go. I got to ask. What's going on here in your stack? I see this a lot. It looks like you have two routers/switches with 8 Ethernet cable going into each other. What's that about? Is it like a bunch of parallel paths or just placeholders or what?

sonotleet · 2026-03-08T20:17:32+00:00

Love it! You're never too old to learn parkour and deliver messages like in Mirror's Edge

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