• Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
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    Probably the ability to not be an unbalanced idiot 24/7. I literally fell up the stairs twice this week. There are few people who are less scatter-brained than me.

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    Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

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    I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

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      What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem? Maybe you’d become susceptible to someone telling you “this statement is false”.

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        Ideally, I wouldn’t have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

        The problem with the “This statement is false” could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

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          Oh, brother, no. Godel’s incompleteness theorem is a problem much bigger than imaginary numbers. Imaginary numbers are just something we initially didn’t account for but we can (and did) fix. Godel’s theorem means everything may just be broken and we just don’t know.

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      And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

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        Honestly finding out the lack of free will exists would be the most liberating thing ever. I could just let autopilot take its course.

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      11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

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      But also the ability to turn it off at will. Otherwise life will become incredibly tedious.

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      I too wouldn’t mind uploading poll dancing abilities. I feel like that would help lose weight and get great core strength so quickly.

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      The crazy thing is that you can literally just do this by studying engineering for a few years. It’s not that hard, it just takes some work.

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      One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

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        Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

        Not that I’m opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

        I just feel like I’m learning such basic things and won’t be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It’s frustrating lol

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          25 years in IT here: you’re on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

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            I think I’m going to get my nieces and nephews some pi5 desktops, I can’t let them become teenagers without seeing a console.

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    I’d upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

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      This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).

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    C2-niveau francais, s’il vous plait.

    edit or as translate google would put it: niveau C2 de francais, merci.

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      This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.

      You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.

      You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

      You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured

      No end to what you can do with controlling time

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        You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

        Technically, if you stop something in time and space, it would disappear before your very eyes if it was on Earth, as the Earth would keep on going on its orbit around the sun, around the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. and your object would be floating somewhere. Against what reference point would you lock it?

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          Against what reference point would you lock it?

          Depends on what you need it to do (or not do)

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      This is a neat idea until you’re in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

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        I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

        The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

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      If I could ‘cheat’ and say ‘I know every language in the world’, and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I’d take that in a heartbeat. If not, I’d take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.

      If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.

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        This is probably super pedantic (bloody programmers right?) but I really feel like it would depend on what is meant by “know every programming language”. Like being able to remember every syntax and construct is sort of useful but not all that practical. Understanding how to implement the language in a useful way is the valuable part, not just knowing the keywords.

        I guess I would kind of compare it to the difference between being able to read Shakespeare and being able to write Shakespeare,

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          Correct. Learning a programming language is trivial. Far easier than a foreign language.

          If we think of it in terms of learning a language, what matters is the grammar and ability to use it to struct prose to create a coherent story.

          There’s also a lot of reuse which requires knowing what’s available. The closest analogy there is how music sampling is used.

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          If we’re being pedantic, in The Matrix, Neo says ‘I know kung fu’ to explain that he both knows what all the moves are, and how to use them. As that was the topic of the post, I used the same sentence structure to mean the same thing about all languages, including programming 😉

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      I’d make tens of dollars as the scholar to decode the Harrapan/Indus Valley script!

      Or I make makes millions as a YouTuber decoding the Voynich manuscript…

      Our society is broken:(

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      If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

      There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
      To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

      My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

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      I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

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      I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.

      Or maybe it’s just how the operating system works?

      Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.

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        If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.

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        I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.

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          Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…