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Post by solipsism »

science4sail wrote: post #143
pantalaimon wrote: post #110

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> What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how society works.

That does raise the question of where group consciousness ends though: * Is my immune system conscious? * Is my family conscious? * Is my community conscious? * Is my country conscious? * Is the universe conscious?

Humans always looking for bright lines of demarcation.

Consciousness is not a well defined concept. Any line you draw between conscious and non-conscious is arbitrary. So where do you want to draw the line?

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Post by sbierwagen »

HPsquared wrote: post #122
Y_Y wrote: post #100

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The deliberately use simple language, and then go and use "berm" in a way that makes it pretty hard to understand without knowing what a "berm" is. I know a lot of English words, but I'd have to look that one up.

It also optimistically assumes the intended readers, living in the future, will have finally adopted the metric system.

If you're fancy, make the signs exactly 1m by 1m, and say "a meter is the width of this sign". Or make the sign oversized and mark out a meter box within the perimeter, to account for edge damage.

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Post by mr_woozy »

phiiiillll wrote: post #96
outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

This is a good long form SCP read: http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub

thanks for ruining my sleep schedule

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Post by bartvk »

codeulike wrote: post #97
tracedddd wrote: post #91

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Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is a masterpiece, never read anything remotely like it.

Its still available! https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-th... Review from the Lulu page: This book is nothing like anything you've ever read before. The author himself doesn't read at all, so the book basically reinvents the concept of the book, built on a background of video games and a serious obsession with numbers. If you are a very 'literate' reader and unable to read anything without seei…

Very curious. I've ordered it, thanks for the link.

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Post by tekromancr »

outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

Aww, a genuinely heartwarming scp. I love it!

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Post by fragileone »

phiiiillll wrote: post #96
outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

This is a good long form SCP read: http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub

Amazing story.

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Post by snypher »

1_player wrote: post #131
sbierwagen wrote: post #14

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Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...

The Wikipedia page for WIPP still mentions that "[warning information] will be recorded in the six official languages of the United Nations (English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic) as well as the Native American Navajo language native to the region, with additional space for translation into future languages. Pictograms are also being considered, such as stick figure images and the iconic The Scream from…

Thinking of The Scream reminded me of the man from the 'Supa Hot Fire' meme. Very similar expressions with different intentions highlight how difficult this problem is.

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Post by saagarjha »

dragontamer wrote: post #53
geoah wrote: post #52

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One of my favourites: > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led…

And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now".…

I gave it a watch recently and while I certainly can't say how well it must have hit a decade ago, I found the overall experience to be enjoyable.

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Post by pontifier »

dogecoinbase wrote: post #105
4bpp wrote: post #86

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If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus ? Is the determinant whether any sound sequences used for human communication are being encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chi…

This reminds me of an all-time favorite essay: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 "We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation, then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about consciousness? What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? Does it matter if they do it really fast? Or what if we built a gigantic lookup ta…

This table already exists somewhere in Pi. In fact, somewhere in there is an encoding of the entire universe as it exists at the moment you read this. It also contains this moment, and every other moment you ever have or will experience.

If the flow of time was compared to a new deck of playing cards, would it matter if they were shuffled? Given any individual card, the previous and next cards can be determined.

Heck, every event in the universe is there in Pi, in order too.

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