Zompist Bboard Again

So it's not necessary for computers to emulate each and every function of the brain to have general AI, or even strong AI, whatever that means. you can run SNES games on a modern computer even if zsnes.exe doesn't reproduce *everything that happens inside of a super nintendo*: it just needs to repro...

That is, actually, a very interesting topic I've somewhat gotten into. Exactly what are the limits of wood as a construction material for large structures and the durability thereof are both subjects of live research, but, overall, the tldr of it is that yes, you can build pretty big stuff out of wo...

and so it was that torco decided how to spend one of his remnant audible credits

Cool website!

seeing as i'm already a philosophical monist (in a mereological nihilist or at least mereological fictivist sort of a way) and I already figure god means whatever the believer wants, I think the most difficult thing for me as an uttersubliminist is going to be optimism.

Well, the point would be to use technology to solve a self-discipline problem. General purpose computers allow me to do something else than writing... no, sure, that's the point of it: it's probably not even self-discipline, it's just humans... it's natural for us to have dedicated tools: having on...

What kind of [word]-punk is that? Would Macs be any more expensive if they were actually made of marble? One thing I would probably buy, if I would live in an universe where both a) it would be on the market, and b) I would have a shitton of money, would be a computer-like gadget that would be phys...

Count me in. hell, ordain me as a knight of espionage.

then again, conservative judges in the us tend to only rule in favour of their own white people religion so... uttersubliminism might end up kind of like islam. maybe we should also use funny hats to be stereotyped around.

hehehehe. yeah, as we all know, fellow human beings, anyone who doesn't support our glorious government is obviously a proponent of murdering everything in the universe. The question of who rules the regime is not super well developped: I know it lasts a couple of centuries, maybe a millenium, and t...

the Words of Mankind [The Words is a document of the computer age. The most complete versions of it, often used by, for example, lawyers, are such that you can double click every word and every comma and expand it into extensive explanations, commentaries, clarifications and summaries of relevant j...

Inspired by the United Earth’s constitution, I thought I'd talk a bit about this bit of my conworld, a strange political entity which calls itself Mankind. At some point in the future history of humanity, before humanity goes interstellar but after capitalism caused sufficient damage to the world to...

Yeah! kepler's super fun, if it looks like people think it does. the best thing is that because all those planets are real close to each other, in theory interplanetary travel is a lot easier, so it's a cool place to set like a space opera thing.

Also could be cultural... I understand stralians don't have this culture of everyone suing everyone all of the time over everything, right? Probably, but I think the US litigiousness is kind of positive... maybe! I myself recently got the justice system to... well, get justice <i was owed wages by ...

be careful what you ask for, 'cos you might get it. It would basically mean that most of the web would disappear. Yeah, that's why I'm of two minds. But I of course don't think hosting is publishing, that'd be weird. but curating, choosing what gets shown to people and what doesn't, picking the nex...

I hear there's a court case in the us that's about whether or not social media websites are liable for what their users post in there... I'm of two minds about the notion: on the one hand, yeah, sure, if I say like something horrible in here like [redacted] or [redacted], or even [redacted] all the ...

I think the most promising system is proxima, simply because a) it has some planets around what we understand to be the habitable zone, though that doesn't make it that special and b) it's really really close.... or, well, relatively less mind-bogglingly far away. we could even image a planet there ...

I think that the notion that statelessness requires a developmental disorder is the most superlative version of new man theory I've heard :lol: Centralized ML states don't necessarily hinder electronics manufacturing. The point is, won't electronics be prohibitively expensive unless mass produced? N...

None of my objections were meant to be unanswerable. As the resident Marxist, ask yourself if all superstructures scale to advanced modes of production. A lot depends on the economic and technological circumstances of the city. that's the thing, they don't, but you evidently *can* have different mo...

Which reminds me: I'm not sure capitalism can work without centralization. You need to maintain inflation at a small positive rate to avoid a depression every 8-10 years. Who mints coins here? wait, inflation is supposed to avoid cyclical depressions? it's not doing a very good job, innit. This is ...

well, yes but conlanging and conworlding objects are... nice! like, i've spent hours reading people's conworlds, or even remembering from my notes conworlds i've myself imagined. dreams are all well and good, but we work to make a thing of aesthetic value, and should those be preserved, it would be ...

man, this makes me think like... would a text-archive service be economically viable? like, pay me 50 bucks and i'll give you, whatever, one gig of text <a gig of text is basically infinite text> that i'll keep alive and hosted in libraryofthe.dead/yourname.html forever. text is also very compressi...