The rules are often hazy, paradoxical, unpractical, and overall, just poorly designed. Everything ultimately leads to entropy. We could do better.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
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    The problem is that people look at rules as the be all end all, but there is a lot which goes behind how the rules are made and enforced.

    A lot of people don't take into account the systems created by the rules.

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  • This is why I prefer virtual worlds.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The universe is incomplete, which is why there is some rather than nothing. Some inequality that can't quite get worked out. It's the fly in the ointment. The rounding error that just won't quite go away.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

    edit everyone who upvoted this past 42 has insulted my grandmother

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Douglas Adams was brilliant. I really should read more of his work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As far as I've read, the HGTTG series is his best work, but I can still solidly recommend Dirk Gently

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah but chaos is the heart of beauty. Without entropy to define the negative space around order, there would be nothing to admire (and there wouldn’t be any life or people). Everything is messy and complicated and that’s actually kinda wonderful.

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    May I interest you in the philosophy of Absurdism?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Interesting.

    Try to dumb it down a bit bud. I'm interested in your opinion if you could just make less.. Intimidating. The topic deserves respect.

    Show it that respect and, continue. Please.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Sure, Mr. Eugenics. Sure we could.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Man made rules tend to be paradoxical, inconsistent, contradictory and poorly designed. What about laws of physics?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What about laws of physics?

    Inconvenient. I'd like to remote pilot a robot on Mars, but light speed is agonizingly slow.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don’t use light then. That’s a limitation of our technology and understanding of physics.

    If you find sailing boats agonizingly slow, you gotta upgrade to steam boats. First, you need to develop the appropriate machining technologies so that you can build pistons that seal reasonably well.

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