Robot-Candy

Robot-Candy t1_j1066xy wrote

Reply to comment by uasoil123 in Research finds people who are married have a lower risk of developing dementia after the age of 70 than those who are unmarried or divorced. Previous studies suggest that being married later in life protects against dementia, and that being single in old age increases the risk of dementia by Wagamaga

Agreed. Social interaction isn’t only being married, but marriage gets pushed pretty hard anyway. Quick everyone get married or you’ll go insane!

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Robot-Candy t1_ixgtoej wrote

Reply to How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

A simulation would be a sort of intentional dream. Watt’s explanation is one I like. If you could dream anything you wanted you would likely make every fantasy come true, but this would become inevitably boring, even if it took a million years of dreaming. Eventually you would introduce an unknowable element for some change, some unpredictability. After thousands of dreams and continually introducing elements you couldn’t control to keep it interesting you would eventually arrive where we are now. Zero control and a complete lack of remembrance of how you got here. If this is a sim, there were likely many before this that would more closely align to what you think you would want, I’m sure you tried them already though and been intolerably bored by them over eons of replay.

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