I think the universe itself is in control

I expressed the same idea earlier as: it’s a differential equation. There’s no you and I. There’s the equation.

I don’t care what names previously have been associated with that idea.

There’s counter examples to that idea though, that I mentioned earlier.

There’s no god

Yeah we’re talking about different things

There’s also a third option

Can I ask what if each individual their way of seeing the world could influence how it works.

Exactly! That’s why I brought up the double split experiment. And layed emphasis on “imagine you’re the electron”.

To the best of my knowledge, there’s a contradiction in knowledge there.

It again has to do with “where does light end up, given setup X”.

Where we previously, in the refraction example, could refer to lookup tables. Now we can’t. There’s no predicting where a photon will end up.

Einstein rejected this idea. The quote is “god does not play dice”.

Yet experiments show: the photon decided one way, not the other. People so far havn’t been able to predict which way.

There’s a counter example to that, too. You’ve knowledge of the double split experiment?

Demand and offer meet where they meet.

Exactly.

I’ve always wondered. You know how light travels the fastest path possible. That’s why it refrects when changing from air to water.

As we do textbook physics, we open our table, look up the respective refractive indices, use trigonometry, and can with reasonable accuracy predict where the beam ends up.

How does the electron in the beam know the fastest path, as it’s moving through the different matters? It needs knowledge of matter it hasn’t encountered yet.

If we couldn’t use energy, nothing in our bodies would work, from our brains to our breathing.

That’s my point: we aren’t “using” energy. We are energy.

There is no you, nor I. It’s one differential equation. We can’t “use” magic, as we can’t change the equation.

I’m fine to go sci-fi on this:

The reason human’s can’t “use” energy is because they’re energy themselves.

Energy can’t be created nor destroyed.

My textbooks didn’t cover this topic

Why 📖 when 💃on ticktock 😭😭

Thank you for explaining so clearly. Point 3 is indeed something I’ve ran into before!

I still do the python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

How can uv help me be a better person?

I agree. Python is my language of choice 80% or so of the time.

But my god, it does packaging badly! Especially if it’s dependent on linking to compiled code!

Why it is like that, I couldn’t tell. The language is older than git, so that might be part of it.

However, you’re installing python libraries from github? I very very rarely have to do that. In what context do you have to do that regularly?

TraditionalArt is fun

I get your point of view, and haven’t thought about it that way before.

As for why it’s like that, my best guess is the sentence I wrote above. Your proposal totally makes sense.

proven game theory.

I mean, it’s just a theory.

Jk. This is a great didactical tool: https://ncase.me/trust/

I don’t get that thinking. There’s contemporary examples and plenty of historical examples that not having a (well funded) army increases your chances of being in a war.