MotoAsh

but my wife is a doctor and she agrees because she’s never been wet!

I don’t remember which channel it was, but they seemed official? Like it was a very plain channel name with no extras, like MythBusters, or maybe with a space in there and that was it. Either way, they had a stint in there where the videos were terribly cut, so I noped out… I still have the series saved off elsewhere, so no need for a shitty youtube channel if I need to binge some sane TV.

I desperately hope they either trained the monkey editing their clips or got a new one, but for a time, they’d have videos that only had the first half of what was in the title, or say, “all of episode 30” and it’d be 12 minutes long, etc. It’s like they fed their episodes in to a shitty AI to edit things together.

Except somehow who ever edited the clips did an infinitely worse job than just freaking cutting out the commercials from the old broadcasts.

No, they’re right.

AI when 1/4th it’s training data is, “if a woodchuck could chuck wood…” sentences.

I’ma’ bout to do my own slaying

… hopefully less rip and tear, though.

I’m not pissing on their goals. I’m pissing on them trying to pose and pomp with mid numbers. Why do you fail to understand that?

I’d argue you’re way more fit than the pathetic poser in the OP.

Their statement finishes with, "… it does not speak well of him."

That is specifically calling House worse than reality, so…

Nearly ten minutes a km? fucking weak.

what?

Nonono, that’s taking a step backwards toward the Ship of Theseus instead of the teleporter question. Everyone agrees there is a continued experience regardless of whether someone says, “yup that’s still exactly your body”.

The entire point of the teleporter question is… where is “your” mind and identity defined? If it’s only a prescription for how a body looks and behaves, then it doesn’t matter. If it’s someone’s own, personal, literal consciousness and continued sense of ‘self’ by that specific consciousness, it does matter if YOUR consciousness is coming out still attached to the body.

That’s pretty much exactly why I think it’s more about a lesson on how to treat others. Humans fundamentally believe they’re free to choose things, regardless of their religious affiliation. We always tell ourselves we want this and that, and decided x and y, etc. Regardless of the reality of free will, we all think we have it.

The only genuine purpose of saying Free Will is a gift from God I can think of is simply to make the dummies that want to force behavior on others hesitate about stepping on “God’s domain”.

But what if it’s just a copy of that relation R? Is it the same mind in a new body? Or a new body that’s so utterly similar that it will merely continue on believing it’s the same person?

I don’t like that philosophy, because it pretends the mind exists outside of the brain.

Does the difference of the literally unobservable matter? Yes absolutely to the person stepping in to the machine! Sure, everyone else doesn’t have to care, but the teleported person sure probably should care, so that philosophy does less than nothing for answering the question.

He’s basically saying, 'I don’t care if you die if I cannot tell if the new guy is different.". Saying, “I don’t care” is not an answer.

IMO, even the digitally sent person could be the original, depending on the philosophical concepts being applied (same ship of theseus style questions). If it’s just the process of reading your atoms to that level of detail that makes you disappear, and the only information that is literally ‘you’ is being transferred over and reconstituted in a similarly one-way-by-function process, it’s almost more of a phase shift to digital and back than a copy. Pretty much just side-stepping matter’s inability to travel without acceleration.

If the machine is basically ‘digesting’ the person only to send over the results for reproduction, though… that’s definitely a copy. Pretty sure Trek describes their transporters as the latter? They’re definitely killing a bunch of people in that show. ha Though to answer it with any kind of conclusive result, I’d think we’d need a technical description for how it works, and it cannot exist, so… lol

That’s why the late showers are “wisdom” teeth. Your brain is finally getting big enough to shove 'em out of there.

Y’know, the more I think about free will as a religous concept, the more I’m convinced it’s supposed to be an allegory for how to treat others, like a more convoluted Golden Rule. The source was shifted to “God” simply to make the garbage people that don’t normally care about others hesitate before they just ignore others’ advice on how to treat people.

The reasoning is pretty simple: Nobody can actually do anything they want because others will interfere. Individuals restrict others’ freedom all the time. If you’re restricting others freedoms, you’re doing an even worse version of judging others. The Bible pretty clearly says to leave such critical stuff that idiots can screw up in God’s hands, because idiots can and will screw it up.

Same with free will. Peoples’ freedom is, according to religous teachings, a gift from God. They describe such things as “from God” solely because idiots respect their flavor of Sky Daddy over other human beings.

If it’s actually a gift from God, then it makes little sense that humans can simply remove a gift an all-powerful diety bestows. So… either historic humans are insanely stupid and bad at logic … or it’s actually an allegory for not trying to control others so much.