Quantum Immortality Test

[JohnEmmett]

You've got a claim, and we'd like evidence.

https://imgur.com/gallery/OfOHyss
Simpsons effects

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/
Berenstein residue

youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNjRZ4dJ6M
Story… Jen Kruse

 

[Hans Blaster]

youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNjRZ4dJ6M

Ahh, the "YouTube Journal of Zoom Conversations" (YT J. Z. Conv.). They publish all of the *best* studies.

 

[JohnEmmett]

They publish all of the *best* studies.

Indeed

 

[JohnEmmett]

when you accuse people of not accepting … because we don't have a religion.

because of lack of faith


faith is the ability to accept

 

[Hans Blaster]

faith is the ability to accept

Accept with out evidence. That is just not acceptable.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Accept with out evidence. That is just not acceptable.

you believe there is no evidence?

 

[Kylie]

https://imgur.com/gallery/OfOHyss
Simpsons effects

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/
Berenstein residue

youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNjRZ4dJ6M
Story… Jen Kruse

What about them? I see nothing here that proves it. Just examples of people with flawed memories.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I see nothing here that proves it.

I know, your lack of faith is the issue


hence I recommended faith already

 

[Kylie]

I know, your lack of faith is the issue


hence I recommended faith already

So your attempt to convince me you are correct is nothing more than, "Please, can't you just believe me?"

 

[JohnEmmett]

So your attempt to convince me you are correct is nothing more than, "Please, can't you just believe me?"

I assume you have memories


hence a lifetime of evidence

 

[Kylie]

I assume you have memories


hence a lifetime of evidence

I have plenty of memories.

However, I know they can be flawed.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I have plenty of memories.

However, I know they can be flawed.

that's good enough

 

[Kylie]

that's good enough

Potentially flawed memories are not good enough to determine objective facts.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Potentially flawed memories are not good enough to determine objective facts.

Others are capable of checking their memories


So, you are capable

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

for the skeptic only

Nope - if you'd like to do a comparison here are some widely accepted criteria:

What makes a good explanation:

1. it should make testable predictions (so you can find out if it's wrong).
2. it should have specificity, so it gives an insight into and understanding of the particular phenomenon it explains.
3. it should preferably have some unifying scope so that the underlying principles from point 2 can give an insight into and understanding of other phenomena.
4. it should be parsimonious so that it introduces no unnecessary entities (Occam's razor).
5. it should not raise more questions than it answers, particularly unanswerable questions.
6. it should preferably be consistent with our existing body of knowledge (a tie-breaker, not essential).

Note: an explanation that can explain anything is not really an explanation at all (and fails point 2).

If you'd like to suggest some other criteria, or question any of the above, go ahead. Once we agree on the criteria, we can make the comparison.

 

[JohnEmmett]

What makes a good explanation:

false memory is the worst explanation


since you are trying to discount everyone's experience


like saying they are fools basically

 

[Hans Blaster]

https://imgur.com/gallery/OfOHyss
Simpsons effects

I'm not sure what a bunch of silent Simpsons GIFs are supposed to demonstrate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/qp34g9/and_before_i_forget_my_berenstein_residue/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/
Berenstein residue

Berenstain Bears photoshops. Cool. A bunch of people who mistake a name with an ending that is unusual (-stain) for a very similar, and much more common ending (-stein). [Admission: I also made that error.] Some of the people on that thread are quite delusional.

I suppose that your going to tell me that the Secretary of State of Georgia's name used to be Brad Raffensberger, but he died (probably murdered by a Trump assassin) and was replaced by his quantum duplicate Brad Raffensperger? No?

[Bonus: For 10 years or so after the start of TNG, I thought Mister Data was played by "Brent Spin-ner" rather than "Brent Spine-er" because of a cultural tendency to short vowels and having never heard "Spiner" pronounced. I was just wrong, not in some sort of alternative reality where his name was pronounced differently.]

 

[JohnEmmett]

I'm not sure what a bunch of silent Simpsons GIFs are supposed to demonstrate.

turn on sound…

the Wizard of Oz currently does not say that

Klu Klux is now: Ku Klux

Luke, I am your father (incorrect)

 

[JohnEmmett]

“Fly My Pretties, Fly!” Is Not Said by the Witch in This Reality

 

[Hans Blaster]

you can turn on sound…

the Wizard of Oz currently does not say that

Klu Klux is now: Ku Klux

Luke, I am your father (incorrect)

Oh, brother! This is stupider than I thought possible.

Cartoon characters quote movies with errors and mispronounce the name of a terrorist organization. In particular, in ways that are commonly misremembered or pronounced. (For example, the "Klu Klu- Kla-" mispronunciation is extremely common. To not accidentally insert the "l" into the first word you must 1) remember that it isn't really there, 2) deliberately avoid inserting the "l" in the first word, but insert it in the last 2, and 3) e-nun-ci-ate clearly.

Replacing "No" with "Luke" in "No, I *am* your father." works much better when quoting it to your friends as they are not actually Luke Skywalker. (Though he does occasionally respond on Twitter to random posts.) Search your feelings, you know it to be true.