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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14856483 times)

SalmonGod

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4590 on: February 01, 2012, 09:55:09 pm »

If that's the case, then we'll figure out hax

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Thinking for a moment, Tim picked up a ball.
"Diane," Tim began,"If the computer can simulate the universe, can it tell what I'm doing ten seconds from now?"
"Why yes, I implimented that feature last monday." Diane replied.
"Can you have it show what I'm doing one minute from now?"
"Yes, I think so." Diane set the simulation to one minute from now.
"What does it show me doing?"
"By the looks of it, you're holding a ball?"
Tim threw the ball he was holding out a window. Promptly, the simulation in the computer ended.
"And that solves that."

Was thinking about this... I don't think this would break the simulation.  All Tim did was observe a lower level iteration and then make a choice that broke consistency with it.  That lower level simulation would continue to run, even if on a deviated continuum from higher level iterations.  Since every iteration above them also just performed the same experiment and simply chose to do something different from the one directly beneath them, the whole thing would be inconsistent all the way to the top. 

Or it might just be every other iteration that is inconsistent with the one above and below it, since I think it's safe to assume that Tim was going to take a binary approach.  If he witnesses himself holding the ball, he'll throw it.  The iteration above him would observe him throwing it, and choose to hold onto it.  The iteration above that would observe himself holding it, and choose to throw it.  And so on.

So there would be an odd sort of scattering.  I'm also getting the vague notion that there would be a really bizarre cascading effect on the time synchronization through the spectrum of simulations, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it.  Every iteration would initiate the experiment at exactly the same time, but afterwards, each iteration would be operating a minute ahead of the one before it.  But I guess it's not like they're actually nullifying that minute.  It's still simulated.  They're just fast forwarding through it.  Still, at the very top of the simulation ladder, there is a "real time".  If the people at the top looked ten iterations beneath them, would they still be seeing one minute into the future, or would it be ten?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4591 on: February 01, 2012, 10:12:07 pm »

THERE IS A REASON SPACE-TIME SHOULDN'T BE FUCKED WITH!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4592 on: February 01, 2012, 10:17:42 pm »

THERE IS A REASON SPACE-TIME SHOULDN'T BE FUCKED WITH!

Space-time isn't actually getting fucked with, only simulated, and only simulated people have any real stake in it.  :P
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« Reply #4593 on: February 01, 2012, 10:23:24 pm »

Oh god there's a sphere in my room. It's just black and it's hovering there. Oh god what do I do?

If it starts playing the theme song for an exercise radio show, RUN.
Isn't running exactly what the exercise radio show wants you to do?!

Lounge in your chair and eat potato chips! It's the only way to win!

It's a sphere of annihilation! Run for your life!

Trust me that thing is probably worse than a sphere of annihilation... Which reminds me I still haven't seen the last episode of the anime that's from. Still not even sure if I want to.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4594 on: February 01, 2012, 10:30:38 pm »

Spoiler: I'm sorry (click to show/hide)

I... I couldn't resist :-\
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4595 on: February 01, 2012, 10:32:47 pm »

THERE IS A REASON SPACE-TIME SHOULDN'T BE FUCKED WITH!

Space-time isn't actually getting fucked with, only simulated, and only simulated people have any real stake in it.  :P
So you say...

Spoiler: I'm sorry (click to show/hide)

I... I couldn't resist :-\
and yes, exactly.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4596 on: February 01, 2012, 11:20:55 pm »

Oh god there's a sphere in my room. It's just black and it's hovering there. Oh god what do I do?

If it starts playing the theme song for an exercise radio show, RUN.
Isn't running exactly what the exercise radio show wants you to do?!

Lounge in your chair and eat potato chips! It's the only way to win!

It's a sphere of annihilation! Run for your life!

Trust me that thing is probably worse than a sphere of annihilation... Which reminds me I still haven't seen the last episode of the anime that's from. Still not even sure if I want to.

You should definately find a scanlation *cough*that I'm sure has official approval and is in no way illegal*cough*, because while the anime's gecko ending does fit much better than some, the manga has so much more to it, and it gets... well, to put it politely, really, really fucking wierd, in a very good way.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4597 on: February 02, 2012, 02:59:27 am »

My brother spent almost 3k € over the last month from our mother's bank account.

And he seriously believed he would get away without anybody noticing?
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« Reply #4598 on: February 02, 2012, 03:08:30 am »

My brother spent almost 3k € over the last month from our mother's bank account.

And he seriously believed he would get away without anybody noticing?
Eh, you take a little here, a little there, no one's the wiser. How was he supposed to know people get a monthly list of their transactions?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4599 on: February 02, 2012, 03:15:43 am »

He was told. After, ya well, the last time he did that.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4600 on: February 02, 2012, 03:16:49 am »

And he still lives with you/has access to your credit information why?!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4601 on: February 02, 2012, 03:20:31 am »

a) he's 13! (no wait, he turned 14 today) and b) he doesn't.

He did, however, find out mom's visa card.
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« Reply #4602 on: February 02, 2012, 03:27:11 am »

He's still committing fraud...or something. Maybe I'm just too harsh (good thing I have no plans to have kids!), but some time in a correctional facility or program might be in order.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #4603 on: February 02, 2012, 03:29:28 am »

What I've been saying for years now.
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« Reply #4604 on: February 02, 2012, 05:55:37 am »

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