Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Turns out there’s always more nuance to these things.

The blockchain solves one problem: trust. Do we really have that problem in normal energy markets?

People who buy and sell energy would need to trust each other and the middle man in between them. If they have trust issues, using a blockchain could make sense. As far as I can tell, the current system doesn’t suffer from a lack of trust, so what would the blockchain do in this case?

And if that works out, you could also use the same method to shape the political atmosphere on the platform. Who knows, you might also disarm the next arab spring before the first demonstrations even happens.

I’m pretty sure governments are very interested in seeing the results you get from using LLM bots like this.

Yeah well… What can I say. Meta knows their users.

It’s for driving engagement. Basically, meta wants to make sure their platforms look appealing to the companies that use them for advertising purposes. More eyeballs, more ads, more money.

If that model results in wormholes randomly opening up here and there, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to violate our current observations. What if the probability of a wormhole event is incredibly unlikely. You know, like a tennis ball tunneling through a solid wall sort of unlikely. Even if the probability is a lot higher, those wormholes could open up anywhere in the universe, which just so happens to be incredibly vast. Or what if the wormholes are absolutely tiny, and last only a nanosecond? There are lots of ways it could still be compatible with observations.

I just looked it up, and it seems like my intuition aligns pretty well with MWI.

Anyway, the idea is that as you jump 100 years back, you enter a special timeline that isn’t exactly like the one you left. It’s mostly the same, but a time traveler visited at some point, which could radically alter the future of that timeline.

So if you become your own grandmother, there’s no real paradox, since you and your grandchild are not the same person. You are from different timelines, you are different branches of the same tree. Time traveling doesn’t cause branching, since every branch already exists.

A time machine can’t travel entirely freely to any branch, but since there are infinitely many branches you get the illusion of complete freedom. You can not jump to a timeline that doesn’t already have you jumping in it.

Sounds like a very different kind of multiverse than what I was thinking of. If that word is already taken, I should probably call this thing with a different name.

If you screw up the calculation, your time machine can also end up deep under the mantle of the Earth. That would be a pretty spicy way to travel.

Infinite branches.

It feels more intuitive, and doesn’t involve any strange problems. It implies that the multiverse has infinite possibilities, they are all realized somewhere, and a time machine allows you to jump between them.

OMG, that’s just insane. It’s not an overstatement to say that he had it coming.

The funny thing is, the news articles got stuck on the least significant (but funny) detail. The main emphasis should have been on the fact that lots of people had noticed serious problems with the design, but one stubborn guy decided to roll the dice anyway. Well, you reap what you sow.

I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.

I’ve heard some strange stories about a mysterious land on the other side of a vast ocean. In this far-away land of countless wonders, companies are only symbolically restricted by laws. This means that they can legally exploit their employees and customers in all sorts of creative ways, and charge pretty much whatever they want. Maybe you’ve heard similar wonderful tales as well?

Back in the bad old days, messages cost you real world money. If you wanted to reach lots of people by SMS, it would be pretty expensive. Might as well let Twitter pay for the messages, especially when you’re just writing a public announcement.

In 2006 the restriction did apply. The idea was that you would type the message on a computer, and let Twitter send a few SMS messages to a small group people.

You weren’t supposed to have millions of followers or write a full length blog post using a hundred short messages. The idea was that you cold reach people quickly even though they didn’t have access to a proper computer or the internet. So much has changed in the past 18 years…

Well, what do you think? Pretty infuriating huh? Somehow makes you understand people who commit violet crimes in a fit of rage.

Same here. It worked a few minutes ago, but I guess Lemmy hugged it to death in the meanwhile.

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That limit came from the days of SMS. The idea was that you can’t go to the internet, because data is expensive, the network doesn’t exist, your dumb phone can’t even open websites etc. However, you can send SMS messages, and those things have a 160 character limit.