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Activity for John C
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| Comment | Post #292719 |
Yeah, the big deal, I think (and I probably should've raised this in the original answer) is that realism doesn't always work with fiction. Like how coincidences happen all the time in real life, but people are much more forgiving of fictional coincidences that get characters into messes than coinci... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292720 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: What are reasonable limitations for probability-manipulating magic? What came to mind immediately on reading the question, limitation-wise, was that you actually need to understand the current probabilities and what contributing factors you want (notionally) changed. Changing the fairness of a die, then, is (maybe) pretty easy, since you could nudge the bouncing cub... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292719 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Would it make sense for an organization that has existed for centuries not remember its own origins It probably depends a lot on what you mean for an "organization" to not remember its origins. For example, can I believe that most (pardon the dismissive term) employees don't know how they came about? Definitely. I've worked at companies where only a small minority realized that the name came f... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292576 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: What's the least traumatic way to integrate resurrected historical humans into modern society? I'd worry more about society than the resurrected individuals, I think. Specifically, I think that people (in general) have enough adaptability that, despite how we portray them in science fiction, you could probably tell an ancient person "yeah, we have indoor plumbing and talk to people over Zoo... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292520 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years? I don't think that anyone can really answer that without first answering how they expected to know in the first place. Did they plan to monitor the outside world through some technological means? Did they plan to have someone jump out into a potential war-zone with who-knows-what new environmental ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292389 |
Sounds potentially interesting (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292379 |
While the different fields where people design things have different restrictions, I don't think that these are as different as they might appear. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291449 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Do Large Language Models "reason"? I'll note that this won't fully answer the question, because I don't know the modern academic scene to provide a "consensus." Maybe that makes for a bad first answer, here, and for that, I apologize. However, I'll work from fairly traditional computer science theory. I also can't provide a complet... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |