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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2025-03-05 04:03 [#02641658]
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the difference between discrete and continuous is someone
deciding to disobey the red signal in [walking emoji]
pedestrian mode effectively breaking the rules. and the sign
has changed but how much? how much of a car wreck? stay safe
out there discrete analog marbles cruel determinism


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2025-03-05 04:05 [#02641659]
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don't break nature with so much cheating discreting weet
weet woo


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2025-03-05 09:38 [#02641660]
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it’s illegal to jaywalk


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2025-03-05 17:31 [#02641672]
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i'm a compatibilist


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2025-03-05 20:36 [#02641682]
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I believe in hard mermaidmanism


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2025-03-05 20:54 [#02641685]
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Hidden variables up yer ass


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 21:36 [#02641686]
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Hold on, this got 4 replies from 4 people.

Did any of you 4 people understand what epic was saying? can
any of you paraphrase his gibberish into a real, cogent
point? I'd love to see it. What is it that you think it is
that you're replying to here?


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 21:40 [#02641689]
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new album title

what is it that you think it is


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 21:52 [#02641690]
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I think you lazy fucks wont bother dissecting this. I'll
give it a go.

the difference between discrete and continuous is
someone
deciding to disobey the red signal in [walking emoji]
pedestrian mode effectively breaking the rules.


It's a horribly written, borderline unreadable run on
sentence, let's start with that.

By discrete/continuous he probably means a singular, one off
event rather than a systematic flow of traffic. Probably.
It's completely fucking unclear because he can't write worth
shit. The singular event would be, what.... someone running
across the street when the sign says stop?

and the sign
has changed but how much? how much of a car wreck?


he's saying the sign changed from HALT to GO? Vice Versa?
"How much of a car wreck" would be secondary to a pedestrian
being mowed down, so how much of a manslaughter? What does
he mean by "the sign has changed?" is he saying there's not
enough of a visual indicator? probably not, somehow, in his
brain, this relates to his point about discrete vs.
continuous, and the sign change is some kind of metaphor
which he thinks is actually smart. Your metaphor has down
syndrome, and is illegible.

stay safe out there discrete analog marbles cruel
determinism


I think this line is just an attempt to save face and be
funny, but you ineptitude at writing lost you all face years
ago and you've never made a coherent joke since you called
Mohammed Mo'harmed after I apologized for misspelling his
name.

State what you mean here in human parlance.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 22:10 [#02641691]
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In a reasonable description, actually digestible by the
human mind, I would describe determinism ultimately as

1. Everything in an unchangeable result of the motion of the
big bang, including the flow of your own neurotransmitters.
You have no free will and are subject only to motion set by
the big bang.

or

2. Everything is the result of a pre-determined divine plan
from a higher power

In a scientific sense, any motion "set by the big bang" is
questionable, since quantum theory has THUS FAR proved
anomalous, random variables to be a universal truth.

Any argument for divine determinism is never provable, never
arrived at via reason, and is only based on faith.

An argument for determinism to be like a crosswalk, with no
ultimate thesis of any kind, is both non-contributoary and
just made everyone dumber that attempted to post 4 replies
about it (so just me).


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 22:38 [#02641693]
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for my 5th reply I'll say:

There is absolutely zero percent chance epic comes here and
clarifies his point in any meaningful way. He may reply, but
the waters will be further muddied.

I'm calling my shot like Babe Ruth. I guarantee this
outcome.


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2025-03-05 22:48 [#02641696]
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I guarantee it


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2025-03-05 22:59 [#02641697]
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i'm reading it as a cute meditation like hey what if a
singular incident, a pulse if you will, was actually a
continuous function instead of a discrete event. what if
traffic lights, they have three discrete values right, red
orange green (blue??) what if instead they were a continuous
function and what if if you were to cross when the signal is
trending red and you got into an accident, what if that was
continuous also, right like what if it was a value between 0
and 1 of an accident. i like it.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 23:11 [#02641699]
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hah, well in the US we only have 2. "walk," and "don't
walk," and they both have the same color. orange usually (in
california), but green in some cities elsewhere. to help the
blind, an automatic speaker proclaims "wait. wait. wait.
wait." for 20 seconds while the don't walk sign is up. A
solid feature, imo.

I understand this idea of breaking free of the continuous
flow (WALK/ DON'T WALK). The basic metaphor made a semblance
of sense. However, when he says "the sign has changed, but
by how much?" what on earth is he saying? It *seems* to be
the CRUX of his argument. I dunno, it's always hard to pin a
thesis down with epic. What did he mean there? I'm genuinely
curious as to an answer. I cannot figure it out.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2025-03-05 23:13 [#02641700]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2025-03-06 03:15 [#02641703]
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it's not that deep and it never is


 


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