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It does bring up the interesting conundrum: is there one “base” universe? Then how did that start? Makes no sense. Is it turtles all the way down? That also doesn’t make any sense. And yet those are the only 2 possibilities (assuming a few intuitive things about logic and reality, which is a whole 'nother thing…).

Those conjectures aren’t just equally plausible, they’re the same thing.

I literally just described the scientific method. Sure, it’s not the kind of question most scientists would ask, but it’s the same scientific method.

I’m gonna go look at cat pictures now

Yeah, I don’t want to hear about the murderous CEO!

Hypothesis: adding this part or doing that thing will make it do what I want.

Experiment: do that change and see if it does the thing you want.

If it doesn’t do what you want, go back to hypothesis step. If that’s not science, idk what is.

Is the period part of the quote?

Is 31° positive or negative?

It bugs me that people will call anything with a positive second derivative “exponentially increasing”. I can do one better: it increases busy-beaver-y! Is that fast enough for people??

You might not have a choice if they all decide to do it. Companies are actually kinda good at that kind of collective actions sometimes.