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That is a sombre thought.

My mother used to say this happened with milk. They'd deliver it daily and collect the used bottles to be washed and reused.

You wouldn't need to simulate the entire universe in perfect detail - just the parts users are interacting with, and just to sufficient detail that they didn't notice anything amiss. This is exactly how we render games.

Scroll to the bottom and pay for the privilege.

That would be completely logical. Predictions can be self-fulfilling, and he would have nothing to gain by placing his predictions for biological immortality out of his own reach.

Do you even remember what it was like trying to find your way around a foreign city before google maps? They mapped the world and provided it as a service for free.

Is Google Auth down because of the SolarWinds Orion exploit?

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/

Is it due to the SolarWinds Orion exploit?

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/

This reminded me of: QuantumBogoSort a quantum sorting algorithm which can sort any list in O(1), using the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics.

It works as follows:

1. Quantumly randomise the list, such that there is no way of knowing what order the list is in until it is observed. This will divide the universe into O(n!) universes; however, the division has no cost, as it happens constantly anyway.

2. If the list is not sorted, destroy the universe. (This operation is left as an exercise to the reader.)

3. All remaining universes contain lists which are sorted.

- http://wiki.c2.com/?QuantumBogoSort

Why wouldn't you just reheat the food if it was cold?

I've never understood why microwaves have an alarm that can't be disabled. They actually make me angry every time I fail to stop it manually at <10s.

The payoff is real: “So the whole universe runs on this system of sapphires connected by paths?”

“MOST OF IT RUNS ON SAPPHIRES ON PATHS, BUT I USE RUBY ON RAILS FOR THE DATABASES.”

I quite enjoyed this story, thank you for sharing it.

Imagine trying to justify sending a probe to Venus now and not looking for signs of life.

I was thinking someone should write a story on the premise that we are living in a simulation, where 'glitches in the matrix' like déjà vu, coincidences, freak accidents, etc., are due to accidental arrangements of people corrupting the program... but then I realised someone already had. In El ángel exterminador (1962) a group of people are trapped in a single room (level) due to their accidental seating arrangement. They are freed when they unlock the same sequence. In Groundhog Day a similar thing happens where the protagonist is trapped replaying the same level, until he figures out the correct sequence of actions to pass it. I am sure there are others.

The key to chess being entertaining is time pressure. Watching Hikaru and Magnus play blitz is far more enjoyable than a 'normal' game.

I've been watching a lot of Hikaru's streams since PogChamps put him on my radar and he is a very entertaining player IMO.

I feel like this should be more common. People kill themselves to escape their lives, but they should vanish and start again instead.

Imagine being sentenced to house arrest in 2020 of all years.

Then why do we train for it constantly in coalition exercises?

I thought that mama/papa/nana/dada or some close equivalent existed in all languages, as it is the first basic sound that babies can say.

Not at all, just increase tax per child per household. 0-2 children at a normal rate, and increasing per extra child.

That's why basic, necessary goods are not taxed, only luxury items. We have a GST in Australia and poor people effectively do not pay any tax on purchases.

Why is there a focus on people working at all? I thought one of the reasons UBI was so interesting is that people who are stupid, lazy, incompetent or just too obnoxious to work in customer service can stay at home and out of my way.

Fear of something that is not real like a scary clown could be seen as a good parenting opportunity. There are crocodiles.

Loved it and own a copy. I often remind myself of Aunt Hillary when thinking about large organisations such as the military. There are quite a lot of topics in GEB that are simply fun to think about.

Well, 'the Sun so small' is a phrase I have never seen before.

Aren't species already going extinct every day?

I think it's similar to what is going on in an adult's brain as they watch other people play sports; only a bit more sophisticated as your child likely plays the same game competitively and is gleaning strategy and insight, rather than drinking beer and cheering for a colour.

He means with a car. I would be very averse to buying a house somewhere that required me to drive everywhere.

Skydiving helped me. It's easily the most terrifying thing I've done and really put staying in the plane into perspective.

Genetic advantage is what we're testing for in these running experiments though. It isn't an unfair advantage, it's the whole point.