• Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Probably the ability to not be an unbalanced idiot 24/7. I literally fell up the stairs twice this week. There are few people who are less scatter-brained than me.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Either having a complete understanding of modern-day physics or knowing how to play the violin.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

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      6 days ago

      What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem? Maybe you’d become susceptible to someone telling you “this statement is false”.

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        Ideally, I wouldn’t have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

        The problem with the “This statement is false” could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

        • stevedice@sh.itjust.works
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          Oh, brother, no. Godel’s in completeness theorem is a problem much bigger than imaginary numbers. Imaginary numbers are just something we initially didn’t account for but we can (and did) fix. Godel’s theorem means everything may just be broken and we just don’t know.

    • blarth@thelemmy.club
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      6 days ago

      And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

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      11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

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      7 days ago

      But also the ability to turn it off at will. Otherwise life will become incredibly tedious.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

      • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 days ago

        Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

        Not that I’m opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

        I just feel like I’m learning such basic things and won’t be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It’s frustrating lol

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          25 years in IT here: you’re on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

          • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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            I think I’m going to get my nieces and nephews some pi5 desktops, I can’t let them become teenagers without seeing a console.

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        Not sure about the latter, but NZT was the focal “smart” drug in Limitless (a show on the premise “this drug makes u smart but if u stop taking it bad stuff happens”)

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    8 days ago

    “I know how to make piles of money while sitting on my ass” (without being a psychopathic CEO, a crypto bro or a “fintech” con artist, for the sake of not hating myself)

    Then I can use my money to buy the services of anybody who has the other abilities I need while still sitting on my ass, and feel good providing employment at the same time.

    • The problem is luck plays an enormous role in whether or not a company fails or makes bank. This is how we end up with idiots who become hundred-millionaires or billionaires. Though being savvy helps improve your chances.

      If you’re good at playing the dailies, you will inevitably go bust, possibly while owning a bunch of rotting commodities that didn’t sell in time, but once you have a reputation friends will lend you money to get back on your feet (which you pay back with interest.)

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldOP
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      “Contract management”, I think it’s called.
      You hire the services of one factory or laboratory to do your manufacture and packaging, another company for distribution and marketing, another for accounting, etc. You can build a good-sized company with one employee: You, the owner.

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        Yeah usually the two requirements there are a decent business sense and a boatload of starting capital