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  • I got really lucky. The first adult song that ever grabbed to me was Kansas's Carry On My wayward son.

    I had never heard it before and on a family road trip to Florida I got to buy a cassette and I saw the art and I thought it looked good so I bought it and popped it into my little cassette player and I'm just writing down the road bored as hell my brother and sister picking on me.

    All of a sudden "Carry on my wayward son" came on and my little preteen mind was completely blown.

  • I always preferred the Mississippi squirrel revival.

    That's such a good song for anyone that grew up in the south in the church traditions.

  • My favorite key is C natural minor, even with even tempered ~tubing,~ tuning songs in this key sound like they are revealing mysteries and I love it.

    Mmm mmm mmm mmm is in this key. It's great.

  • La bamba, I had no idea what he was saying but it sounded good.

    My current favorite is Naeveran by Marius Ziska and I have no idea what he is saying but it sounds good.

  • Not even that. Omnipotence means that you can both make something impossible for yourself and still be able to do it. Paradoxes have nothing on omnipotence.

  • Jokes aside, I have baked my bacon and it works really well for preparing an awful lot of bacon very quickly.

    Once you do that, you have bacon that you can quickly microwave and slap on a sandwich, plus you can easily collect all of the grease for making gravies or general cooking purposes if you so desire.

  • Then AI already exists and you have no memory or recollection of either helping to create it or accidentally contributing to its non-creation and therefore you being tormented by the AI would serve no moral purpose.

    Any torture you would be experiencing in that simulation would simply be that the AI desires to torture, and you happen to be one of its victims.

    Roko's basilisk would still not be in play

  • I think you're missing the point. The question is about a tolerant society.

    Regardless of if the society itself is stable, for the society to be tolerant it must be intolerant of the intolerant, and therefore a tolerant society must be intolerant.

  • I don't think that "nuh-uh! Uh-huh!" Rises to the level of a paradox.

    The phrases can be contradictory without being paradoxical. It's only a paradox if both of the phrases are true at the same time.

  • All of the "is infinite power so powerful that it could overpower its own power" type questions just annoy me.

    Is infinite power so powerful it can do something that it can't do?

    Yes it can. And then it can do that anyway. Otherwise it wouldn't be infinite.

  • Roku's basilisk just doesn't make sense to me because any semi-competent AI would be able to tell that it is not punishing the people that failed to help create it it's just wasting energy punishing a simulacrum.

    We are not going to suddenly be teleported into a future of torment. If the AI had the ability to pluck people out of the past it should have no reason to waste it on torture porn.

  • The problem with that particular paradox is that it's not possible. Therefore one of the statements has to be wrong.

  • The phrase, "You have to be intolerant to be tolerant" doesn't sound like a contradiction to you?

  • I would be telling everybody about it unless Bigfoot asked me to keep mum.

    There are some promises you don't break

  • Yeah that's literally getting to leave with a parade and arriving to being an instant celebrity.

    This human being was around 3,000 years ago! They've traveled deep space through hypersleep! What mysteries do they have of the long forgotten and ancient past to reveal to us?

    Also, here's all of your space credits from the $1.67 you left in your savings account. You're now a multi-trillionaire.

  • Tesofensine is an antidepressant with weight loss effects that can be purchased online without a prescription for research purposes.

    It's fairly expensive, usually running about $250 for a one month supply, but if you need a temporary break from your depression then it might work for you.

    However, because it is a research chemical, all of the side effects of the chemical are not known and you would be taking a risk in using it even for a short period of time.

    Chances are it is likely safe but there is still a risk and you have to weigh that against your mental health and your finances and the costs and difficulty associated with getting put on a traditional antidepressant prescribed to you by a competent doctor.

  • I used to use VLC. I still do, but I used to, too.

  • Because solar would be less resource intensive than fusion, at least for the first long while.

    Even if we get fusion to work it's going to be quite a while to go from working fusion to working fusion in your neighborhood.

  • I would say it's optimism.

  • I'm in a similar boat, maybe a few steps further down the line than you but not that far.

    Something that is really fun is getting a dynamic DNS set up with duckdns, and then put a certificate on it from certbot and then give all of your containers and self-hosted servers am SSL certificate and name using nginx reverse proxy.

    If you do that and your Wi-Fi router has a VPN option then you can easily get rid of all of the certificate errors on your locally hosted stuff and navigate directly to them with a name rather than typing in IP addresses.

    For me this was daunting but once I actually got it up and running it all made sense.