An Impossible Thought Experiment:
"Design a spaceship that carries Humans to a Neutron Star. Land on its surface safely. Drill through it to reach its core and come back safely to Earth. This is a reply to those people who literally say "Nothing is Impossible". Even a Type-VII Alien Civilization can never do it".
My mom gave me an interesting thought experiment yesterday during our regular call. She was planning on moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where my sister lives, if my dad passes on before her.
Well, she asked about buying a townhouse with me instead. I pushed back that the politics in Wyoming are way too conservative for my comfort zone. So she countered with moving to Greeley, Colorado, where I live in northern Colorado.
This led to a whole day of introspection, talking with my sister on her feelings on this (surprise, she’s supportive!), and talking with my apartment property manager about the logistics. *That* led to me suggesting she move to my complex and we get a larger unit.
We could be good for each other, if boundaries are respected.
Anyone do something similar that could offer insights or considerations?
Hypothetical question: Imagine someone discovers a "formula of the #universe" – a single, coherent #theory that explains the #BigBang, #quantumphysics, and the origin of #life from first principles.
What do you think would be the next logical step? What would be the consequences – for the person themselves, for our #society, and for #technology?
#alife #ai #reflection #BDI #crows for my #commonLisp #emacs #slime #eepitch #caisor #softwareIndividuals #programming (I guess this is particularly #softwareEngineering ).
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/after-alife-talk-practical-thoughts/
I consider the scenario where one vehicle tells another one where to get food, and run a #thoughtExperiment with crow tool use. I find programs want to alternate autonomous action with human-in-the-loop interpretive collaboration.
Unsung heroes @dougmerritt @mdhughes & everyone.
#thoughtexperiment
Trading places:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy becomes the president of the United States
Donald Trump Jr becomes the president of Ukraine
What happens next?
So monkeys can't produce the works of Shakespeare: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub=
I love their conclusion paragraph!
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @TomWellborn
#ThoughtExperiment: what if JFK and RFK were #AmericanGracchi of the #American Republic?
@tadbithuman @Sir_Osis_of_Liver @Remittancegirl
#ThoughtExperiment: What do you imagine is the hypothetical limit, in tons, of what the #AmericanNetanyahu would authorize to drop on any American city (defined as more than 50,000 population)?
Thought experiment on the legal & judicial system as the source code for society, with lawyers as the engineers:
https://www.superversive.co/blog/legal-system-as-societys-source-code
@YakyuNightOwl @ezeeE @ErictheCerise @grrrr_shark @aredridel
#ThoughtExperiment: If a red flag is raised and nobody else seems to see or care about it, was the red flag raised? 
Which is worse? #ThoughtExperiment #USpol
New thought experiment just dropped: the Brandolini Maximizer.
#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon They want a world where women don’t get to talk and die in childbirth like it used to be so they can get the next model. Do you see it? Are you prepared to frame that issue and talk about it? If someone were to ask me how I see the fight ending, I wouldn’t be able to answer. I think there’s a 50-50 chance we go fully and openly to Jim Crow 2.0. And when I look around sometimes I wonder..which side are you all on? 7/7
#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon A large swath of white America does not want a new world order. They are desperately fighting for Jim Crow 2.0 where people of color know their place, don't look them in they eye and step off the sidewalk when they walk by. They want a world where they can work black and brown children to death, and kill their parents with impunity if they complain. 6/7
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#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon The root of the MAGA angst is the fight for the American White Identity. The fight is over whether "White America" will join a world order where they are not on top and where their voices are not always considered the most important one or will they enter a world where there are equals who don’t look like them, don’t speak their language, don’t eat their food or pray to the same gods. 5/7
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#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon Reagan continued those polices as did both Bushes. And frankly, Bill Clinton signed some of the most repressive legislation that has ever been wielded as a hammer against poor people and people of color. What Nixon and Halderman and the others have been worried about was a population of free black and brown people, who were educated, employed and able to participate in the so-called American Dream. 4/7
#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon Just recently someone on Mastodon re-posted the interview with Nixon’s man Halderman where he proudly admitted that they created the war on drugs to negate any forward movement that was created by the civil rights legislation of 1964/65. This happened within the lifetimes of you old heads on this site and for the young people when your parents were already adults. 3/7
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#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon And just as with the first experiment results were not surprising. Less than 10 people offered a guess as to the underlying root complaint of the MAGA. Let me offer one. You’ll need to remember some history but I promise I’ll only ask you to go back as far as Richard Nixon. I won’t traumatize you with a connection to Reconstruction (!) 2/7
#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought the underlying root complaint is for the MAGAs. I asked Europeans not to reply, because their underlying causes of right wing discontent are different from ours AND because they are more willing to critically look at systems than Americans are. I wanted to hear from the people who live here. 1/7
