• @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    Either having a complete understanding of modern-day physics or knowing how to play the violin.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Our ideas are always good to us, but they’re highly informed based on our own experiences and needs.

      I had a neighbor who asked me to help them create some form of device that sits on the dashboard of their car and catalog billboards. Apparently, a hole in their life was passing by a billboard with kids in the car and forgetting what exit the food/restaurant was on.

      This was in an era where cell phones and online maps/search existed.

      I had another acquaintance (decades ago) who wanted me to work on a photography simulator in which you had to manipulate people in 3D to compose a picture. I tried to explain the high level of difficulty and the cost per unit being so high that no one would be willing to pay for it. They pushed me until I did some napkin match on arists/developer/marketing costs then they got all pissed off at me because it came in conservatively north of 300k.

  • @[email protected]
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    215 months ago

    I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

    • @[email protected]
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      11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      But also the ability to turn it off at will. Otherwise life will become incredibly tedious.

    • @[email protected]
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      And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Honestly finding out the lack of free will exists would be the most liberating thing ever. I could just let autopilot take its course.

      • Liz
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        25 months ago

        Whatever it is physics demands they do, obviously.

    • @[email protected]
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      What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem? Maybe you’d become susceptible to someone telling you “this statement is false”.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Ideally, I wouldn’t have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

        The problem with the “This statement is false” could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

        • Steve Dice
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          Oh, brother, no. Godel’s incompleteness theorem is a problem much bigger than imaginary numbers. Imaginary numbers are just something we initially didn’t account for but we can (and did) fix. Godel’s theorem means everything may just be broken and we just don’t know.

      • @[email protected]
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        I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.

        • Fuck spez
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          Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…

    • @[email protected]
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      I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.

      Or maybe it’s just how the operating system works?

      Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.

      • @[email protected]
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        If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.

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    “I know how to make piles of money while sitting on my ass” (without being a psychopathic CEO, a crypto bro or a “fintech” con artist, for the sake of not hating myself)

    Then I can use my money to buy the services of anybody who has the other abilities I need while still sitting on my ass, and feel good providing employment at the same time.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      The problem is luck plays an enormous role in whether or not a company fails or makes bank. This is how we end up with idiots who become hundred-millionaires or billionaires. Though being savvy helps improve your chances.

      If you’re good at playing the dailies, you will inevitably go bust, possibly while owning a bunch of rotting commodities that didn’t sell in time, but once you have a reputation friends will lend you money to get back on your feet (which you pay back with interest.)

    • @[email protected]OP
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      “Contract management”, I think it’s called.
      You hire the services of one factory or laboratory to do your manufacture and packaging, another company for distribution and marketing, another for accounting, etc. You can build a good-sized company with one employee: You, the owner.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah usually the two requirements there are a decent business sense and a boatload of starting capital

  • @[email protected]
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    75 months ago

    The ability to perform high level mathematics and computer science tasks including programming languages and logic.

  • @[email protected]
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    345 months ago

    The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.

    Shashahshaaa!

    Runs away and throws pocket sand

  • @[email protected]
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    I’d upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

    • Victor
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      This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).

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    C2-niveau francais, s’il vous plait.

    edit or as translate google would put it: niveau C2 de francais, merci.

    • HubertManne
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      Soooo… you think the brain has unlimited data storage capacity?

      • The plasticity of the brain also gives it near unlimited storage capacity. There’s a great episode of Curiosity on what obstacles would have to overcome to achieve immortality, and one of the topics it goes into detail on is brain capacity and functionality.

        • HubertManne
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          just to be clear when we say unlimited we are saying infinite. I do not believe for one second it has near unlimited/infinite storage in an incredibly limited volume.

          • @[email protected]
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            There are different types of infinite. I don’t get the idea that Kolanaki means more than the brain could handle.

            • HubertManne
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              There is only one type I know of. What are the different types?

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                  ok I think its clear he meant storing an infinity amount of information with “gives it near unlimited storage capacity.” Its clearly not an infinite splicing of a finite type of thing. It seems to be the more common usage of infinite. Honestly I would argue its really not a different type in that the set is finite but the subdivisions are not and ifinite is only refering to the infinte part so storing a value for every infinte cut takes infinite storeage. He is responding to the idea that all knowledge we have now and all future knowledge could be put into the brain ala mastering skills like kung fu.

        • Maeve
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          Like Lucy? Without the self destruction that comes with that scenario, absolutely!

          • HubertManne
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            you will need to give me a bit more. the only movie I can think of had a chick with telekinesis and shit.

            • Maeve
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              Telekinesis, telepathy, time travel, no pain. That’s the movie.

  • y0kai
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    95 months ago

    Whatever is fun and makes money. Tired of being bored and broke all the time.

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      I too wouldn’t mind uploading poll dancing abilities. I feel like that would help lose weight and get great core strength so quickly.

    • I Cast Fist
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      One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

      • y0kai
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        75 months ago

        Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

        Not that I’m opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

        I just feel like I’m learning such basic things and won’t be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It’s frustrating lol

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          25 years in IT here: you’re on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            I think I’m going to get my nieces and nephews some pi5 desktops, I can’t let them become teenagers without seeing a console.

    • socsa
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      The crazy thing is that you can literally just do this by studying engineering for a few years. It’s not that hard, it just takes some work.

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      You’d need both time travel and teleportation, or else you’ll find yourself in space when you travel forward or back in time. The Earth isn’t a stationary object

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            15 months ago

            it’s all relative. definitively relative.

            that said, if you go to the matrix and ask for the power, it’s not liable to give you half-assed solutions that don’t take the details into account. Therefore it would already take into account the relative displacement and correct accordingly.

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        Time travel already is teleportation.

        Actually, teleportation would be more powerful than time travel, since you can travel through different times as well with teleportation as an ability, but you can only teleport to a different time with time travel.

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        That entirely depends on what is being done when traveling in time. Is it localized, regional or defined at the time the lower is used. Does it effect the world around you or is it you in the world that is manipulated.

        Depends if it’s a monkeys paw power or a self defined ability