Zompist Bboard Again

ah, good. i have that turned off since 2021. I recommend it, I mean, it's a scam but also, it doesn't work as well, at least for me.

are they that bad?

Travis is right. modern concrete is pretty much shit, but it *could* be made to last forever: as I understand it, it's just a matter of it not being that profitable to do so. This is not necessarily an irrationality of capitalism, I'm also pretty chill with it lasting the a couple of lifetimes... le...

three quarters of an army being casualties basically means that the army doesn't exist. my immediate intuition was to read it as three tenths of the army. armies going in tenths goes back to rome, but I mean, it could just be something else. there is evidence in the text that at least some middle-ea...

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:58 am i'm equally opposed to FGM and MGM;

FGM is worse; it doesn't have any movies that are even close in quality to Casablanca or Rocky I.

can't speak for you, but the way I know you have feelings is cause i'm very similar to you (made out of meat, same amount of appendages plus minus one or two, same organs, etcetera) and since I know I have emotions that affect mybehavior in this and that way, I guess that you do too. I don't know th...

Multiple pages into to omnidirectional epistemological slap fight, and my original conclusion remains undisloged: If you think the logical functions performed by a computer cannot be a form of consciousness, you do not know what consciousness is made out of. but that's the point, we indeed *don't* ...

a list 1 yes, it is much harder and 2 yes, we don't know how to do it, but the analogy still stands: it seems very likely that instead of modeling every axon of every neuron, you instead abstract the system into, I don't know, parts, and model what those do: the emulator has like, I dunno, a regist...

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 ...