Not a fractal / zero capacity channel / a machine you can ask questions of, and it responds to every single one with the answer "Yes" / come across / come alone / you see / apologizing will only make it worse / ignoring it will only make it worse / locking up trying to figure out what you're going to do next will definitely make it worse / hypochondriac in a world of sickness / invariant culture / implicit intent / idiophone / social wetwork / that's probably not how skin works / rip to the author but i'm different / prion intelligence / sun damage / claymore mine as a pillow / I only ever think about one thing

A chronic, life-ruining disease which actually has a simple cause and equally simple cure, neither of which will be discovered until the middle of the 23rd century

Sodipodi / Program Files (x86) / unexploded ordinance / leaded / it completely lacks value but its presence protects us from something worse rooting in its space / a zeppelin, or a hot-air balloon, with a very slow leak / at first wet and warm, but then cold and sticky / the skin of the world / sloughing off in sheets / gag economy / neophile / amended mori / Jacob's ladder filter / "Wily machine" / humanize knob / teeth / on rows of teeth / on rows of teeth / on rows of teeth / on rows of teeth / body plan / high functioning / ground truth / I made a series of mistakes, all along the lines of "things are okay now so they will be okay later" / we are a question to them

Multiverse ideas are common but often ill-formed since they rarely seriously interrogate the question of "which universes exist?"

Max Tegmark formalized a simple idea that any universe is "real" if it has a complete mathematical description

a consequence of this idea is every computer program is a universe

in other words humans create tiny self-contained universes that we can insert avatars into and move around in, extract sounds and sights from

and we treat this as utterly mundane