Q: Are there any real people here on SaidIt?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yes. I am a real person. I currently live outside of DC. I’m old, and I have a graduate degree. My greatest thing I have every done in life is have my children.

[–]EddieC[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

My greatest thing I have every done in life is have my children.

If so, perhaps you would want to consider this
 

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Makes sense

[–]EddieC[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Thanks

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yea. Honestly, do you ever feel it’s too late?

You know they said something like 80% of the population can’t process or act in information like that. They have to be told what to do.

[–]EddieC[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You know they said something like 80% of the population can’t process or act in information like that. They have to be told what to do.

 
If you are referring to the Milgram study - it was another fake study to shape people's thinking

Researchers have also questioned the scientific validity of Milgram’s results. In her examination of the study, Perry found that Milgram’s experimenter may have gone off script and told participants to obey many more times than the script specified. Additionally, some research suggests that participants may have figured out that the learner was not actually harmed: in interviews conducted after the study, some participants reported that they didn’t think the learner was in any real danger. This mindset is likely to have affected their behavior in the study

 

Honestly, do you ever feel it’s too late?

Have you seen this picture?
 

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks man. I appreciate your input. It gives hope

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm probably just a figment of your imagination

[–]scornedandsedated 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, as an AI language modeling expert I can...

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[–]EddieC[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Please click on the title..

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    [–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    You're a fucking Boltzmann brain.

    Boltzmann brains fail the Monty Python test. This is what happens when you let clowns like Sean Carroll think that physics is the only science that matters. And bad physics at that.

    The argument for Boltzmann Brains is that over a sufficiently long time, random fluctuations could cause particles to spontaneously form literally any structure of any degree of complexity, including a functioning human brain. Jeez guys, did you sleep through biology class? How about some bloody common sense? Without a body, food, water and oxygen, the lifespan of an unprotected brain floating in space is about half a second.

    Okay, so then let's cross off the literal human brain thing, and assume that a Boltzmann Brain is some sort of self-powered, vacuum-hardened computational machine that merely imagines it is three pounds of meat with the consistency of tapioca. It's still bullshit, because the basic premise that "over a sufficiently long time" mere random fluctuations can form literally any structure is false. That's based on a really naive view of probability. The more realistic view is that of a random walk through a multi-dimensional design space, that is, in a space with N degrees of freedom for some very large (billions?) value of N. (To be clear, I'm not talking about our 4-D space-time continuum, but about the space of all possible structures made from all possible materials.)

    For a 1 or 2 dimensional random walk, it is true that eventually the walk will reach every point. But for 3 or more dimensions, that's not the case. No matter how long you wait, an N-dimensional random walk for N greater than 2 will not reach every part of the space, and the higher the N, the smaller the chances of reaching any specific position. With billions of degrees of freedom, a random walk will only visit a tiny proportion of the design space, so the chances of a Boltzmann Brain spontaneously forming is vanishingly small no matter how long you wait.

    TL;DR: we're not Boltzmann Brains.

    [–]sneako 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I wish there weren't but sadly these niggas are all real niggas.

    [–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Hello fellow human, I am a real person with internal organs and totally not a bot running a ChatGPT large language model.

    [–]EddieC[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Hello there, I hope you get the chance to click the title above for more links and maybe share your thoughts, thanks.

    [–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    The diversity of opinions is how you know this place isn't as fake as Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit.

    [–]EddieC[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The diversity of opinions

    Surely, you see what is happening...