It seems inevitable that a movie should be stored as a giant cube built with myraid 3D polygons ("polycube" for a working term), where the axises of the cube are X, Y, and time. There would be no need for frames or pixels, those are only things the end-user's display device will have to create based on its particular technology.

Converting it for display would be like rapid "slicing of the cheese". A given second can be sliced into 10 frames or a 1000, there is no limit, other than computer processing of the display device.

Frame interpolation for smoothing then wouldn't be needed because there are no frames. Older movies can be converted to a polycube using conversion and interpolation algorithms. It could indicate a "favored frame rate" to reduce interpolation anomalies, which would make nostalgic purists happy.

It should also make producers happier because it gives display devices less reason to have to guess.

I suspect they'll eventually end up being designed akin to tall buildings with corridors between adjacent buildings ever few floors. The coolant will run in between.

"Intel bricks inside!"

I'd be curious what the breakdown is between 'addicts', in the compulsively-does-thing-despite-knowing-it-is-contrary-to-their-interests sense, and sad but locally reasonable behavior from people with tepid options.

'Addict' is a comparatively easy call to make when people are getting fired because they no-showed to play WoW; or spending all their time scrolling tiktok despite having a school or college worth of peers to socialize with; but if you are retired, less physically able to get out and about than you used to be, and at the age where your friends and peers are starting to die off, it seems like a much more open question whether having an engaging if ultimately rather hollow hobby is an 'addiction' or just a kind of depressing local maximum.

It's obviously not some ideal of perfected human flourishing; but if you are doing it because you don't really have things to do, rather than at the expense of things you have to do, that's not really classic addict behavior; just a mediocre hobby.

Could you help me understand the 'irony' here? Is saying impolite things about a dead guy the moral equivalent to being perhaps the most pivotal figure behind a war with an estimated half-million dead and a causus belli that was transparent bullshit; not to mention the elevation of extrajudicial torture to official policy? I'm not sure I follow.

And, if you'd like to expand on the 'political leanings' thing; I'd be more than happy to call anyone whose politics involve thinking that Cheney did a great job a monster as well; especially when it's so hard to argue that any of Cheney's ugliest aspects even paid off. Flirting with more expansive theories of the ends justifying the means can be a dangerous business; but, bare minimum, you can attempt to rank means by degree of atrocity and ends by degree of effectiveness; and on that score Cheney's work was honestly pretty shit.

Remember the 'Pax Americana' that the neocons assured us could be bombed into the fractious elements of the middle east? Lol. Bin Laden? Dude was chilling in an upmarket suburb in Pakistan while we were pissing away blood and treasure on hitting a mixture of hapless civilians and 'insurgents' who had the temerity to suggest that our puppet government was not the legitimate local administration in one peripherally involved country and one uninvolved one.

So, go ahead, please, explain your other level of irony. Tell us whose political loyalties are to this grade of not-even-effective violence. What'll it be?

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

The only point I was trying to make is the following:

If you tell the population "Starting next week, we will do everything an hour earlier. You get up an hour earlier, your work starts an hour earlier, the supermarkets start an hour earlier, etc..." people's reaction is "What? I don't want to get up so early! I want to get up at 7, I don't want to wake up at 6!

But when you say that next week we move the clocks an hour forwards so now you have more daylight in the evening, most people are enthousiastic about it. While it's exactly the same thing, just packaged differently.

Luckily, reliable sources assure me that he will be greeted as a liberator in hell; so things should go fine.

> If it glows, it's not dark.

Okay, but "Very very very very dim matter" is not very catchy.

My fortune cookie said it did, dammit, and cookies have only been wrong once!

I hope everyone spoofs his shit, waters it down, changes the lyrics with AI, etc. eKarma!

"a decision and action appear to takes place milliseconds before the conscious mind is aware of it, but phenomenologically it feels like you made that decision before the event happened."

I certainly don't know, and I don't think the research answers that question yet.

But from what I've read its research that raises many more questions than it REALLY answers.

For example, what if the consciousness feedback loop is not "aware" of the decisions (its "output") until they've been dumped to memory and looped around and come back in as "inputs".

So that doesn't necessarily mean you don't consciously make decisions, it just means you aren't yourself aware you made it until after you made it.

In web programming terms, suppose "consciousness" is the local application state view, which is a reflection of the data on the server "memory" and has all your data labels and field contents showing (including the logs of its decisions). Imagine too that a "decision" is like activating a call to the server to make a an update to the back-end database.

So based on the data in the local state, and the running software, the local app "decides" to calls the server and make an update. Lets just say, it just does it -- in particular it doesn't feed that information back to the local state object, no UI is updated, no labels are changed. Yet.

The local state is not updated with even the record that it made the call until it gets the state update from the server a few milliseconds later.

Then, if you are a brain researcher monitoring the application state (aka consciousness), you'll discover it doesn't "know" it called the server, until after the server has been called and returned.

The point is: just because we don't know what we decided right away doesn't necessarily imply that we didn't decide. The brain is an organic system that evolved over millions of years, perhaps having consciousness run a few milliseconds behind is perfectly serviceable solution for the problems it evolved to solve.

Perhaps its even advantageous, waiting for the awareness of the decision to propagate through consciousness before emitting the decision to the rest of the body might cause enough action latency that we're polar bear or sabre tooth tiger food. Better to get the body acting act as soon as the information is there -- there's simply no survival advantage to waiting for it to get dumped back to memory and updated in the consciousness first.

Or maybe consciousness is an illusion, so we can watch a show that aleady happened with no impact on the world around us... but that seems relatively useless in a world with polar bears and sabre tooth tigers.

May I ask why you call firing people morally corrupt? Illegal, according to some artificial definitions of what is supposed to be the law, which is a system designed to force behaviors, maybe. But morally corrupt? Please explain, I really do not get it, absolutely don't understand what is morally corrupt about firing people that you don't want to work with because any reasons whatsoever. If it is your business, you should be able to fire anyone, it's not about morality, it is purely, completely a monetary decision. Do you feel morally corrupt for purchasing things on sale rather than overpaying for them?

I live at a 54 degree latitude. The changeover to summer time causes a measurable spike in accidents every year, just to mention one negative effect. It's only good for a couple of months during the summer. In the spring, it means kids going to school when it's still dark etc. The negatives outweigh the positives.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...