Gary William Flake
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Gary William Flake
@gwf.bsky.social
Independent Scientist and Inventor. Former exec at Overture, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Clipboard, and Salesforce. Author of "The Computational Beauty of Nature".
I just want to say, well done everyone.
May 7, 2023 at 2:34 AM
While there is first order benefit to running an accurate simulation of the world, the second order benefit is that accuracy allows us to find agreement. This makes our mental simulations a partially shared experience.
May 7, 2023 at 2:29 AM
But this is okay because we do the same. What we think of as existence is, in fact, a simulation ... running on meat rather than silicon. But a simulation, nonetheless.
May 7, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Dammit, you've earned a follow. Well played, sir. Well played.
May 7, 2023 at 2:17 AM
I have but they intimidate me, as I am all but certain that I'd spray my entire kitchen almost daily with it. Our's has a nice removable head, so it's just about as easy.
May 7, 2023 at 2:16 AM
My family mocks me because I regularly drink water from the kitchen sink faucet. I'm like "why waste a glass?" And yeah, that's right, I do the dishes too.
May 7, 2023 at 2:02 AM