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This. If it was computer worms or viruses coming from their labs, there’d be consensus.

Instead, we’re mesmerized by various versions of screensaver.exe looking so nice and so productive.

How do they determine that Rorschach (or any entity) is _not_ conscious?

> destroys his mitochondria Fine print: only the father’s. Maternal mitochondria from the egg are dormant at first and activated after 10 (?) cell divisions. Those mitochondria are never reset, and return to dormant state as soon as specialization into egg cells allows them, afaik.

Notwithstanding heteroplasmic (paternal) mitochondria making it into the cell in 8% of cases, with unknown effects.

It seems like a simplified prisoners’ dilemma: it’s missing the negative weight if everybody presses red.

“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.”

The Aenid, Virgil, Dryden translation.

I was curious, and you’re right. It would be Cargo Culting then, if we believed the ritual actually had an effect on Pratchett in the afterlife.

Does “saying the name lest he be forgotten” classify as Cargo Cult?

Urbit, is this you?

It’s neat. I wonder if someone attempted detecting a graph coloring problem to replace it with a constant.

Plot twist: this universe (planet) was created in order to reverse engineer what the prompt of the previous one was.

Agree.

> cargo-culting Stack Overflow

What do you mean by this? I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to attract airplanes that never come.