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bravesilvernest , to Biology in TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main
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Whoa. That's honestly amazing

mononomi , to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

Bruh why you have to end it like that now I lost

Varyk ,

I just learned about the game yesterday. So me lost too.

Rentlar , to Today I Learned in TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou

Rustic is the closest English word I'd put to this concept, which to an extent exists in the West.

DannyBoy , to Today I Learned in TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members."

Looks a lot like someone else who got discharged from Army

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/875ce060-b0dc-4a62-9034-e71555e02533.jpeg

Cadeillac ,
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I'm rewatching this now. Still getting plenty of laughs out of me

Jakeroxs ,

There's dozens of us! Dozens! (just started a series rewatch too lmao)

firecat , to Today I Learned in TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists.

It’s basically like Anime, the tv shows do exist but no records were saved. You could try to find any source of advertising or something that connected with the tv show.

MissJinx , to Today I Learned in TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou
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LITTLE?!! Am I to western to be zen looking at this?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/680889b0-efde-44fa-be29-54a735bd0ad2.jpeg

Land_Strider ,

Yes. This looks like how I start my minecraft houses as a stock functional 4-walls-rooms and then start doing many smaller additions or removals to make them fit the flow of the environment or at least not look like a modern apartment block.

MissJinx ,
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With the slightly off centerroof too?

Land_Strider ,

Yup. Prime option to put out a little terrace or a roof window where you can ground yourself with the roof in peripheral vision while looking at a nice vista.

weariedfae ,

Ahhhhhhhhhh

whaleross , to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it
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Speaking of thought experiments, I just [lost the game](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)). Thanks, OP.

Tyoda , to Biology in TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main

Could it have been multiple spiders moving into the same burrow after the first one died?

from the first reference in the article:

There is a high level of certainty that lived for 43 years.
Neither males nor females re-use the defunct burrow of another
spider. Adult spiders do not relocate if their burrow
is damaged, but repair their existing burrow.

Rolando , to Today I Learned in TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou

I don't usually recommend anime, but if that concept sounds interesting, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyouge_Mono

Land_Strider ,

Oh boy, in that concept, at least in style and somewhat in philosophy, I have another, a completely popular anime to recommend:
Cowboy Bebop

franklin , to Today I Learned in TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System
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That's one of the starting systems in Stellaris!

Skymt , to Today I Learned in TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System

Isn't the name of the sun Helios? I thought Sol was more like a title or description.. like "mom" or "dad", but for planets.

Cryophilia OP ,

Helios is another one of the Sun's names. It's the more poetic version. But Sol is a proper name, exclusive to our sun.

Skymt ,

It's probably my Swedish upbringing then.

In Swedish, "sun" translates directly to "sol".
And we have different forms, like "solen" -> "the sun", "solar" -> "suns", "solarna" -> "the suns" etc.

But we don't have different forms for proper names.

dwindling7373 , to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

TIL.

It sounds like it's mostly a matter that does not involve the AI but the people working on it, maybe even working on it because of the fear they are subjected to after being the subject of this revelation (possibly by other people involved in the AI that coincidentally are the only ones that could push for such a thing to be included in the AI!).

Something something any cult, paradise/hell, God/AI has nothing to do with this and could even not exist at all.

AlexisFR ,
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It's just The Game before it was a thing.

dwindling7373 ,

No, "The Game" works only as long as you accept to take part in it, to give validity to the empty statement that you are now inevitably playing "The Game".

The Basilisk is meant to force that onto you, outside of any arbitraty convention.

Varyk , to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

Sounds like updated techChristianity.

Glory of God and hell and all that

Boomkop3 , to Autism in Has anyone ever seen the TV show "Scorpion"?

Hi! I'm autistic, and I did enjoy the show!

When it comes to neurodiversity, I did appreciate the inclusion. And they stayed away from harmful stereotypes such as presenting us as having no emotion, and instead presenting the struggle of expressing them in a way "normals" understand.

However, the show has also clearly gone through a filter to make sure it doesn't look too unusual for neurotypical people.

At some points the main cast was also presented as having sort of superpowers. Such as Sylvester being able to figure out thousands of options in a matter of seconds. (I've had such an experience with special interests, but not to that extreme) or the behaviouralist accurately describing his self destructive behaviour as he's doing it.

Of course, everyone's individual experience and brain is different. I liked how it was presented overall even tho the writing got a bit lazy near the end

Murdoc OP ,

Thanks for your perspective! So a step in the right direction then? I know that when I watched it, even though I didn't know about any of this stuff, I still identified with them and wished hard to be able to get a job where my skills and talents were an asset, especially to such a wide range of problem solving.

And yeah, they did have to tweak some stuff to make it exciting, but I thought that they did a good job. Maybe after more shows featuring NDs becomes more commonplace, we can see more realistic depictions of them.

Boomkop3 ,

Star Trek, Divergent, Wednesday (Netflix) and Doctor Who are a few that I found familiar with too

Murdoc OP ,

Three of those I'm also a big fan of. Never heard of Divergent though. TV or movie?

Boomkop3 ,

It's a movie, quote a couple of m

Murdoc OP ,

I'm sorry I just want to be clear, you want me to give you quotes from these shows?

Boomkop3 ,

That was a typo, sorry. No I was giving examples of other (not always disclosed) shows and movies with neurodivergent characters.

Divergent is a bunch of books/movies *quite a couple of them

Murdoc OP ,

Ah ok gotcha.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

Divergent is a book series, which was turned into movies. The books were okay. The movies were trying to ride in the wake of The Hunger Games, and completely failed to recreate the hype.

Boomkop3 ,

They have a similar vibe but if you're expecting a completely different movie you'll be disappointed

DarkCloud , to Today I Learned in TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou

Wait, what's wu-shu?

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