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Metal Pink Babble posted:i shall be your slightly temperamental and willful yet faithful minion. may you be blessed in your endeavors. 
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May 24, 2014 05:26
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vOv posted:wait he wrote that story with the baby-eating aliens? i guess that makes sense in retrospect oh yeah thats the one where the author completely misunderstands the point and premise of the prisoner's dilemma like 7 times throughout the story it wasnt terrible i guess
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May 24, 2014 05:44
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Gus Hobbleton posted:oh yeah thats the one where the author completely misunderstands the point and premise of the prisoner's dilemma like 7 times throughout the story how does he misunderstand it? because a while ago i explained it to a literal child, a nine year old, and while it blew his mind he completely grasped the concept and why it is a dilemma. i can't imagine an adult misunderstanding it.
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May 24, 2014 05:54
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Sagebrush posted:how does he misunderstand it? because a while ago i explained it to a literal child, a nine year old, and while it blew his mind he completely grasped the concept and why it is a dilemma. i can't imagine an adult misunderstanding it. this is the whole basis of the new testament. the unbelievable accomplished through faith. computers are light years ahead of man in following the orders of man using pure faith, but i'm sure god must find them to be abominable in that respect.
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May 24, 2014 06:00
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what kind of absolute shithead probates metal pink babble?!
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May 24, 2014 06:41
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vOv posted:the solution i always liked for this is that you do it gradually. start 100% organic, then slowly replace parts of your brain with mechanical parts the problem with this is that eventually you're a boat.
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May 24, 2014 06:46
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never thought I'd be come a boat
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Amethyst posted:what kind of absolute shithead probates metal pink babble?! seven days? zorak and xylo can eat a bag of dicks
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May 24, 2014 07:07
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herp a derp i moderate the animes and games and i find you're psoting disruptive
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duTrieux. posted:the problem with this is that eventually you're a boat. I understood this reference.
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May 24, 2014 07:31
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Gus Hobbleton posted:there, finished the culture books. I'm sure he's started working on his next one.
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May 24, 2014 08:28
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Sham bam bamina! posted:where's ol' qwerty bastard, i thought he'd have shown up by now gently caress dude i work like 12 hours a day now, without access to a computer my days of spergy arguing in the scifi thread are behind me i'm afraid. now i just skim it for good book recommendations (current book status: about halfway through "the dreaming void"; it's still pretty good)
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May 24, 2014 08:38
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vOv posted:I understood this reference. i thought it was just a nonsequitur and still laughed, explain
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May 24, 2014 09:20
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Amethyst posted:what kind of absolute shithead probates metal pink babble?!
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Heresiarch posted:i thought it was just a nonsequitur and still laughed, explain
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Sagebrush posted:how does he misunderstand it? because a while ago i explained it to a literal child, a nine year old, and while it blew his mind he completely grasped the concept and why it is a dilemma. i can't imagine an adult misunderstanding it. basically they meet some aliens who are super low tech compared to the humans. if the aliens get spooked and shoot the humans, they will die because the human technology is so superior. if they dont shoot, they might die anyway, because the humans might shoot them for no reason. the humans dont give a poo poo because they're fine either way. this is described as a text book prisoner's dilemma at least a half dozen times
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Gus Hobbleton posted:basically they meet some aliens who are super low tech compared to the humans. if the aliens get spooked and shoot the humans, they will die because the human technology is so superior. if they dont shoot, they might die anyway, because the humans might shoot them for no reason. the humans dont give a poo poo because they're fine either way. this is described as a text book prisoner's dilemma at least a half dozen times you can't have a prisoner's dilemma with only one prisoner 
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Gus Hobbleton posted:basically they meet some aliens who are super low tech compared to the humans. if the aliens get spooked and shoot the humans, they will die because the human technology is so superior. if they dont shoot, they might die anyway, because the humans might shoot them for no reason. the humans dont give a poo poo because they're fine either way. this is described as a text book prisoner's dilemma at least a half dozen times i don't know why i remember this but it's more of a mutually assured destruction thing: both species are at peace and neither of them really wants to go to war but the baby-eaters literally eat their own babies so some of the humans want to wipe out their species
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May 24, 2014 18:20
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vOv posted:i don't know why i remember this but it's more of a mutually assured destruction thing: both species are at peace and neither of them really wants to go to war but the baby-eaters literally eat their own babies so some of the humans want to wipe out their species presented as a prisoner's dilemma because the author is a moron
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i always thought it was weird how yudkowsky, who is entirely against the whole 'death is a part of life' thing, decided that the ending in which the aliens integrate humanity and effectively get rid of all pain and unhappiness is the bad ending
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May 24, 2014 18:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QJNyzn4jxY
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May 24, 2014 19:00
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lol i had a ship of theseus problem with a dell latitude i used to have
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vOv posted:i don't know why i remember this but it's more of a mutually assured destruction thing: both species are at peace and neither of them really wants to go to war but the baby-eaters literally eat their own babies so some of the humans want to wipe out their species that comes later and is used not terribly as a spring-board for the idea that different cultures may have different concepts of suffering and good and then introduces another alien species that sees us as being as bad as the baby eaters seem to us. there was no mutually assured destruction in the prisoner's dilemma, only the baby eaters were at risk
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May 24, 2014 19:24
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May 24, 2014 19:26
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christ, i was just talking about this with my wife the other day, how did i miss that i am so flowers for algernon recently
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Heresiarch posted:christ, i was just talking about this with my wife the other day, how did i miss that for what it's worth i think it's funnier as a non sequitor
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X Men was ok. Idk where Kitty got that bullshit back in time power from, Ellen Page is corny as gently caress, all the First Class people owned and I wish the whole movie was them. Needed some more fights. Watching Jennifer Lawrence gently caress people up with her legs was mighty fun to watch but it needed more mutant-on-mutant action
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finished cryptonomicon. beginning and end were really good but the middle slogged and i really couldve done without the chapterly Waterhouse Family Boner Status Updates in fact still think you couldve cut all the present day poo poo and had a perfectly good novel about Waterhouse forrest gumping his way through wwII and shaftoe shaftoeing it up read that and snow crash, is there any other good neal stephenson, I heard most of his newer stuff is bad
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Anathem was pretty good, but Reamde was pretty bad. Diamond Age is pretty enjoyable. The Baroque Cycle is pretty massive and features great great grandfathers of Shaftoe and Waterhouse doing whatever it is they're doing. YMMV with enjoyment of these ridiculously huge volumes.
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May 25, 2014 13:51
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cryptonomincon is the last readable thing by stephenson the diamond age is really good imho but i have a thing for books with metanarratives in them so ymmv
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SynthOrange posted:Anathem was pretty good, but Reamde was pretty bad. Diamond Age is pretty enjoyable. The Baroque Cycle is pretty massive and features great great grandfathers of Shaftoe and Waterhouse doing whatever it is they're doing. YMMV with enjoyment of these ridiculously huge volumes. this is a wise post
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i started reading against a dark background because i remember it being suggested earlier in this thread this is a weird loving book
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i would definitely read more stories set in the against a dark background universe
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vOv posted:i would definitely read more stories set in the against a dark background universe hell yes just remembered why you will never be able to and became sad
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if nothing else i'm really curious as to why the hell the solar system is so far away from all the other stars
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May 25, 2014 18:00
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wish people wouldn't post that unspoiled, the passage where you discover that is quite late and one of the high points of the book for me rogue stars are a real thing known to happen, they can be ejected from a galaxy by the right gravity at the right time just like satellites can be ejected from a planet. a rogue star with several habitable planets is unlikely in the extreme but it's a big universe
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haveblue posted:a rogue star with several habitable planets is unlikely in the extreme but it's a big universe is it actually that unlikely? i wouldn't be surprised if the intergalactic gaps were as full of random stars as the interplanetary gaps in our solar system are full of asteroids, for the same reason
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