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mild permutation city spoilers 

@nire@witches.town having a running-on-computers consciousness of a person experience continuous subjective time even as the simulation timestep was increased to really long times.

@nire@witches.town was it not from radioactive decay either?

@nire@witches.town Like, in a way beyond blackbody radiation?

Deliberate induction of false memories also definitely counts as a spooky experiment.

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Prompted by this: What's the spookiest scientific experiment you know of?

My candidates: single-particle double slit, Michelson-Morely experiment failing to demonstrate luminiferous aether.

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I've started reading Permutation City and even though I basically philosophically agree with all of its claims about consciousness/personhood so far, it's still a bit spooky sometimes.

tentatively dipping my fingertips into this mug of tea, like a kitty.

I think the only thing I've actually blocked was a HN bot though.

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I'm being *way* more aggressive about muting people on Mastodon than I ever was on birdsite.

A good development, I think.

Frustrated at how ubiquitous drag events seem to be for weekend events at queer clubs around here :/

@literorrery I'm okay. Just hit the point of Done with that particular employer.
Thank you for asking :)

...I swear that the hold music for the unemployment office sounds like a stereotypical oldschool porn soundtrack.

@OsirisSaline My biggest annoyance is that emoji have risen to common use without any of the interfaces that facilitate their use doing anything to facilitate the _reading_ of them.

Seriously, why can't I long-press or cursor-hover to get a popup with a large, clearly visible version of the image and at least the corresponding Unicode name(s)? How is it that _nobody_ is implementing this or similar?

It's a usability clusterfuck.

@benhamill@witches.town looks like they absorb 40% of their weight in water, so... you'd have to eat kind of a lot?

My speakers have a button labelled "sfx" that does nothing but invert the phase of one of the channels. It's The Worst.

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