Random Thoughts Thread

The world once looked clear, black and white,

The floor seemed solid,

One day it broke,

And I fell into a void, yet lit with light,

The colors mixed together gray, becoming indistinguishable,

Then burst in blue, orange, and every color conceived,

Whirled and flashed, meaningless,

Made me sick.

Someone once argued I was an Absurdist, rather than a Nihilist,

I prefer the label Nihilist,

It's the dissatisfaction I think, sickness and anger, frustration and horror,

Intellect at odd with Instincts learned or innate.

Absurdist's in my view, give up in a way somehow, accept the existence of it all,

The insanity of it all,

Somehow seem too 'happy.

Nor do I care to call myself an Existentialist,

Such a title seems to imply one can create or manage meaning,

But it's all illusion, a lie.

Better to admit such, even if one cannot help moving.

You described your delusions pretty clearly. So you have been lying to yourself.

Debby is a Debbyist.

And

Leaning is a Leaningist

Who was once a Lemmingist.

And Debby has Shilaist tendencies.

For my Part, I am an ex Zeddist.

Ist is BRILLIANT.

Adding lynch to your name was brilliant.

I wonder that economic gambling tournaments contests or bets are not more common.

Thank you.

I'm not regularly credited with brilliance.

Crumbs.

Random indeed.

I wonder if Octopi for example, have highly developed, onboard, intellectual, telepathic communication systems.

In our ignorance, do we fry in them in tempura batter and eat the answer to everything on a regular basis.

Is that what cetaceans are constantly trying to tell us when we make them jump through hoops at the theme park.

Listen to the fucking Octopus you fucking moronic apes!

I've wondered that as well.

Some 'do seem pretty smart.

I also assume that surely scientists frequently try to teach other organisms various methods of language, to attempt to communicate with them.

Course, various animals also get compared to humans in various degrees of age.

Two year old human compared to a dog for instance.

Doesn't really make me happy either,

Best solution, remove humans from Earth, then destroy Earth.

That way we can be sure nothing nonhuman is suffering, as nothing nonhuman would exist.

Well, besides whatever we grow and eat on our spaceships maybe.

Good morning Leaning.

Well besides an aging tin can that whizzes precariously around the planet, we ain't going anywhere else, anytime soon, so no solution available.

And consume we must, as compelled by our own onboard management systems.

And the bewildered Octopus gazes up at the moronic apes from the tank, and says why don't you just shut the fuck up and listen you twats.

You have a tendency to end it.

A divergent history of Benedict Arnold could work pretty well with Arnold as Macbeth.

That wouldn’t sell in America.

When I was a kid, life was so simple. I often miss the days when I didnt do overthinking, constant arguments and competitive games. I actually tried playing games I played in childhood, but I dont find them as good anymore. But I still enjoy drawing, even tho now I draw symmetry symbols. I dont like the idea that people change over time, but it is true. You are a different person than you were before. You have different goals and different things make you happy.

I think person is entirely defined by goals. Person is basically set of goals and memories. Once goals change, person becomes different person. I also read that all atoms in body eventually change, so you are literally different person than you were before even if your goals dont change.

@SatanLucy

That's worried me before in the past,

Problem of identity I mean.

Ship of Theseus and all that.

Haven't thought about it in a while though.

I remember seeing a few pages of my talking about it in a past notebook I flipped through a few days ago.

I think I'd still have fun playing games I played when I was younger, I'm just busy.

@Self

World of Warcraft for machinima?

Hm, maybe a custom game server with more options?

More animations, characters, items?

Change over time.

Most cells are replaced, some more frequently than others.

Apparently not true of neurons.

Though neurogenesis means that additional neurons are generated.

It is suggested that the overproduction of neurons may be a factor in certain instances of cognitive dysfunction....Autism for example.

So, most of the body is replaced over a 10 to 15 year period, but not the data management bits.

AI is more stable than neurogenesis.

It suddenly occurs to me, maybe the most possible method to have Gundam, person piloted giant robots,

Would be to have the story focus on a group of 'tiny aliens, maybe mouse or ant sized?

Aliens using A.I. would be a definite match.

Undoubtedly.

Giant is only relative to tiny.

Our universe might be in a jar in the back of someone's cupboard, next to a dusty old religious book.

They might decide to have a clear out and recycle the jar and the book.

I wonder if any country or cult is going to genetically engineer their people to no longer be able to produce with other humans.

'Othering outsiders, is often a strategy of some groups.

Or othering insiders.

The Jews were already told to do so in the Bible.

The primary source upon which the prohibition for a Jew to marry a non-Jew is based is to be found in the Bible (Deut. 7:3): "You shall not marry them (the gentiles, about which the Bible speaks in the previous verses), you shall not give your daughter to their son and you shall not take his daughter for your son."

In some forms of fictional magic, parts of a person are used as a medium of sorts.

Whether voodoo or tracking.

I suppose science can be similar in some ways.

Fingerprints can be used for tracking people, or allowing access through locked doors.

Some viruses and diseases, effect people of certain genetics more.

Dogs can track based on scrap of person or clothing.

People have talked about giving robots a sense of smell.

Knowing someone's true name,

Knowing someone's name and address,

Mailing them items.

Yes, we're heading towards a planet and a society with nowhere to hide.

I'm glad that I won't be a part of it.

But the species will adapt.

@SergeantLynch

Well, no where to hide 'easily,

If one 'wanted to hide, wouldn't be too hard I think.

It's just that there are so many nice conviences by abiding and being in society normal like.

Eh, maybe we'll get lucky, and the next hundered to a thousand years will be awesome,

Heh, though maybe we won't and post WW2 to next major conflict, will be one of the greatest moments for humans (In some places).

@Leaning

Maybe design a game to be a game inside a game?

This way you won't be bothered by the difficulty of awesome science fiction and fantasy not clicking quite right with science?

What about AI?

I often wish food companies had to identify their products by each new change,

When changing the method, quality control, ingredients, proportions, something or other,

Should declare and admit it to be a new version, a new product.

That one's peers are all a bunch of criminals, 'sounds like a flaw in prisons.

But then I've never studied rehabilitation, history of prisons, or compared many of them.

I think I recall a Twilight Zone episode once, where some guy is banished alone to a planet, but they send him an android to keep him company.

You are an isolationist.

It'd be kind of interesting if RTS games showed where other players were looking.

Maybe like in BFME2, an eye of Sauron for every player, always active and directed wherever each players camera is.

Course, might take away from some steath tactics in RTS.

Eh, just add an ability to hide the eye now and then.