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  • it's not that it's not "math" it's that the process by which we derive and conceptualize math may be alien to other consciousnesses.

    we already have similar things like 0.999... = 1, or algebra, or base 10 v base 16 v base 2... is it so hard to conceive a race with different perception organs, a different "brain" that doesn't look or function like ours, maybe non-carbon-based would operate in a way that is entirely alien?

    Consider how from 400 BC to 1800 AD disease was spread by "miasma" and 20,000 years ago it wasn't spread by "anything" because we didn't have a framework or concept of the idea of disease transmission. Consider how before we went to space we thought there was "aether" outside the atmosphere, and before that it was "quinessetence" and before that it was a God or a celestial beetle or whatever...

    Are we so bold as to claim that our grasp on what numbers are and their relation to the universe won't change as much in another 2,000 years, or 20,000?

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  • I guess I'm just saying we don't know that for sure. We don't even really know if lobsters or mushrooms or trees "experience" time. We know shrimps probably experience colors we can't conceive of, it's not that far removes from reality.

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  • we did it without what loosely translates as blarglsnargling and they are equally confused as to how we did it. The downside to our approach being pollution of our air, the downside to their approach being pollution of their planet's crust. Both of which would be catastrophic if occurred in each other's ecosystem but is a mild irritant heading towards and eventual catastrophe for each respective society.

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  • I mean this is all a hypothetical, so let me throw some blockers at you:

    They don't distinguish between wave and not-wave, assuming they dont have a Lacanian concept of language and their pre-language concept of what we would call a wave is actually the average distance from the bottom of the ocean in an arbitrary field of qualia whereby they average out "extended" phenomena from an "unextended" experience of the average of the different forms of background radiation.

    In which case they couldn't count a planet rotation and have no concept of counting or rotation but would express it instead as an average speed and direction in relation to the absorbed radiation of different astral and planetary (by which I mean "terrestrial" for lack of a better word when not talking about our planet) bodies? So what is a year to us is a limitless expression of the average rate of change of the comparative rate of radiation from the nearest star and the largest vent in the bottom of their ocean? They express this by making parts of their carapace emit different strengths of radiation in different directions. Would we even know to call those emissions a language?

    edit: to make it even harder, maybe there's a way to experience a qualia of alpha radiation to them that for them is as different as the words "because" and "apple", but to us is two identical blasts of alpha radiation because we don't even know how to sense the differences that are there because to us they don't even exist?

  • What is that one software that you are using for 10 years and still loving it?

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  • StartAllBack - classic start menu in windows

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  • there'd a big difference between experiencing a force and describing it though. Imagine attempting to describe proprioception to a race of spherical beings with no sense of touch.

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  • what if they don't have the concept of atomic concepts: there's no such thing as "one" because everything can be divided, until you reach wave/particle duality in which case there's no singular state anyway? There's no such thing as "two" because there can be no dividing line between phenomena that have no external nor internal boundaries? What if they cannot see or hear but use other senses we have no names for? What if they are a hive mind and don't predate and thus have no concept of consent or denial/acceptance, and thus no concept of yes/no?

  • TIL in 1982 William Shatner paid $10,000-15,000 to an ex-Green Beret named Bo Gritz leading a mercenary force on a raid into Laos

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  • oh boy there was one recently where they didn't even get to the guy in the first episode.

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

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  • also it was one fucking book that the PR machine blew out of proportion, I read it at the time and i really struggle to remember what was even in it, it was just some essays about the history of race in the US, which have just merged with all my other memories of similar stories

  • Where can i find a good video tutorial on shaving my junk?

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  • I would only add that if YMMV with Cremo try baby oil, also works as a moisturizer after as well.

    Source: dated a stripper who shaved daily.

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  • Je suis anglais. But also I was trying to keep the catchphrase intact.

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  • Ils sont fous, ces Française.

  • Manners are important.

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  • isn't it bad to be thirsty and good to have a nice drink?

    Plus, there are thousands of years of culture in offering a drink implying trust and friendship.

  • Hot cross buns

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  • it usually indicates "golden" raisins in the uk

  • Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees

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  • they already do this kinda. Look up how Guy Fieri's tequila was stolen

  • Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle

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  • I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should've been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

  • Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report

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  • Surely that's irrelevant compared to the public figure featured in the story who hates immigration and supports sending illegal immigrants home?

    Whether or not I, just some guy who can infer from statistics that immigration is factually a net positive, does not detract from a powerful guy whose personal convictions outweigh reality behaving like a hypocrite.

    Let's not let the benefits of migration to every party get in the way of the guy who did the thing he said no one should do dodge the punishment he said everyone should get.

  • Meta & YouTube on trial for social media addiction

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  • I mean the lifecycle of the organism is to use the host's DNA to reproduce, taking on some of its characteristics.

  • boiling water again

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  • and that coolant mass' name?