Okay, I have no idea whatsoever what this is supposed to be saying.
EDIT: Wait, hold on. Is it supposed to not make sense?
MrCheeze
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I had trouble reading it too. If you really don’t want to do it like that, then at least just take out all the quotes except for at the very beginning and end of the speech (no quotes at all between paragraphs).
So… the correct answer is to dissolve the question, yes?
retracted
Well it’s good to see that if you somehow found a way to implement your ideas you would at least do it well.
“Give it to you” is a pretty lame answer but I’m at least able to recognise the fact that I’m not even close to being a good choice for having it.
That’s more or less completely ignoring the question but the only answers I could ever come up with at the moment are what I think you call cached thoughts here.
Maybe in ninety-eight universes out of 100 it does blow up and we just see the one that’s left; and he’s actually giving an accurate number. :P
The thing is, the other world was chosen specifically BECAUSE it had the opposite answer, not randomly like the world you’re in.
Well this explains a lot.
This isn’t quite what your post was about, but one thing I’ve never understood is how anyone could possibly find “the universe is totally random” to be a MORE simple explanation.
It makes me sad because it means smart people aren’t doing things that are actually useful.
Shouldn’t priority be given to improving quality of lives first?
If this ever happens again I’d make one for the long-term evolutionary one that tries to learn strategies U-style, and then remembers what it learned in future rounds. If that’s allowed.
Hmm, didn’t really get anything out of this. Maybe you need to be able to be competent at stuff in the first place to sabotage yourself?
Hm. I’d rather have seen more of the analysis on whether what they do with the money is useful, but this is something.
Yes, but the chance of magic powers from outside the matrix is low enough that what he says has an insignificant difference.
...or is an insignificant difference even possible?
“I think that if you took someone who was immortal, and asked them if they wanted to die for benefit X, they would say no.”
This doesn’t help against arguments that stable immortality is impossible or incredibly unlikely, of course, but I suppose those aren’t the arguments you were countering at the time.
I still stand by my belief that 2 + 3 = 5 does not in fact exist, and yet it is still true that adding two things with three things will always result in five things.
Man, people’s estimations seem REALLY early. The idea of AI in fifty years seems almost absurd to me.
Loved the story and also the first time I took you strong atheism completely seriously, but I think that one bit where they stab those three sleeping guys went a bit too strongly to the “no, this definately isn’t right” side of things. Although I didn’t think about that scene at all when I was trying to figure out which side was the Good side and thought about the death of Alek as my main piece of evidence for the Lord of Dark being Bad possibility so that’s something.