Unseen

Simon Paynton wrote:
Would you say that there’s something in atheism that makes people want to kill themselves? I don’t think there is, and I’ve never heard of that before. Atheism makes people want to celebrate life and make the most of it. Maybe suicidal people gravitate towards it as a nihilistic position.

“If there is no God, everything is pe…[Read more]

I agree with Sartre that suicide is the ultimate expression of one’s freedom. I live in Oregon, a state with legal assisted suicide. Which is kind of silly, in a way, since most of us have a way of doing it if we were to so choose. As a diabetic, I always have vials of insulin on hand. I passed out recently in a hypoglycemic crisis. Luckily, I…[Read more]

There will be no note in a bottle telling whatever (if anything) comes after what our universe was like. That we beheld beauty.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
How to deal with it indeed.

I think the only thing to do is to live a good life: authentic and compassionate. Then, at least it’s not wasted. There is no cosmic significance of anything. The point is, what’s it like for you?

Someone might say, “If the universe isn’t eternal, than the universe itself is was…[Read more]

How to deal with it indeed.

@ Simon

By “dying,” I mean not getting the attention they deserve, not passing totally out of existence.

A 10/9/24 concert in a small setting where, lacking the giant video screens they use in their major concerts, they just show up and play virtually nonstop, putting on exactly the same show they would for a crowd of 50,000, musically speaking. Sadly, my favorite Pau song, 23, seems to have been dropped from their recent playlists. And, much as I’d…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
camo-breaking abilities

Camouflage?

Simon Paynton wrote:
It seems to be generating 3-d landscapes that are rotated, and new material is AI-generated to fill the gap of what’s coming round the corner.

I noticed that, but it still doesn’t explain the hyper 3D effect.

Here’s another one exhibiting the hyper 3D effect that also goes flat when you pause it.

There are tons of trippy computer-generated “deep dives” into mind-bending fractal worlds. They use the rules of perspective to simulate depth in 2D but the example in the top post does something I can’t identify to go beyond those rules, understood and used by painters in the Renaissance until today, to depict objects in space accurately. I will…[Read more]