The logic is that the universe of big bang matter has a limited lifespan. This sets a hard limit on the number of humans via "normal" means.

Boltzmann brains are due to a quirk of quantum mechanics. Matter can come into existence spontaneously. The rate is proportional to the amount (technically the energy content). Given enough time and space, something that would fit the definition of human could spontaneously appear. The odds of this are unbelievably long, but, so long as it's finitely large, in a true infinite universe it will happen an infinite number of times. It's a bit of infinity Vs very large number weirdness.

End result is that there will be a large but finite number of "normal" humans, but an infinite number of Boltzmann brain humans. Therefore, the chances of being an actual "normal" human is effectively infinitesimal.

Agreed about it not mattering, day to day. It's one of those things that is of interest to theoretical physicists, since it might tell us something interesting about the nature of our universe.

Just if the Hulk comics were released sooner.

I'm happier with non-belief, than squirming through the exercise of deciding what to believe and disbelieve under the unchecked presumption that we must believe something.

Even more so for the distinct "believing in" something.

You might enjoy Terry Pratchett's witches series. There's magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.

I think you had the better version straight out of the gate.

If things are not all equal, then we can slice off a section of the axiom, and start dissecting it, via science. The axiom only applies if things are exactly equal.

E.g. Gravity wave detectors have found oddities, just above the noise floor. These are likely equipment artifacts. They are also consistent with us being in a simulation, and us touching close to the resolution limit. If true (quite unlikely) then it would prove the axiom false.

It's not 3 points, but 4.

Atheist==>Theist
Agnostic==>gnostic

There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists.

have you tried to find a tuning fork lately? they're little fake now. i just got an application across my desk asking for a grant for money to put tuning forks in weird places because there's not enough woo and i'm gonna reject it because it's a good idea and i want to do it.

fuck. pisceses always make me want sushi.

it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms.

I do not know how it sounds like that to you. Seems a strong non sequitur. Maybe I'm missing something. Care to elaborate how you made this leap?

yup. i like tarot. it gives me a prompt from which to examine my own thoughts.

three

People who grew up around the same time and geography have the same historical pressures on what behaviors they learn. Obviously outcome varies a lot individual to individual, but it creates broad trends among large groups. Sorting chronologically brings those trends to the forefront.

jealousy that we can keep rocking our body image after losing part of it.

i think i'm gonna need a demonstration kautau

this has been well established. don't do drugs kids. or do. i'm the internet, not a cop

I think you're probably joking, but this actually is a thing. e.g. https://scitechdaily.com/engineers-harvest-energy-from-wifi-signals-to-power-small-electronics/

This is what I don't like about the top meme, though. Like, yes, energy, frequency, and vibration are all things. Obviously. But the top meme is implying that everyone should believe that those things work in the specific ways that the woo practitioners say they do, and that's a very different demand. More, it's implying that people who doubt those effects are ignoring obvious evidence, when in fact the people who doubt those effects do so because nobody has been able to demonstrate reliable evidence for them. It has a nasty gaslighting overtone to it.

There's not enough information in the top meme to know what theories it's about.

Things vibrate in a way that isn't obvious to an unexamined view. If I look at a pebble, it appears to be non-vibratory, still. But a mystic or scientist who has really investigated it closely, exposed it to close analysis, can tell you that the reality of the pebble is vibration, not stillness.

Dammit.

Bravo.

Trying to legitimize bullshit by using big words out of context and meaning

Alopatic medicine cures some stuff but what does most is treat symptoms cause what it wants is to make money not to cure disease, I'm quite sure companies making billions off insuline and chemotherapy aren't going to even bother trying to cure something they are profiting off, in fact is much probable that they actively try to sabotage research that could end their golden goose disease treatments...

it is very interesting, but it's also one of those topics that makes anything else in the conversation not matter.

also do note that i said nothing about thinking sensory inputs are illusory, just that belief is not required for things to exist.

They aren't "powering everything". JFC go lick a wall outlet, that's what powers many things. WiFi is information, and indeed, they try to make it use less and less power.

Negative frequency is a concept in signal processing, and many other domains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_frequency

Phase could be the thing, beats me, it's been a while. Negative resistance is also another one of those concepts that pop up now and then, specifically negative differential resistance.

I kinda don't believe in Energy, in the sense that I find it a useful conserved quantity to calculate stuff. Energy, or other physical quantities like fields "existing" though, is a philosophical question

Indeed I do! Granted, it has been a minute since I last visited Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but I have a goal of gnawing my way through 50 books this year, so I might as well peek back in. Thank you for the reminder!

If you mean to use a different definition of aura, as in just a glow of light, then sure, technically all living matter has an imperceptible aura.

Could these UPEs play some kind of way into extremely short distance cellular interactions? Yes!

But thats... not what people mean, 95% of the time, when they're talking about a person's aura.

This is the whole problem of using woo woo terms.

You can't conflate two different meanings of words and then act like that is not what you are doing.

You also should specify what you mean, in cases where a word has different meanings in different domains.

• Myself, from the comment you replied to.

So you decided to monopolize the meaning of the term as strictly something that you can point to as obviously wrong, and when I point out that that's a mischaracterization you cite... yourself... as corroborating evidence.

You go champ.

Okay but some rocks do have an energy and vibe. This is scientifically proven, the energy is radiation and the vibe is hatred. Pretty fucken useful for a variety of things though, like antique glow in the dark plates.

Batman taught me this.

I mean, it's talking about people thinking that "energy, frequency and vibration are just mystical nonsense." People don't think that if you talk about an FM station broadcasting on a particular frequency, or about the frequency of light absorbed by particular atomic orbitals. They think that if you're explaining that you've slept much better since you placed jasper and amethyst on the ley lines near your bed to absorb the negative frequencies.

The implication in the meme that anyone who is using these terms cannot be indulging in mystical nonsense, because these terms can also apply to real things. In fact, though, mystic cranks have been coopting scientific terms for ages, and they show no signs of slowing down. It's a real problem that people confuse crap with science.

Shout out to my broken coworker who brought his crystals in to work one day to fix our negative energy. After carefully placing each stone according to universal leylines of good vibes, extraordinarily pleased with himself, immediately saw me slice through a package and into my fingers. I needed eleven stitches.

In my humble opinion, the first 20-30ish issues are the best ones and then after that the decline is wild and steep. I also never really cared for the TV show. I was so excited when it aired and had been waiting to see the girls move and speak for so long. And then the art style, the color palette, the animation and the voice acting was all ugly and cheap and I never understood why they decided that the color palette should be different shades of piss when the comics were so vibrant and lush. But that is just me. Also, legit, after the comics go into the 30s, the entire franchise crashed and burned. It's it's own can of worms and I don't want to bore you, but that was my first experience with becoming a dedicated fan of something and have a big entertainment company come in and annihilate everything that made the franchise good, run it into the dirt in the most disrespectful way and then cancel it because nobody liked it anymore.

I like tarot cards too. The idea of them, that is. I like the imagery and the many different meanings they hold depending in the combinatiom. Ironically, the whole predicting the future part of tarot cards is the least interesting thing to me, but that's how I feel about all these witchy things. It's more so the idea of the weird magic rules and how aesthetic they are that I find so appealing.

I'll show you some nice vibrations ;-)

Honestly? Without evidence, they're both equally probable. And believing, or refusing to believe in a god or something, are both faith of equal measure.

It's just whether someone thinks their version is faith is more realistic than the opposite.

I... am not entirely certain whether or not the tech actually existed, when the Dark Night came out, to build the hyper spy system...

But it definitely exists now, to at least some extent.

Fortunately, the Antichrist Peter Thiel is probably more or less in charge of it, so, all good!

WiFi IS real. "Auras", "Vibes" and "Crystal Energy" is magical nonsense.

my piceses, my piceses!

goblin monches on raw wriggling fish

That's just how the magic stones remove the negative energy from your body, through bloodletting

That's just what big WiFi wants you to think so they can sell you more WiFi
Open your eyes sheeple! And also remember to buy my $499 online course on how to make the vibrations of your aura more positive or something

It all makes sense now. The universe balanced my humors.

I mean, the signs* are right there in the article

*something something sines

You got to dissapoint her too, huh?

It seems more likely in a universe that is infinitely large that brains would come into existence through simpler deterministic processes like they did on earth than random fluctuations no?

Can you teach me to vibrate into alternate universes like The Flash? 'Cause I don't like this one that much.

Oh god, it’s been a long time since I took Vibrations and Waves, but I still remember filling notebook after notebook with Fourier transform equations.

Absolutely! But that's not covered until the Level 2 course, which is an in-person retreat.

Missa times acceleration

To be fair I very much don't believe in wifi. I use it, but I still think it doesn't have what it takes.