Pretty wild how they can literally gatekeep a digital entity.

Maybe they’ll demonetize Amazon next…

White hat social hacking. What a time to be alive.

I thought Kessler-syndrome was the real kicker, not greenhouse gasses.

Everything can be rationalized away, but if you can answer hate and fear with love and understanding, nothing in the 'Verse can stop us.

I can rationalize the top monsters behaviour back to childhood trauma, and I can see how even the last factory worker can be the same level of responsible as the president of the United States.

The key for me is finding personal responsibility for myself. I was never taught how to take proper care of myself (emotionally mainly), and I think this might be endemic to society. I might be projecting.

I’m kinda stoked by the tech as well and kinda understand how multiple LLMs can produce pretty novel ideas. I think it was in protein-mapping where I first heard of some breakthroughs.

While I’m happy to hear your experience shows you otherwise, it feels like your advocating for the devil. We don’t want to get lost in an angsty anti-capitalist echochamber, but surely you can see how the comic is poking fun at our tendencies to very cleverly cause everything to turn to shit.

I guess woosh means missing the point? You are right on an individual basis, but if you look at it in tendencies, you might see why your swings didn’t connect.

You either deliberately or accidentally misinterpreted the joke. I kinda connect the “woosh” to the adult animation show Archer, but I might be conflating it due them emerging around the same time.

I mean most others will skip out on the toothpaste variant, but yeah, it’s out there like that kraftwerk song.

Well, teleporting is more like the move function where you delete the original copy.

I had a similar argument with a friend, and I think he won that time. It came out of left field and rephrases the whole thought experiment.

Instead of me defending the argument, how would you interpret a clone incident? Would you get ‘the other feed’ as well? We have the sleep cycle where we don’t actively get input (even though our conciousness is present during dreams to a certain extent). So if a transporter clone incident rebuilds the person on the other side, but an original instant could go on experiencing a life that wouldn’t be if the transporter functioned correctly.

Hopefully that took the soul out of your argument!

Jeepers!

Golly! Gosh!

Yeah, I can say all manner of things like bork and twiddledee, but I don’t think I can get marblegargler to stick.

Unless a meme picks it up or is in at least the urban dictionary, it doesn’t count.

Yeah, there definitely are some waved away elements that are basically magic. I’m just binging TNG now, but I saw the Lower Decks tribute to many-a transporter incidents.

I mean if you can transport and not at the same time (the copy version), it is not hard to think that once that buffer is cleared on the one side, it’s game over man.

The peas are ready to roll in.

It’s so neat how different cultures adapted to numbers. Like French have something like 4 times 20 (and?) 2 to mean 82. In Hungarian if you say billió, that is one trillion rather one billion. We riff on the ending of million to express billion: milliárd.

And some even got the cyberpunkiness almost right (Johnny Nmemonic swung so hard!). I think for every visionary piece, we have 100 lost contemporary ‘trash’ (not trash, more like a picture of the spirit of the time) that has already been lost.

I mean Star Trek was pretty wickedly ahead of it’s time for all of the creator’s shortcomings. Still can’t believe that teleporting doesn’t kill you every time.

I don’t consider anything true aviation before the squirrel suit.

You are right, I am projecting my 20th century values.

The Shrike is a force of nature that makes me pee myself just the teensiest bit.

Is this a troll site? Or just lawyers?