Post AtZhtkOGf2OIDVtjHM by rayhindle@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AtZ03YIC6F8zbmvEGG by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-04-28T22:23:47Z
       
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       This one always bugged me. Now the universe probably isn't infinite, but sometimes people will say "but if it were then there would have to be a version of earth where everyone is a potato"Thing is. This doesn't track. For some  reasons it's easy to confuse infinite with everything. Every possible variation with every describable variation.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ0MGIfDeltJA3z2e by vestige@sleepyhe.ad
       2025-04-28T22:27:07Z
       
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       @futurebird Well, wait a minute.Pi's decimal expansion is infinitely long.Somewhere in Pi is source code and a database for a simulator that simulates a universe where there's an Earth where everyone is a potato.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ14bEojY6OzIPECe by davep@infosec.exchange
       2025-04-28T22:35:07Z
       
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       @futurebird I've decided that it isn't infinite and the universe is surrounded by other universes. They expand and eventually form other universes as matter coalesces. It would explain dark energy too. Our universe is a snapshot of an ever-evolving subatomic particle of a larger universe.<passes joint>
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ27lna1ePGZ1k2HQ by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
       2025-04-28T22:46:55Z
       
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       @futurebird life is a sparsely populated n-dimensional matrix. (Ie, of all the things that could possibly happen, so little of it actually does)
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ2I0l3GKgpr4RU00 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-04-28T22:48:48Z
       
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       @vestige IDK if we know enough about the way that pi is "random" to assume it is the kind of random that could produce this result. And in many ways pi is totally predictable. However, if you have a random number generator where every digit has and equal chance then this is functionally true. But it's also not the same thing as "a world were everyone is a potato" because it's possible within the constraints of the system. Less easy to say that about the potatoes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ3MYpecJy6eAKQ0O by quinn@social.circl.lu
       2025-04-28T22:45:04Z
       
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       @vestige @futurebird except you could have an infinite random sequence that never contains a 3. 🤷
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZ6m9DeldecbMRoeW by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
       2025-04-28T23:39:02Z
       
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       @futurebird Yeah, this one really gets under my skin. The thing is, I see physicists making this claim on popular programs, and it is fundamentally flawed at a very basic level.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZhtkOGf2OIDVtjHM by rayhindle@mastodon.social
       2025-04-29T06:34:54Z
       
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       @futurebird In an infinite universe anything is possible, whether it is probable or not is another matter entirely!
       
 (DIR) Post #AtZtjr1eKrVzLkMqae by rrwo@infosec.exchange
       2025-04-29T08:47:40Z
       
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       @futurebird Ah, David Lewis's "Humean supervenience".One criticism is that just because you can think of a combination doesn't mean it will exist if it's not logically consistent.For example, you cannot have a universe exactly like our own except that water burns. So many fundamental things would have to be different that it cannot be anything like our world.