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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2022 21:19:21 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 9, 2022 23:20:38 GMT
Wordle 417 3/6*
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Close!
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 10, 2022 4:52:26 GMT
Somehow I missed that it was National Book Day*1 in A House Divided*2, err, that there 'merica on imgur yesterday. One of the entries was this amazing book shop in Buenos Aires... *1 Although surely National Reading Day would be more useful *2 A brilliant boardgame; I used to take the Union and my right wing friend, the Confederate slave owning scum. A House Divided's concealed unit value and point to point movement systems made for an exciting, fast-moving game which lasted only a couple of hours, unlike, say, Drang Nach Osten which takes at least a couple of days where half the time you're falling asleep through boredom whilst the other guy slowly moved hundreds of pieces... |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 10, 2022 5:40:01 GMT
America seems quite a literate society. Books coming out the collective wazoo. The paper’s thinner too, so you get more pages for your buck. For your buckskin.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 10, 2022 6:11:14 GMT
Morning fellow posthumans.
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 10, 2022 7:00:36 GMT
Wordle 417 5/6
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Daily Quordle 198
7️⃣5️⃣
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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Post by gongfarmer on Aug 10, 2022 7:16:57 GMT
Wordle 417 3/6*
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boom.
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Post by gongfarmer on Aug 10, 2022 7:22:48 GMT
Daily Quordle 198
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
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⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
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17….. ish.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 10, 2022 7:35:35 GMT
A posthuman simulator would have enough computing power to keep track of the detailed belief states in all human brains at all times.
Therefore, when it saw that a human was about to make an observation of the microscopic world, it could fill in sufficient detail in the simulation in the
appropriate domain on an as needed basis.
Should any error occur, the director could easily edit the states of any brains that have become aware of an anomaly before it spoils the simulation. Alternatively, the director could skip back a few seconds and re-run the simulation in a way that avoids the problem.
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Post by lazybones on Aug 10, 2022 7:36:52 GMT
Do muddy funkers know what time it is?
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 10, 2022 7:37:24 GMT
Wordle 417 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 boom. Wordle 417 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pah |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 10, 2022 7:41:18 GMT
Wordle 417 3/6
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 10, 2022 7:52:21 GMT
Simulating the entire universe down to the quantum level is obviously infeasible, unless radically new physics is discovered. But in order to get a realistic simulation of human experience, much less is needed – only whatever is required to ensure that the simulated humans, interacting in normal human ways with their simulated environment, don’t notice any irregularities.
The microscopic structure of the inside of the Earth can be safely omitted. Distant astronomical objects can have highly compressed representations: verisimilitude need extend to the narrow band of properties that we can observe from our planet or solar system spacecraft. On the surface of Earth, macroscopic objects in inhabited areas may need to be continuously simulated, but microscopic phenomena could likely be filled in ad hoc. What you see through an electron microscope needs to look unsuspicious, but you usually have no way of confirming its coherence with unobserved parts of the microscopic world.
Exceptions arise when we deliberately design systems to harness unobserved microscopic phenomena that operate in accordance with known principles to get
results that we are able to independently verify. The paradigmatic case of this is a computer. The simulation may therefore need to include a continuous
representation of computers down to the level of individual logic elements. This presents no problem, since our current computing power is negligible by
posthuman standards.
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Post by Felice Landry on Aug 10, 2022 7:53:21 GMT
Wordle 417 3/6
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boom.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Aug 10, 2022 7:56:55 GMT
I see banyfark has finally gone full Faceless.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 10, 2022 8:00:15 GMT
It thus seems plausible that the main computational cost in creating simulations that are indistinguishable from physical reality for human minds in
the simulation resides in simulating organic brains down to the neuronal or sub‐neuronal level. While it is not possible to get a very exact estimate of the cost of a realistic simulation of human history, we can use ~10^33 ‐ 10^36 operations as a rough estimate.
As we gain more experience with virtual reality, we will get a better grasp of the computational requirements for making such worlds appear realistic to their visitors. But in any case, even if our estimate is off by several orders of magnitude, this does not matter much for our argument. We noted that a rough approximation of the computational power of a planetary‐mass computer is 10^42 operations per second, and that assumes only already known nanotechnological designs, which are probably far from optimal. A single such a computer could simulate the entire mental history of humankind (call this an ancestor simulation) by using less than one millionth of its processing power for one second. A posthuman civilization may eventually build an astronomical number of such computers. We can conclude that the computing power available to a posthuman civilization is sufficient to run a huge number of ancestor‐
simulations even it allocates only a minute fraction of its resources to that purpose. We can draw this conclusion even while leaving a substantial margin of
error in all our estimates.
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 10, 2022 8:00:54 GMT
World Book Day seems to be the celebration event. Where children of the world dress up as their favourite character from a book. Which usually ends up as 75% of them dressing up as a film or TV character.
Hello. Played some Stray last night. Managed to get up the tower and fix the transponder. Pesky Zurks.
TV. The news. Switched it off as it was depressing me. I get all* my important news from here and twitter. I'll be fine.
*Some
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Post by lazybones on Aug 10, 2022 8:07:55 GMT
I don’t know who I’d dress as if I had to come into work as a character from a book.
Maybe Frank Wheeler from ‘Revolutionary Road’?
Or Max Aue from ‘The Kindly Ones’?
I don’t know … these days, if you go into work dressed as an Obersturmbannführer, you get arrested and thrown in jail.
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 10, 2022 8:08:10 GMT
Not printing best before dates on bags of fruit to avoid waste is all very well...
But how do I know which bag of apples was bagged first and therefore should be opened first?
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 10, 2022 8:09:48 GMT
Back in the day on a Sat morning I went in as Raoul Duke a few times. It was never pretty though.
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Post by MrTiddles on Aug 10, 2022 8:22:32 GMT
Wordle 417 4/6
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Splat.
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Post by amipal on Aug 10, 2022 8:22:44 GMT
Morning all. I’ve read the following blog post on the state of the British Army. Makes for sobering reading. thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com/2022/07/is-british-army-really-reference-army.htmlAnyway… Filmblog: went to see Top Gun Maverick last night. A very, very good* film. I may have spoilt it a bit by watching Hot Shots recently. But at least it lent some much needed levity to a few scenes. *if we ignore certain things. Like how any strike force would be supported by Growlers on jamming/Wild Weasel missions. Or how the USAF could have done the mission with a single B2 Spirit strike. And how Tomahawk missile strikes don’t work that way. Or how the RN’s Fleet Air Arm could have done the mission thirty years ago with Buccaneers, and that Super Hornets are the wrong tool for the job. And can directors move away from the stupidly-shallow-DOF shots? They have all that control over the set -over actors, lighting, extras - and then blur the crap out of it. |
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 10, 2022 8:29:12 GMT
The Fark's on fire! Rolling down the road! He's attempting the first online stream of gibbering unconsciousness where his mind has become totally detached from reality. Given the future envisaged by Sunak or Rishi, I might even join him. I have the morphine! But perhaps I had better do some chores first. Just in case. |
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Post by Destry on Aug 10, 2022 8:29:22 GMT
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 10, 2022 8:31:50 GMT
Well yeah I never intended to give the impression that was my work. I actually don't like the majority of the article, but the bits I pasted were interesting. |
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