Peppycito

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

And now we're in the "is burning up thousands of satellites bad?" phase of space exploration. I'll be waiting for spacex to do the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

maybe to wait to have at least some hard number looks like a good idea.

Good plan. So they're holding off on starlink launches to let the science catch up, right?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

I fully expect they did. I think this is partly why Elon went from "there's no planet B" to a Saudi simp. Way to much money to be made to waste time on the concerns of scientists and the welfare of the planet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

used to be a boat

So it's not Theseus's ship anymore, which is my point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you change a boat into a wagon, is the boat a wagon or is the wagon a boat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

eventually your body was replaced by a new artificial one

But that's not what the comic is about. If we followed the comic, your body would eventually be turned into an airplane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I was small, now I'm big and hairy, I'm still a human. I didn't grow up and turn into a cat.

The point of the thought experiment is, if you take a thing apart and remake it with entirely new parts, is it the same thing? It is not about taking something apart and turning those parts into something else.

The Wagon of Theseus thought experiment is "if you take apart a boat and turn it into a wagon, is it still a boat?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I point you to the definition of "replace"

Replace : to restore to a former place or position

2: to take the place of especially as a substitute or successor

3: to put something new in the place of

If you take something apart and build something new from it, you aren't replacing anything, you're building something. You've replaced Theseus's boat with a wagon.

If you take my grandfather's axe (I replaced the handle twice and the head once) and whittle it down into a cane, you haven't replaced the handle you've made a cane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Please explain your reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We're on the mobile/desktop devide. I've only seen reddit on a computer if I clicked on a link from someone. That's why that api bullshit brought me here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How so? You need to use the ap to see porn and the ap is mostly an ad server.

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