I had an idea a few years ago that it might be useful to be able to detect if someone started flickering their lights in an S-O-S pattern. Sounds like this system might have been able to do that with the right software.
Imagine a being inside a turing machine wondering what came before it was turned on... implying the turing machine is even on and we're not just looking at the set of all possible rule sets on a similarly abstracted mathematical chart.
At the event horizon of a large enough black hole, the tidal difference in gravity between your toes and head shouldn't be noticeable. There shouldn't actually be anything special about falling through the event horizon when looking at yourself.
Outside though, you'd see everything start to blue-shift. Things below you would blue shift back to normal, and the universe above you would blue-shift and speed up until you'd see the heat death of the universe. Anything falling in after you would red-shift again as it approached to match your "normal" rate of time. Critically this would include any light or other particles, so it might be very hard to survive.
No matter how fast you go or how weird the space time you are in, your local clock should still tick steadily to you, and you wouldn't notice anything weird.
> There shouldn't actually be anything special about falling through the event horizon when looking at yourself.
If you went in feet-first, you'd perhaps find it quite odd that your feet never seemed to cross the horizon, as they would have red-shifted so dramatically.
> you wouldn't notice anything weird.
Maybe you wouldn't notice that you never saw your feet cross, since you wouldn't have much time to ponder it before your head crossed as well, but at that point, you surely you would notice that everything below you is black, since all light (and everything else) is now destined for the singularity. That's the very definition of the event horizon. There wouldn't be any reflected light.
Garbage in, Garbage out... My experiment with vibe coding was quite nice, but it did require a collaborative back and forth, mostly because I didn't know exactly what I wanted. It was easiest to ask for something, then describe how what it gave me needed to be changed. The cost of this type of interaction was much easier than trying to craft the perfect prompt on the first go. My first prompts were garbage, but the output gradually converged to something quite good.
The solutions are simple, but the execution requires a radical change in the way we all see each other.
You don't cut off your finger when you get a splinter, or tell your earlobe it needs to fend for itself because it just hangs there and does nothing most of the time.
Pain in our bodies can make us shift our whole being to ease pressure on a stiff muscle or avoid a small burn.
Pain in our society falls on deaf ears and drives us to fight over scraps when there is abundance everywhere.
The solutions are simple. We all need our basic needs met, we should strive to end the suffering of others, and to help each other reach our true potential from where we are right now.
I always felt that this "wall" must have been composed of charged gas ions in a potential well. This would make it sort of a capacitor, and would explain why no large sparks or discharge were happening, even when the voltages involved must have been extremely high.
Insurance is such a crutch for some people, but it shouldn't be.
If something is worth doing, it's worth doing whether you have insurance or not.
In my opinion, the amount of resources spent on buying insurance would, in almost every case, be better spent on prevention rather than after the fact mitigation.
It's that "in almost every case" that's the problem. The whole point of insurance is to cover that case where it does happen, irrespective of how unlikely it is.
Case in point, my partner was diagnosed with a very, very, very rare terminal cancer at 32. Insurance turned out to be a great investment for us.
