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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
@est@emily.news is that something to tell you when the daily fast begins and ends?
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throwback to that time I wrote a network stack to spite someone that annoyed me and it ended up the standard network stack in OpenComputers
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I've been a member of the xerces society for about two years and I'm really happy with their work. They are a charitable organization focused on invertebrate conservation. If you become a member not only will you be supporting a good cause but their magazine is amazing. They also have lectures and other events you can attend.
Invertebrates are often overlooked so I'm glad they're out there.
(If anyone know of an ant conservation group lemme know~)
@stveje I don't disagree in principle, but with this kind of thing, the fact that something could be isn't particularly interesting unless I can also say how likely it is. I don't really even need to invoke "infinite universes" for this though. unless I want to say that the universes interact, I might as well just talk about the observable universe we're in.
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> as long as we're being speculative, can we ever truly be sure that a death or any other event couldn't ultimately be traced back to some entanglement somewhere? At least a contributing one.
Still considering (Everettian) many-worlds, quantum entanglement is something happening constantly: it just means that you can't describe certain groups of "particles" independently. Like, electrons being entangled is why we have to describe them with orbitals, etc.
I'm absolutely not a physicist, but I think statistical mechanics comes into play here because we want to determine whether the microscopic events that create new "branches" of non-interacting universes have macroscopic outcomes. In other words, does the difference at the small scale make a difference in the large scale. My understanding is that, yes our best theories of how the universe works do allow for cases where a particle decohering into one state or another, and thus "branching the wave function of the universe, results in a person dying or not dying, but outside of humans making detectors and hooking them up to death machines (which mostly just happens in thought experiments) we don't think that happens most of the time.
> It's more about infinity. If you believe there are (truly) infinite universes, then a universe with a "you" will exist where that "you" didn't die at that exact moment
Honestly, I just don't know the physics here. I don't think just because there are infinite universes, that implies there are enough degrees of freedom in the state of the universe that a person with my same life history on a different branch of the wave function lives eternally.
(all above is based on my casual reading of Sean Carroll's book, "Something Deeply Hidden", and listening to Carroll's podcast, so by no means do I claim any real authority on this.)
P.S.:
For anyone who thinks thinking about this kind of thing is fun, there's a Wikipedia article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
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Last year, Stamen cartographer @alan wrote a blog post about an exciting trend in map making that we're calling #BlenderMaps. In the past few months, we've noticed even more interesting terrain maps that didn't get included in the original post, from cartographers like Estefanía Casal, Topi Tjukanov, Jo Hannah Asetre, & more. Maybe it's time for a follow-up blog post? Are there any other Blender Cartographers we missed? Let us know! https://stamen.com/shadows-on-maps-are-getting-a-lot-more-exciting-and-heres-why #cartography #maps #blender #terrain
@stveje Which "multiverse theory" do you refer to? Many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics doesn't quite say that since there's not necessarily an entanglement with macroscopic phenomena that causes you to die or not die @IChewPorridge
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@est@emily.news I have had the same thought. Like, I think it's basically continuous, in that you're receiving photons continuously, but I'm not sure about how that breaks down into saccades and whether your brain has to interpolate all the time. it's different when you're tracking moving objects... been too long since I first studied this stuff
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@freemo @rrb @pj An interesting discussion. As someone who works in policing in canada I have been exposed to a lot of information about gun use in crime and the pros/cons of gun ownership and use in general. One of the aspects I think that you overlook when arguing that people would be safer if everyone carried around guns is that the vast majority of altercations, whether physical or otherwise, come about when otherwise reasonable individuals become emotionally disturbed or incensed (drugs and alcohol often contribute to this), then they make decisions they otherwise would not. A huge percentage of assaults/suicides by guns occur in residences where they are not safely stored, because individuals in the midst of an emotional episode can grab them and use them without a chance for a second thought. Suicide is also a huge one, you are *far* more likely to successfully commit suicide if there is a gun in your home and seeing as how the rate of suicidality in most developed countries keeps on increasing, probably the best reason to not own a gun is to protect you from yourself! And I think the argument for America being a naturally more violent country than other developed nations is not adequately supported by evidence, people in canada get into altercations all the time, but so few of them involve firearms that they are less likely to turn deadly, in fact, the communities within Canada that have the most fatal altercations are the very ones with the highest prevalence of gun ownership! Not having easy access to guns is certainly helping to prevent a ton of needless gun deaths. While it is true that a dedicated individual can acquire the necessary firepower to commit an atrocity, like what happened a few years ago in Nova Scotia, that event took years of planning and preparation; what gun control helps to prevent are the deaths that occur from more temporary insanities.
Sat in on the latter half of a #TDoV Zoom at work. Wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, but nice to hear that, at least for the trans coworkers who spoke up, their experience of being "out" at work has been largely positive.
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posting a link to that post for convenience of others who don't see the replies
https://glitch.cat.family/@Satsuma/110114457597100028
@sentimentaldom thanks. that reply doesn't show on qoto.org
@sentimentaldom can you provide some references?
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@settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
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https://electrocuties.com/
This blog doesn't appear to be very active, but the "About" post is from late last year.
Anyway, I'm a sucker for a pun.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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