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René M. Grabow<p>Hypothetical question: Imagine someone discovers a "formula of the <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a>" – a single, coherent <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> that explains the <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/BigBang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBang</span></a>, <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumphysics</span></a>, and the origin of <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> from first principles.</p><p>What do you think would be the next logical step? What would be the consequences – for the person themselves, for our <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>, and for <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a><br><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Social</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/alife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alife</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reflection</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/BDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BDI</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/crows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crows</span></a> for my <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/commonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonLisp</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/slime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slime</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/eepitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eepitch</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/caisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caisor</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/softwareIndividuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareIndividuals</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> (I guess this is particularly <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareEngineering</span></a> ).</p><p><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/after-alife-talk-practical-thoughts/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/comple</span><span class="invisible">x/after-alife-talk-practical-thoughts/</span></a></p><p>I consider the scenario where one vehicle tells another one where to get food, and run a <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/thoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtExperiment</span></a> with crow tool use. I find programs want to alternate autonomous action with human-in-the-loop interpretive collaboration.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ksaj</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ciberlandia.pt/@shizamura" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>shizamura</span></a></span> </p><p>Unsung heroes <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dougmerritt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> &amp; everyone.</p>
DiscombobulatedDunce<p><strong>If I was in 1000 AD, how could I treat an infection with modern knowledge?</strong></p> <p>I got into a really long conversation with some people about this on Reddit so I figured I'd do a full write up.</p> <p>There were a lot of suggestions in the thread like honey, garlic, wine, onions and so on but that's using knowledge of the time.</p> <p>Plus honey was really expensive and a very seasonal item.</p> <p>You can way more easily turn wood ash into lye/strong base, use that as a bleach to disinfect cloths, make soaps, and clean working surfaces and it'll be way more effective than the poultices and home remedies you're thinking of in your head currently.</p> <p>The general process would be, burn hardwoods to create ashes, sift the ashes so it's all an even texture, wash the ashes in copious amounts of charcoal filtered, boiled, and settled water (use more water than ashes as to not give yourself lye burns) then filter through a cloth to get the non dissolved particulates out.</p> <p>You can then boil off the water to get a powder and mix it in measured proportions to get a highly diluted bleach analog and use it in whatever soap making or cleaning processes you want.</p> <p>Find tree nuts like acorns to press into usable oil, or barter for grain oils and animal fats to make soaps. Buy some vinegar to use as a direct antiseptic (better than nothing), wax to impregnate cloths for water resistant bandages/wound sealant, and some copper plates or pans so that you avoid having your gauzes, packings, and bandages touching dirty porous surfaces and you're practically off to the races.</p> <p>I can go into more depth about actually how to make the soap, make rudimentary pH testing strips, and all that but this post is already getting long.</p> <p>If you have some input I'd love to read it!</p> <p>Reddit thread if anyone wants to read the original discussion: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/1kil0hs/if_i_was_in_1000_ad_how_could_i_treat_an/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/1kil0hs/if_i_was_in_1000_ad_how_could_i_treat_an/</a></p><br> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/alt%20history" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alt-history</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/thought%20experiment" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thought-experiment</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/alternate%20history" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alternate-history</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/what%20if" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#what-if</a>
Michael The Anonymous<p>Decentralized education is a vision that democratizes learning, making it free and accessible to everyone. By distributing educational resources across a network, no single entity can control the curriculum.</p><p><a href="https://michaeltheanon.blogspot.com/2025/05/decentralized-education-free-mind-free.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeltheanon.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/05/decentralized-education-free-mind-free.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indoctrination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>college</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><a href="https://me.dm/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: Many <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Worldlets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Worldlets</span></a>? </p><p>or in other words, fractions of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a>, not the whole World. <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTraveler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTraveler</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> often involve splitting or multiplying <a href="https://me.dm/tags/universes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universes</span></a> … But if we think this through further, its scope might not be quite so universal as it is typically presented … </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://aus.social/@KronoMoon_TotalLunarEclipse/114462733797499137" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aus.social/@KronoMoon_TotalLun</span><span class="invisible">arEclipse/114462733797499137</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kronodon</span></a></p>
Krononaut Moon 🌕 2025 Sep 07<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: Many <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Worldlets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Worldlets</span></a>? </p><p>or in other words, fractions of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a>, not the whole World. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTraveler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTraveler</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> often involve splitting or multiplying <a href="https://aus.social/tags/universes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universes</span></a>. Time Travel events divide <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spacetime</span></a> into two near-identical clones. Grandfather lived or did not, you did not meet yourself or you did. But if we think this through further, its scope might not be quite so universal as typically presented. </p><p>Take 3 heavenly bodies: Mother <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a>, the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AlphaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlphaCentauri</span></a> triple star system (at 4+ light years away), and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Polaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polaris</span></a>, the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NorthStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthStar</span></a> (at 400+ light years away). </p><p>Now we program our <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeMachine</span></a> to take us back one year (<a href="https://aus.social/tags/retrograde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrograde</span></a>) where we meet ourselves. Hi selves! This all takes place in one year. There's the original us, there's us leaving the present, and there's us meeting our past/original selves a year earlier — standard <a href="https://aus.social/tags/boilerplate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boilerplate</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/script" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>script</span></a>. </p><p>Alpha Centauri will have to wait another 3 years before any of this information can get to there. This is related to the concept of a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/lightcone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lightcone</span></a> which expands at the speed of light. This doesn't sound quite so much like birthing a twin universe, does it? Now what about the North Star? It will have to wait 433 years for news of our Time Travel event(s). And that's still pretty much in our tiny <a href="https://aus.social/tags/celestial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>celestial</span></a> neighborhood. </p><p>The point is that the effects of such events are largely localized and rapidly diluted as we move farther away. This still has its paradoxical problems, but it doesn't quite feel like the whole universe dividing into two — maybe part of it (a universelet? a subuniverse?) Possibilities are that in moving further out in space-time, the effects of a Time Travel incident may be 'blurred out', as are anomalous numerical samples in the law of large <a href="https://aus.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numbers</span></a>. If one pours a cup of coffee into a lake, it doesn't change the color of the lake. There is a brief chaotic <a href="https://aus.social/tags/glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glitch</span></a> before it is no longer measurable. </p><p>It is tempting to imagine space-time as "stitching" itself back together. (Glitch &amp; stitch?) Such speculations are related to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StephenHawking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StephenHawking</span></a>'s "chronology protection conjecture" of 1992. And along with <a href="https://aus.social/tags/blackholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackholes</span></a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/entanglement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>entanglement</span></a>, and other <a href="https://aus.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a> phenomena, if Time Travel is possible, then we should be looking for it at every scale. We could be surrounded by time-traveling particles everywhere all the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Time</span></a>. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds</span><span class="invisible">_interpretation</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ManyWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManyWorlds</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox#Consistency_paradox" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_pa</span><span class="invisible">radox#Consistency_paradox</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrandfatherParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandfatherParadox</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LightCone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LightCone</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel</span><span class="invisible">#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravelTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTheory</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_larg</span><span class="invisible">e_numbers</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LawOfLargeNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfLargeNumbers</span></a><br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_protection_conjecture" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_</span><span class="invisible">protection_conjecture</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChronologyProtectionConjecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChronologyProtectionConjecture</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GlitchInTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchInTime</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/31108/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/31108/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> This Thought Experiment About Donald Trump That Has People Riled Up, And I Want To Know What You Think <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AnnaMoneymaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMoneymaker</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GettyImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GettyImages</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JemalCountess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JemalCountess</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/9488/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/9488/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Physicists put Schrödinger’s cat in a microwave — and the quantum experiment actually worked <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumComputers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumObjects</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumSuperposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumSuperposition</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Schr%C3%B6dinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schrödinger</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/temperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>temperatures</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
Seán Fobbe<p>🔔 New Essay 🔔 </p><p>"The Intelligent AI Coin: A Thought Experiment"</p><p>Open Access here: <a href="https://seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21_intelligent-ai-coin-thought-experiment/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21</span><span class="invisible">_intelligent-ai-coin-thought-experiment/</span></a></p><p>Recent years have seen a concerning trend towards normalizing decisionmaking by Large Language Models (LLM), including in the adoption of legislation, the writing of judicial opinions and the routine administration of the rule of law. AI agents acting on behalf of human principals are supposed to lead us into a new age of productivity and convenience. The eloquence of AI-generated text and the narrative of super-human intelligence invite us to trust these systems more than we have trusted any human or algorithm ever before.</p><p>It is difficult to know whether a machine is actually intelligent because of problems with construct validity, plagiarism, reproducibility and transferability in AI benchmarks. Most people will either have to personally evaluate the usefulness of AI tools against the benchmark of their own lived experience or be forced to trust an expert.</p><p>To explain this conundrum I propose the Intelligent AI Coin Thought Experiment and discuss four objections: the restriction of agents to low-value decisions, making AI decisionmakers open source, adding a human-in-the-loop and the general limits of trust in human agents.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Benchmarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Benchmarks</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Validity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Validity</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plagiarism</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reproducibility</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Transferability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transferability</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Decisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LargeLanguageModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModel</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a></p>
Marcin Cieślak<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a><br>Trading places:</p><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy becomes the president of the United States</p><p>Donald Trump Jr becomes the president of Ukraine</p><p>What happens next?</p>
barefootstache<p>A hypothetical scenario behind the anti seed oil movement is that the proponents are being bought off by various <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/lobbies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbies</span></a>. This would be seen if the profit margins of non seed oils is higher than seed oils.</p><p>Some examples of a non seed oil come from the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> industry and it seems in general that the global market size of dairy is many folds greater than for seed oils. Additionally, it seems like the dairy industry gets also many folds more subsidies than the seed oils industry. These both statements would confirm the original <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/hypothesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypothesis</span></a>.</p><p>Though if in return the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/subsidies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subsidies</span></a> <br> for the seed oils industry would increase, therefore providing the dairy industry with cheaper material, then it would create an increased profit margin. Thus questioning the original hypothesis if it is financially driven.</p><p>Alternatively, one could still explain it away as financially driven with the idea of having money now over having potentially more money tomorrow.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/LifeStyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeStyle</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SeedOils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeedOils</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AntiSeedMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSeedMovement</span></a></p>
Bharath M. Palavalli<p>So monkeys can't produce the works of Shakespeare: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub=</span></a></p><p>I love their conclusion paragraph!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/infinitemonkeystheorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infinitemonkeystheorem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shakespeare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a></p>
Teacher/Coder Jason<p>I find it interesting how everyone jumps to the conclusion that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> was served his own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> (me incl) while there is 0 proof of this. My <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> brain kicked in. What if the fella gone <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a> and tried to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> the system from within, pissed of everyone, and they saw an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opportunity</span></a> to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Prevent change that would impinge on their profits while instigating change to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gunlaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gunlaws</span></a>. That <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a> also showed me how tempting and easy to construct CTs are</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>My kind of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a><br><a href="https://beige.party/@laprice/113536776667646800" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beige.party/@laprice/113536776</span><span class="invisible">667646800</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TomWellborn</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: what if JFK and RFK were <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AmericanGracchi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanGracchi</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> Republic?</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tadbithuman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tadbithuman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Sir_Osis_of_Liver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Sir_Osis_of_Liver</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Remittancegirl</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: What do you imagine is the hypothetical limit, in tons, of what the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AmericanNetanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanNetanyahu</span></a> would authorize to drop on any American city (defined as more than 50,000 population)?</p>
readbeanicecream<p>Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvw</span><span class="invisible">yv9o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Thought experiment on the legal &amp; judicial system as the source code for society, with lawyers as the engineers:</p><p><a href="https://www.superversive.co/blog/legal-system-as-societys-source-code" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">superversive.co/blog/legal-sys</span><span class="invisible">tem-as-societys-source-code</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LegalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegalTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ShowerThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThought</span></a></p>
Steven Carneiro<p>The cat is out of the box:<br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumphysics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/quantummechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantummechanics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ingenious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ingenious</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a><br>😸</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-quantum-cheshire-cat-thought-experiment-is-out-of-the-box/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/a-new-quantum-cheshire-cat-thought-experiment-is-out-of-the-box/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@YakyuNightOwl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>YakyuNightOwl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@ezeeE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ezeeE</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ErictheCerise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ErictheCerise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://supervolcano.angryshark.eu/@grrrr_shark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>grrrr_shark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aredridel</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: If a red flag is raised and nobody else seems to see or care about it, was the red flag raised? 🤔</p>