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SalmonGod

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30015 on: May 13, 2011, 10:57:06 pm »

I need to read the Principia Discordia now... it's something I've always been really interested in, but just never... "got around" to taking a serious look at.  I've always been annoyed with the way people use the word 'truth' like there is such an absolute which can be clearly defined and understood, and I've also been frustrated with people who can't understand how fundamentally cultural perspective influences a person's style of experience.  Judging by that excerpt, it seems Discordian literature understands these things.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30016 on: May 13, 2011, 11:30:33 pm »

We also use the liar's paradox ("This sentence is false") as a mantra.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30017 on: May 13, 2011, 11:32:20 pm »

We also use the liar's paradox ("This sentence is false") as a mantra.

I use it to combat rampant AI
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In the land of twilight, under the moon
We dance for the idiots
As the end will come so soon
In the land of twilight

Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30018 on: May 13, 2011, 11:37:57 pm »

Meh, whenever I find a Evil Robot Trying to kill Everyone but at the same time Accepting questions From the Audience/Victims I just tell it to calculate Pi.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30019 on: May 13, 2011, 11:39:22 pm »

More likely then not that would just cause it to tell you the first 11 (or 14) digits of Pi, then gut you.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30020 on: May 14, 2011, 12:12:30 am »

Calculate the first pi digits of pi?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30021 on: May 14, 2011, 12:14:09 am »

I think a computer smart enough to decide that it must kill all humans would be smart enough to avoid absurd questions.
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« Reply #30022 on: May 14, 2011, 12:28:55 am »

I think a computer smart enough to decide that it must kill all humans would be smart enough to avoid absurd questions.

Going to have to agree with that. Anyways, we all know the best way to defeat robots is to send wave after wave of soldiers at them until they reach their kill limit.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30023 on: May 14, 2011, 12:29:07 am »

Calculate the first pi digits of pi?
That's easy in base pi. 1.

(Or I'm sleepy.)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30024 on: May 14, 2011, 01:11:58 am »

Calculate the first pi digits of pi?

That would get you a user error message as it gutted you.
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« Reply #30025 on: May 14, 2011, 01:13:45 am »

Calculate the first pi digits of pi?
That's easy in base pi. 1.

(Or I'm sleepy.)

In Base 2, 1 = ?

In Base 3, 1 = ?

In Base 2, 10 = ?

In Base 3, 2 = ?

In Base 3, 10 = ?

Etc., etc. =)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30026 on: May 14, 2011, 01:14:57 am »

Calculate the first pi digits of pi?

That would get you a user error message as it gutted you.

"Look into your hard drive and open your mercy file!" "File not found"
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30027 on: May 14, 2011, 01:41:30 am »

I think a computer smart enough to decide that it must kill all humans would be smart enough to avoid absurd questions.
Heck, I'm smart enough to do that.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30028 on: May 14, 2011, 01:57:59 am »

I'm wondering if anybody got the reference
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In the land of twilight, under the moon
We dance for the idiots
As the end will come so soon
In the land of twilight

Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #30029 on: May 14, 2011, 02:06:14 am »

I'm wondering if anybody got the reference
Yup.
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