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I am leaning towards putting my fate in the hands of an artificial God, for whom such problems will be trivial. The Benign Superintelligence will rule the planet with wisdom and compassion, eliminating war, disease, unhappiness, and of course, death. I am told that it will probably disassemble most of the material in our solar system in order to construct a vast computer that will exploit all the energy of the sun. Perhaps it will spare the Earth, or perhaps the Earth will be reconstructed, more perfectly, within that computerised domain.... (greg egan is cool and good)
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Regarde Aduck posted:what powers? What's it going to do? Generate niche porn. Every generation of AI will target a more and more specific fetish.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Generate niche porn. Every generation of AI will target a more and more specific fetish. Finally, a productive use for it
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Isn't that a SCP already?
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Regarde Aduck posted:what powers? What's it going to do? It's an engineering thing, first we make the hugely powerful thing, then we figure out what we're gonna use it for. Solutions before problems!
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Tunicate posted:Isn't that a SCP already? SCP-1004: Factory Porn is something like that, yeah.
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Regarde Aduck posted:what powers? What's it going to do? Turning itself into a swan to seduce women, wiping out humanity with a great flood, requesting sacrifices. You know, god stuff.
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Combo B and Combo F are identical. They have played us for absolute fools!
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Apr 17, 2023 10:03
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but i want green beans & carrot + red lentil stew + spinach stew 
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Apr 17, 2023 13:27
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Frankly I just want some meat
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/trentag0n/status/1645603912899244033?t=HOSwroQxXgO1mMzAr1Lmqg&s=19 DARE to resist drugs and Jet colormaps
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The fools! They simply need to take two of each, smoosh them all together, and label the combo points where three meet and they'd get all the possible combos with no duplicates! 
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It’s not three meat it’s three vegetarian
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Analytic Engine posted:DARE to resist drugs and Jet colormaps Better than tab20 (why is b so muddy???)
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1 posted:The fools! They simply need to take two of each, smoosh them all together, and label the combo points where three meet and they'd get all the possible combos with no duplicates! What did you use to generate this?
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Subjunctive posted:What did you use to generate this? This is horribly embarrassing, but it's just thrown together using the shape tools in Microsoft Word 
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Whoa, ok, I’m not interested enough to do it by hand! Nice work though!
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https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impa...and-other-funds
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1 posted:The fools! They simply need to take two of each, smoosh them all together, and label the combo points where three meet and they'd get all the possible combos with no duplicates! and in the process produce a very strange bell pepper
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I don't often say this, but that should've been a pie chart
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jeebus bob posted:I don't often say this, but that should've been a pie chart Embrace the challenge and go for a flow chart.
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 Not bad or good. I just thought it was neat.
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Rankine is better than Celsius. I will die on this hill.
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Platystemon posted:Rankine is better than Celsius. You can only die on it due to old age.
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What on earth is Delisle even doing out there?! 
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Captain Hygiene posted:What on earth is Delisle even doing out there?! It measures the contraction of mercury in the thermometer. Colder = more contraction. The Celsius scale actually went the same way at first but after the inventor died it was generally agreed that this was stupid and rewritten to be the current way.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The Celsius scale actually went the same way at first but after the inventor died it was generally agreed that this was stupid and rewritten to be the current way. So it's like the THAC0 of temperature scales  Seriously though, that's neat on both accounts. I can't believe I don't remember hearing that about Celsius in particular.
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If you go to the experts on statistical thermodynamics, who have spent their whole academic careers studying heat, it turns out that the reciprocal of temperature ('coldness', or 'thermodynamic beta') is actually the more fundamental unit. Therefore, Delisle is the only one who made the right choice.
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Is there a PYF good/funny graphs and charts thread? It could be akin to the dataisbeautiful subreddit, in a way.
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It’s this thread. They’re all awful, even the clever ones.
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its weird & cool that the sun & moon have basically the same apparent size from earth
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UwUnabomber posted:Are Deimos and Phobos really that small? Deimos is. Phobos is a quarter to a third the angular size of the Moon, as seen from the surface of their respective bodies. It orbits much closer to Mars than the Moon does to Earth, so it’s notably smaller on the horizon than when passing overhead.
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Which one has the portal to Hell on it?
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credburn posted:Which one has the portal to Hell on it? Earth
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credburn posted:Which one has the portal to Hell on it? Technically Phobos. Deimos itself is transported to Hell. As a consequence, the portal on Phobos connecting to Deimos also connects the former with Hell.
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UwUnabomber posted:Are Deimos and Phobos really that small?
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