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by gfodor 3y ago
Gross.
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by gfodor 3y ago
This reminds me of Kafka Streams
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by gfodor 3y ago
this article doesn't even analyze AVP, it analyzes a quest pro and 'extrapolates'
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by gfodor 3y ago
You're confused. Vision Pro is a true AR/MR device. It uses AR passthrough. A lot of people for a long time have assumed there's some inherent reason people would never accept passthrough AR devices. A few people like myself
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by gfodor 3y ago
Certainly but the point is that anyone commenting on it in a way that deceptively avoids mentioning this fact is pretty clearly bad faith.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Because I follow these people on Twitter and have seen their histrionics and hypocrisy on the regular.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Sure it matters. It doesn’t mean you ultimately would judge it appropriate, but take any scenario where violent rap lyrics are used and revoke a person’s ability to know they are quoting a song and it will be interpreted wildly differently.
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by gfodor 3y ago
I mean, if someone says something like that and they’re conjuring it up directly or they’re quoting a piece of art, I think that’s obviously relevant to interpreting it. Without taking a position on how severe to interpret it, it’s plainl
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by gfodor 3y ago
You'd never guess that this was a Tupac quote by the media coverage and wave after wave of forced outrage. The whole thing is so embarassing.
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by gfodor 3y ago
People don't wear those all day. A scenario where people have cameras on their face all day yields a totally different kind of ability to capture serendipitious moments, etc. That's not to say this value proposition is high enough
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by gfodor 3y ago
They should be here to ensure we don’t do anything that could hurt anyone not on Earth’s surface.
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by gfodor 3y ago
The problem is these stories while inconsistent in the ways you mention are also inexplicably consistent in other ways. Imagine we have another small population of moderately more technologically advanced hominids right here on Earth. Say t
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by gfodor 3y ago
That doesn’t make any sense to me. I would never risk anything someone told me would move my consciousness into another machine since I would have no way to know a priori if the person on the other side would still be me. Ergo I think civil
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by gfodor 3y ago
Light speed can’t be overcome and virtual reality can be made so you optimize for minimizing latency between minds and expanding into space strictly for scientific purposes or safety reasons. (Ie, to probe it for knowledge and danger.)
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by gfodor 3y ago
No, I made a GPT that does, if you search for Intraterrestrial Hypothesis. I’m gonna write an essay though.
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by gfodor 3y ago
UAPDA and recent testimony to Congress, combined with the steady progression of destagmatization, whistleblower protection, etc.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Correct - but also sufficiently alien that you should consider a scenario where we have a sibling species here on Earth with us.
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by gfodor 3y ago
You already called the same people crude. I’m calling them irrational. If one is an “insult” so is the other.
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by gfodor 3y ago
I mean I thought this too but this is the one area, particularly under recent events, that I think it’s reasonable to start trying to come up with good non-prosaic explanations. You’ll probably find an increasingly surprising number of peop
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by gfodor 3y ago
Figure out what physics says about the physical footprint of say 10 million small hominids who want to remain alive but live life entirely in virtual reality pods. I think you’ll conclude that from first principles you can say very well hid
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by gfodor 3y ago
Presumably if we're dealing with a non-human intelligence that does not want to be identified then we're in the challenging situation of this being closer to an adversarial war than a natural phenomena. So, while absence of eviden
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by gfodor 3y ago
Small humanoid sibling species living in VR pods adapted physically initially for subterranean life but eventually artifically selected for sensory override VR pods. (Hence the large eyes, grey skin, no reproductive organs, absorbitve diges
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by gfodor 3y ago
Lots of people in this thread are speculating about the plausibility of an ET hypothesis, which is far more nutty than what I wrote here. What I wrote here is unorthodox , but an ET hypothesis comparatively is absurd, particularly if you a
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by gfodor 3y ago
The hypothesis is this all happened 10-20k years ago, and they virtualized their society into VR. They somehow managed to eliminate enough of the evidence of their development phase on the surface to the point where we have no conclusive ev
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by gfodor 3y ago
Yeah I mean ultimately I can put forward falsifiable tests for most of these. My hypothesis is they are in a large void under one of the oceans, in physical pods. They don't eat solid food, but absorb a liquid diet. They probably do
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by gfodor 3y ago
beats me. some people have emotional reactions to hypotheses around the UAP phenomenon. it's not that surprising given the implications of if it is due to non-human intelligence, but it's annoying that speculative theorizing about
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by gfodor 3y ago
People make claims here all the time without evidence and don't get downvoted. How absurd.
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by gfodor 3y ago
It’s actually a false dilemma. They’re real, but they’re non-human Earthlings living here in an environment we haven’t yet discovered or stumbled upon is the option few talk about, fits the full body of evidence better than any other explan
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by gfodor 3y ago
My theory is they are real but they’re not aliens. They are another hominid species who live here on Earth. My explanation is actually pretty good if you condition on the assumption that they are real - if you do that, ET is very unlikely c
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by gfodor 3y ago
Kirkpatrick has misrepresented things in the past. His whole thing is very suspicious and weird. I wouldn’t put too much weight on what he is saying here.

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