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He left Mozilla (chased out because he’s a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains

The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn’t opt in though…

ADHD doesn’t work like that, and this whole discussion is full of the sort of responses ADHD folk get every day :\

You mean comment chain right :p

Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn’t gold, it was all yellow

Hi, from another instance (technically two) that doesn’t require emails!

Except research conducted by men like Sam Parnia rules that out and shows that conciousness persists after death.

That’s not what he showed though. What he was saying is that brain death isn’t the hard on/off line that we think it is, and that in some cases, it’s possible to restore some brain function in a brain that had been declared to have died.

Only problem is that even if the person is barely clinging onto life there’s still the issue of conciousness being strong and present where none can exist.

Sam Parnia quite explicitly talks about “restoration” of brain function. This does not mean that consciousness exists independent of the brain, he’s stating that he believes we can return consciousness to some brains that we believe are beyond that point, and the boundary at which the brain/consciousness “dies” isn’t quite as clear cut as it seems.

He also claims that the experience of consciousness might not be centered in the brain, despite interacting with it, but at this point, he is no longer backed by research or medical experience, and is just theorising.

Which is to say, the research and experiences he talks about do suggest that our “time of death” and treatment of brain death as a binary yes/no situation may be incorrect.

However, it doesn’t say anything new in regards to life after death, souls, or anything along those lines, and Sam Parnia’s talk in these areas is supposition rather than evidence based.

This is me too. Though I can generate an inner steam of words, those words have no audio qualities and are purely conceptual. They also come “after the fact”. I’m thinking of words, rather than words being the medium of my thoughts.

“acting” your age says everything. If you’re acting, you’re not living authentically. And sometimes that’s just how it is. But if you’re aspiring to a life that involves confining yourself so that you can live on other people’s terms, maybe you should dream bigger.

I think you have the wrong community…

Think of it this way.

“I went back in time to save my family” in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn’t exist before, in which the family doesn’t make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the “real” family of the person who went back in time.

The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn’t change the fact that it didn’t make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren’t “saved” from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren’t.

The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)

Edit - Or you could tell a non infinite loop story, where a single universe is spawned by the act of jumping back in time. That still won’t save the “real” versions of the family you jumped back to save, they’re still gone, but at least it creates only a single version of them that the character can save.

Invincible can’t move between the infinite timelines though, and no storyline is hanging off of the important changes he makes those timelines by travelling through time/dimensions. He’s not “saving” anyone by jumping through to another universe

That’s exactly my point! In an infinite timelines story, there is nothing that has special meaning over the others, making it boring, because it’s all irrelevant!

The reality I experience is the only one that matters to me. To an outside observer, all of them are as equally real and there is no true timeline.

In a story, there is no real, there is only outside observers…

Is there any way of forcing it to rebuild places and trips? Somewhere along the line, most of mine disappeared. It’s still building new ones just fine as GPS logger adds real time data, but most of my historical stuff is gone.

The actual data is there, and it shows up fine on the maps for each day, but the places/trips/stats etc are mostly empty.

I can’t see anything in the logs that might explain it

Apologies, I copied and pasted the answer below from another reply I made elsewhere in this thread

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I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.

I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.

You’ve shown your kid that he’s in charge of his own body, and shown him that you can be trusted if he approaches you with sensitive or embarassing topics.

What other people think is irrelevant, because your relationship with your kid will be forever better because you’ve shown him you can be trusted.

Except for the fact it makes every decision, every moment of tension and every event that occurs irrelevant, because an infinite number of universe exist in which the events occurred and in which they didn’t occur.

I’ve got a question about how reitti calculates significant places/visits.

I was thinking of adjust gps logger so that it doesn’t log points if they’re within 10m of the last point it logged. That will clear up the data when I’m at home or work, so that there is less of a random squiggle of location data. It will record me arriving at home, and leaving home, but not much in between.

Will that impact how reitti calculates locations though? Is it looking at the number of points, or is it simply a matter of duration within a particular vicinity?