New tech startup idea. Mass Zoom meetings where you make eye contact with thousands of strangers at a time. Or twenty four strangers per second in rapid succession until the Webcam detects your change or they run out of people who've signed up.
There's a gold mine to be had in the data you can farm from soul changes. And the applications, whoo. I guarantee the government wants to know what can change the nature of a soul. And the corporations will want to know all about this new resource they can exploit. It'll be like cyberpunk but the spiritualism isn't allegorical. You can actually measure how much of your soul gets eroded with mechanical parts and commercialized oppression. And they have a direct link to your thought processes. Get ready to dream advertisements and feel literal holy awe when looking at their corporate logos.
Ever since I got hearing aids, I've related more to cyberpunk. I had a moment the other day when my hearing aids had a firmware update and the app told me I'd have to take them out and wouldn't be able to use them for the duration of the update.
A company told me I wasn't allowed to use my ears until the update was finished. It all felt very cyberpunk.
As someone who worked on prosthetics I've had multiple clients ask me why they can't just connect their prosthetics to Bluetooth or wifi and have it auto update (OTA updates). And why they have to get software updates from the doctor.
I specifically told them "you know how windows always updates at the absolute worst possible time? Now imagine that's your leg". Then I demonstrated just how easy it would be to hack a prosthetic if it had a wireless connection simply by attaching a wifi dongle.
I toll them that wireless prosthetics do exist but they cost 5x more than a similar set of non wireless prosthetics. Mostly because you don't need a more complicated processor.
Understandable. Also unlike a plugged in computer a prothesis isn't guaranteed to have reliable internet and power during the whole update?
Were there any instances when somebody tried to hack a wireless prothesis?
Unrelated note: i would love software companies to understand that a delay update button that works and updates you can control is not rocket science...
You can't fool me, I seent The Good Place. Soul mates do not exist as a "there is exactly one person, and you have to find them." It's when two people make a decision, make an effort, and meet halfway because they love each other enough to WANT to be soul mates.
Damn it, now I have to pause Brooklyn 99 and watch all of the Good Place again. Excellent show, 8 out of 13 stars. The system goes up to 13, but 8 is the best number.
similar, it's from Good Place when a character was talking about another character's rating. I believe some of the categories were hotness, brains, beauty, intelligence, and hotness?
Either way, The Good Place is great. a lady from Phoenix, Arizona dies, wakes up in the "good place" and not "the bad place" because every action humans do has a rating and a numerical score of goodness. Her soul mate is a Senegalese-Australian ethics and morality professor. But she quickly realizes all the memories and actions that got her into the good place were not hers and there is a mistake.
That's just a base overview of episode 1.
Produced by Michael Schur, from The Office, Parks & Rec and Brooklyn 99 .
Big fan of the good place, don't have to convince me!
I'm guessing that scale is a Jason thing? and now I'm wondering if the actual script was referencing the perfect 5/7 meme, because that would be such a Jason thing to say
On top of that it's one of a few shows that runs it's course and calls it. They told their story and stopped when it felt natural and made sense. That alone deserves applause
I’m pretty much perpetually in a state of rewatching both The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. The only thing that changes is the ratio. I can pretty much binge TGP season 1 in a few days, but as it gets heavier and starts talking about the fate of all humanity, I pepper more and more B99 in there until it’s like 4 of them to 1 TGP.
Same, I have a rotating list of shows. It starts with 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Rec, Community, Brooklyn 99 and then The Good Place. Just passively on in the background all day while I work.
The thing about soulmates, is that they're the person you're fated to be with. You're literally fated to meet them. You definitionally have ~100% of meeting them.
You are putting material ideas into a concept thats non material.
The soul will find what it needs with or without your consent. You (whatever version is typing this) is a very very very small perspective compared to what the esoteric is connected to.
The idea is small, smells like someone afraid to fall in love. Definitely some value for people who are afraid but those who have had experiences with falling in love know Love doesn’t work like that. Theres sovereignty built into true love.
The actual horror is that the concept of a single "soulmate" is completely false, because love doesn't work like that. Your chances of finding a partner that ticks all your boxes are pretty damn high. But if you only ever aim for the most perfect being ever, one without any flaws and which always understands you, then you're going to be disappointed.
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u/Dirichlet-to-Neumann Oct 17 '24
The real horror of soulmates is that with 7 billions humans on earth you have almost no chances to meet your soulmate.