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  1. excreationist

    God's naughty vulgar side?

    Personally I am a bit of a fan of "When she was young, men had sex with her. They kissed her virgin breasts" and "Their private parts seemed as big as those of donkeys. And their flow of semen appeared to be as much as that of horses"... I'd be interested in seeing a movie version of the...
  2. excreationist

    God's naughty vulgar side?

    This is from Ezekiel 23: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+23&version=NIRV The highlights: According to Ezekiel these are words from God himself. I didn't expect God to say things like that, especially the last two sentences about donkeys and horses.
  3. excreationist

    Game based on Bible passage about killing everything that breathes

    To be included in the Obscenely Vulgar Version DLC - I included the most shocking verses of the 49 verses in Ezekiel 23 and left it on a high note.
  4. excreationist

    Game based on Bible passage about killing everything that breathes

    Note to leave a review go to the "Store Page" link which is below the green PLAY button.... (if you have played it for at least 5 minutes)
  5. excreationist

    Game based on Bible passage about killing everything that breathes

    Well I've dropped the price from US$0.99 to free..... https://store.steampowered.com/app/2961060/Brutal_Bible_Bloodbaths/ BTW if you play for at least 5 minutes you can leave a review by going to "Store Page". A review helps the game's visibility even if you set Visibility to "Friends only".
  6. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    A lot of progress is being made - e.g. realistic laughter and sense of humour - for NPCs: And impressive text-to-video: https://openai.com/index/sora/ Even doing a single operation on a computer costs money so it is unlikely that NPCs would be less expensive than that. Do you mean the outer...
  7. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    I know quite a lot about AI and simulations. With AI an approximation of a human is cheaper to simulate than a perfect copy. This is similar to an approximation of the Sun. You could make a realistic looking Sun in a video game but it would be a lot more expensive if it was exact because the Sun...
  8. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    In the case of the Roy game I think Rick paid for it for Morty at Blips and Chitz: The point is in that scenario ordinary people are running simulations - i.e. there would be large numbers of simulations... Ok then maybe everyone would find it worth it (according to Alan Watts). Maybe those...
  9. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    Well in a simulation it is much cheaper to not make NPCs truly conscious and capable of suffering... while appearing to be truly conscious. So that reduces the problem of suffering by a huge amount. Well I'll just quote what Alan Watts said again: So he's not saying that people would...
  10. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    If you wanted to minimise suffering you'd probably make most or all of the NPCs "philosophical zombies". So you'd only be choosing genuine suffering for yourself. Otherwise all of the NPCs wouldn't have consented to their suffering. You would believe that after your simulated life you would...
  11. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    I think consent in a crappy way is better than no consent at all.... but anyway it only lasts several decades at the most...
  12. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    A quote from Alan Watts: https://web.archive.org/web/20220131000651/https://alanwatts.org/1-2-3-mythology-of-hinduism-pt-1/ It looks like you just have to wait until you "wake up".... if you could easily stop it I guess you wouldn't be so anxious about your life....
  13. excreationist

    What's your take on suffering and pain?

    If this is a simulation I think it is possible that you consented to the suffering but you temporarily forgot this decision.... Like when Morty plays the Roy game: (well Rick forced the game on Morty but normally it would be the player's choice) Or there could be simulations that are like...
  14. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    Are you talking about simulations that are indistinguishable from reality (taking thousands of years to achieve)? A lot of progress is being made. e.g. AI's that have realistic humour and laughter (for NPCs in a simulation) Text to video: https://openai.com/en-GB/index/sora/ Though in the worst...
  15. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    I know what NAND is (not AND). That is similar to people building all types of computers in Minecraft in "redstone" including Tetris games. I did an OS subject and a subject involving basic PDP-8 instructions at university. I didn't consider the cards and how it seems they can be navigated by...
  16. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    @Pogo and @Banach-Tarski Paradox seem to be saying that something like ChatGPT could run on a single Analytic Engine. i.e the entire program could be stored on it and run. It says "the" Analytic Engine.... not "an" Analytic Engine - not one that works the same way but had been extended. Note...
  17. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    The Analytic Engine has memory addresses that are "far more than just 16 bit"? I guess you meant ChatGPT? That is my point.
  18. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    But isn't it limited to how much memory it can address? e.g. whether it is 16 bit, etc?
  19. excreationist

    Theistic evolution as part of a possible simulation with a non-obvious intelligent force

    But it never mentions determinism.... About non-deterministic computers: https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/can-a-computer-generate-a-truly-random-number/ I never talked about that computer. You're mixing me up with someone else. Like I said your 900+ word quote doesn't even...
  20. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Mixing up reality with non-real experiences could be fatal.... like in the interactive film Bandersnatch on Netflix you can choose to jump off of a tall building. Also one time I was playing VR and it let you walk off of a platform but I was too scared to try it out.
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