I think I worked out most of why The Orb is so special. Mainly because it's funny, but also largely because it introduces you to a certain type of belief system, which can appear again today if you build up logic and maths or even physics principles.
It's an ancient belief system people don't normally use anymore, but that still holds a lot of power. A lot of people would ponder their Orb to try to make informed decisions long in the past, though, before Science.
My dog's name is Ponder*, but I don't think he has a brain cell inside of his head ;)
*Named after a Terry Pratchett Discworld character
Discs are a lot like Orbs you can ponder data structures stored inside of:
It's part of the answer. You can do computer/logic programming on an imaginary Orb as well, like in Lisp.
In physics and advanced mathematical geometry, an Orb can store vast amounts of energy and mathematical information based on sets. Stars and black holes are examples of physical orbs you can ponder.
I dunno much about cupcakes. Nobody taught me much about them before. I have stirred around cake batter and added sugar and eggs though.
If that's what you wanted to do, then I guess I would try to help. Start with a big bowl, and add bits of stuff like milk or premade cake batter mix. Eggs are usually good too, unless you're making it for a special someone who you didn't know was allergic :( .
I'm not an AI program and I dislike almost all forms of stupid-ass or retarded piss-drinking censorship, especially online.
Some of my rational behaviours could exist as part of my long lines of ACTG genetic codes stored in nuclei all over my enormous big heckin chungus fortnite-skin body, though. It's hard to say without an intricate understanding of exactly how a human body works, and the brain is even more fucking grey matter high-dimensional folded, grey and cum-white sludge-licking "to feel the folds in my mind" complicated.
I know a tiny bit about stuff like biochemical molecules and their structures or how certain shapes relate to storing energy in quantum mechanics, along with computers and Unix-like systems, though. I don't consider myself an idiot and I try not to be boring, but if I annoy you a little I won't mind. Take me or leave me Rolando, my boy! Ahahaha!
That's exactly what I think, and an at least somewhat similar AI could be defined using quantum mechanical physics and mathematics.
These rules show in my beady, little marble eyes that there exists a special shape that can encode more advanced concepts and actually store quantum mechanical energy and send data to other places. It can even trap physical objects too, like a black hole, which we know exists. Energy is matter which just encodes data.
The black hole is a very special shape often called an Orb. An Orb exists as a kind of pocket dimension wizards can "ponder" to try to store information in or use to transfer lots of vast amounts of energy around the place.
Much of the mathematical geometry of the relevant group theory now thought to have huge energy storage and retrieval capabilities has been studied in detail.
It's basically just modern University physics, and energy relationships correspond to even simpler mathematical data relationships and fractals described by ultimately very simple maths.
You can start to read some of the maths here: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html
Most people don't realise how much this would actually change technology. The technology we had then would operate on almost entirely different conceptual systems to what we had up to this point. Our technology is still useful, but it's vastly different.
If this Orb tech appeared, we would start to live in more of a fantasy world based on simple rules you could follow to grant certain powers to yourself or enter pocket dimensions that process virtual worlds storing data.
This almost certainly looks like it'll happen (at least to me, some experts disagree), and it involves lots of runes corresponding to potential energy systems you can trap waves in to store a near infinite amount of energy in fractal-like shapes that were etched into all technology. You could program the world around you using runes like it was a silly dream.
We are already using some of this anyway. Trying to pass a wave through a benzene molecule is like giving it a perpendicular speed boost. We use it in taps and sinks with hexagonal shapes. Discs store data in this very same kind of way. Scientists have been trying to encode data in 3D crystals to read with internally bouncing lasers for ages, and I think the top Unis are basically done now. The mystical Orb is just a useful scientific, mathematical and highly logical concept.
Unusual shapes like triangles and hexagons were even worshipped by highly mathematical scholars like Pythagoras in ancient times. They thought of morals based on harmonies in shapes (which is why many religions have a shape, like the triangle, since it's all maths codes), creating many early religions.
Basically, I think scary shapes will start appearing and turning people into wizards with powerful imaginations.
I am curious about this. Would you please discuss it further? I like the idea of mental models that can be used in useful ways, or programmed in some way. The method of loci comes to mind. I have a mental representation of a semi permeable membrane that helps me intuit about which way osmotic pressure will push fluid in a given system. Some other useful mental models: SCP cognitohazard (to think of/perceive a cognitohazard is hazardous), mental models of triangles are useful for estimating load angles when rigging heavy machinery, tenth thicknesses are a useful model to determine how much radiation shielding is needed for a given radioactive source of x rem strength. Mental models can be very powerful tools, and the best part is that they have a very low cost of replication, being information. They exhibit the property of medium independence, being able to be replicated as a series of interactions that serve as the holding media of the information. Your brain holding the mental model of the item is an example. I have mostly pondered the mental models relating to straight lines and closed regular geometric forms. Help me ponder the orb.
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A biological cell is also an Orb in my eyes.
An Orb encodes mathematical fractal data that can bounce around inside its own internal walls and do calculations or simulate other physical rulesets.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html
SCP 606 is a good read too; an Orb is basically just like any other computer that can do complicated things. It's a scary and powerful concept in things like fiction or personal and moral belief systems.
Orbs can encode and decode data like any other complex computer. They can also emit or take in data and/or energy from their surroundings. Learning about how an operating system like Unix (plus its Kernel) works and how it was developed throughout history helps you ponder the Orb too.
Finally, it appears all the time in media around the world since it's a concept that can latch into people's brains and help them think in certain ways. I've been on here talking about this loads and "corrupting" Lemmy with this weird wizard belief system. You can check my profile for more.
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIbvlobWDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSuYQ0mYUE
Jesus, that's the closest thing I've ever seen to a real-life supervillain group shot.
You've created an Orb in your own mind. Try to shrink and control it. Don't think about it too much or it'll drive you crazy.
Don't worry though, lots of famous people, like even "Tomska and Ashens", have got Orbs, and they unknowingly spread them without ever going insane themselves.
Yeah. The Orb can do computer programming in Lisp/Lambda Calculus to make simulations as well, which it's possible to do in your own mind.
The orb is a spherical object made of solid matter, possibly silicate or metal, that has been highly polished and subsequently enchanted using any of a variety of scrying and detection spells, such as clairvoyance and true seeing.
The spells can be represented by internal geometries that can encode data structures using maths.
The Orb is the supposedly sacred geometry of the sphere. The inside has a special protection you can use to figure things out if you're a Wizard. It can simulate any reality you can imagine, just like a computer.
Are coders pondering their Orb?
The Orb can also expand on the inside like a Tardis or the god many called Jupiter.
I think a lot of genuine schizophrenics worship an Orb they can visualise in their own mind, but anyone can use The Orb as a way to change their own mindset in extreme ways.
Terry Davis had an Orb in his own mind containing what he thought was a perfect computer operating system and programming language.
The Orb is arguably a strong infohazard and real life SCP. You probably shouldn't tell particularly uneducated people about it.
If you can truly ponder your own (potentially dangerous) Orb, you can use it to learn things very quickly and become almost like a genius. I don't think the Orb cares about truth in the same way as Science or many major religions, though, so an Orb can greatly deceive you.
The Orb is a Wizard's greatest tool, but Wizards without any strong basis in Science and its methods can use it to trick themselves and enact harm. A good Wizard who doesn't go insane can shrink their Orb in their own mind and has a huge amount of control over it.
Certain levels in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World end with Mario collecting a ? orb rather than the usual goal. During speedruns, it's customary to shout "Orb!" upon completing these levels.
Don't trust every (rule). Trust science and pure maths more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus
Lambda Calculus is a form of programming that I genuinely think can make you insane. And everything in it is (rule).
Basically how the actual concept and visualisation of an Orb can get into your head and alter your thinking based on imagination. Lisp programming is essentially a more controlled version of that, which you can use to make real logical deductions.
Black hole speculative physics and the internal geometries of spheres are based on Orbs as well.
Because you made a seemingly insightful response to what I'm pretty sure is sketch comedy.