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It is dismissed here: https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/761383565259055106

Obviously it would be AI-complete. I didn't know that term, that's what I meant by currently impossible to code. I just learned my favorite term ever, thanks for that!.

Although disappointing, you seem to have the correct answer for my question.

Nice insight you brought with the CPU and the standard libraries being a relevant factor, hadn't thought of that.

Your thought experiment sounds more like a "codec" than a procedural generation. I guess it is an arbitrary line given that we are using CPU, etc. But the bigger the decompressing "model" the further away from true 4k compression we are.

That being said, speech is far from the best compression we can ever hope of achieving.

I suspect that if at all possible to have an algorithm that can generate the seeds plus the process to expand them, then that algorithm would take orders of magnitude longer to run then there would be practical in any meaningful time scale.

Sorry, I thought it was obvious, but the question is: Could procedural generation be used to achieve amazing compression rates given a currently impossible to code algorithm?

Does this mean that lots of 3:30 minutes 1080p videos could be compressed into 4kb?

EDIT: We can be generous and say 40kb for sake of adding more colours / etc.

I hate geoblocking, but looking trough the site I only felt like facepalm. It's the same as poverty sucks so let's give 1000$ a month to everybody and somehow where the money will come from will be figured out by someone.

I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.

You went from incredible predictable to better than random? Wow, now that's impressive!

If that were the case their society would soon collapse after a few years.

The cost of every square foot of living space in x years is something we can't have the smallest idea about.

I agree that condition B should be discarded. It doesn't seem likely that Satoshi would want to trash Andersen in the process.

At first glance I think they would take off and be airborne. Other than that they would do whatever they were programmed to do. I know, my comment is stupid, thought I should fit in.

Maybe we can use this comment as a place to give our best guesses for to the percentage of liars on the internet.

How many of the people claiming to have clicked a button few minutes / hours after it was out and having spectacular irreversible consequences to their lives is just a phony?

I would say between 40% and 90%, but don't know better than that.

Yeah, that's definitely a possibility. What you describe is more or less the basic property/side effect I was talking about, but much better explained.

You're betting evolution is not that good. One can also bet it better than you can possibly imagine. I don't think you can be sure either way at this point, but your argument seems to be the most compelling at this point!

Why do we say homosexuality is primarily genetic if evolution is true?

In my opinion it must be to help the fitness of the community they live in. The communities with low likelihood to spawn a gay person are (were?) much more likely to go extinct. It can also be a basic property (side effect?) of the sexual appeal arms race.

There is also the case of suicides, when they happen to young people that hasn't reproduced yet. It can also be argued its for the benefit of the community.

So the thesis is that the primary force in evolution is not individual's fitness but it is the community's fitness.

I did miss it too, for the first 2 weeks I started using python. After that it just seems ugly.

Seemed stupid, but I had to read, as I couldn't possible imagine what would the author come up with to justify how an automated "rule based" predictable system can cause more congestion that chaotic humans...

On that note, I think the author forgot to mention the noise disaster it will be when everyone sends their cars driving around the block at night while they sleep. (yay, some extra garage space)

What??

Is this ironic?

I have my sound at the volume level it always is: between 50% and 100%

Luckly the sound was going through the speakers. It was still very awkward to have the speakers produce one of the loudest sound they ever produced.

Even worst, he is alive, and he had to share his name with the local authorities when he was born

I don't think he thought it through very well.. But if being generous because in chess you have to memorize lots of openings and if you want to know lots of languages there's a bit of memorization aswell.

LOL. Is this for real or are you trying to be funny?

I don't have much experience in java, and don't want to get just for this project. Although I would love to participate... This is my dream competition.

Seems weird to see a coding competition with only one language available.

Maybe you'll be able to improve that in the future?

EDIT: It would be great to have python available. But an API that any language could use would be the best way to go as the other comment mentions.

The notification spam is affective on bending the curve for mysefl. Most of the times I get them I uninstall the app within minutes.

Quick answer: because you are a masochist

Wow. First time my mouse lagged on a webpage. My computer is avareage or above average.

I closed the page immediately as it is unusable.

What would you say when, in a few years (or few thousand), we develop a rather crude simulation (compared to our universe) where sentient life forms emerge? And what would you say when they point out the exact same argument you did for them not being in a simulation?

The only valid answer, I think, is that nor we, nor any other lifeform, will never be able to do so. And it's impossible to predict whether we will be able to do that or not, but everything points out to the answer being yes!

But please, give me an answer I didn't think of.

PS: I completely hate the simulation argument, as it stands, as you can see in my answer to the top post.

I agree that this premise is very short sighted. Why would a universe of such apparent magnitude be created just so some post-humans could simulate us humans? Who even thinks that? (apparently most simulationists)

In my opinion it's obvious that some intelligent life form decided it would like to create a simulation where life and other interesting behaviour could emerge.

Well, at least I know that I (and many others) would do that if/when we have the means to do so!

Of course, we could never simulate our universe to the same detail and scale (or even close..) within itself. We would have to create a more modest simulation.

So, they could have a highly logical argument for us being in a simulation, but instead they put the words "ancestor simulation" in it. How human of use, once again, thinking the sun spins around the earth!

Now, how does the "real" world work? Where did it come from? How do we know it isn't a simulation?

That's very easy to answer. Our parent "world" is most likely also a simulation! And so on and forth... ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The_Finale_of_the_Ult... )

Now the real question is.. Who spawned the first simulation? And where the F*CK did they come from.

This wont help our life on the day to day, but why would you say people who think about these subject should take a fresh look at the world? For those who like to think deep, this is the most interesting subject there is.

I hope there will be a way to run it locally at a smaller scale.

That way one could try to apply some machine learning to this game.

That would really hook me!

Post your first try score! (and don't waste more time playing, if you can)

Mine: 3387