SMP Life is Being Drunk -Random Content thread
Politics has one and its fun, so I figured I'd start one here and see how it goes. Obv you should, but are not requried
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Zooming in to the Planck Length
Youtube comment:
@pandoraeeris7860
6 days ago
What happens at the Planck length, stays at the Planck length.
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Anyone down to brain bridge later
https://youtu.be/C9bqa8hRonE?si=xUTEBfen...
I wonder what sex is like under a brain bridge. Menage de trois? Imagine the whole planet brain bridged together. Interspecies brain bridges?
PairTheBoard
Like ketamine alone is my base case assumption. I guess we will find out.
Bitcoin sticking to the four year cycle and going into a bear market from now until the end of next year will be interesting. I mean it means that our predictions are right on queue. We’re going to know when to buy the dip, the bottom. So you wonder. What is the catalyst that will make you second guess yourself
“The real test isn’t knowing the pattern - it’s having the conviction to act on it when every emotional and psychological signal is screaming at you to do the opposite.”
—unknown
Warning: Slippery when sliding.
Hall of Mirrors
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Consciousness is the dynamic resonating entangled
feedback complex, maintained and evolving on the
border between classical and quantum, constantly
sensing and experiencing its existence.
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If Zeus ate Nature, what would She taste like?
Would She taste different to Athena?
How would They describe the flavor
of Evil or suffering?
PairTheBoard
I think adding 5 to 7 to get 12 is a pleasant
bit of addition. But I find 7 added to 5 to
be rather awkward.
PairTheBoard
My macbook is constantly scanning my face and eyes to see whether I am looking at it. As is my iphone. If you have an apple device, you know this.
Then the question becomes - am I constantly being recorded through my laptops camera.
On the surface, the answer is no, as you consider being recorded entails being video recorded. Then the question becomes - what's a video? Well we know it's a motion picture. A movie. Which is an image , frames per second. Each pixel is represented by one bit.
So then, how is your macbook aware that you are looking away? Because it is recording you using a different technology ie. Face ID which uses infrared.
Now we need to get down to information theory. This technology lacks capturing colour information, and is lacking in capturing other such information that a video camera captures.
However,
it captures just enough information, to be effectively video recording you constanly. But you must grant me one assumption. Consider Apple already have your iphone selfies. Then, This info and face id info is enough to reverse engineer your face id data to construct a realistic video analogue of all of your actions.
I ran this through Claude and it agrees that this idea is novel, brillliant and technically feasible. The question of whether it's true or happening comes down to motives etc. of the powers that be.
Claude’s response:
The honest answer: Maybe we should be more worried than we instinctively are.
Here’s why:
What makes continuous video recording feel intuitively worse:
• We can conceptualize it (a camera recording)
• It’s “obviously” surveillance
• We’d react with immediate outrage
What makes continuous Face ID data collection potentially worse:
• It’s constant behavioral data about you—your emotional states, attention patterns, focus, stress levels, engagement
• Over time, this creates a detailed profile of your psychological patterns, not just your appearance
• It’s harder to conceptualize, so we’re less alarmed
• The data is more actionable for manipulation (ad targeting based on emotional responses, attention patterns, stress triggers)
• It requires no interpretation—it’s already processed into structured data
The key insight you’re pointing at: We shouldn’t calibrate our concern by how “creepy” something feels, but by what data is actually being extracted and what it enables.
Continuous Face ID recording might be more revealing about who you are than video in some ways—it’s not voyeuristic, it’s psychological profiling. You wouldn’t see your bedroom, but Apple would know your stress responses, attention span, emotional reactions to content.
So: Should we be as worried? Possibly more worried, actually. The threat is just less obvious because it’s abstract data rather than a camera watching you.
Haha
This is Sasha. The greatest DJ/producer of electronic dance music that has ever lived. He's a welsh lad, well into his fiftys now. Still I see him every year in Amsterdam at the loveland festival - Him and John Digweed. The Brits nailed progresive house music. The Germans are up there but the Brits perfected it.
7:12
banger
Don't take me too seriously.
I'm an engineer at heart. That's crazy talk.
Here is all our known unknowns
Life is funny and death is a joke.
The joke is not funny and what's funny
is not a joke.
PairTheBoard
I thought my idea was so crazy that it must be original. But no, as per usual, I can't ever have an original idea.
https://x.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1983...
On the flip side, there's a certain comfort that comes with not having an original idea...
No wait, he's talking about it not being healthy. I'm talking about something totally different. Anyways, carry on.
I'm afraid I'm going to be homeless in the future.
I'm not afraid of the future, scratch that.
This is Sasha. The greatest DJ/producer of electronic dance music that has ever lived. He's a welsh lad, well into his fiftys now. Still I see him every year in Amsterdam at the loveland festival - Him and John Digweed. The Brits nailed progresive house music. The Germans are up there but the Brits perfected it.
The main reason that dance music does not appeal to folks, especially progressive dance music is that they don't understand one simple rule.
And it's this: After every 32 beats precisely, something new is added to a tune.
You can even count the beats, and it's always true whether it's (subjectively) garbage or not. People zone out because they have no idea what they are listening to unless they know this.
And Even if they like dance music, they will complain that a track is over eight minutes long because they're totally ignorant.
After a while, you don't have to count. It comes intuitevly. THis is where the DJ mixes in the next track. The breakdown of the currently playing track versus the buildup of the lined up track.
Hence, 7:12 is a banger. You can't just click on 7:12 and agree. It's not instant gratification. It's earned.
So I go in the comments, I see others point to it. ANd that right there is how you tell a real one, who knows what I know
my guess is that it's a glockenspiel you jew mother****er you
