[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Storing a message in a system doesn’t make new microstates. How could it?

Lol I got so tripped up by him later saying "this is no longer clearly 0 or 1 so it doesn't exist" and decreasing N that I missed he does the reverse thing when encoding the message.

This is like the ontological argument. He creates a virtual entity from words alone and then treats it as a physical thing storing energy. And then once it no longer fits the words of the definition, poof, gone it is, oh look, total entropy decreased.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

FAANG came about because of “unexpected growth” in how those could “surprisingly” capture money

I don't know the origin, but I came to know the term itself from my time as a freshman Computer Science student, where "working at FAANG" was to be the highest career thing you could aspire to.

It was always extremely confusing, cause like, Amazon, Apple, Google - I get those, they actually have things they work on, I'm sure working on AWS or like the internals of Google Search has to be interesting for a CS person, but fucking Facebook? The fuck does Facebook do? What unsolved technical challenges lie in a message board? Same goes for Netflix.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

as of all the various media providers like Netflix, netflix is often not considered that highly from what I can tell.

Well, it should not be considered that highly, but for some god damn reason they occupy a letter in FAANG since forever.

Probably only because if you remove the N the acronym stops being that cute.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

oh god, I'm gonna have to make part 2 aren't I

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

cosmic gated community

If I am actually an insufferble rich asshole that willingly put myself into the simulation because I was afraid Those People were coming for my precious bodily fluids then I insist I am let out of this so I can dutifully shoot myself in my stupid real face.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Don't bother me with facts, I'm trying to think!

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

“Step One: We kill God

I'm in for that. He can do with the corpse whatever he wants after, as long as I don't have to see it.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

You also need an extremely well ran, integrated, well-trained, well-supplied army to run modern system warfare. Russia's army is hardly modernised, and I suspect they wouldn't be really willing to run a command model that gives a lot of authority to the lower ranks.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

First they came for the Nazis, and I screamed and screamed because I totes wasn't a Nazi, nu-uh, just a Free Thinker™

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not judging, my SneerClub attendance can be described as "exploring extreme cause I'm bored" but... Feminism is not an extreme viewpoint?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

When men stop seeking non-reproductive sex from human women, it's going to lead to an increase in reproductive sex.

Take me there, dude. How. How the fuck do you imagine this would happen.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

"we should assume are X if we pretend our model is adequate at filtering out interfering factors" is basically the best you can do in science.

The devil lies in the actual adequacy of the filters.

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