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  • ACKTHUALLY

    My other post gave an answer which made sense.

    I would want to know what moment in the future causes me the most stress, which I don’t need to worry about at all.

    No paradoxes, just convenience.

    Also, I wasn’t saying money making wouldn’t work, only that your future you would cease to exist because you would have changed things.

    If you’re okay with suicide to offer your past self financial advice, then the same should be true of your future self.

    Personally, erasing that timeline seems unacceptable.



  • Everyone here is trying to make a quick buck, without thinking about whether it will work.

    If they change the past, they will cease to exist, unless time is looped, which means nothing would have changed.

    So the past is a dead end, and the future you should know this too, answering you will either make them vanish from existence, or answering you will not change anything.

    If they vanish, there’s no guarantee you’ll be better off, even if you do become rich.






  • This shit always makes me giggle.

    You wanna know what happens to all the moisture in your body when you freeze it?

    It crystallizes, turning basically every cell in your body into an expanding razor blade which slices through every other cell.

    Your brain gets turned into mush, held together by a matrix of ice.

    Imagine dropping a piece of paper into a paper shredder, then putting those paper strips into a blender with water. Then you take the blended mass of paper mush out, and try to reassemble it.

    That’s what these people think medical technology can do in the future.

    Fucking morons. There’s nothing to put back together! It’s fucked! You cannot unblend your death certificate!

    If you don’t believe me, try freeze a block of tofu at the back of your freezer at the coldest setting, then thaw it out.





  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBig Science
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    1 month ago

    The part which annoys me is about intentions.

    Sure, lobby groups do pay off some people with a PhD to lie for them (Patrick Moore), that’s not up for debate.

    But to imply that this is the norm is just ignorant of how research is conducted.

    Most scientists are either employed by a company, working towards a very specific, non contentious goal (like developing cold fusion), or are involved in research at a university, paid for in grants by their government to research whatever has been approved as worthy of investigation.

    Nobody is pressuring these researchers to find evidence to support any particular agenda, the chips land where they fall. There’s no fat cat smoking a cigar telling the climate science team at their local university that they need to find more evidence to crash the petrol stocks so they can sell more solar panels.


  • Epistemology should be taught in primary school.

    I mean that unironically. Learning about simple principles like non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit.

    With AI distorting the internet in every capacity, virtually everyone needs a new norm for evaluating whether their knowledge can be justified.