Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know, but we have calculated a lot of “supernatural” phenomenon like gravity, physics, and light, to be computable mathematical formulae. Is it unthinkable to believe that everything can be computation then, if we were aware of every variable involved?

There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.

I didnt read the article because i’m familiar with the theory already. I believe the universe is determinate, so every choice is predetermined. Therefore, the “predictor” can calculate your exact choice if it knows all variables of the universe. If it doesnt, it can calculate a likelihood between 99.9 repeating and 50.0 repeating, based on all the variables it does know.

Because the universe can be measured by this entity, it can also know exactly how the coin will land, or in your example, exactly what read the Geiger counter will have.

The result of the coinflip is measurable, though. It could be done by a hyperintelligent being.

If the being has the ability to observe the entire universe (and thus, knows every experience you’ve had) then the result of a coinflip is also calculatable, so a determinist would say the being can calculate your next choice rather than predict.

Idk, Mexican? (/j)

I expect A if “b” is a clone, or E if it’s a reference. But I also wouldnt combine array operations like this.

The answer being C feels like a bug.

What’d you call me?

Possible, but not practical

Imagine a shitty robot was just made available for free.

The shitty robot replaces you at work. It performs way faster with worse results, but the company hires a robot “expert” that fixes the results just enough that the product appears to be working. (Its not). You are now starving.

The shitty robot tells your kids that porn is a viable career path. And that they should kill themselves.

The shitty robot starts showing up everywhere, in advertising, TV shows, customer support lines, schools.

The shitty robot makes shitty art really fast, which people can sell or use how they want. Artists are now starving.

Imagine the shitty robot is now interviewing you for your next job.

Buy Nothing Project

Their app kinda sucks since the recent update (probably vibe coded) but its exactly this. You can give things away for free, or ask things for free. Its humble.

“How do we pay artists”

What if we didn’t pay anyone? What if farmers gave crops to cooks, who cooked for the people, some of those people are artists or authors, who create art for the people. Some of the people are musicians or singers or performers who entertain the people. Some of the people are builders and lumberjacks who build shelters for the people.

I think this could scale. A government could oversee production and create jobs where needed, such as being able to have factories that produce phones that only come with what you want or need, none of the bloat or adware we get now. No new version every year, or if they do, they can pass down older versions to next generations, and recycle the oldest or broken phones.

What if everyone had a laptop to network and be digitally productive, with a reliable connection to the internet. We would be right where we are now, except everyone is thriving. They dont get to be picky, but their needs can be met.

The dangers of that statement allow a person to take as much as they want and claim nobody owns it.

I see what you’re saying. I think a better way to express it is saying that the person who created it is acknowledged as the creator, and derivative works should be a certain amount of “different”, otherwise they are reproductions rather than original.

I disagree with that logic, but using things for non-commercial use is fine. It’s not yours, you dont own the rights to it, but you are free to borrow it for personal purposes, artistic sampling, or similar.

Nothing is owned, everything is borrowed, hoarding is immoral. Give back to your community.

She* or They

Softly Don’t.

No, most US jobs dont.

My workplace would allow me the time off if I put the request in ahead of time, but i would take a financial hit for taking days off. Im not as free as I want to be.

In my sleepy state, I saw it, and was pretty sure it was a different community

Practice.

Surround yourself with people, when one of them clicks more, let then in your inner circle little by little.