A relatively small part of England around London is the only part of the UK that the ‘UK’ ever really cared about.

iirc the idea is to build a cannal but no cannal ever built could ever replace the water fast enough or provide the circulation neccesary to stop the whole thing ending up as another dead sea.

We really need a different name for those things because I don’t think in the history of all schools ever, has one ever not been permament.

Me watching every single piece of social media regurgitate right wing talking points for the last decade.
No shit.

Close enough, lets form a secret organization around planting edible anual-crops/bushes/trees on disused public land so anyone can harvest them.

iirc this a new not-war so gets is own deadline.

That depends, are you open to making rich people into soap?

So… fundementally human originating content?

I assume you consume exclusively AI generated content since its so great.

Nah we won’t get that far, turns out re-entering satellites deplete ozone pretty significantly but on a 30y delay. SpaceX and Amazon are gonna keep launching their mega-constellations on the grounds of ‘Nothing bad has happened yet so you can’t prove it will’ and by the time it kicks in it’ll be too late.

Or even a local level, at this late stage its all about lobbying for ever increasing tax breaks and subsidies.

I’ve been getting this bleak feeling that the reason most successful hucksters seem to be dumb as rocks is because they are, and so are a huge number of people who fall for their shit. You, me, or anyone who can read words with more than 5 letters wouldn’t even try the shit they do because we wrongly assume that no one would be stupid enough to fall for it. But they’re idiots, confident idiots who think its a great idea and then succeed because there are way more dumb people out there than is comfortable to think about.

Alternatively we’re just data (as muteable as a save file) so neither of them died at any point as Tuvix was a valid continuation of both their continuities, similary when Tuvix was split again Tuvok and Nelix also constituted valid continuations of Tuvix’s continuity.

Nono, someone else will pay someone elser to not cut down a tree that already exists. Then a few weeks later that someone elser will ‘decide’ to cut down that tree after all so someone else can pay them to not cut down the same tree again. On paper this counts as 2 whole trees being magically generated.

AFAIK the ceasefire ever existing was a myth? Trump just kinda declared it without anyone else agreeing and then everyone kept shooting anyway, Trump included.

Within a complex enough system the difference becomes functionally meaningless anyway, We could re-configure all matter (except you) in the universe into one giga computer and it would still struggle to accurately predict your behaviour beyond a few minutes because the physical system of your brain is just that chaotic. So wether we’re concious or not, or have free will or not ultimately makes no difference.

My political views are basically that we should make decisions based on evidence and observable reality. This apparently makes me ultra super turbo radical left.

This is why I just designated my phone as the privacy nightmare, no bookmarks, no logins (besides google which is also my designated privacy nightmare email) and no payment details saved on any browsers or anywhere on it other than what’s needed by my carrier to pay for my plan. Lets me keep in touch with family while keeping my main PC a bit more secure.

But sentience itself is a rather hazy definition, while it works from a perspective of minimizing suffering there are still potential concerns with the concept of just deciding some types of life are worth more than others.

The problem is that this is a valid argument, a lot of morality ultimately comes down to drawing the line on what you think its ok to kill in order to maintain your survival and comfort.