theilleists

joined 10 months ago
[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In Aristotelian geography, the coastline is infinitely divisible.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was a separate experiment.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When he gets pulled out, he'll be fisherman's Worf.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Acknowledged. Launching Starfleet standard hat distribution holoprogram.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

You arrive without traveling, see all without looking, and do all without doing. You get a nifty flute souvenir. The ship explodes. Score: 0/100. Thank you for participating in the Kobay-ouchie Maru.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It speaks only in disposable cup idioms. It says: "Red Solo, when the beer fell." Now what do you do?

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The alien blood corrodes away the bottom of your cup. Now what do you do?

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

So now JPEGs can construct Rule 110 in addition to Rule 34. Neat!

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (11 children)

The Kobay-ouchie Maru.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

They wrote that whole ass article and never stopped to consider that time may be both an illusion (in the sense that it is an emergent rather than a fundamental property of existence) AND necessary for the evolution of life (in the sense that other hypothetical configurations of physical laws which do not feature an emergent arrow of time may not produce life).

In regions of the set of all possible universes where the physical prerequisites of evolution were not present, nobody would be there wondering about why that is. In this region, conditions are right for life to evolve, so somebody is here to ask the question. It's just the anthropic principle.

view more: next ›