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Comment · 6 months ago

Why assume there has to be a one-to-one mapping? Why assume one physical process can't correspond to an infinity of different qualia?

We assume an infinity of wave-functions correspond to a single physical process without difficulty.

Comment · 6 months ago

There is an absolutely beautiful rendering of the Mona Lisa encoded at some point in the digits of pi. If you know the position, it's really easy to plot the image.

But first you have to find that position.

Comment · 10 months ago

>What benefit is there to keep this antiquated method around, aside from just as an historical reference?

Analogue clocks are, by design, also visual progress bars. Digital clocks just give you the time. There's a little video talking about this by Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag

Comment · 1 year ago

You're describing ZeroNet.

It has ZeroTalk as a Reddit-like thing, ZeroMe as a social network and ZeroBlog as a Twitter-like thing.

https://zeronet.io

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroTalk

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroMe

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroBlog

Comment · 1 year ago

Hey, let's not forget 1927's Metropolis, where an authoritarian government uses deepfaked bots to manipulate the population.

Comment · 1 year ago

How would this compare to hypothes.is?

Comment · 1 year ago

Would you consider something like the Ikea cafeteria to be someways similar?

Comment · 1 year ago

The trick, Muad'Dib, is not minding that it hurts.

Comment · 1 year ago

My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022