Never even heard of it. Been around for a while too.

This is expected. It’s not trained on current information.

What kind of antenna you running on that 705?

Yea we’re here!

Yea I’ve learned to be skeptical of anyone saying anything absolutely. Professors funny enough are some of the most dogmatic, irrational people I’ve ever had the displeasure of talking to. The academic system doesn’t reward outside the box thinking.

That’s the big question. No one really knows and why physicists inch ever closer to answering it through experimentation. We may never know, but chasing the mystery is really cool anyway. Whatever the answer is there’s some really interesting things for us to learn.

My belief that we live in a simulation is just that, a belief. I don’t claim any knowledge or insight that it’s true. It’s the only way I can zero out what we know so far in my mind. A lot of folks go to god to zero it. And maybe that’s not mutually exclusive with the simulation hypothesis. I just don’t believe in a personal god.

It is seriously one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever learned about.

In a completely unscientific way, I believe it’s because we live in a simulation and the uncertainty principle is a computational efficiency algorithm. As an engineer, I would take shortcuts in order to best use resources. If I needed to calculate every particles exact position at all times that would require more processing power. By using a wave function it means you can calculate much more quickly, until a more precise calculation is required.

I personally grapple with the metaphysical implications of this for free will. I think there are other theories or evidence of true randomness (like a recent variation on a theory of quantum gravity) which could mean that we don’t live in a totally deterministic universe.

I just try to live the best life I can. My experience of consciousness is one with free will. If that’s an illusion I still experience free will so I think I can be happy with that.

If you really want a mindfuck go read about the erasure experiment. Turns out the information of the observation actually travels backwards through time as well.

Super simplified: they set up an experiment which would observe the slit, then after the wave function collapsed they “deleted” the information and the interference pattern was shown.

I hope you’re right. In the TikTok generation I don’t feel very optimistic about the intelligence of most people.

I really don’t think it will be clear even then. Not to most anyway. I encourage you to listen to the very good podcast, It Could Happen Here.

Any kind of “resistance” will almost certainly be very factionalized. Different regional groups vying for power and running their own propaganda campaigns. The “fog of war” would be extremely dense and getting any kind of real information will be difficult.

Most people don’t even understand what they should be resisting. Propaganda is difficult to wade through to find the truth. And people are focused on surviving. There’s no room in most people’s lives to question what is going on.

Correlated (probably not controversial) opinion: I am for the full eradication of mosquitos and I don’t care what the implications are. nostr:note12jfaxxm64h6vqh8rjtypjm5tsgh4t6pnjrr3x99d0px6e960402sk64wad

Controversial opinion: I hate summer.

I can’t wait for fall to get here so it’s not so damn hot and the bugs will die. Everytime I go outside I get bit by at least 5 mosquitoes 😫

Haha yea I’m looking forward to that once I get a base station set up. My only shack option is my office upstairs so grounding is going to be…. sketchy.

I’m doing portable QRP HF only at the moment.

Thanks!

Made my first 3 HF contacts today with an end-fed half-wave antenna I built myself.

I’m officially hooked on #hamradio. That was fucking awesome.

Thought it was so good I saw it twice.

Hah well if you knew me you’d know in that sense… I have no sense 😅

Better or worse I’m a bull-headed, do-it-myself kind of person.

I am obsessed with communication tech. #nostr, amateur #hamradio, #meshtastic, #encryption, decentralized P2P like #Pear.

What’s really funny to me is I don’t actually enjoy talking to people all that much 😂

What did it taste like?