Great.

So the social media site is older than I thought, and the person who made the comment on that site is a lot stupider than it seemed.

Like, Facebooks been around for about 20 years. Would you take a link to a Facebook comment over PBS?

And that linked accounts last comment was advocating for Biden to stage a pre-emptive coup before this election…

https://www.metafilter.com/activity/306302/comments/mefi/

It doesn’t matter if it was created before Ask Yahoo or if it’s older.

It’s random people making random social media comments, sometimes stupid people make the rare comment that sounds like they know what they’re talking about. And I already agreed no one had to take my word on it either.

But that PBS video does a really fucking good job explaining it.

Cuz if I can’t explain to you why a random social media comment isn’t a good source, I’m sure as shit not going to be able to explain anything like Penrose’s theory on consciousness to you.

That’s a social media comment from some Ask Yahoo knockoff…

Like, this isn’t something no one is talking about, you don’t have to solely learn about that from unpopular social media sites (including my comment).

I don’t usually like linking videos, but I’m feeling like that might work better here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Kpkksf3k

But that PBS video gives a really good background and then talks about the recent discovery.

Well, they also kept telling investors all they need to simulate a human brain was to simulate the amount of neurons in a human brain…

The stupidly rich loved that, because they want computer backups for “immortality”. And they’d dump billions of dollars into making that happen

About two months ago tho, we found out that the brain uses microtubules in the brain to put tryptophan into super position, and it can maintain that for like a crazy amount of time, like longer than we can do in a lab.

The only argument against a quantum component for human consciousness, was people thought there was no way to have even just get regular quantum entanglement in a human brain.

We’ll be lucky to be able to simulate that stuff in 50 years, but it’s probably going to be even longer.

Every billionaire who wanted to “live forever” this way, just got aged out. So they’ll throw their money somewhere else now.

For a lot of people the only reason they’re on social media is the slap fights

They don’t care about or know about half the shit they argue about, they just want to argue about something.

I block a lot of people once it becomes apparent that’s what they’re doing.

Yeah, except the food sucks and it’s full of Nazis…

The article says they don’t want to leave because of their high follower counts…

But most of them are bots, inactive, or Nazis following so they can troll comments easier.

They care about an empty number and won’t do the slightest work to improve an alternative.

If all you want is a participation trophy and no one to tell you how to do better, sure.

I don’t see the point in that, but I do see a point to honest feedback.

People want an easy “fight” to feel like they’re doing something.

They don’t understand that if all the “good people” left twitter, the right wingers would fight each other

Staying on Twitter just gives them all a common enemy and unites them, leaving fractures them.

So just fucking leave.

If someone is still questioning if they should be on Twitter, then they don’t know enough about what’s going on to speak about why people shouldnt still be using it.

It’s not exactly complicated.

Yes…

The ship has Internet…

For official business.

That’s not the same as everyone having wifi for anything.

For fucks sake, how can you not understand this? It’s really not that difficult…

I said:

This was for porn and maybe streaming services and social media, but mostly porn.

And on your second reply you said:

do you think the starlink terminal in the OP article was for military use?? bwahahaha

I stand by my original assessment after your first comment:

Yeah man, you have zero idea what people are talking about

Because you literally don’t understand the conversation

That article is about wifi for personal use…

And the second one is about it being free and you’re acting like they didn’t have Internet before then?

so no, I don’t think for the average sailor a US warship provides internet access 24/7

Yeah man, you have zero idea what people are talking about about.

No it just wouldn’t.

Like, are you imagining a modern US warship doesn’t have internet 24/7?

This was for porn and maybe streaming services and social media, but mostly porn.

It wasn’t for any official use, because they have that covered.

You’re acting like surface ships are submarines…

What?

Surface ships are in constant communication with stuff…

You can’t just find a signal in the middle of the ocean. Musk can find a starlink signal tho, because he can see what Starlink connects to and it’s gps location.

Probably not for the reason you think.

Like, it wouldn’t be patched into anything official

But it means Musk knew where that ship was 24/7, and I’m pretty sure that’s why Ukraine’s military stopped using it. Musk tipped off Putin to troop movements.

I switched to duckduckgo before this bullshit, but this would 100% make me switch if I hadn’t already.

Who wants random ai gibberish to be the first thing they see?

I used a burner account that wasn’t following many users, and the videos the X TV app offered me on first viewing includes a Megyn Kelly video accusing Tim Walz of committing “stolen valor,” a report from right-wing social media influencer Andy Ngo and Carlson’s fawning interview with historian Darryl Cooper who performs some revisionist history by calling Winston Churchill “the chief villain of the Second World War.”

I’m honestly surprised they’re outright saying the Allies were the villains now…

Like, it’s almost enough for me to try and Google the “historian” to see if she thinks Russia or the Nazis were the good guys.

You’d think they wouldn’t push Russia because back then they claimed to be communist, but it’s not like logical consistency matters to them. They like Russia now, so they could very well claim Russia was always the good guys.

Or they could just be more blatantly pro Nazi then they used to be.

Really good study, but it looks like the only things with a stronger correlation than attention control score and resting pupil size was caffeine and nicotine.

And it’s concerning so many participants couldn’t verify nicotine/caffeine consumption when those are the biggest connections when they disclose their sample was “moderate”.

We’d also have to get into how nicotine/caffeine would be “performance enhancing” for these kinds of tests, yet would make the pupils contract. They should have tossed the participants who couldn’t report nicotine/caffeine instead of including them.

But ideally it would have just been participants who had abstained from either for 24 hours. Good luck with that tho.

Yeah, it just seems like its measuring engagement during the testing.

Would have been better to take measurements at “rest” as well, then compare them.

It’d be a lot easier to believe there’s a larger increase in pupil size when concentrating than permenantly.

That being said both my parents had blue eyes, and looking at my DNA I should have blue eyes. But they’re green, which can be explained by pupil dilation causing an increase in pigment density. Like how David Bowie has one eye that’s permanently dilated so looking at a picture it looks like he has heterochromia when he doesnt.

https://slate.com/culture/2016/01/the-story-behind-david-bowie-s-unusual-eyes.html

Shits interesting, but there’s going to need to be a lot of follow up studies to rule out confounding variables.

Interesting, but I think it has more to do with focus and/or adrenal response…

That being said, I’ve taken the Wechsler IQ test, and scored higher than can be measured reliably.

I’m super light sensitive, had some optometrists refuse contact prescriptions because my pupils “dilated too much”, and had to pay like a $200 licensing fee when I got LASIK because they had to use some special attachment because it had to be done wide than normal Lasik due to pupil size.

So maybe there is something to this? I still think there’s a middle step in there and not direct correlation though