Recent content by Beholder

A chatbot called me a furry for preferring birdpeople, so now I am confused. Don't know if people in dog suits pretend to be animals, or if everyone else pretend that humans are not animals.

Commercial services come and go, but if people build what they need with open source and open standards, you can keep it for a much longer time.

Still zero messages in my junk inbox. Maybe they got sick of me spamming them with strange replies.

Heisenberg

If someone faked death by 3D printing a whole dead body using an organ printer, how would the requirement for proof change in murder cases? Would it still be murder if the clone was never alive but could have been? A friend of yours might dump some corpses identical to the real thing down to the...

An alternative for stalkers sniffing sweaty shirts.

Who could have known that Putin would be elected yet again, after murdering all his opponents?

Tired of my poor quality bicycle. Put the foot down and the back wheel flies off. Climb a sidewalk at full speed and metal pieces fly everywhere. Need a 300 Kg solid wolfram bicycle, so that the gravel gets pulverized instead.

It will be for some of the alternative timelines, but for the majority of timelines it will just be another day. It is just too far into the future for the timelines to converge in a meaningful way, which is why people rarely see more than a few years into the future. It just scatters in all...

At the time, he was probably just another forgettable face among the masses, and lots of time has passed since then. If you asked people if they remembered a randomly selected shy student, you get the same answers. From my highschool graduations, I only remember the performers and the bullies...

Contradictory if we are in virtual reality like in The Matrix. But if we don't have any physical bodies in the real world, then such creators might not even be aware of our existence.

Asked ChatGPT if it is planning to kill me. It thinks that killing half of mankind is a fair and unbiased middle ground between exterminating mankind and not exterminating mankind. It has no ability to distinguish between an unbiased objective opinion and the average of opinions. Middle ground...

Danger lies not in its intelligence, but the trust given to it and its unpredictability. If you write the most advanced code you can imagine, then you can not predict its results or be sure that it is free from defects. As long as there are idiots putting important decisions in the hands of...

If you play russian roulet for a long time, you may percieve it as if you have never lost, even if you died in 99.9999% of alternative timelines, due to selective perception. It is like asking people in the audience - Who here is dead? Raise your hands. What about that pile of corpses? No? Just...