Does my doppelgänger go to my workplace and do my job?

If not, that’s the giveaway. If he does, I leave him to it and go read a book in the park.

But even landlords need to at least give notice before they can legally enter.

The most suggestive study I’ve seen was of squirrels who re-bury nuts at a later date if other squirrels were watching them bury the nuts initially. But it can still be argued that they’re just keeping a mental map with some nuts marked as “need to move” without remembering the specific experiences that made them think the original locations were compromised.

I don’t think it’s ever been conclusively proven that other animals have episodic memories. (Although it’s hard to tell whether they’re actually replaying an experience or just remembering the relevant information in a less immediate way, without being able to ask them.)

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

That and Magnolia.

Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.

One person making all the decisions is a dictatorship, which is distinct from both fascism and monarchy.

Unless we replace the meanings of distinct words with the principle that all bad things are the same thing.

Is it legal for you to make this comment?

No doubt Proton’s CEO will use this to justify his “Trump is better for regulating big tech” claim, while ignoring that the judge is an Obama appointee.

Trump’s approval is redundant when Putin’s wishes are already apparent.

While speaking the proper expositional incantations.

Cryptography in movies is more akin to magic than to actual cryptography.

We started cultivating grain about twenty thousand years ago. We can identify stone tools from over three million years ago.

Or—they were different concurrent simulations using overlapping memory locations.

I’m using Wheeler’s version of the MWI, because it currently seems to be the most common one—but I think Wheeler’s version is a misunderstanding of Everett’s. So if that’s what you mean, I agree (although in that case I’d say “the Everettian interpretation” instead of “many worlds theory”).

According to the quantum many-worlds interpretation, such a world would only exist if it could arise due to a random quantum fluctuation at some point in the past history of our own world—which doesn’t seem plausible in this case.

The password to my home server is a salted hash of my primary (memorized) password, so I can recover it from any computer that can run the hash function. From there I can access the rest of my saved passwords, bookmarks, etc.

Whether apple stems are perpendicular or parallel to the surface of the fruit.