Wasting time before a meeting because the website I was supposed to update apparently doesn't need to be updated because they are hiring someone to directly manage the websites.
Thank god. Or I guess science.
I should stop saying "thank god"
no reason not to
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The issue that troubles us, when you get down to it, is free will. We have a strong feeling that we cannot be predestined to do something we choose not to do. That becomes a difficult feeling to sustain if we have already seen ourselves doing it
I want to travel through time now just to wierd myself out.
Wasting time before a meeting because the website I was supposed to update apparently doesn't need to be updated because they are hiring someone to directly manage the websites.
Thank god. Or I guess science.
I should stop saying "thank god"
no reason not to
Given my stance on a few other words currently in the cultural vernacular, it feels like a hypocritical position to take if I don't also work to excise this phrase from my conversations.
Abdy closed time loops, thus a constant repeating pattern actually ends up being impossible according to current theories. Here, if you like time travel theory, read this article. It is really interesting. Now off to my one day of work a week.
To illustrate this point, imagine that you stumble upon a time machine in the form of a gate. When you pass through it in one direction, it takes you exactly one day into the past; if you pass through in the other direction, it takes you exactly one day into the future. You walk up to the gate, where you see an older version of yourself waiting for you. The two of you exchange pleasantries. Then you leave your other self behind as you walk through the gate into yesterday. But instead of obstinately wandering off, you wait around a day to meet up with the younger version of yourself (you have now aged into the older version you saw the day before) with whom you exchange pleasantries before going on your way. Everyone’s version of every event would be completely consistent.
We can have much more dramatic stories that are nevertheless consistent. Imagine that we have been appointed Guardian of the Gate, and our job is to keep vigilant watch over who passes through. One day, as we are standing off to the side, we see a person walk out of the rear side of the gate, emerging from one day in the future. That’s no surprise; it just means that you will see that person enter the front side of the gate tomorrow. But as you keep watch, you notice that he simply loiters around for one day, and when precisely 24 hours have passed, the traveler walks calmly through the front of the gate. Nobody ever approached from elsewhere. That 24-hour period constitutes the entire life span of this time traveler. He experiences the same thing over and over again, although he doesn’t realize it himself, since he does not accumulate new memories along the way. Every trip through the gate is precisely the same to him. That may strike you as weird or unlikely, but there is nothing paradoxical or logically inconsistent about it.
Dialog-based game. It would be awesome.
This is [strike]exactly[/strike] very close to the concept in the movie Primer.
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Abdy closed time loops, thus a constant repeating pattern actually ends up being impossible according to current theories. Here, if you like time travel theory, read this article. It is really interesting. Now off to my one day of work a week.
To illustrate this point, imagine that you stumble upon a time machine in the form of a gate. When you pass through it in one direction, it takes you exactly one day into the past; if you pass through in the other direction, it takes you exactly one day into the future. You walk up to the gate, where you see an older version of yourself waiting for you. The two of you exchange pleasantries. Then you leave your other self behind as you walk through the gate into yesterday. But instead of obstinately wandering off, you wait around a day to meet up with the younger version of yourself (you have now aged into the older version you saw the day before) with whom you exchange pleasantries before going on your way. Everyone’s version of every event would be completely consistent.
We can have much more dramatic stories that are nevertheless consistent. Imagine that we have been appointed Guardian of the Gate, and our job is to keep vigilant watch over who passes through. One day, as we are standing off to the side, we see a person walk out of the rear side of the gate, emerging from one day in the future. That’s no surprise; it just means that you will see that person enter the front side of the gate tomorrow. But as you keep watch, you notice that he simply loiters around for one day, and when precisely 24 hours have passed, the traveler walks calmly through the front of the gate. Nobody ever approached from elsewhere. That 24-hour period constitutes the entire life span of this time traveler. He experiences the same thing over and over again, although he doesn’t realize it himself, since he does not accumulate new memories along the way. Every trip through the gate is precisely the same to him. That may strike you as weird or unlikely, but there is nothing paradoxical or logically inconsistent about it.
Dialog-based game. It would be awesome.
This is [strike]exactly[/strike] very close to the concept in the movie Primer.
Primer was a pretty great movie once you realized what was going on in all those scenes.
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Like Thank you jesus for letting me get to work this morning safe and sound, and thanks for ignoring some brown people to make sure this happened, Amen.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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This Dell Poweredge 2900 Doorstop (tm) has now been repaired from scratch for the fourth time. If it fails again, I'm thinking of turning it into a mark 1 arc reactor.
The problem is we don't know if it has been violated since paradox and all that. Also there was an awesome article on how certain types of paradox can't happen because it leads to an infinite loop and such.
I read something about how those aren't actually paradoxes - there's no paradox since it leads to a loop which causes itself to start over.
Like the first Terminator movie - Skynet sends Arnie back to kill Sarah Connor, which results in John Connor being born, which causes Skynet to send Arnie back... It's self-contained.
Speaking of Terminator, in T:TSCC they had a great episode where a Terminator got sent back for a mission but something went wrong and he ended up in the 1920s instead of the 1940s, his arrival killing someone, changing the future - and that future may well have lead to Skynet never being created.
So the Terminator assumed that person's identity and did what that person would have accomplished in life, resulting in some famous building being built. And the Terminator's original mission took place in that building.
Really good episode, with a Terminator being an honest worker and politician. :P
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I can't even respond to this e-mail yet as I'll end up being horribly sarcastic, or something.
Jeez.
no reason not to
I want to say yes. Any untrue hypothesis would be already falsified.
edit: Arch is right
Yeah, that was meant to be a humorous throwback to the earlier conversation, but didn't really work.
I want to travel through time now just to wierd myself out.
Given my stance on a few other words currently in the cultural vernacular, it feels like a hypocritical position to take if I don't also work to excise this phrase from my conversations.
This is [strike]exactly[/strike] very close to the concept in the movie Primer.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This is how our existence collapses, people.
I do not hate you
I just sometimes find you annoying
Fartacus, I'd say read the rape thread for context, but I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, even one who doesn't understand human emotion.
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Primer was a pretty great movie once you realized what was going on in all those scenes.
It wasn't quite that simple.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
yeah I had to read some shit online. I was pissed after my first view... why did anyone think this was good?
OOOOOH.
I'm sure lots of people get it in one shot but I didn't.
right?
I know that's also the premise of the movie, but I can't remember if it would be a mild spoiler.
heeheehee dongles
that is so 80s
Me too.
Like Thank you jesus for letting me get to work this morning safe and sound, and thanks for ignoring some brown people to make sure this happened, Amen.
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heehee.
dongles.
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Right. And they were easy to break then.
:winky:
I see what you did there!
Yeah.
I mean, there's a reason we stopped using them a couple decades ago
Every single bit of proprietary software I use, and have used, in the biological sciences has been licensed through dongles
y/n?
How does it feel to work in an industry that is 30 years behind the times in copy protection technology?
Apparently I'm predestined to be okay with that.
okay. It had a wierd structure, I remember. I really like the end though.
I read something about how those aren't actually paradoxes - there's no paradox since it leads to a loop which causes itself to start over.
Like the first Terminator movie - Skynet sends Arnie back to kill Sarah Connor, which results in John Connor being born, which causes Skynet to send Arnie back... It's self-contained.
Speaking of Terminator, in T:TSCC they had a great episode where a Terminator got sent back for a mission but something went wrong and he ended up in the 1920s instead of the 1940s, his arrival killing someone, changing the future - and that future may well have lead to Skynet never being created.
So the Terminator assumed that person's identity and did what that person would have accomplished in life, resulting in some famous building being built. And the Terminator's original mission took place in that building.
Really good episode, with a Terminator being an honest worker and politician. :P
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