Your entire existance has been a simulation. You are now dead, and you get to meet the designers of this grand simulation that was your life. They ask for your feedback; what do you tell them?

custerdome · 3 days

You already can do all of that. Focus harder.

custerdome · 3 days

It's already enabled. Just focus harder.

syuk · 7 days

Abortion is also a eugenics program.

boydpond · 11 days

Unless there really is trillions of dollars worth of oil under the shoal. Then, this is something profoundly more than posturing.

boydpond · 11 days

Historically, everything is Asia was theirs. Does that mean it still is?

boydpond · 11 days

Sadly, this might be perceived as an advantage to all involved, then.

boydpond · 11 days

There would be no world after such an apocalypse.

The middle east would be vaporized first, in such a situation. Once the nukes started flying, everyone would be using them on their enemies.

This would not be like WW II. We would sterilize the planet.

boydpond · 11 days

As far as racism goes, it is extremely clear that Asians are very confused about the fact that they are all the same people.

Hahahaha typical ignorant self-centered American. That's like saying that Europeans are very confused about the fact that they are all the same people. Feuds and ancient conflicts have existed between Asian countries centuries before America existed.

Europeans are confused about the fact that they are all the same people, but far less so than Asians.

Meanwhile, the Chinese hate and disrespect each other like no others; they don't help each other when they are run over by cars

Meanwhie Americans are gun-waving racists who shoot unarmed black teenagers and get praised for shooting a thug. Am I doing it right? Ignorant racist.

America is riddled with crime. I am making no excuse for that. No, you aren't doing it right, you are holding up a vegatable at a fruit discussion.

Americans see this for what it is and generally fall in love with the filipino people. We have little tolerance for bigotry or racism. It just pisses us off.

Tell that to Trayvon Martin. Take a look in the mirror, racist.

Generalities != specific instances. You cannot generalize from specific situations. Anyway, clearly, you are the racist. It's so stupid. Does it make you feel bad to realize that you share 99.9+% of your genome with a Filipino or a Thai ?

boydpond · 11 days

I am a midwestern American white male, now running businesses in the Philippines. Let me provide you with the counter-perspective.

The Philippines is still a part of the United States. It may have stopped voting in US elections during WW II, and fallen out of protectorate status and began issuing it's own currency, but make no mistake about this point: The Philippines is the adopted southeast asian stepchild of the USA. The Philippines, which is the second largest English speaking nation in the world, mirrors the American democracy, almost law-for-law. They have the exact same structure of government and copy the nuances of our legislation to stay in sync. There are many millions of Filipinos in the USA and hundreds of thousands of Americans in the Philippines, living here, with families and businesses. Our militaries do joint exercises on a regular basis, our Navy recruits Filipinos regularly to work on our naval vessels and navy bases a stone's throw away in Gwam, and so forth.

As far as racism goes, it is extremely clear that Asians are very confused about the fact that they are all the same people. I've heard it said that Koreans think that they may be the master race of Asia, the Japanese are sure they are, but the Chinese don't bother with such thoughts, because the matter was decided in their favor thousands of years ago. Meanwhile, the Chinese hate and disrespect each other like no others; they don't help each other when they are run over by cars, they let their Chinese next-door neighbors starve while they bask in luxury and they ostracize each other over the dialect (of the same language) that is spoken or the way that it is spoken. Chinese people disrespect each other, so it is no surprise that they have negative feelings about everyone else. In this regard, the Filipino are far superior to the Chinese, as they are the most generous, self sacrificing people imaginable. Americans see this for what it is and generally fall in love with the filipino people. We have little tolerance for bigotry or racism. It just pisses us off.

The Scarborough Shoal sits above a vast petroleum field and that is the real spark behind all of this. Some estimate the value of that oil at being north of $30 Trillion (with a T) dollars. For such large amounts, everyone with an interest will be playing poker at the diplomacy table.

As the US takes notice of it's neglected step-child and that very large pile of cash being disputed, you can be assured that it will remember that step-child as it's own. It's own. There is no face at stake for the USA. It is far, far, far deeper than that (even without accounting for the trillions).

The only way that this is going to be settled is to take this issue to arbitration and work out international deals for how the resources under this shoal are to be harvested. Nobody is going to be able to unilaterally take this ground. The stakes are too high on all sides, not just in terms of resources, trade routes or naval passages, but also in terms of culture and history.

In summary, I would suggest to my Chinese friend living in America to internalize the following conclusion: While Chinese mainlanders may like the idea of going to war with the Philippines because they are deluded into thinking that they are superior people, and because they think that beating up on helpless and defenseless filipinos will make them seem patriotic to one another, what will actually happen is that Americans will view this as an act of war, and worse, as a racially tainted genocidal war against the people of a previous (and still acting) state of the USA and the robbery of 30+ Trillion in resources.

I recommend arbitration

boydpond · 11 days

If there is 30+ trillion USD of oil under the shoal, would you stick to your position?

boydpond · 11 days

The problem is, there may be more than $26.3 trillion worth of petroleum under that oil. Yes, you read that number correctly. See here

These types of numbers are sure to have US interests worked up as well.

boydpond · 11 days

Also American, living and working in the Philippines.

I am not worried about this at all. It's about money and it will get worked out.

boydpond · 11 days

There is oil under the shoal. A lot of it.

weareinthematrix · 22 days

-Are we in a computer simulation?

Something very similar, yes.

-Is everyone being followed closely by other entities at all?

Everything you do and think is monitored. yes.

Or, are there actually any antities just around or in "the same space" that us.

As this is something like a simulation, the idea of space is wrong. So, no.

-What role do extraterrestrials play in our society

The concept of extraterrestrials is wrong. This isn't really a planet, so there aren't really visitors from outside of the planet (other than you and other participants in the simulation). The simulation is not a physics simulation, it is a subjective simulation akin to how a multiplayer videogame works; If something isn't being interacted with by a player, it isn't being simulated.

-What is the nature of consciousness

Consciousness is also simulated. Your consciousness is far more complex than could possibly be manifest by what you think of as your meat mind. Your true consciousness would take unimaginable computational power, from the point of view of being a monkey in this simulation. From this point of view, you are actually something like a god with amnesia.

, is everyone actually one single "body"?

Yes, on some level. Intelligence is fractal in nature. Sub-consciousness combine to form your conscious and your conscious combines with others at the same level of complexity to form a supra-consciousness. This process continues in both directions (within and without) to a bewildering number of steps.

-Drugs are mind expansions in the spiritual sense?

No, but they can act a bit like the red pill from the movie the matrix. Plausible deniability.

, i mean, one actually perceives a different or expanded reality, beyond your five senses?

You can perceive that without drugs. You aren't really here.

-Are trolls and general derailers on the internet actually gobernment agents muddying our internet communications??

Mostly, they are clueless simulation participants just like you. But the plot is thick with actors and NPCs

-Is there anyone REAL out ther on the internet?

Real, in the sense that they are clueless participants of this simulation like yourself? Yes.

I bet I can't make a single conversation, I dare you. We will be muddied by government trolls.

Agent smith

anecdotal · 1 month

There must be a reason why their guiding hand is so clearly felt and observed by its effects, yet never seen or identified directly.

Egregores.

anecdotal · 1 month

(1) Humans are separated into at least three, but very likely many distinct species. The one that we are familiar with, that appears to control the surface of the earth is the youngest and weakest of the group.

(1.a) At least one of the separate human-like species is a radically advanced group that lives underground, underwater and in space and this group farms us for genetic material, hormones and enzymes that they no longer produce, and for pharmaceutical purposes. This would be the common "grey" alien, not alien at all - but as closely related to us as a chimp.

(1.b) Surface humans have co-evolved with these subterranean homonids for eons and that relationship sometimes slips out into the media in works such as the Time Machine, with Eloi and Morlocks. Another famous work of fiction that is influenced by this, from the point of view of those who left and occasionally return is the Planet of the Apes (we are the apes).

(1.c) As surface humans develop advanced technology, they become difficult for the greys to manage and pogroms are put forth to trim the herd and bring the surface population back to the stone age. We are in the midst of one of those pogroms now, and forces on all sides are posturing for confrontation. This time, it appears that surface humans have a chance to fight back.

(1.d) All secret societies and most human religions deal with the relationship between this parasitic species and our own, as well as more advanced human species that previously escaped. Angles and Demons indeed.

(2) None of (1) matters, because this is a computer simulation.

anecdotal · 1 month

The moon is moving away from the earth.

anecdotal · 1 month

This isn't a theory. Have you seen the pyramids?

anecdotal · 1 month

Mesh networking would be too readily discovered. Quantum entanglement, however? Hell, you could put that in everything without being discovered.

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Maybe, along with your thesis on the aliens, GMO, aspartame, msg and all the rest is to poison us to the aliens. Make us poison, so they won't want us ;)

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Oh, and the aliens are a distant ancestor/sister species that farms us for pharmaceutical purposes.

anecdotal · 1 month

The strong nuclear force, among the others, has been changing and along with that, everything that was before, is expanding like balloons. Dinosaurs weren't big, they just lived at a different time with different universal constants. They were mostly birds.

anecdotal · 1 month

You could say the same about any electronic device, but you would need to have an exotic theory about how they report back.

DrRichardCranium · 2 months

No, it sounds like an expensive society.

zachbarnett · 3 months

This conversation is the train of thought of a higher awareness, and Reddit is acting as the corpus callosum.

thread314 · 3 months

I interpreted it to be isomorphic to the question, "Is your mind capable of understanding concepts that are too complicated to accurately put into words.", which I believe has the answer, "yes".

At what point between a full analytical thesis and a synopsis does a language rendition of a complex topic cease to be an accurate description of the underlying system of study?

thread314 · 3 months

Ive been developing software since I was 11, and I can hold complex organized models in my mind that may take months or years to translate to code, which would be the most efficient description of those models. So no, I disagree with your statement. English is poor for many purposes.

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