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Is this some AI generated content on HN? The ramblings of a mad man? What are you getting at here?

by 14 2y ago

b112 2y ago
What am I getting at?! Consider all the conditions required that a by product of a food animal's milk only works well at perfect room temp. You think that's a mistake? A happy coincidence? No. It's proof that the entire universe was designed to ensure that butter spreads at the same temperature that humans find comfortable. Even the fact that human comfort == butter comfort is a big, hairy flag.
- chiefalchemist 2y ago
  Mistake? I think that if it were otherwise we wouldn't have a thing called butter. The critical characteristic is why we have this thing. The way butter is, it is.
  - b112 2y ago
    Exactly! Butter is butter because if butter wasn't butter, the universe would not exist as it is! It's the cotter-pin of our reality, it's the centre that holds, it's the validation of an if-then statement, it's an automated test. I bet if butter isn't perfect at room temp, the next version doesn't ship!
    - chiefalchemist 2y ago
      Not exactly. The world is exactly as it is because it is. Butter is no different from water. You're effective saying "land animals breathe air, sea creature breathe water. This means we're in a simulation." Butter has propeties like everything else. Those properties across a range of temps has an appeal. Ice cream... Same thing. Ice cubes, same thing. And so on.
- 14 2y ago
  What about the thousands of things that do not work at room temperature? Why butter? Why does food spoil if left at room temperature? Why would or simulation need fridges and freezers? Why do we have food safe temperatures we need to cook food if we are in a simulation? Why simulate so many negative experiences on man? I don't think butter proves anything and is such a weird offer of proof as to living in a simulation. Otherwise humans would have thick furs and skin and we would live in world where ice and cold surrounds us and we could have ice cream left out on or table and it would not melt.

Is this some AI generated content on HN? The ramblings of a mad man? What are you getting at here?

by 14 2y ago

Is this some AI generated content on HN? The ramblings of a mad man? What are you getting at here?

b112 2y ago

What am I getting at?! Consider all the conditions required that a by product of a food animal's milk only works well at perfect room temp. You think that's a mistake? A happy coincidence? No. It's proof that the entire universe was designed to ensure that butter spreads at the same temperature that humans find comfortable. Even the fact that human comfort == butter comfort is a big, hairy flag.

chiefalchemist 2y ago
Mistake? I think that if it were otherwise we wouldn't have a thing called butter. The critical characteristic is why we have this thing. The way butter is, it is.
- b112 2y ago
  Exactly! Butter is butter because if butter wasn't butter, the universe would not exist as it is! It's the cotter-pin of our reality, it's the centre that holds, it's the validation of an if-then statement, it's an automated test. I bet if butter isn't perfect at room temp, the next version doesn't ship!
  - chiefalchemist 2y ago
    Not exactly. The world is exactly as it is because it is. Butter is no different from water. You're effective saying "land animals breathe air, sea creature breathe water. This means we're in a simulation." Butter has propeties like everything else. Those properties across a range of temps has an appeal. Ice cream... Same thing. Ice cubes, same thing. And so on.
14 2y ago
What about the thousands of things that do not work at room temperature? Why butter? Why does food spoil if left at room temperature? Why would or simulation need fridges and freezers? Why do we have food safe temperatures we need to cook food if we are in a simulation? Why simulate so many negative experiences on man? I don't think butter proves anything and is such a weird offer of proof as to living in a simulation. Otherwise humans would have thick furs and skin and we would live in world where ice and cold surrounds us and we could have ice cream left out on or table and it would not melt.