The you you are now and the you you were then are not the same you, you’re just playing in that you’s position.
-
-
P.S. I'm also probably channeling some of
@doctorow's Walkaway, here.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I have so many thoughts about this but at a high level: we have to collapse the infinite into a reductive subset if we want to reason about it. Our brains can’t handle infinity.
@Harkaway made similar observation about Gnomon and the ‘eternal life’ it gives to a snapshot of him. -
If I had not a care in the world, I think I would just read simulation theory fiction and speculations all day, every day.
- 6 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Write your simulations in Erlang man, mutability will steal your soul.
-
Oh god. I used to love Erlang! I also once wrote a micro-market simulation using NASDAQ's TOTAL-ITCH full-depth order books in scala, and I used immutable data structures to represent order book state. It was pretty damn useful, and I miss immutability.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.