Your body is made of matter, just like everything else. But the atoms you’re built from today won’t be the atoms you’re built from in a year.

My grandfather’s axe is a wonderful axe. It’s been in my family 3 generations now. It’s had the head replaced once and the handle three times, and it’s just as good today as it was in his day. Checkmate, reductionists.

Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.

Appealing to the author’s own lack of imagination is a bold stroke…

The fundamental laws that govern matter and energy cannot predict another fundamental property of life: It is the only system in the universe that uses information for its own purposes. Plants grow toward light, microbes swim toward rich food sources, animals hide from predators, humans send giant metal contraptions into outer space. Although one can, say, program a robot to search for a wall plug when its battery gets low, a living thing (a human programmer, for example) must hard-code that need into the machine. Life, by contrast, is both agential and autonomous. From microbes to crabs to people, all living things have their own itches to scratch.

And since no reductionist description of these things exists yet (that the author knows of), therefore physics must be rewritten.

Very woo.

It’s a bottleneck. If you are calculating faster than you can record the results, you have to wait for the write operation to complete before you can do the next calculation.

After almost 1000 hours and prestiging all achievments on hard twice, it finally lost its shine for me. I know all the events, fights are almost all completely formulaic. Most of the time that I lose, which is maybe 60% of the time on hard, I know I lost the fight before the first shot is fired.

This is a positive review of the game, btw. 1000 hours of enjoyable gameplay before I became tired of it is an astounding value proposition.

Into the breach, by comparison, I became frustrated with it quickly and stopped playing after just 39 hours.

I thought you did it intentionally like the photoshop request meme, it was a bit funny

your name gave me a chuckle

It’s not quite ye-olde-tyme, but Delver is one I’ve put a hundred or so hours in. I played it a bunch because it was one of a handful of games in my library that would run on a chroot on my old second-hand student chromebook back when that was all I had for a year or so. It’s real time and 3d but low-spec pixel with an appreciable art style, and plays as you would expect from a true roguelike. Good sound and music direction. Difficulty is pretty well balanced, in my opinion, erring on the side of a bit too easy especially with as much time in it as I have. Shame the game didn’t get as much attention as the studio was apparently hoping for, as they’ve basically abandoned the property. There’s some small activity on the workshop, but I rarely mess with mods.

until the ai carches on and starts intentionally making mistakes to pass our new turing test better than we can

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Muppets Christmas Carol

I can imagine a lot of other stuff it might be.

Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It’s all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That’s all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.

Don’t tell me how to live my life.

goddamn am i sick and fucking tired of slam journalism. if this clown wasnt set to shame in restraint for three hours at noon for the entire city to jeer and throw muck at i dont want to hear anything about a fucking pillory.

They need the money for all those services they’re providing…

It’s a bold new look.

The Sarco pod (sometimes referred to as a “suicide pod”) is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation.

Loosening*