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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's so many nested assumptions, lol:

    Assumption table

    1. Graduate student in academia
    2. Running a simulation for data
    3. For a conference
    4. Haskell

    The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

    Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

    Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.

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