 Multiverse ideas are common but often ill-formed since they rarely seriously interrogate the question of "which universes exist?" / Max Tegmark formalized a simple idea that any universe is "real" if it has a complete mathematical description / a consequence of this idea is every computer program is a universe / in other words humans create tiny self-contained universes that we can insert avatars into and move around in, extract sounds and sights from / and we treat this as utterly mundane Staring at Android logcat and a thing that is always interesting to me is when we have managed to recreate human anxiety conditions in a computer @mcc Is this pressure referring to physical pressure? Like is this about supercritical fluids?   So I think sometimes about why it is I don't post much on Mastodon, or what I'd need to post here more frequently. Right now I pretty much only post here when I've got something to *share*-- new art or something. Which isn't that often. Meanwhile I go on Twitter just all the time to post irrelevancies-- little jokes, stray thoughts about lunch. A vicious cycle results. I post on Twitter because I post on Twitter. I don't post on Mastodon because I don't post on Mastodon. But there's something awkwarder: *Because* I don't post on Mastodon often, my Mastodon feed is real nice and clean. And that actually makes it hard to post trivial stuff here. If I posted here about my Saturday Twitch streams (https://twitch.tv/mcc111 , every Saturday about 2 PM EST, this Saturday I introduce myself to Touhou) it would flood out all my other posts. I feel a self-imposed pressure to maintain this pristine low-frequency-high-Signal-to-Noise streak. So my game company finally announced the game what we've been working on for the last three years! Trailer here, game to be released… hopefully soon (I actually have a pretty clear idea of a release date but it seems foolish to attempt to announce a specific ship date in the current Circumstances) https://mastodon.social/@mermaidindustries/106217847393660879 Anyway if you're wondering what you've been missing on Twitter, today Twitter started instantly autobanning anyone who said the word "Memphis" and did not figure out what had happened and fix it for like six hours The entire time people were experimentally tweeting "Wait, do you really get banned if you say 'Memphis'?" and getting banned |
Gregory's Server
Science is inherently incapable of answering the question of first origins / science is an infinite descent of "but why?", a five year old responding to each answer with the same question / if we say the big bang created the universe we are scientifically obligated to ask what caused the big bang / religion solves this problem by simply defining a primal mover and naming it "God" / but really all this means is religion allows itself to respond to "but who created God?" with "shut up"