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Anonymous asked:

Other thing that somehow features all three: the Back To The Future trilogy

I admit, I focused on doing time travel, not watching time travel, so I haven’t seen all of them.  It was more of a one-time thing, too.

Actually my knowledge of late 20th century movies is pretty selective.  It was all considered pretty bloody problematic at the time, for most of them.

Anyhow, it’s kinda complicated, but the third way is the most, uh, accurate, I guess?  There’s like a 50-50 chance I’m being chased by the Temporal Enforcement Bureau, but eh, I can live with it.

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Anonymous asked:

It's okay to fear death if you don't let that fear control you. We should be pushing the spare capacity for risk we've generated, not resting and letting our potential go to waste. The same applies to any future capacity medical advances generate. To put it in the crudest possible terms, immortality is for pussies. Choose instead to die gloriously.

The grand irony is that all the other medical technologies acquired along the way as part of the general pattern of technological development necessary to achieve enhanced lifespans would very well allow me to achieve much more of my potential.

…to have energy, to have focus, to have executive functioning, for all these to be much less of a battle, why did you think I wanted to live so long in the first place?

There’s a lot of art to make, way more than can be crammed into a single human lifetime, much less a single dysfunctional human lifespan.

The “but living longer will remove meaning from human life!” arguments were always somewhat bizarre to me.  Making a book, or a comic book, or a movie, it takes a long time!

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Anonymous asked:

I bet you hide your gender because you don't know what it is. Merely being a confused possibly trans person is too normie, I'm guessing there was some kind of mindwipe and on the right stimulus you'll trigger as 2x193ffhg or something, at which point the world is sufficiently Woke to handle such a true form.

Gender, on Tumblr, is a Discourse Attack Surface:

Woman?  “Shut the fuck up, you sexist bitch.”  “Hush, Karen,” and so on.

Man?  Obviously you don’t understand the Lived Experiences of Womyn, you’re an oppressor, you’re coming from a place of privilege, et cetera.

Transwoman?  You can’t be a true woman because you were socialized male, and therefore oppressor, at birth.  (Or various right-wing criticisms.)

Transman?  Why are you trying to become the oppressor gender, you delusional wannabe oppressor?

Nonbinary?  Make up your mind / stop trying to escape your obligations to WOMEN

And so on.

Not providing it makes it more difficult for [discourse rival] to avoid engaging with the content of a post by writing it off as written by [enemy gender].  They still can, but they have to assume the gender to do so, which is a discourse liability.

But on some level, you’re right - it’s probably no accident that all my long-term exes are bisexual women of some kind or another.

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RE: Negative Singularity Anon:

Obviously, this belongs in the Spooky Stories for Rationalists book.

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Anonymous asked:

One frightening possibility I have considered: Hell is not merely a misunderstanding of a single thing, but a conflation of two misunderstood things: the aforementioned cessation of existence for people who fail to recognize God, and an inevitable manmade Unfriendly Singularity that will cause a finite but vast amount of suffering for every person so unlucky as to be assimilated into it.

is this the thing where souls are tormented for some amount of time and then destroyed?  I think at least one sect of one religion believes in that.

if it isn’t that, you’ll have to elaborate.

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Anonymous asked:

IMO it's not as alien as you might think, so long as you accept the existence of Heaven. Life as we know it is a minute portion of our life cycle, a tutorial, if you will. God is trying to make as many distinct beings as possible to enjoy eternity in Heaven; our finite sufferings here are random seeds for those beings, and the infinite joy that is to come infinitely outweighs it. It's not alien, just... Correct.

that sounds like something an alien would say

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Anonymous asked:

Over in more worldly concerns, spiders *still* make considerably better and sexier vampires than bats; this is an untapped opportunity.

Don’t worry, we’ll get to your other ask, I just didn’t want to dump it in the middle of a big pile of religious argument.

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Anonymous asked:

But yeah, the implications for theology convinced me of MWI's truth value significantly more than its implications for physics did.

I mean, the incongruence of infinite punishment convinced me more that religion was false than a number of things, so that does make sense.

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Anonymous asked:

IMO the many worlds interpretation is the single most shockingly underused response to the "omniscience of God vs free will" dilemma; I suppose that Christian apologists and theoretical physicists must simply travel in the same circles infrequently. God knows exactly what you're going to do, and the answer is an unimaginably large number of different things which separate yous will experience. Every moment has a single past and a vast variety of futures.

That was along the lines of something I considered, although I don’t really believe in Many Worlds myself.

Omnibenevolence shouldn’t be something we look at and it’s clearly wrong, but it could be something we look at and it’s clearly alien.  So, “make all possible worlds, such that all possible people have a chance to exist” is more along the lines of what one would expect.  Or, “God cannot imagine a world without creating it” (nesting realities proposal) “and this is part of the reason evil exists - lack of infinite forethought”.

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Anonymous asked:

Want some extra fun? Christian here who subscribes both to annihilationism (IE, the "hell = nonexistence" doctrine you're describing) *and* quantum immortality; I call this combination quantum universalism.

mitigatedchaos answered:

While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.

- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)

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Anyhow, that was an alternate timeline futurist shtpost, but more seriously that is more towards the kind of weirdness I would expect from Ultimate Perfect Good, as compared to some other theories.