Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club), page 4

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
If I had a penny for every time someone wasn't on good talking terms with Dev...
He still manages to hold onto a decent public image, but I swear, behind the scenes there's probably something deeply wrong with him.

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
>They got into an argument in a d&d campaign
Again?! I know they've had campaigns for years, but I don't follow their D&D stuff. But every once in a while Vee will mention that there'll be an argument with either Dev or Rags that derails things.

@icedquinn
Clueless shark? You mean this one :gura: ?

@mischievoustomato @BasedLunatic
I don't think I've ever called someone a friend if I didn't meet them IRL.. I can like them, consider them close, value them, care about them, but using the word "friend" for someone who I never met feels weird to me.

Quick question, why hasn't Pornhub implemented an AI porn image generator yet?

I for one embrace our future AI overlords.
We're only 4 years away from DALL-E. Remember DALL-E and how it struggled to make simple images? Now, not only do we have realistic video, but it also includes sound, or more accurately spoken language, and lip syncing. What will we see in a couple more years? What will be able to trust by 2030?
We are gonna be so fucked...

On the bright side, I think entertainment won't be an issue, because the real world will be interesting and chaotic enough to keep our attention.

@mischievoustomato Man... You're such an ugly bastard.

@mischievoustomato Wow, you're so beautiful.

@icedquinn
From this description alone, it sounds like a "yes". But I'm guessing there's more context here.

@flux_the_cat @BowsacNoodle @mushroom_soup
I believe yellow and black together represent anarcho-capitalists.

@lucy This is heresy (the image) and you deserve to die for it.
P.S. Supposedly HL3 is actively being worked on, and it is supposedly far along in development. As in, far enough that it might be competing with GTA6 as for which comes out next.

This was hilarious. A leftie breadtuber used A LOT of Gamergate research to bash on Brianna Wu, and talk about how she's a bad person and whatnot, just because Wu turned her rhetoric ever so slightly away from full blown woke insanity.

They validate EVERYTHING Gamergate found on her, while still claiming GG was a harassment campaign. Gamergate discovered she was a fraud a full decade before you got your panties in a knot, but somehow when they did it, it was wrong...

It's a 2 hour long shit show, I didn't watch it till the end either, but it's hilarious to see the mental dissonance. "Gamergate was bad, but this thing they found on her, and this Breitbart article, I've realized that they were true".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1O6S7MWXb8

@djsumdog In the last few years I keep hearing of archeologist discoveries that push back when various species of humans started, or when they left Africa, so it would not be impossible to cram in somewhere a new undiscovered civilization. The difficulty is, where are the artifacts left by the civilization? Clay figures, pots, writing in clay tablets, various tools, these are the traditional signs of civilization.

Even with massive floods, at some point you'll find something scattered somewhere because archeologists and geologists have been able to identify when and where flooding took place. So if you assume a flood wiped across a valley, you'll just go downstream, where the water would have settled everything it carried, and start digging for signs of the wiped civilization.

We could of course also be dealing with tribes that for one reason or another have their "technology" based mostly around biodegradable material. Less usage of stone, mud, clay, and more wood and plant matter, that would decompose and leave nothing to find for archeologists. They could still have had language, stories with basic philosophical concepts behind them, but expressed orally. You could have had civilizations that were intellectually advanced, but at the same time, you wouldn't be able to find evidence for it. At which point it would be like believing in Santa, with no evidence.

I've heard of Göbekli Tepe only in passing, and I just know that there's some fringe ideas about it being something, with little evidence to prove it. A geographical feature that looks as if it could be man made, but no human artifacts discovered.
I don't think I've heard of the Richat Structure.

I'm open to the idea, but ultimately it's important that we find conclusive evidence of human settlement. Even with cave men we've been able to find wall art and ash remains of fires lit by humans.

@djsumdog
Here's an interesting though: what counts as an extinct civilization here? Would all humans have to die to call our civilization extinct? Or would we be deemed an extinct civilization even if we merely forever lost access to advanced technology, the thing that would give civilization status at the galactic scale? (imagine we simply run out of the resources needed to build that technology, and we're unable to find alternatives).

Cause I'm starting to think that the latter could be a reasonable possibility when it comes to alien life. Was watching a report earlier that it was predicted that we could run out of helium by the end of the century. Why is that important? Because it's used extensively during chip making these days (among other high tech uses). How fast would our civilization collapse if we suddenly were never able to make CPUs at least as powerful as current Ryzen or Threadripper?
There are countless rare elements our technology depends on, and running out of even a single one could radically change society. For the most of them, you at least can argue you'd spend whatever energy needed to recycle them. But for helium... when that escapes into the atmosphere, it's gone.

So imagine the galaxy, filled with 10,000 worlds, where civilizations maybe even more advanced then us existed, but they still couldn't travel between solar systems, they couldn't gather up the resources of other worlds, and once they ran out of critical resources on their world, they slowly reverted back to a feudal society. They could be even more, 100,000, 1 million, 100 million, and we'd never know, because their small window of technological prowess, of being able to communicate via powerful radio signals, has already passed long ago, before we discovered steam engines even.

How tragic would that be? A galaxy filled with beings as smart as us, but without the resources to actually put their intelligence to use.

@djsumdog
>So will human beings ever be able to verify life elsewhere?
Only if we find something on Mars or moons of Jupiter/Saturn. Will we actually? Very small chances, but at the same time, it's the best bet. Recently it was discovered that Mars might actually still have a liquid ocean of sorts, but deep deep underground, on the order of tens of miles. Deeper than we've been able to dig on Earth. So there could be something, but how do we verify it? I expect that the more we keep looking, we'll discover more biomolecules, aminoacids, simple proteins, we'll discover every major building block of life on Mars, Europa, Enceladus, but we won't come face to face with animal life, and if there's bacterial life on these bodies, it could be many decades before we'll find it and even more to be sure it wasn't a false detection because of contamination.
For Europa and Enceladus we might know something by the end of our lifetimes, as there are ideas on how you could melt through the ice and reach the ocean. For Mars though... we might never know for sure, cause I don't see humanity committing to dig down far enough.

Star Trek-like interstellar travel is not gonna happen. I personally think something like that is impossible. For traditional rocket power, you'd need a generational ark to go outside the solar system, and the range will be limited. The odds of finding anything in our immediate vicinity is basically null. We've used telescopes to study our immediate vicinity, and can't even find atmospheres that are clearly life altered (like having a high quantity of oxygen).

If I assume human life will go on indefinitely, I do think at some point we'll find a radio signal that we won't be able to explain, that will look artificial, that will look as if it could be carrying information. But I don't think we'll be able to decode it, and it won't have a societal impact as large as people would like to think such a discovery will have. But something like this could literally be millions of years into the future, and remember, any signal we might hear, would be from a civilization that might have even gone extinct by the time it reached us. If I limit myself within our lifetimes... I don't think so.

>Is life so rare that the planets who have developed it may never find us?
Yes. But more importantly, I think advanced intelligent life is what is incredibly rare. If there are even a handful of civilizations within our galaxy that are at about our level of development, I'd consider that a miracle. And I wouldn't be surprised if we are the only thinking beings in our galaxy right now.
Life could very well be inevitable if you get a planet with the right conditions. But I see no obvious reason why life would have a preference for evolving high intelligence. I consider humanity a fluke. A cosmic mistake of sorts. An anomaly. An interesting one, but no matter how much statistics someone throws at me (but there are so many stars, and so many planets, and even if only 1% bla bla bla) it's not convincing me that it is a repeatable anomaly. I need a valid argument for why in a different ecosystem a high intelligence would be something evolution eventually selects for. If intelligence was important for evolution, I'd expect the Silurian hypothesis to have some evidence behind it.

@LukeAlmighty Disney: now give us money you bigot!!!

@LukeAlmighty
Disney: deal, but with a caveat... Starkiller is now an obese black woman... who's also non-binary or something.

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
Sounds like a you (as in your country in particular) problem. I've learned Chemistry and Physics since age 11 till 16. Biology since age 10. And I stopped at 16 because I was specializing in economics. In most high-schools, you learn these until graduation. Astronomy was folded into Geography for me, which itself probably started at 9 or 10 years, along with History (for these 2 I can't remember for sure when we started).

I can't compare the grammar part apples to apples, cause I speak a different native language. I've had grammar lessons from the start of school till before high school. I could be wrong, but I do not remember any more grammar being done for my native language in high school.
But with English grammar (as a secondary language) I did have things being repeated and redone periodically, even at an university level. I'd wager that fields of study that touch on literature, journalism, might refresh some of the harder grammar for my native language at university too, but I wouldn't know for sure.

You're not distrustful of the experts. You're upset at politicians that toyed around with the school curriculum. Those aren't experts. They're just pretending that their jobs are important by constantly messing around with the curriculum, to make it seem like they're doing something.

It's not that you're wrong for being upset. Far from it. But you're misdirecting your feelings. Experts, of any field (apart from experts in corruption), have little to do with this.

@earthling @mischievoustomato
✋ for the white part.
White supremacists are just a bunch of white niggers as far as I'm concerned.

@djsumdog
Define "find". And define "life".

Discovering an exo-planet that we detect as having a large amount of CO2 and other gasses that most likely are a result of technological pollution? Sure. It is possible it will happen at some point, but it will create endless debate about what we actually found.

Discovering an incredibly faint radio signal that is incompatible with natural origins, and can't be explained as radio pollution from our own technology? Will take a lot longer, but I could see it as a small possibility, with the benefit of being a more categorical find.

Discovering bacteria or similar simple life forms deep in the Martian ground, or one of the moons of Jupiter, quite possible, maybe even the most likely of these scenarios. But it won't be as earth shattering.

But if your "find" involves meeting face to face, and "life" involves alien beings at least as advanced as man-kind, my answer is a no. I don't think humanity will ever encounter advanced, intelligent alien life forms directly. We won't be going to their home planet to visit, and they won't be coming to ours either.