We could use one, and assume we’re operating in the field of complex numbers:
1 N = North
i N = West
i2 N = South
i3 N = East.
And we could use the complex modulus to indicate distance or speed… or we could map the Riemann sphere onto the surface of the earth and use a single complex number to indicate location.
Many of the people electing the pope have hopes of becoming pope one day themselves, so they elect someone they expect to outlive.
Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.
Saag paneer.
I ate the last one yesterday.
Did you really expect me to resist?
Global Thermonuclear War.
Before trains, sea travel was the standard way to travel long distances even if a land route was available. Sea voyages came to represent any destination that was far enough away that communities wouldn’t be in regular contact.
I don’t have any direct experience with that, and I can’t say if it’s a good or bad idea—but I’d say if you’re going to do it, it can’t hurt to do it with some friends and try to create some positive new experiences to overwrite the traumatic ones.
Yeah—Milton’s Paradise Lost seems closer to the modern conception.
I think that’s reversing cause and effect: the AI bubble is the result of the preexisting corporate practice of enshittification getting a new toy to play with.
Immediate civilizational collapse.
Additional weight makes it harder to accelerate, but once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make much difference.
On the other hand, using your arms as counterweights makes it possible to transfer more force from your foot to the ground with each step.
Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.
Even if your claim were correct… with every infection the pathogen potentially gets better at infecting humans, and you’re giving it another opportunity to improve and spread to others.
Entire species have been wiped out because natural immunity doesn’t always outpace pathogens’ ability to adapt—letting nature take its course has no predictable winner.
Those who benefit from the way the police currently operate are incentivized to preserve the status quo—mental illness and all.
Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).
I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.
Sometime after sunrise.
There are actually two issues:
The most obvious effect of inbreeding is the increase in homozygosity for deleterious mutations, causing more birth defects.
A subtler effect is the loss of genetic diversity reducing a population’s ability to continue to evolve in response to future selection pressures. This would be especially important when migrating to a new environment with new selection pressures the species has never encountered before.
In the sense that the original organic material has been replaced by minerals? I guess that’s a version of the old Ship of Theseus question.