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Posts by John C‭

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Incubator Q&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? ...

posted 1mo ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&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) change...

posted 13d ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&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...

posted 1mo ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&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 a...

posted 13d ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&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 apologi...

posted 5mo ago by John C‭

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