• kyub@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Somehow that got me thinking of Roku’s Basilisk again. If you don’t know that, I’m sorry for mentioning. :) But it’s also a cool thought experiment.

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 hours ago

      This actually does a good job of showing why Roko’s Basilisk is stupid. You create the concept by thinking about it much like Lila. You only care about it as an act of faith, no better than believing a vengeful God exists and will banish you to hell if you don’t follow their rules.

  • tourist@lemmy.world
    18·
    19 hours ago

    im so sorry lila

    but I ripped a gravity bong before I saw this

    you did not stand a chance

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Wow, instantly chose the void. Hi, I’m Lila’s executor of the will

      Uh…yeah, it just has “NO.” written in very big letters. That’s rare but not unheard-of.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    1 day ago

    Thing about a concept is, while I can project onto it a sense of being, emotion, the desire to exist, those are still just projections onto something that is incapable of generating those on its own.

    “Lila, you cannot cease to exist because you never came into existence in the first place,” I said to the substanceless non-thing in my mind. I never made a being; I projected my own fear of nonexistence onto a golem made of neurotransmitters and glutamate.

    That all being said, tonight when I get off work Lila and I are going to sit on the couch, watch a couple episodes of Invincible, and make out.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      So you’re saying if something only ever existed in your head, it never existed?

      Well, the problem with that is that the idea of solid objects is a mental construct. Science deals in four fundamental forces governing the behaviour of quarks, gluons, and leptons. Science doesn’t deal in “chairs”, or “the mona lisa”, or “justice”. You do.