Bender

I fail to see your point. You seem to be applying human philosophy/psychology to whatever unknowable creature is running the simulation. Even then, I don't see why that creature would care about the suffering of AI puppets running around in a simulation they run. I definitely don't care about all the AI puppets running around in violent games I play. If you want an argument against the simulation, all you need is Occam's razor.

There is nothing inherently rational or irrational about our suffering. Look at nature, which is entirely indifferent about it.

They might also enjoy our suffering, like we enjoy playing simulation games where planets are torn apart and millions die. Some of us might be played by them while they compete against each other for the most power, money, territory or headcount. They might be running billions of simulations with varying degrees of suffering. I could make exactly your argument by stating that in a simulation, I would expect nearly invincible cars running like crazy through the streets, trying to hit as many old people as they can for bonus points. It changes nothing about any likelihood. There is no way to even start putting a likelihood on any of it.

With a sample size of one, we don't have much to go on. Given the fact that abiogenesis seems to have happened only a couple of hundred million years after the first oceans on Earth, I'd put my money on it happening again given similar circumstances.

I can pinpoint the exact moment I shredded my last remnant of religiosity. We were never taught the Bible to be taken literally, more metaphorically, so there weren't much real contradictions. Even so, I can't remember really devoutly believing beyond accepting what you are told as a child. Turning teenager, I simply grew out of it, categorising all of it as myth, but I kept struggling with the anthropic principle for years. Until, one day, I read a tiny article in the newspaper about the possibility that we live in a multiverse. The mere possibility of that made everything about religion completely redundant for me.

25 is not prime

Did you try it without a Kalman filter first? If so, how bad was it?

To be fair: the laser only travels a much shorter distance, so if gravity moved faster than light, the laser could detect it faster than light could travel the entire distance. Of course, it is all moot, since gravity doesn't move faster than light, as explained by Mathematical.

None of these questions are answerable, and even if they were, the answers would still give no indication about whether we live in a simulation or not. Whoever hypothetically made the simulation might simply want to study our suffering, or with equally indeterminable likelihood, not care about it, because we are only simulated entities.

I actually have some valuable business advice: if someone comes to you with an actual medical issue, send them to an actual doctor.

Or e.g. carbon or some other elements: in absence of oxygen, they will melt, but if oxygen is present, they will burn before they melt.

These are just video's I found on Youtube. I didn't mean to claim credit A simple PID won't be sufficient. The microcontroller has to be sufficiently fast and the sensors and actuators sufficiently accurate. This poses a limit to how many links are possible in a real setup. Higher order pendulums are very chaotic, so to control them you need to be very precise. I can't find a video, but these guys did a quadruple one too.

It's nice, but I've seen better Behold: the double inverted pendulum. The triple inverted pendulum This balancing and walking cube is pretty neat too. Control theory can be fun.

Not really. 60 million years is only a fraction of the time life has been on Earth, and only a fraction of the time life will be on Earth. It only took a couple of million years (if that) to get from primate intelligence to human intelligence, and it might even have happened in a few short bursts.

My parents are Catholic, I'm baptised and so on, I went to Catholic schools. I'm still atheist, as are nearly all my friends, most of which were raised Catholic. Belgium is a breeding ground for heretics like us .

Have you considered the information found in nearly all children bedrooms since J.K. Rowling wrote it down a couple of years ago? I never said Jesus never existed. I just haven't seen any substantial evidence that he did. I also don't pray there is no hell; why waste my time?

That is indeed very simple Thanks. Wouldn't it take a long time? Would it help to heat up the solution?

- Seeing or thinking about my partner makes me happy.- Accepting each others flaws. - Our values, morality and beliefs are compatible.

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Thanks for clearing that out. It happens to all of us

To summarise: international safety guidelines regarding glyphosate are based on studies executed by Monsanto. Monsanto then payed reputable scientists to put their names on the publications. Of course, Monsanto denies this. Other studies show that glyphosate is carcinogenic. It is like tobacco and asbestos etc... If true, it is obviously despicable.

How can bosons add up to make a fermion? Could you give an example?

I galvanised a nail by putting it in a zinc sulfate solution with a piece of zinc and putting a voltage over them. For the sake of experimentation, I reversed the polarity to see what happens, but now the solution is brown. My best guess is that now I also have iron ions in it. I was wondering whether there was a quick and easy way to get the iron out again, while leaving the zinc in. It is not terribly important, but would satisfy my curiosity. One thing I found was waiting for the oxygen in the air to oxidise the iron to form an iron oxide precipitation that can be filtered out. Would that work in a zinc sulfate solution? Does that take a long time? Is there something else I could throw in the solution to form a precipitation with the iron, but not with the zinc?

If he can manipulate molecules, he could extract fuel from food or even from the CO2 in the air. He could then release combustible molecules through the skin in his hand. Alternatively, he could heat up the air until it begins to glow and contain the hot air to avoid dissipation. This is unlikely to look like flames, but more like eg a glowing sphere.

I guess the computer you typed this post with must be positioned inside a laboratoy, otherwise it wouldn't work. Now I'm off to continue my incoherent babbling and exploding due to my disfunctional lack of superstition.