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So the mug is the best choice by far, due to its universe-breaking abilities surrounding temperature. Setup a Stirling engine on that for infinite power.
I do have to admit it's a bit disheartening to post that pic, and then people react to it by looking how to use the objects to 'hack' the nature of reality.
OP: "Hey, guys! Here are some objects that hack the nature of reality."
Posters: *Uses them to further hack the nature of reality, just in other ways*
OP:
Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That's what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can't be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.
Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.
So they induce a kind of psychosis? Ah, sweet. Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension. 😜
we have things that do that already, they're called drugs.
I mean, that magic candle single handedly gives hope for reversing universal entropy. Everything else might be personally fulfilling but that thing could be the key to preventing the heat death of the universe.
Which would be pretty personally fulfilling too imo.
Universe schmuniverse, I just want to smell my theatre days! 😛
mein freund, some of us prefer to focus on extracting the most material value out of these hypothetical objects, simply because we want to. it's fun to imagine the possibilities with the infinite energy from the candle and the mug.
I think that's the point that they're making: it's supposed to be about which object of immense EMOTIONAL value would make people the happiest, and then a lot of people make it about their material value in stead.
As much as I understand their disappointment, though, Lemmy of all places is so full of nerds and geeks (said with love as a geek myself) who know a lot about technical stuff that it was pretty much bound to happen..
Yes, thank you :D (I mean, of course I'm exaggerating a bit by claiming I'm disappointed, it's more of a... "conceptual" disappointment)
I was in a band called Conceptual Disappointment. We had excellent stage design, but the music was mediocre at best.
I think infinite energy would create muuuch more happiness for so many more people. But i direct happiness cheats are easier to understand i guess.
I agree. And thank you for the heartwarming content ❤️
That was my realization when I invited people to my minecraft server and saw people dig a whole and breed cows just to kill them for xp, while I was over there giving them grass and water and a nice fence
I dont know how much energy you'd get per hour from a hot mug though. I'm much more intrigued by a blanket that would keep you safe in the arctic as well as the Sahara.
It depends on how you define the words "drink" and "warm". If "drink" includes something like molten tungsten, and "warm" includes 6200F then you can get a bunch of energy out of it
I did not consider a 6200F heavy metal to be a hot drink.
Jeez I dunno if we could get it any hotter for you, sorry
Thats fair i think :)
Drinks tend to be drinkable.
Everything is drinkable. Once.
All liquids are drinkable at least once
Not all liquid moving near the throat is drinking. Drowning, for example, isn’t drinking. It has to be ingested using swallowing muscles, etc. Molten lava would disintegrate the perimeter of your mouth and throat. That’s “drinking” like a shotgun to the face is “eating”.
Would that make Kurt Cobain the 1994 Seattle speed eating champion?
Only on Lemmy would you encounter such lunacy and I love it! 😂❤️
Who would pick being safe in the arctic when an antidote for existential dread is right there?
Arctic researchers? 🤷
I recently got put on new meds that give me really vivid dreams that I remember. They’re not bad dreams, but they’re not really good dreams either. It’s the worst.
I’d love a pillow like that right now.
The blanket too, it keeps whatever it covers at 36.5~37.5 °C.