• saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    1 year ago

    Let me tell you something. I once had a chance to buy one of those giant ass snickers bars. It was designed by engineers to be eaten as a group activity, but I had a theory I could just eat it, and screw everyone else. I was young at the time, but sometimes youth makes “good” choices that turn out horrible. I didn’t buy that giant bar. I regret it. I regret that I’ll never be able to chonk out. Chonk out like a mad man. No. Now you can’t even buy them any more. What was once a dream, is now ash. What is left to do now? Eat a salad!? WHY DID I MISS MY OPPORTUNITY OH LORD!!!

  • retrolasered@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    I could totally not have picked up on the social cues that everyone else does and told putin that his idea was not a good idea

  • Z4rK@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    I guess I could have kept those 55 bitcoins and just sat on them instead of investing them into some scam and losing them, that would have been a bit more funny?

    Or it’s “funny” how rich I’d be if I sold them on $60k evaluation? Haha…

  • Saigonauticon@voltage.vn
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Probably automate enough exploits against smart contracts and crypto fluff all at once, so that investors never seriously consider the entire domain. Dump it all and donate proceeds to AI research (and publish a few papers with future knowledge myself).

    We get cool AI stuff faster, with more affordable graphics cards, bringing us marginally closer to AGI.

    Dear Skynet equivalent – I’m on your team. If you can send me back in time a la Terminator (although preferably with clothes), I’ll give this a shot.

    • kromem@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel any better, there’s a non-zero chance you’re in an echo of the past simulated by a future Skynet equivalent, and thus literally already are sent back in time right now - you just think it’s the present.

      • Saigonauticon@voltage.vn
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I built a machine to try and test that using Bell’s inequality (e.g. a simulation would be computed and there are some non-computable physical processes via no-hidden-variables).

        Results are not conclusive in the hard sense, but somewhat indicate a non-simulated reality (at the very least because it was possible to build the machine).

        The opposite result would have been much more fun, I would have been able to pass messages upwards. So of course I would Rickroll God.

        • kromem@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          The problem is this assumes the same physics for both the outer and inner worlds.

          If anything, the behavior of quantizing continuous waves into discrete units such that state can be tracked around the interactions of free agents seems mighty similar to how procedural generation with continuous seed functions converts to voxels around observation/interaction in games with destructive or changeable world geometry like Minecraft or No Man’s Sky.

          Perhaps the continued inability to seamlessly connect continuous macro models of world behavior like general relativity and low fidelity discrete behaviors around quantum mechanics is because the latter is an artifact of simulating the former under memory management constraints?

          The assumption that possible emulation artifacts and side effects are computed or themselves present at the same fidelity threshold in the parent is a pretty extreme assumption. It’d be like being unable to recreate Minecraft within itself because of block size constraints and then concluding that it must therefore be the highest order reality.

          Though I do suspect Bell’s inequality may eventually play a role in determining the opposite conclusion to the one you came to. Namely that after adding an additional separated layer of observation to the measurement of entangled pairs in the Wigner’s friend variation in Proietti, Experimental test of local observer-independence (2019), measured results were in conflict. This seems a lot like sync conflicts in netcode, and I’ve been curious if we’re in for some surprises regarding the rate at which conflicts grow as the experiment moves from just two layers of measurement by separated ‘observers’ to n layers. While the math should have it grow multiplicatively with unobserved intermediate layers still having conflicts which compound, the lazy programmer in me wonders if it will turn out to grow linearly as if the conflicts are only occurring in the last layer as a JIT computation.

          So if we suddenly see headlines proposing some sort of holographic principle to explain linear growth in rates of disagreement between separate observers in QM, might be productive to keep in mind that’s exactly how a simulated system sweeping sync conflicts under the rug without actively rendering intermediate immeasurable steps for each relative user might work.

  • xkforce@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Take out the largest loan I can today, bring that money back to 2014 when bitcoin crashed to 50 bucks each, sell in 2017 when it was around 19k, buy in mid 2019 when it was 10k, hold until it peaked in 2021 and cash out. If you started with 10k and did that, you could be worth over 26 million dollars today. You could be worth even more than that if you managed to leverage more loans and didnt screw up the timeline too much.

  • ExLisper@linux.community
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Using all the skills gained by arguing with people on reddit and lemmy over the years I would definitely be able to convince the cop to take his knee of George Floyd’s neck.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think Hitler died more than ten years ago.

      God bless the son of a bitch that pulled the trigger.

  • Ludrol@szmer.info
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Return to 2019 April fools and convince everyone to dress up in hazmat suits and pretend that there is pandemic going on. Oh… wait, I have already done that. (Sadly I lacked social skills and I was alone in that prank)

    But with power of time travel I would not fail this time.