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@ gandalf_der_12te @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

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  • Thank you for taking the patience to put this into words so nicely! I really appreciate your perspective. Maybe I was being too rude calling Republicans "dumb", I apologize. I guess I'm just as angry as many other people at seeing the proposed Republican plans (especially "slashing public spending" a.k.a. reducing social welfare) and seeing people actually vote for that.

    Yeah, people in the US want change. I'm not sure what would be a productive and viable proposal that doesn't completely fuck up the country. I'm European and have a non-interference policy for myself when it comes to the internals of the US. In other words, I don't want to meddle too much with what's going on in the US.

  • Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

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  • Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

    I guess we should be, but that's just my personal opinion.

    Realistically, no. The people have clearly expressed how dumb they are and what they desire in the November election. They want dumb Republicans, they get asshole CEOs. I don't see it any other way.

    Honestly, I believe voting is the best way to bring change about a society that wants to change. It's just that I have given up the thought that the US wants to change in the direction that I would go. So no, it's not gonna happen.

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  • In real life I think a similar situation holds. First we have to make a distinction between a system having randomness; a completely unpredictable outcome and being chaotic; where the outcome is theoretically predictable but varies significantly with even tiny changes in input.

    Yes, thank you for putting it so nicely into words. I was already aware of that distinction.

    I'm studying physics right now and trying to organize my thoughts around that. I remember we talked about some mechanical contraption that exhibits non-deterministic (i.e. purely random) behavior due to the equations of motion having non-unique solution. If I remember correctly, it was a kind of "knife standing on its tip right at the edge of a cliff"-edge condition. There's two solutions to that: It stands still or it falls down. There's two distinctly different solutions because the equations of motion are non-continuous, i.e. even for the tiniest change in position, the net force changes from 0 to 1g.

    Apart from that, there's some more "pure random" stuff that I'm investigating into right now, like quantum stuff (as you mentioned). But there's at least one more example that I'd like to think about:

    A human/robot cannot fully predict their own future. That is because if they could, they could become aware of it and decidedly act against it. For example, if I predict that I will eat an avocado tomorrow, I might stop myself from doing that. So the prediction becomes wrong. In a certain sense, therefore one cannot predict their own actions. This isn't due to a lack in accuracy, but it's fundamentally impossible. I guess. Let me hear your thoughts! Your words are calm and collected; you seem to know stuff.

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  • Btw, off topic; do you believe in true randomness? In other words, do you think that certain physics processes simply have an unpredictable outcome? (I'm asking because your response implies "No", but I believe it is "yes".)

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  • I'm not sure whether having deterministic behavior is a core characteristic of robots, but if so, I highly doubt that it makes a lot of sense to see me as a robot, because my behavior sure is random!

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  • How many years before robots will take over the economy and rule the world?

  • closeted programmer rule

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  • computer people don't do sports --> muscle atrophy --> slim --> already looks more like a girl --> easy to transition

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  • Rainbow Rule

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  • but yes, it is also correct :D

  • Why IS dating rule for guys

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  • So I guess you all have girlfriends, then?

  • States of gender rule

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  • wormule

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  • this is a dildo😳

  • Me talking to my rodents.

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  • I think they were held in earlier times as a deliverer of meat, for people who lived in cities and didn't have the space to hold pig. I guess? It would make sense.

  • ADHD rule

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  • You're a plant, and capitalism is a great fire. By pulling yourself up by the roots, you're exposing yourself to the great fire, instead of hiding in the dark underground.

  • role-playing rule

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  • Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?

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  • I imagine the reason why comments here are more constructive is because Lemmy is perceived to have a high technicality-threshhold (you have to be somewhat familiar with technology to make an account here - even though that's not true). That leads to only people with a high enough motivation to sign up here.

    I think it's important that we grow and find new users, not because I seek growth, but because I seek diversity. We need more people, more opinions, and more different perspectives.

  • Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?

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  • Yeah the politics is annoying at this point, it feels like 60% on the front page is politics. I'm glad when the US votes are finally over.

  • Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?

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  • Yeah, I have made the experience that most communities on the german-speaking feddit.de were great, but after that had technical issues and went down for 4 months (!), the content isn't as good anymore and the users are more frustrating.

  • What's your worst "I sent a text to the wrong person" moment?

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  • on mobile? do you really wanna know?

  • What's a trend people outside of your field / hobby are probably unaware of?

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  • we live in very special times. take a step back and appreciate how transformative the recent years are.

    for a billion years, life existed on earth. in the last 200 years, we invented electricity, electric cars and transistors.