Oh shit, there’s a working open source switch emulator out there? Thanks Nintendo!

Aaaaaaaand downloaded the source code, Windows Installer, and Linux installer. Thanks again Nintendo, I really can’t express how thankful I am you brought attention to this!

Well of Ascension

I’ve been re-reading WoA the past week and as soon as I saw this post I was like “holy shit Kwaan is on tumbler!”

I mean yeah but the point is that technological advancement was still a common occurance. Like, yeah a sensationalized article about self driving cars would blow some minds but to most i think it wouldn’t really make any bigger waves then basic cars already were at the time. How can they be blown away by the concept of self driving when the vehicle itself is so new and interesting you know? AI is so abstract that even today most people don’t understand it, 100 years ago it’d just be “another new thing” just like it is today… We are actually less accustomed to ground shaking new inventions so I’d argue that 100 years ago a lot of our modern tech would be less exciting given the regularity in which things were changing then.

Social upheaval however is ALWAYS a huge deal, especially for the time. Bear in mind that Progressivism is a fairly new ideology in the States. For literally hundreds of years social change came at a snails pace and took serious, concerted effort. Nowadays we are on average much more open to change and accepting of diversity in all it’s forms, but there’s a reason everyone remembers the name Martin Luther King Jr., versus… Ruth Bader Ginsburg I guess?

I have this exact same thing! My dentist reccomended it to me because I drink way too much coffee, which apparently causes like yellow orange film to form on your tongue

This is where we start getting into the realm of philosophy as it relates to science fiction esq “true” Artificial Intelligence.

Taking the post at face value these AI persons that populate your individual pocket dimension would be, for all intents and purposes, sentient artificial minds, or at least controlled by 1 central mind.

So does that AI deserve human rights? Do laws apply to the and interaction had with them? If all they know is humanity then are they also “human”? Is this theoretically infinitely intelligent super computer even capable of truly understanding humanity, emotions, life in all of its facets?

I fully accept that I am getting too deep into this funny internet post but there have been hundreds upon thousands of books, thought experiments, and debates over this EXACT premise. Short answer is there is no answer. It’s Schrodinger’s morality lol

Samurai kinda always bangs though.

In the early years of their existence they were just mercenaries, but they had horses (expensive) and were pretty much only hired by nobility (decent accommodations)

By the end they were automatically nobility themselves, even to this day if you were still a “samurai” you’d either be a descendent of a wealthy family or a famous figure for 1 reason or another. Not a bad life

I didn’t think you were until you brought it up, now I’m suspicious

I mean, poking in and scrolling your old favorite sub for 10 minutes 3 times a day is still substantially less traffic then constantly bumming around on r/all all day

Besides, with the sheer number of reddit users not even including the tens of thousands of bots, the site traffic generated by Lemmy users is probably so small it makes no difference at all

So like, from a subjective standpoint the United States is an Oligarchy. That can of course be debated and is by no means this irrefutable claim, although it certainly is up for discussion

Objectively however we are NOT a democracy, like literally by deffinition. We are a Republic. It’s a little nit picky I know but I just think it’s interesting that we as a people latch onto the term “democracy” despite it being, objectively, not our system of government