i’m just kinda skeptical of suggesting we live in a computer simulation

tens of thousands of years ago, people looked up into the night sky or a raging tempest and projected human-like traits onto it.

Now instead of seeing an angry father figure in the stars, we’re surrounded by computers so we look up (or down, in quantum cases), and see a desktop environment. It’s… awful convenient.

sure, if you say so

experienced wizards can get a lot out of arcaneGPT, but its leading apprenticed mages to make mistakes that would have been unthinkable to sorcerer and conjurors just a few centuries ago.

Demons are now altering the pronunciation of their unknowable true names to match some of the most frequent nonsense runes that have been generated by arcane statistical models.

there’s lots of physics that cannot be described in algorithmic terms, and (as best I misunderstand it) quantum is the most that

Kurzgesagt when its summarizing research papers is alright, but as soon as anything touches on a social or political issue it’s all “vote with your wallet 🙂”

throw in a smattering of aristocratic titles, and yeah that describes UK politics.

should interstellar contact ever actually happen, maths would be the first (and for a long while, probably the only) thing we’d actually be able to communicate in.

i wish Libre’s spreadsheets weren’t such ass compared to excel…

Friendly reminder: if you need to print something, your local Library more than likely offers a printing service! Fees are usually measured in single-digit cents per page, if there’s any to begin with.

me against my wife

me and my wife against her boyfriend

me, my wife, and my wife’s boyfriend against the stranger who just butted in with “Actually…”