

If it seems like multiple unrelated people are doing the same thing, it’s more likely an issue with your own perception or interpretation of them.


If it seems like multiple unrelated people are doing the same thing, it’s more likely an issue with your own perception or interpretation of them.


That was Jefferson—he wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
RSS feeds seem like the obvious replacement—how is your vibe-coded solution better?
Your self is the private reservoir of knowledge and experience you draw on to interact with the world in a way that’s distinct from anyone else (and that couldn’t be predicted without access to that internal knowledge).


Did he try offering them FIFA Peace Prizes?


The country wouldn’t have an infinite hotel—the infinite hotel would have a tiny, forgotten basement called “the rest of the known universe”.


Congratulations, you’re the inaugural entry in my “people not to have over for dinner” list.


“Charlemagne” literally means “Charles the Great”.


Those are things Congress or the states would need to do—the president can’t (and shouldn’t) make Constitutional amendments.


Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.


So he’d have deported Einstein, then?


if a living organism moves both in time and in space, the genome stays the same, while the proteins in the body might change due to different gene expression
That sounds like a reaction norm—all the various phenotypes a single genome might potentially develop into under different environmental conditions. Which doesn’t seem quite analogous to Noetherian properties like momentum and energy, which are conserved in the sense that they can change inside a system as long as there are balancing actions that preserve the property for the system as a whole.


Noether’s theorem specifically establishes a connection between conserved quantities and continuous symmetries. What’s the continuous symmetry associated with the genome—something analogous to changing time or location that can be varied continuously while leaving biology unchanged?


You could go further. A 50/50 coin is arbitrary; what if you used a weighted coin instead? That is, both you and the superintelligence know that you’ll pick the single box with probability p, but neither of you know the coin’s outcome until you flip it.
What’s the ideal value of p in this case? Is it not arbitrarily close to 1?


This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.


Just need to replace the eagles with vultures.


Civil unrest is the one situation where corporations hope everyone forgets they exist.


The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.


There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.
Just looking at the words in your title, “country”, “random”, and “imagine” were all borrowed from Old French.