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CodingAndCoffee

@ CodingAndCoffee @lemmy.world

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  • Happy 20th birthday, 4chan. You've definitely...had an effect.

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  • Yes that's my understanding as well

  • Happy 20th birthday, 4chan. You've definitely...had an effect.

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  • I'm probably skipping some steps, but lowtax banning hentai drove the weebs to 4chan, and 8chan. 8chan was the home for all the "Q" posts that started Qanon which riled up the Republican base and led to the Jan 6 insurrection

  • Thanks, I hate it

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  • Blessed units of measure

  • Avocados on the house

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  • You sound like a good person who returns their shopping cart

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  • Is is a deposit, or a down payment 🤔

  • What do you do with all the free time you got once you stopped using reddit?

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  • I've been working out 2 hours a day and started playing daily sudoku and lichess puzzles

  • Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world”

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  • My mom's gonna be so mad her propaganda Trump memes are gone

  • What helps you when ill? Need some tips!

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  • If you're congested, put 12 drops of the spiciest hot sauce you can get in a small cup of water and gargle it and swish it around like mouthwash.

    You won't enjoy it, but you will be able to breathe.

  • Why do people dislike California?

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  • I can confirm for you that northern California is nicer

  • Why do people dislike California?

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  • You visited the worst parts. No wonder.

    Try Yosemite, Oakhurst, Morro Bay, or Monterey.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • Yeah, I've thought about this a little bit but again my math isn't so strong.

    I guess approaching this more from computer science (something I'm more familiar with) you could compare with stuff like the NP Hard class of problems. And thus I offer that unproveable does not mean "wrong". We generally "know" that P=NP is wrong but we cannot prove it only because we lack omniscience. Us lacking the information (in the physics sense of the word i.e. Hawking radiation) doesn't mean the information isn't there to be quantified.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • Yeah, when writing this I sort of had the notion that any argument against hard determinism using quantum mechanics would instead 1) actually prove multiverse theory, and 2) therefore still prove in favor of determinism.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • Maybe? My layman understanding of that topic is that the act of observation collapses alternative waveforms down to a single observed state. And if that's the case, why couldn't you "observe" the whole brain?

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • I'm glad you're enjoying this topic as much as I am

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • I think this is my favorite answer so far.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • That was poetic and beautifully described.

    Fascinating. 🖖

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • Thank you for a fun answer.

    I'll have to find some gummy bears.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • I like this take, but it also makes me feel like I could do a better job describing the intent of my question in more scientific terms. I hope to do so, here.

    If one were to have sufficiently advanced technology akin to future MRI machines that could image the state of the human brain at Planck time resolution, my argument is that the very process of "a decision" (act, choice, idea, etc.) could be quantified. And if that is the case, then there must be chemical triggers and causal events that could have predicted that state of the matter and energy. And if that's the case, then we must really be products of our environment in an (currently) incomprehensibly large chemistry equation.

    If any one decision could be quantized, reverse engineered, and then predicted through such means, then it stands to reason every decision can be. And if that's the case, free will cannot exist.

  • What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?

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  • I'll have to check it out