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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Unscientific in a different way, but I think the universe is basically a digestive organ for some impossibly unknowable, incredible higher dimension being.

Like the big bang is when it feeds or otherwise takes in energy, then as trillions of years pass and entropy takes hold that is it effectively digesting that energy.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

The great A'Tuin

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[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 9 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Sad tummy+lemon lime soda = healed

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Apple Juice is the great healer

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The moment you become rich, you will absolutely be contacted by the shadowy ring of other rich people so they can force you in one way or another not to out their pedo ring. Even going as far as assassinating you if blackmail doesn't work.

People using genAI without a care came about as a result of the genAI companies making millions of fake accounts across all of mainstream social media and performing the greatest astroturfing ever, in their favor.

The majority of actual human interaction in the future will be secretly held in spaces run under things like Usenet, I2P, Gopher, etcetera. A way to detect bots/genAI will become a game of whack-a-mole and it'll help keep these treasures safer than 99% of the internet.

Anubis ( or whatever it's called ) becomes a government funded project, with the goal being that government websites are spared from rampant AI bots crashing their sites. The downside is that it would most likely become closed source in order to ensure genAI companies cannot come in and use the source code to break through it.

Wikipedia joins one of the alternate internet things ( maybe I2P ) and poisons its own services, leaving ample notice of what they're gonna do, but not where they're going, to keep safe from the bots. It'll become a race to find where and when Wikipedia becomes available again. This is more of a firm pipedream, but I hope they do it for their own good.

Visiting the clear web essentially becomes a crime amongst all tech savy people and you'll absolutely be casted out of the safe spaces if you venture out of a genAI free Haven.

Or most likely out of everything, in a decade or less, the clock strikes midnight and once the dust settles, everyone left alive will be afraid when the wind blows.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

The “fuzziness” inherent in reality once you get close to the Plank distance is clear evidence that we exist in a virtual universe whose computing power goes only so far. Reality breaks down at the Plank distance because that’s the pre-programmed limit of detail in the simulation.

[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What would you expect to see in a 'real' universe?

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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

I hold a very similar view, I usually express it like so:

If you were to develop a simulation of a universe you would have to make some concession to be able to run such a large simulation:

  • You would have to limit causality, since the communication from one part of the cluster to the next would not be instantaneous you would need to limit the speed at which those communications can happen, that way you guarantee that one part of your cluster can't interfere with another, think of it like a loading screen.
  • Speaking of loading screens, you could make the vast majority of the thing empty, that would limit stuff going over from one part to another.
  • You could gain lots of performance by only simulating the micro stuff when required, so an electron could be a wave of possibilities until they need to be somewhere, think of it in the same manner as current games don't draw what's not on screen.
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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

The reason the Space Force has woodland camouflage is because SG1 is real and every planet looks like British Columbia

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Once your poop and pee hit the inside of my toilet, its legally my property.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

useful for passing drug tests

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I….i would almost want it to be that and not something else.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That death isn’t the end. It might be the end of a physical group of cells but what we experience as our own consciousness lives on. Just not in this same form. And that those who have passed are communicating but we don’t pick up on the same vibrations inside of these bodies.

We’re also not in the same vibration to pick up any of our own memories of before inhabiting our bodies.

A huge amount of people who have NDEs seem to report much of this in common.

That and there is a plethora of dark energy and matter we cannot perceive. Which is scary creepy when I think about it too much. Like if this were a computer program, we’ve only physically taken up an observed 5% of the disk space. Can’t get my mind around that.

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't agree with you, but I think it'd be pretty rad if dark matter was GHOSTS.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

What I’m finding interesting is the more I look into consciousness studies, I believe in ghosts less and less.

Remnants …maybe? I mean the consciousness is here, I just don’t believe they exist as what we call a ghost. that it is a spirit that hasn’t ‘moved on’ to whatever form it takes after which again, is never really explained to what it moves onto. The dark matter? Interesting concept.

we just can’t observe it…yet . So who knows what makes up the dark matter while we exist in this current consciousness. Who knows, maybe it’s our real ‘bodies’ making that up and we just can’t see it. Maybe that big old void is just you or me or anyone. And we just have these little flesh masks on while living in this simulation.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Personally, panpsychism makes sense to me. Our brains are what make us thinking individuals with memories etc, but the whole universe is conscious. So after we die, we return to pure awareness (without thought or memory)

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yes that one is rather interesting concept. That everything is conscious. Or all encompassing.

On that note there’s also the realization that science has not yet detected where the ‘mind’ actually inhibits the body as once believed . As there are many animated creatures with no brain. And there are humans who have lead a very normal life with very little brain matter clung to the skull bone.

the mind possibly doesnt even take space in the body at all. Maybe we’re dipping our toe into this form or whatever.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Colds sometimes turn into coughs for me, so coughing makes my throat infections worse because it irritates the mucosa in the larynx. I have no evidence for this, but I've noticed that when I refuse to cough when I have a cold, I have fewer cough symptoms overall.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

You Do not want to prevent a cough. That is how a minor cold can turn into a chest infection and then pneumonia. that is what expectorants are intended to prevent.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I should specify I'm talking about dry coughs. Not sure if it makes a difference, but thanks for that.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

And drugs to reduce fever are basically immune suppressors. There are good reasons for fever.

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[–] MECHAGIC@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We have higher dimensional organs and we can't see them because, well, they're from a higher dimension. The soul is one of these organs

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

can’t see them

Wouldn't we still be able to see them, though? Even if they're in a higher dimension, they'll still show up in our known dimensions, even if partially. Otherwise, they wouldn't be interacting with our body at all.

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[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aliens have quarantined the solar system to prevent contamination of the universe by humanity. They are waiting for us to incinerate ourselves and keeping the other races safe until we finish the job.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If they had the technology to do that they could just wipe us out

Even dropping a single nuke in the right spot would be enough to blow up everyone (humans initiating nuclear response)

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[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.

NOW THEY AIN'T GON COME BACK.

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