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Also, in case you don't know C either, you should really consider reading 'The C programming language', from Kernighan and Richie. It's a must.
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Learning C++ is not an easy task and indeed it seems to me that free online documentation is not much available. I'd be happy if someone could point us to a good one, though.
Otherwise, you'll probably need a printed C++ reference manual.
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After a while every government is just another cooperation and acts in its self interest. States become corrupt and we have no real way of dealing with big corrupt governments. Do we?
We do. One way is to evade taxes. And to affirm clearly that taxation is theft. I like this. OMG I actually wrote this. Sometimes some of my old posts pop up and I surprise myself. That's less than three months ago. Have you really changed so much in so short a time? You have no idea. |
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After a while every government is just another cooperation and acts in its self interest. States become corrupt and we have no real way of dealing with big corrupt governments. Do we?
We do. One way is to evade taxes. And to affirm clearly that taxation is theft. I like this. OMG I actually wrote this. Sometimes some of my old posts pop up and I surprise myself. |
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So far however no one has solved a big problem. What happens in this future cashless society when we lose our mobiles down the back of the sofa? You go fetch on internet a backup you've made of your wallet, maybe? |
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I was obviously talking about backwards time travel. I don't consider forward time travel as genuine time travel. We travel to the future all the time. And we can make it faster by sleeping.
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I'm not sure that this 'proves' time travel isn't possible, since the players in the game world are also living lives that are moving through real time independently of the virtual world. ie the game world is not self contained.
If the game world was populated by AIs then it would be trivial to time travel, since you'd just need to have a record of all the states the game passed through and restart it at your preferred state.
Since humans aren't living their lives as a game with a real life beyond the confines of the universe, it could mean that we are all just AIs in a simulation, in which case time travel is perfectly possible.
Just place my AI in the state it is now into the simulation at an earlier state.
Even if you consider all humans to be AIs in a simulation, multiplayer time travel is still tricky because in order to allow just one player to time travel, you'll have to create a fork of all other players. You can't just delete the other instances, otherwise you would have privileged a special point of view in the game, which would be as if the game was single player imo. So you have to create a new universe each time one player time travels. This is consistent with the multiverse version of time-travel, but it is not reasonable from a computational point of view. Moreover, I would still not consider this as multiplayer. It would rather consist in several single player games running in parallel, but quite independently. Imho, genuine multiplayer time travel simulation can occur when two players traveling back in time can meet in the same universe, i.e. in the same event log or something. It might be possible if the computer attempts to simulate the self-consistent version of time-travel. But it would be even weirder. |
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Time travel in the future is possible
Yeah I was obviously talking about backwards time travel. In a game, you can time travel in the future by just not playing. |
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Ah, merci du rappel. Je mets le lien bien en évidence dans le message de tête. Du coup ce fil perd un peu de son intérêt, mais au moins il redirigera ceux qui atterriront ici sans connaître le wiki francophone. |
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There are also currently no video games that are able to convincingly simulate the interactions of all the neurons in a human brain, ergo, thinking is impossible.
Simulating a large number of interacting systems, not just neurons, is difficult. It requires a lot of CPU. You could have mentioned fluid dynamics for instance, which is also tough to simulate accurately. Simulating time travel in a video game does not require lots of CPU. It's much more a matter of design and conception. You could imagine for instance that your computer reproduces the recorded actions of other players, but then the time-traveler could not interact with these NPC players(*). Or if he could interact, then everybody would be time traveling, which is not the hypothesis. However you try to even imagine it, it all gets terribly messy from a logical point of view. *: unless you imagine that the NPC are capable of convincingly reproducing the behavior of other players, which is way too strong an hypothesis, and it brings other issues anyway. |
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Observation - "no multiplayer video game capable of convincingly simulating time travel" Conclution - "time travel is not possible"  Well, "proof" is probably too strong a word. "Strong indication", if you prefer. Kind of like the Fermi paradox. |
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I've just watched an other science fiction movie about time travel and it made me feel like writing this idea I have for some time: video games are a proof that time travel is not possible.
As far as I know, there is currently no multiplayer video game that is capable of convincingly simulating time travel. We're capable of simulating words where we can do pretty much everything we want, including violating the laws of physics. And yet for some reason we seem to be unable to conceive a game engine where one player could go back in time in the game. It would just not make sense at some point. I suppose the very idea is logically non consistent or something.
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And basing society on the presumption of future fallible human behavior
You're the only one who talks about "basing society" on something. I merely talked about acknowledging that the notion of credit does exist and allowing it to exist. Much different. |
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The universe does not lend credit, credit has no basis in reality, credit is an idea, an illusion that we ourselves create to maintain the fiction that we have ownership over something, or that we are owed something or that we deserve something.
I'm not a fan of credit either, but this is just no exact. The word "credit" comes from the latin "creditus" which means "to believe, to trust". We may not "deserve" things, but we do expect stuff to happen. It's based on the ability for one human being to express his future motives and actions, and for an other human being to hear about it and thus predict what will actually happen. It's not just humans. I'm pretty sure all primates are capable of anticipating the behavior of other members of the group. Same for many superior mammals and also for plenty of birds, who trust each other when they let each other take care of the eggs in the nest, for instance. The universe has lent credit as soon as he invented a sophisticated central nervous system. |
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Great news.
Apparently they make this move quite loudly. I just had a pick on /b/ and I saw a large red banner saying:
« You can now purchase 4chan Passes using Bitcoin. Click here to learn more and purchase. »
4chan may be a freaking mess, but it's a website of considerable audience.
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the video does not work for me. Any youtube lnk?
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It is not a chain of payments. It is a chain of credit. It is perfectly normal for Bitcoin-seller to get the debt settled before Friend gets anything from Mother. Nobody's payment is conditional on any other payment happening first.
It really much does not look so as you presented it initially: If no payments flow in the other direction your mothers friend will eventually want the debt settled so she pays out 1 kg gold.
But let's assume you are right and that it is not a chain of payment but a chain of credit, whatever difference that could possibly mean. Well, then it could be a chain of payment. By this I mean that there is nothing preventing a member of the chain to expect to receive a payment in order to pay hi own debt, possibly gaining some benefit in the process. That would be some kind of credit rate arbitrage and we all know this will happen. |
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