general

French speaking is pretty objective imo

i'm the best version of me that exists :)

brain tumor treatment, they come to you and ask what mm cutoff you're willing to accept surrounding the tumor close shave 1mm risks cancer coming back 90% of the time large cut 5mm lowers that risk to 10%

you're choosing blindliy, which of two potential 'you's to create

does it matter

I would choose the procedure with the largest chance of overall survival. Brain cancer is a death sentence if you do not fix it, so it coming back would be not ideal

we can play with the odds, but that's a distraction ig I'm curious how much you prioritize a small change versus a large one

Thats a mental calculus I'd have to do on a situational basis

is the chance of survival of a more similar 'you' more valuable than a larger variance 'you'

I think I can only quanitify my governing principal as "when possible, minimize risk of death, both in an identity and in a literal sense"

and I try to determine what that actually means as situations arise

yeah, I get that situational hypotheticals aren't the best

just curious overall

I would not be hungry because I ate lunch today though

lkol

ik my take on brain stuff is... out there

I think mine is also out there lmao

because you all shit on my clone philosophy

I think most people are somewhere in between us

Wendy's burger

I want to hear more about that

in vc sometime

Wendy's burger was a great brain argument spooky don't get down on yourself

lol, thanks Rusp

I'll door dash you a frosty, one sec

my take is i'm a biological purist until my life is actually under threat, then i don't care, fuck me up

I think that is more or less my ideal view

one day I'll convince you to go halvsies with me on a brain donor Fire

lol

fishtank delayed by another hour...

jet it up

Spooky’s endured so much pain he doesn’t care what happens to his own mind anymore, very sad

did they ever revise the swimsuits?

no, but Drone Girl explained to me that it's actually not retarded, and in fact is a good design for gymnasts

the deep cut-lines prevent the pieces from slipping to either side, which is what happens with lower ones that provide "more coverage"

unintuitive facts about girls strike again

from the new Veritasium

"very bright" does not fit with the rest of the description

great taste in games at least

this is one of the least interesting veritasium videos recently, though still better than the one on 37

if you are going to have believable hypothetical situations, don't call an anti-nuclear protestor bright

yeah being anti-nuclear is not a smart position

Him dropping metal tubes in the beach from a helicopter sure made me feel safer about those dastardly rods of god.

I like Derek and want Veritasium to be as good as 3B1B is/was

but I think he's kind of on that YouTuber burnout track

His numbers started slipping a couple years ago, and imo he felt like he was never going to reach the peak he wanted to so he started trying to force it by chasing every pop-science trend and played into the YouTube gimmick game

some of his recent stuff is still very good

blue LEDs and Japenese sword making were great

yeah, I don't want it to come across like I think he is Kurzgesagt-tier

this one really flopped compared to the other videos around then

I liked that one

He's also been mostly up-front about it He A/B tests titles and thumbnails, likes clickbait, sus sponsors, collabs with big YouTubers, start internet feuds, Mr.Beast money games, college campus stuff with girls, "big name" science guys like NdGT and Bill Nye

I also really want to buy his molecule model set

I remember it being expensive, but they look very cool

oh yeah, girls in the thumbnail

the video all about how terrible the american education system is

Black girl

Very observant rusp

You know, I can understand how an idiot would reach this order

stars are visually the smallest, they know the earth is a planet and thats massive, so obviously bigger than the moon

not a uni student though

u should know what a star is by university

not a second grader though

Okay, second graders have an advantage

one path of child autism is specing into the solar system

All heavenly bodies tierlist

I think the word tierlist should be replaced with "I have autism"

Where would you put the Oort Cloud on the Heavenly Bodies Iceberg?

Tier 2 is things you were being taught in school but people weren't paying attention to; so there.

whats the tier of things you are taught in school that are wrong?

An extremely dense star can have less volume than a planet

Tier 8 is that Star<Moon<Planet is the correct order and its based on neutron stars

in the video they rank 5 things

i'm at two somewhat close tornadoes so far tonight

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-light-quantum-physics In the world of physics, a pure light black hole was mathematically disproven by a prof at my school

I really like the prof who wrote that paper, he taught me quantum theory 2/3 and general relativity

so what colors have we disproven