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illiac-iv 18 points ago +20 / -2

Either Lin Wood got a bunch of inside scoops or he has been MK-ULTRAed. I'm sending my energy, but I'm afraid he is insane now. Not that I would mind if he is right, especially with his take on Jeff and Forrest Gump.

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illiac-iv 2 points ago +2 / -0

The observer problem possibly joins cosmosses and consciousness in their corresponding hips. Consciousness is somehow a special phenomenon that is weird even if you are not into esoterics.

As for magic, I am not, but meme magic and the unreasonable effectiveness of occult practices are real, probably for psychological reasons. (The occult practice of maintaining a dream journal vastly improves dream recall after a couple of weeks. Putting exam material under the pillow before going to sleep the night before the exam improves test scores. Spamming Pepes on twitter increases Trump voter turnout. And so on.)

I will report back after checking your submission, but I have to do some mundane chores first. Thanks again.

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illiac-iv 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thanks, fren, also for your attention. I'm always glad to find an audience for shyte like this.

As for incompleteness: I have to pass on that one, because I don't know much about it. However, I believe (more in a religious sense) that new physics will come from that direction, that is, from thinking long and hard about the foundations of mathematics, what can be known and when, and so on. I wish I would know more about it, but progress is slow. My guess is that a cosmos exists when its rules are free from visible contradictions. Perhaps a black hole is a concession to Gödel in our cosmos, for hiding the inevitable contradictions.

I can't rule out anything at this point, because physics gets weirder by the day, apparently, and I don't know enough about it. HOWEVER, I believe that you might be closer to interesting truths with CGL and simulation than many mainstream physicist. Not so mainstream: "It from Bit", manyworlds, simulation, etc. "Simulation" is more like a figure of speech here, no simulators required.

And, btw., related to Gödel's incompleteness is Chaitin's insight that even in mathematics, there are truths that are true for no reason. I did not understand that either, but Chaitin can prove that. Transcript https://www.calculemus.org/Alg/Rob/biblioteka/viennaChait.html There is apparently a limit to what can be known or proven in math, and by extension, about the world.

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illiac-iv 2 points ago +2 / -0

I would not read too much into that. t. early adopter.

1.) Conway's game of life was hot shit in the 20th century, when fascinating applications for computers were rare, especially for computers with very limited memory and processing power. Conway's invention IS fascinating, because you can build oscillators, oscillators that move, oscillators that spit moving oscillators, and so on. That was discovered by MITfags in the early 70s. You can see that state of the art here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyrtJn5eK5U This is about the level of nerdy Atari-kids in the 80s. We all did it, but lost interest quickly. Not everybody in the US did, however, or so it seems.

2.) The fact that "CGL is Turing-complete" was discovered in the early 21st century or so. This means absolutely nothing, because anything with which you can build a logical NAND or NOR is, and that was pretty much the invention that justified it. Fun fact: The game of Minesweeper, too, is Turing-complete. NAND/NORs are explained here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nand-gate+nor-gate I didn't watch that particular video, but it is not rocket science, so any video is probably good if you are interested. (As I'm writing this, I have a view on my own collection of NANDs and NORs made from n-channel and p-channel transistors as well as cheap relays on a corkboard on a wall. That's right, I never had a gf.)

3.) "Turing-complete" essentially means that you can build a computer from it, at least in fantasy. There are children who build computers in Minecraft, and they build them from - you guessed it - NAND and/or NOR-gates. Here is 1 example of thousands or more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO0tqH8f5I

4.) Since there is nothing dedicated spergos will not go overboard with, there are CGL-computers, too, now. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2MH9O4pXY Again, this is not a lone nut, there is a complete underground sperging over that shit. CGL-computers are an important component for building CGL-replicators, i.e. CGL-thingies that can crank out arbitrary patterns, including themselves. Since "Turing-complete" means "computer", it is self-evident that you can simulate anything with it, including minds and quantum phenomena.

5.) 70s popsci authors loved CGL and philosophical implications, and that was great stuff to get boys into computing and shiieet. Speaking for myself, I consider those ideas quaint and a little cheesy today, like Isaac Asimov or bellbottom jeans. I'm an armchair philosopher myself with a focus on mind and cosmos, and CGL played a role in my thinking, but as an example of a cosmos that could not exist on its own, because it is based on arbitrary rules that can't hide their own contradictions. (Ultimate-ensemble-fag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis . I invented that independendly from Max Tegmark for a comic in 1981 and perhaps have priority.)

OP is on to something, and great things started with CGL, so my recommendation is to keep reading and thinking.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

The money-angle was revealed in passing by Seymour Hersh in 2016. Nobody seemed to notice. Seymour Hersh admitted in his short clip to not have looked into the scoop deeply; just some cursory investigation because there was so much hype, perhaps for a rainy afternoon in semi-retirement with nothing else to do. The man did not in any way mention or gave reason to believe that Seth Rich was NOT involved in the leak. As if he were unaware of rowing against the current of the zeitgeist.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

MIT cats: Pretty weird. I'm not saying Virginia Gueffrey was lying in her interrogation, but I have questions about her and Marvin Minsky.

Doorknob: did not know. Until now thought it was a girl thing for attention, because the ones I knew failed and were ladies. Carradine as investigator?

Clayton: disturbing scene... brrr...

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illiac-iv 5 points ago +6 / -1

he scraped a fuckton of papers from jstore. and got sued into oblivion.

fun fact: so did I in the 00s, on behalf of my boss. nobody gave a shit.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

I wouldnt recommend meeting them, they don't care about you.

No surprise there, only pouting.

This place is like a free-range physical experiment for them to keep churning out human hybridized DNA,

Give me space aliens with big booba!

and that yours or anyone elses insights would be of value to them.

Depends on the focus. A neanderthal would be an instant darling for modern anthropologist, for example, despite prospects on the job-market might be rather limited. Sulfur-based micro-organisms from venus, even loser-micro-organisms, would be a sensation for biologists. Alien exo-biologists would be delighted with me, because I got those winning manners.

I have a hard time believing you actually thought about extraterrestrials that would have millions of years of advancement

I did and read a book, and sometimes I think about far-future technology every day. My expectation is that bio is an intermediary step and actually disgusting and primitive. My expectation is that most resources will go into computing in the broadest sense. I also have reason to believe that there is a way to blackmail reality into arbitrary outcomes.

The book is great, but from 1960, so most of the far-out speculation in it is more or less already clearly visible. The topic is independent from space-aliens. If you don't already know it, Isaac Arthur's channel and John Michael Godier are very entertaining, richer and more scientific than most of the stuff I read in the 20th century.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

Aliens have crime? Is there a court?

Biological robots that you can control. Whats best? Biological robots that you can inhabit, go on long missions with, and dispose of.

Bio sounds a bit like a stretch, like calling a microchip "an electrical applicance", but why not?

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sorry for bothering you with this, but someone is fucking with pol in this thread:

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/299162718

"Rittenhouse square" is a gimmick now in some LARP investigation thread, but it is actually a KEK statue, so it's probably an overlooked FUCK YOU or something, as evidenced here:

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/275411867/

Roomey fucked up or IP used to be proxy, I'm banned.

THE LARP IS NASHVILLE-RELATED, so I guess this thread is better than an other for this. Thank you.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's what I thought I was saying in my reply above, but didn't, apparently.

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

I grant you that your concern is legit and my post is a shitstain.

Sorry for the insult, I did not think that through, but although perhaps you did, what about the youtube of the early 2000s? Rampant anti-semitism, 4chan-trolling, religious wars and god knows what else.

Twitter used to be something like the linkedin for the porn industry, with all sorts of really weird shit by people advertising themselves and their wares.

4chan is a more modern example of how to do it right.

Free speech on the internet is currently not a legal issue, because with current legislation, new companies are free to set up sites with libertine policies. The current problem is centralization and lazy consumers. If there is no or only a small market for sites with 2010 mores (TOS), there is not much law-makers can do about it, or should do about it.

Where do we go from here?

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +2 / -1

And warm. T-shirt time as evidenced by coppers' outfit.

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illiac-iv 3 points ago +4 / -1

Interesting, because cops obviously knew about the importance of the building. Is that common knowledge among Nashvillians?

As an aside: cleanest U.S. city I've ever seen, excellent tiling and roads. Looks more like Osaka or Tokyo. Is it always that way?

Cops dodged a lot of shrapnel and are totally chill about it. Reeespect, Sirs and Madams, even stirring...

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illiac-iv 5 points ago +5 / -0

thx. checked and ripped.

https://www.y2mate.com/

400 MB in 6 secs -- this is a fast site

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illiac-iv 1 point ago +1 / -0

Picking my brain is probably not very productive in terms of tangible benefits, but bug scientists don't study ants for improving bug scientists' love life or help them cheat on exams. I hope you are catching my drift.

Do Greys have faster than light travel? Or time travel? Are they or have their precursors been based on DNA?

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