A cone is one third of a cylinder with the same height and diameter, and a cylinder is pi fourths of a rectangular prism with the same height for one side and the diameter for its other two sides, so a cone is pi twelfths of a rectangular prism!
SO THE PERFECT CONE WHERE HEIGHT EQUALS DIAMETER IS PI TWELFTHS OF A CUBE!
Heck yeah, Rozzy doing trig and calc to get... actually, really basic and elementary results.
Well, shut up Archimedes, I bet you can't find the volume of a sphere either. Oh wait, Archimedes totally did that thousands of years ago. Stinking Archimedes.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Is it hacky to have one town in Centralia with a layout lifted 1:1 from a real life town?
I dunno, I just thought it was kinda funny to do that...plus it lets me pull up Google Maps and just draw Centralia stuff over the real city.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
memetics is a poor attempt at quantifying anthropology, sociology, etc., based on an analogy with genetics so shallow that even the original writing on the subject has to mention the obvious flaws so that it can gloss over them.
It is a dumbass pseudoscience invented on a whim by a hack pop sci writer, and then carried forth to new heights of idiocy by /r/atheists who love to condemn beliefs they dislike as evil fairies.
because I haven't read anything in depth on this at all, I was just kinda assuming that it all boiled down to "ideas that both appeal to people and encourage them to share said idea outlast other ideas that don't do those things" which seemed like an observation so obvious it teeters on the edge of banality
because I haven't read anything in depth on this at all, I was just kinda assuming that it all boiled down to "ideas that both appeal to people and encourage them to share said idea outlast other ideas that don't do those things" which seemed like an observation so obvious it teeters on the edge of banality
All left-wing developments in history are caused by the evil Puritan Chtulhu memeplex- serious memeticists
I'm fully aware that memepeople take their pet idea to the hights of absurdity
I was just kinda assuming that their pet idea was in essence a bland truism as opposed to something absurdly wrong
it's, at least nominally, based on an analogy to genetics. that implies some details, e.g., you can imagine something like Mendelian inheritance, or the complex regulatory cascades that geneticists work now. the problem is that genetics requires some specific things from the underlying structure, whether biochemical or ideological, such as being discrete, some kind of fidelity in copying, etc. "memetics" actually has none of these things, as smoothed over/ignored by Dawkins in the original proposal, which reduces what would be a complex analogy to a field with tons of useful tools to, indeed, a banality. i wouldn't call this flaw "absurdly" wrong, it takes a bit of thought and it's possible to debate whether the analogy holds... not that people worried about memes tend to do so.
sorry if you already know that, i don't mean to talk down or anything. there's really not a lot more to it: the presence memetics has in nerdland is completely disproportional to the actual usefulness and correctness of the idea.
I'm fully aware that memepeople take their pet idea to the hights of absurdity
I was just kinda assuming that their pet idea was in essence a bland truism as opposed to something absurdly wrong
it's, at least nominally, based on an analogy to genetics. that implies some details, e.g., you can imagine something like Mendelian inheritance, or the complex regulatory cascades that geneticists work now. the problem is that genetics requires some specific things from the underlying structure, whether biochemical or ideological, such as being discrete, some kind of fidelity in copying, etc. "memetics" actually has none of these things, as smoothed over/ignored by Dawkins in the original proposal, which reduces what would be a complex analogy to a field with tons of useful tools to, indeed, a banality. i wouldn't call this flaw "absurdly" wrong, it takes a bit of thought and it's possible to debate whether the analogy holds... not that people worried about memes tend to do so.
I was missing the whole "we're gonna take the genetics analogy and run all the way to the end zone with it" bit, I was just kinda assuming that the gene thing was just a jumping off point of sorts
further proof that I am overly inclined to give people benefit of the doubt I guess
As an enthusiastic Darwinian, I have been dissatisfied with explanations which my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behavior. [...] These [various evolutionary psychology/sociology] ideas are plausible as far as they go, but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture, cultural evolution, and the immense differences between human cultures around the world [...] I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. [...]
i think that's enough to get the idea. it (just) bugs me because darwinian theory is great for a situation like genetics where you have a reasonably one-way street from genotype to phenotype, but that's not remotely the case for ideas (since you can: think about ideas, modify them based on your various wants, etc.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Does the tape player have rechargeable batteries, at least?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You might wanna invest in some rechargeable AA batteries then
I know they're expensive but in the long run it'll be cheaper than continuously buying alkaline AAs
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A cone is one third of a cylinder with the same height and diameter, and a cylinder is pi fourths of a rectangular prism with the same height for one side and the diameter for its other two sides, so a cone is pi twelfths of a rectangular prism!
SO THE PERFECT CONE WHERE HEIGHT EQUALS DIAMETER IS PI TWELFTHS OF A CUBE!
Heck yeah, Rozzy doing trig and calc to get... actually, really basic and elementary results.
Well, shut up Archimedes, I bet you can't find the volume of a sphere either. Oh wait, Archimedes totally did that thousands of years ago. Stinking Archimedes.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I have to wait 45 minutes to catch a plane back to the worst city in the world
six is OK
basically, a shortish paragraph
anyway, semen magnets > memes
a touch too vague
because I haven't read anything in depth on this at all, I was just kinda assuming that it all boiled down to "ideas that both appeal to people and encourage them to share said idea outlast other ideas that don't do those things" which seemed like an observation so obvious it teeters on the edge of banality
I was just kinda assuming that their pet idea was in essence a bland truism as opposed to something absurdly wrong
further proof that I am overly inclined to give people benefit of the doubt I guess
did you know that legowelt records all his music directly to cassette and then rips the cassettes