Not if the ring curves inward at the edges, conforming to a section of a sphere.

Here’s another fun fact: A ringworld exerts zero net gravitational force on anyone inside of it. It’s one of the implications of shell theorem.

Using the wrong engine cleaning solvent is a terrible sin and he’s being punished for his hubris

Well that’s how it works in Larry Niven’s Ringworld and also Halo. They just thought the earth was a ring.

Let’s ban marketing meat as food. You can sell dead animal tubes, but you can’t call them sausages.

I don’t support a ban on eating meat, but I support a ban on making it. Charge the supplier, not the user. Raising a pet so you can kill it is obviously animal abuse, it should have been made illegal a long time ago.

It’s the worst Star Wars movie

Rogue One, A New Hope, The Blackened Mantle, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and you’re done.

Ban it until the hard problem of consciousness is solved.

If they designed a directory tree without knowing what a directory tree is, it sounds like they know what a directory tree is, they just don’t know the word, and you can’t explain the word properly.

I respect the people who say machines have consciousness, because at least they’re consistent. But you’re just like me, and won’t admit it.

Anyone can understand a directory tree. Not everyone is smart enough to explain it.

Consciousness comes from the soul, and souls are given to us by the gods. That’s why AI isn’t conscious.

Everyone’s is, fellow p-zombie

How they don’t understand that a LLM can’t be conscious is not surprising

It’s because they’re all atheists! They don’t know that souls are granted to humans by the gods.

Why are you booing them? They’re right.

Kidnapping implies isolated incidents and criminals working outside the government. Disappearing points out that the government is responsible, it’s harsher language

Well that is your name, isn’t it? Calvin Klein? It’s written all over your underwear.

I’m glad that people can’t hide behind a face anymore. In the old times, and this still happens in some places, people will get away with abuse because they’re good at using their faces to manipulate people. Preachers, community leaders. They used body language to win people’s trust and gain positions of power to abuse people, especially children.

On the internet, people have to be more honest. Video chat is unpopular, so most people are only using words to communicate. Sometimes voice. You’re looking straight at someone’s soul with less distraction from the physical plane. It’s safer.

I wouldn’t trust a guy who I’ve only ever met in the flesh. Ugh, creepy.

Closeted queer kids with bigoted parents need online safe spaces.