Bookpilled. If you’re into science fiction books, he’s a great YouTuber to check out.

Well I suppose it depends on your views of consciousness. Some would argue that our consciousness is nothing more than an emergent phenomenon grounded on the electrical impulses of our neurons. Personally, I’m convinced that the phenomenon need not be physical. It should be possible, with enough computing power, to model the same interactions. But I admit that if you reject this possibility, then the simulation hypothesis loses credence.

Yes, this is the idea. Although, as another noted, you can argue back and forth on whether Bostrom’s argument holds.

Sorry, I suppose people haven’t heard of the “Simulation hypothesis” in philosophy.

Nick Bostrom argued that, statistically, it is more likely that we live in a simulation than not. Assume that an advanced civilization could build a machine with enormous computing power, sufficient to simulate a human mind and a universe “around” it. It follows that the number of such simulated minds/universes could be near infinite. So the probability of our actually being in a simulated universe dwarfs the probability that our reality is not a simulation.

I’m agnostic. If you find the statistical probability argument for the existence of aliens salient, then by the same token you should believe that our reality is a simulation. In which case, the existence of aliens once again becomes questionable; the statistical probabilities of an infinite simulated universe are outside the realm of our current knowledge.

If we can pick math, then I choose logic.

I have what I call a “Song of the Day”. Every day, it seems one song wins out and is on replay in my head. At the end of the day, I realize that it was the song for that day :)

I’m an introvert with very low social needs. During the pandemic it took months of quarantine for me to get lonely, and nearly a year to realize I was touch starved.

But to answer your question, when I’m in a relationship I don’t get lonely and if I’m single I rely more on family for my social needs.

Why are spaces bad? Does it mess with sonarr/radar or something?

I love big brother

Mr. Stark?

Haven't seen this many twists since [/insert reference here/]

Is there an easy way to download tons of music without paying for a shit ton of albums?

Is Spotify generally the highest digital format of music files available? Or do people source music through other paid or unpaid methods?

There’s a large possibility that your kids will be apathetic towards the media that you watch now. When’s the last time you listened to a song or watched tv from the 50?

(I can hear you typing right now; yes, I myself even watch the Adams Family and listen to psychedelic rock every now and again, but that’s not typical.)

A lot of people haven’t even heard of it? lol