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[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This feels like quackery but I can't find a goal...

But if they both hold up to scrutiny, this is perhaps the first time scientific evidence supporting this theory has been produced – as explored in my recent book.

There it is.

Edit: oh God it's worse than I thought

The web design almost makes me nostalgic for geocities fan pages. The citations that include himself ~10 times and the greatest hits of the last 50 years of physics, biology, and computer science, and Baudrillard of course. The journal of which this author is the lead editor and which includes the phrase "information as the fifth state of matter" in the scope description.

Oh God the deeper I dig the weirder it gets. Trying to confirm whether the Information Physics Institute is legit at all and found their list of members, one of whom listed their relevant expertise as "Writer, Roleplayer, Singer, Actor, Gamer". Another lists "Hyperspace and machine elves". One very honestly simply says "N/A"

I am not making this up.

The Gmail address also lends the whole thing an air of authority. Like, you've already paid for the domain, guys.

[-] hrrrngh@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

I love the word cloud on the side. What is 6G doing there

[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

6G nanometer-wave, gently caressing your mitochondria thanks to the power of antiferromagnets and BORIS:

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

OK this membe list experience is just 👨‍🍳😗👌

  • Psychonaut
  • Practitioner of Yoga
  • Quantum, Consciousness, Christian Theology, Creativity

Perfect. No notes.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

I haven't seen qualifications this relevant and high-quality since "architects and engineers for 9/11 truth."

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Still a bit sad we are not doing nano anymore.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

You see, nano is real now and boring

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

But things being real doesn't stop the cranks. See quantum.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

Quantum superpredicting machines are not real, and that's what they're about. Nano- has lots of uninteresting bs like ultraefficient fluorescent things, but nanomachines are not and that was interesting to them (until they got bored)

[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Wait for AI and Crypto 2.0 to burn out, we'll get there

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Sadly it seems the next one is gonna be Quantum.

[-] coriza@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I had a flash of a vision of tomorrow, it is Nano crypto AI

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

Finally computer science is a real field, there are cranks! Suck it physics and mathematics, we are a real boy now!

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Has this person turned up shilling their book on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory yet? If not, I think it's a lock for 2025

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