You can only account for personal tragedy and suffering, though -- it's impossible to determine how many other entities like you there are in a simulation. You could be the only one.

This is silly. If the universe is deterministic, any representation of matter can be locally simulated based on algorithmic calculation. This includes people, objects, everything. I don't need to simulate everything constantly because I know where it will be when I _need_ to simulate it.

So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time -- that part of itself being viewed or interacted with by observers. And we would have absolutely no idea how many of those observers actually reside in any given simulation. 10? 100? 1m? Who knows!

But we could take this even further and suggest that it is only the _experience_ of the universe by ourselves that is being simulated. In that case, we're not actually interacting with anything, we're only gaining the memory of having interacted with it (in 'real time'). In this case there's no physical reality at all! We're living in a large shared hallucination, that once again only 'exists' where and when we're interacting with it.

Finally, we have no idea of the time scale. The time scale in the simulation could be much slower than the outside universe. This would lower the energy required to simulate it even further.

So, no, it's totally possible we live in a simulation!

Any part of the universe you look at requires simuilating too much of the entire universe to get it from the state you last observed to the state it's supposed to be in now.

Time is important, if it takes too long no one is going to run the simulation.

The entire point of the simulation argument is they are fast and easy and therefore common. If simulations are common then it's likely we're in one. If you keep adding requirements that likely make them slow and hard then they are likely uncommon and the argument for us being in one disappears.

I thought chaos doesn't allow that kind of selective simulation, although maybe no one would notice that the butterfly effect only happens in places people are watching.

Ken MacLeod used a similar argument in The Corporation Wars.

Isn't it not really deterministic because you cannot know both the exact position and exact velocity of particle? (along with the other pairs of physical properties that also follow the uncertainty principle)

> So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time

does a falling tree make a sound if the simulation is not running? : )

Open Dyslexic kind of looks like a kid-font while being easy to read: https://opendyslexic.org

honestly, teaching the concept of a variable in first grade might not be the worst idea in the world

I can't find any evidence that they've acquired or licensed the name / trademarks from Ziff Davis, the last known holder of Compute's IP, so I would be wary of giving them any money.

Also the content gives off strong AI vibes

I registered the trademark through USPTO, you can verify it there. There is some AI involved right now, but not for anything content related.

Thanks! I originally was going to go a completely different direction with the Switch writeup. By the time I finished the write up I had to acknowledge what a smart move that was for Nintendo. I just hope devs use the opportunity to bring back some more physical "stuff" with their offerings.

I want it to be true. There's really not much information out there on it or the CEO that I can find.

My first question was if there's was enough retro material for a monthly.

Edwin Nagle here. I believe there's definitely enough material to support a monthly, especially with a focus on the general retro community rather than solely on C64/128.

Who are the authors for the content of the first month's issue? The articles on the site don't list an author, which makes me think it's all written by Edwin Nagle, which makes me wonder if anyone else will contribute to the monthly issues.

I agree with that.

Why GAZETTE rather than just COMPUTE! ?

Big fan of the project here BTW.

Thanks! I originally was going to just call it Compute but I resonated more with Compute!'s Gazette from my own personal experience and it's going to be all brand new content anyway. Plus, I like the idea of a "gazette" and it just seemed to fit. Personal preference I guess.

That makes sense. No judgement here, just me wondering.

If that was true then all cars should have ignition interlock devices, because it's easy for a manufacturer to foresee a user driving drunk.

But they don't, and I'm not sure if there have been many successful cases of suing car manufacturers because their cars let people drive drunk(?)

The 'wake' (eg 'Alexa') trigger match is very fuzzy (which is why other words can sometimes set it off) and there's no analysis beyond looking for that particular trigger

The first point is obviously true, the second point is just an assumption you're making and trying to dress up as fact.

Can't imagine why anyone would want to do that, unless maybe they work for Amazon in a capacity related to this data?

How many watts max output? Couldn't see it on the site. Thanks!

It's 2.4kW continuous, 7.8kW surge (ie to start up a sump pump, etc).

Thanks for considering!

So not to be mean, but EcoFlow's website for a similar (slightly higher capacity) product has much lower times for how long it can power. For example, it claims 14h for a refrigerator (you're claiming 32) and 97h for a router, while you're claiming 132 hours.

Now they might be conservative and you could maybe advertise a bit more liberal times but if you're competition claims their (almost identical) product has substantially lower times people might question that. Obviously EcoFlow is your real competition here and people are going to go check them out.

So by all means claim somewhat better times ;) but maybe not as much as you are.

Don't get me wrong though, you have a cool product and there's definitely room in that space for more options!

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/delta-2-max-portable-power-s...

We have Ecoflows and they're great for keeping the internet on when the power goes out, I have one I can actually boil a kettle of water with! So I kind of know what the size vs output ratio is and my concern is these units seem too small. Unless you've solved the heating problem you need some ventilation and a fan?

They look cool, but it would need to be a bit bigger I think to realistically power an appliance like a refrigerator. And also, can you boil a kettle with it?

Great question, our device has a metal case that offers much better thermal performance than your typical camping battery.

Yes, you can boil a kettle with it!

I've thought about it and don't understand what you're saying

I assume the implication is that they'll build AI capable of automated drone surveillance.

Which is silly, because other Chinese companies have already done that, and America is pioneering it (cf Anduril)

Maybe the comment is implying something along the lines of seeking missiles or seek and destroy? I don’t think it is very obvious though.