theilleists

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Fuck, now I'm crying too. I've lost friends and family to this mental illness. There is much to mourn. The values that you and I share are not the values of the Americans who wield national power right now, nor their cult. Many of us are fighting for our values over here. And your unconditional message of friendship means so much. Thank you. I feel the same way. Fuck the imaginary lines on the map. I pledge allegiance to YOU, and to any other individual, wherever they are, who believes in basic human decency: honesty, respect, compassion, non-aggression... against the psychopaths who don't.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, exactly. No physical handicap, just some good old pain. I wouldn't make any part of you permanently "wrong." The good purpose is that it would make me happy. It's just like Wolverine. Let's do this experiment and see if you still feel the same way about suffering being trivial.

on Jazz hands · c/science_memes · 6 pts · 1y

Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.

I've also just resumed it after 2 years, having completed everything that was available at the time in early access. It's all a lot smoother now. There's more backstory, no more items you can pick up that don't actually do anything, better balance in the difficulty curve. They've knocked it out of the park.

They wrote that whole ass article and never stopped to consider that time may be both an illusion (in the sense that it is an emergent rather than a fundamental property of existence) AND necessary for the evolution of life (in the sense that other hypothetical configurations of physical laws which do not feature an emergent arrow of time may not produce life).

In regions of the set of all possible universes where the physical prerequisites of evolution were not present, nobody would be there wondering about why that is. In this region, conditions are right for life to evolve, so somebody is here to ask the question. It's just the anthropic principle.

And even then, if you look at quantum mechanics through the right lens, its apparent randomness is only an illusion of perspective. If you flip the quantum coin, then with 100% certainty, perfectly deterministically, it will come up heads in one timeline and tails in the other. It's only because your two future selves can't interact with each other that they can't have an argument about what the result "really" was, so one says, "it actually came up heads, and the result was completely random," and the other says, "it actually came up tails, and the result was completely random."