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the great filter is a projection of modern man's insecurities onto the wider universe
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Jun 30, 2023 16:27
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kinda makes sense. if life happens, it tends to want to expand instead of finding a forever-sustainable niche. in closed systems like a planet that's a difficult problem to solve evolutionarily
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Jun 30, 2023 16:29
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The Chad Jihad posted:Instead of saying "Yay Liam!" we should be saying, "Nay, Liam." I would rather not discuss Liam at all.
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Jun 30, 2023 16:33
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Gripweed posted:I would rather not discuss Liam at all. Bring back Franklin for Skylines 2
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Jun 30, 2023 16:36
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Hooplah posted:the great filter is a projection of modern man's insecurities onto the wider universe please pre-order my new book Civilizing Alone
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Jun 30, 2023 17:05
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The Great Filter (theres a book about modern american "political segregation" called The Great Sort, so the joke is that aliens are avoiding us for being bigoted against them)
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Jun 30, 2023 17:07
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Hooplah posted:the great filter is a projection of modern man's insecurities onto the wider universe “if there was intelligent life we’d 100% know about it” you know, because we’re so loving smart about everything else
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Jun 30, 2023 17:08
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me, 2019: yeah any alien entity advanced enough to develop artificial intelligence that can create wes anderson trailers for any movie is so far beyond our capability and understanding that we'd be like amoeba to them
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Jun 30, 2023 17:12
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i think whats plausible is sorta like what you see in Blindsight, by Peter Watts, which is very good. what i describe isnt exactly the book but its sort of how i got here basically your constantly expanding interstellar shell of a species is going to be at a fixed tech level more or less, because theres very little conflict on the periphery. you just keep expanding outwards in your colony-ships-that-can-make-colony-ships-that-can-make-colony-ships eating the world. close to where you started youd expect more conflict and tech development but its distribution is limited by c. so all your descendants that are at the leading edge of your empire are the least technologically advanced, and you can never really help them out. so if they come into contact with another race thats also a constantly expanding shell of a species, you imagine basically eternal war across millions of star systems so dont let that happen send out autonomous probes that are way faster and without having to deal with life support or your frail bodies and glass every planet that looks like it has meat growing on it. if your merciful you could just kettle them instead but the merciful will be replaced by the paranoid. killing billions of sentient beings is a much better bet than allowing a multi-system war to break out, and theyre not your kin anyway also god forbid they end up being more clever than you and find a way to break the speed limit then youre really screwed basically, our first contact with an alien intelligence will be an asteroid the size of manhattan traveling at 0.1c clipping through the earth
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Jun 30, 2023 17:59
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lobster shirt posted:my behind on radio war nerd report: ben aris has a very pleasant voice to listen to, he should be third mic no british person should ever be allowed to have a podcast
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Jun 30, 2023 18:06
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Frosted Flake posted:"Russia blew up their own dam to prove they could blow up other dams" - Liam they did it to flood all the fascists, the "wrong ones and the right ones" like they described them on the episode lol that part was bad Honest Thief has issued a correction as of 18:17 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 18:14
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celadon posted:i think whats plausible is sorta like what you see in Blindsight, by Peter Watts, which is very good. what i describe isnt exactly the book but its sort of how i got here Lmao, that's not at all what's happening in Blindsight though?
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Jun 30, 2023 18:14
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i mean its an entity showing up from outer space, taking a picture of us and then preparing to do something in response. i said it wasnt how the book is its just how i thought of this. sorry i also didnt want to spoil anything so i was overly vague.
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Jun 30, 2023 18:30
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Gripweed posted:I would rather not discuss Liam at all. Me, to this "Liam" fellow : I don't even know who you are.
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Jun 30, 2023 18:30
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Ytlaya posted:Me, to this "Liam" fellow : I don't even know who you are. louder, more slovenly, more bad takes, Matt Christman
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Jun 30, 2023 18:37
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Doc Fission posted:Is something up with the TF pirating feed? The past few episodes haven't been downloading right on my app, Podcast Addict. Trying to pin down what it could be. Ironically, only the most recent free episode failed to load for me. No clue why.
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Jun 30, 2023 18:43
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blindsight is a wild ride, especially the way you get to have scifi vampires
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Jun 30, 2023 18:48
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Frosted Flake posted:louder, more slovenly, more bad takes, Matt Christman impossible
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Jun 30, 2023 19:00
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he's "what if matt and alice had a baby that got dropped on it's head repeatedly" and i miss the first episode without him in it when the vibe was way better
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Jun 30, 2023 19:18
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i say swears online posted:impossible  Is downright sweet and charming by comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Qv7-DxA6c
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Jun 30, 2023 19:31
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I don't enjoy knowing what podcasters look like. There are podcasts that I've listened to for a long time where I got no idea what anyone looks like and I like keeping it that way. Anyways I clicked on that wtyp video and now I can't unclick it. Unfortunate.
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Jun 30, 2023 19:39
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celadon posted:i mean its an entity showing up from outer space, taking a picture of us and then preparing to do something in response. i said it wasnt how the book is its just how i thought of this. sorry i also didnt want to spoil anything so i was overly vague. Ah, yeah makes sense. Blindsight was aliens taking pictures and then taking extreme measures so people finally stop the post Dreylad posted:blindsight is a wild ride, especially the way you get to have scifi vampires It is. Also someone should replace the bouncing ball in your av with a mod star
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Jun 30, 2023 20:11
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A Bag of Milk posted:I don't enjoy knowing what podcasters look like. Yeah, sorry. Justin can be charming though https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lskXJ3_Jybo
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Jun 30, 2023 21:01
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How are these people so stupid https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1674525429305311232?s=46&t=K6CRMiA33aFQep_ZPx64DQ
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Jun 30, 2023 22:44
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cool chunk they'll get right on it
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Jun 30, 2023 22:46
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Gripweed posted:How are these people so stupid the retard of the left
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Jun 30, 2023 22:50
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Honest Thief posted:they did it to flood all the fascists, the "wrong ones and the right ones" like they described them on the episode lol that part was bad He's pro-Azov too?
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Jul 1, 2023 00:37
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those five four fuckers can't start a stream on time!
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Jul 1, 2023 01:15
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V. Illych L. posted:believing that aliens have visited earth means, effectively, that we have fundamentally missed something about the fundamental nature of reality. my impression is that franczak is perfectly happy to accept that as a possibility on basically ideological grounds This is a good way of putting it. People who "support" the idea of aliens having visited Earth almost always try to explain it scientifically (usually in a way that is pretty dumb*), but I'd have more respect for that perspective if they just said "who can really know anything, maybe the universe is actually really small and our fundamental understanding of math is wrong." * At least like 80% of the time, the reasoning is basically just "searching for anecdotes we can't explain yet and insinuating that it's aliens"
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Jul 1, 2023 01:24
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Ytlaya posted:This is a good way of putting it. People who "support" the idea of aliens having visited Earth almost always try to explain it scientifically (usually in a way that is pretty dumb*), but I'd have more respect for that perspective if they just said "who can really know anything, maybe the universe is actually really small and our fundamental understanding of math is wrong." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg&t=587s I pretty much agree with everything this guy has to say on the subject as I find the implications interesting/would explain a lot of why some things don't quite fit into our current understanding
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Jul 1, 2023 01:31
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Futanari Damacy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg&t=587s Eh, a lot of this doesn't seem very useful and basically the equivalent of "what if everything is a simulation" or "what if I'm the only conscious being." The point isn't to deny those things, but it's not exactly a useful assumption to make since it's impossible to disprove. Like it's technically possible that our minds exist in some completely undetectable dimension, but you can't do anything with that assumption. So science assumes a material world because you can't actually learn anything otherwise. And that has generally served us pretty well in terms of growing our understanding of the universe. And when it comes to stuff like aliens, we know - about as confidently as anyone can know anything - what sort of distances exist between stars/galaxies. And that's where the main barrier to the idea of aliens visiting our planet comes from. People will frequently be like "well people used to believe in Newtonian physics, until they realized it isn't accurate!", but it usually *is* accurate, with it only losing accuracy in certain circumstances. Similarly, it is very unlikely that our understanding of the universe is "completely wrong" - there are just things we don't understand yet that will make it more accurate once we do, but I seriously doubt we'll suddenly find out that galaxies are actually only 1/100 as big as we thought they were.
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Jul 1, 2023 02:27
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Wormholes are allowed by our current understanding of physics.
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Jul 1, 2023 02:29
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A Russian troll farm posted:Upon reconsideration, I have rejected my previous plans for retribution, such as stealing your regimental standard and giving it to the taliban, or urinating upon the grave of her majesty the queen. Instead I shall admonish you! 
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Jul 1, 2023 02:30
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A Russian troll farm posted:Upon reconsideration, I have rejected my previous plans for retribution, such as stealing your regimental standard and giving it to the taliban, or urinating upon the grave of her majesty the queen. Instead I shall admonish you! lol fair, it's a slippery slope, isn't it? One day you're mildly irritated by astrological signs, the next you're ranting against the entire fairer sex. I assure you, after this wake up call, the constellations have realigned, and I've turned a new leaf. Some woo is okay some of the time. I hope that my intention to take it easy on them is sufficient penance, I can't exactly go to confession over my war against woo woo.
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Jul 1, 2023 02:32
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Aliens are real, God is real, both have been to earth and neither particularly care if we kill ourselves with toxic waste before we figure out the secrets of the universe. Thems the breaks!
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A Russian troll farm posted:Comrade Flake! I have chosen to admonish you because I believe you are salvageable! As Chairman Mao said, "the party controls the guns, the guns must never control the party." The military requires political guidance, and must remain under the control of civillan leadership. This is why commissars are necessary. lol
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