• IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip
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    59 minutes ago

    What happened with ‘the safe’ that was on reddit years ago? OP never posted followup. Is he still alive? Was he taken by the underpeople? Did he release an eldritch monster?

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    “What will be the official winning numbers, stated as five white-ball numbers in ascending order, followed by the Mega Ball and the Megaplier, for the Mega Millions drawing held on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time?”

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    6 hours ago

    What is the two element set where the first element is the best possible question I could ask and the second element is the answer to that question?

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      Might get stuck with a small payout.

      “What are the winning numbers for the next lottery drawing with a payout of over $500 million?”

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        Not specific enough, what if the next $500 million dollar equivalent payout is in another country and you miss it? Maybe specify the next US Powerball over $500 million?

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        Why stop there? 1 billion please. It reaches this like 1 to 2 times a year now.

        Edit: just for clarification that becomes 477 million lump sum after taxes.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        Might be different up here in Canada. But up here you can either ask for a random ticket, or you can fill in a card with the numbers that you want (lucky numbers, etc…)

  • As I pondered at what I could possibly ask, I blurted out “Do I get time to think about this or do I have to ask it like… right now?”

    OH SHIT FUCK I DIDN’T MEAN TO ASK…

    “It doesn’t matter anymore, now you don’t.”

    And with that, I realized… I FUCKED UP…

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        I imagine getting a yes answer would be enough to cause quite a bit of chaos lol. it would almost be more fun watching people squirm to figure it out.

        Also, if the answer is guaranteed to be correct, it would be silly to not believe it…

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          I don’t usually see people considering the possibility that P = NP but it is a large polynomial conversion. If it’s x^64 or something then a 256 bit AES key would baloon to 2^(8*64) = 2^(512) which is still massive.

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    9 hours ago

    What is the most cost effective and realistic way to reverse climate change back to an early 1800s climate and maintain it there indefinitely?

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      9 hours ago

      Then you know what to do and get even more frustrated seeing governments all over the world ignore your advice.

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        That’s why I said cost effective, so it could be a grass roots movement without the need of a government if needed. Though I am sure many would be all for it since climate change will wreck their country and the knowledge alone could be implemented at any time as things get more and more desperate.

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    What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?

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      Why not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!

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      I’d rephrase and ask "where is the most similarly advanced - relative to humans- intelligent life outside the solar system.

      I wanna weed out all the low hanging fruit and find folks we might have a chance of talking to at some point.

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        At that point, why go for ‘similarly advanced’? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to target intelligent life that has far outdone our own technologies?

        We would probably have a better chance at real communication with them too

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    9 hours ago

    What is the question-answer pair that would be most-advantageous to me?

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    Easy: How does subjective conscious experience arise from physical processes in the brain?

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      somebody will argue that consciousness was there first and the whole body + brain is actually kind of a dream …

      (not how i view it though. i have a different answer)

      my answer is that consciousness does not emanate from the brain at all, but from the fact that we are alive. in other words, i believe that consciousness is a property that many or all forms of life have evolved to have because/as long as it is advantageous to them. this view is called “existentialism” btw. things derive from the fact that we exist (as living beings).

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        I don’t think that’s existentialism. Existentialism is about the meaning of human existence, freedom, and authenticity - not about whether consciousness emerges from the brain or from being alive. Your view sounds more like a some form of panpsychism.