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I've come back from the dead to post a GD level I'm working on. I'll probably go back to the dead later, I don't really use this platform often. I just needed to upload this clip somewhere.

Bye! :3

Btw, the music in the background is "anybody can find love (except you.) [Glitch Cat Remix]":

The original song is by hkmori:

I really like the music of both of these creators.

Anyways, bye for real now! .(^⏑^)/

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Bret

ok guys. lets make a normal sandwich that is normal and not diseasious

i will start

bread

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Parallels between Design and Murder Drones

I've seen many parallels between Liam Vickers story Design from his youtube channel Scary Story Time With Liam and Murder Drones, a series on youtube made by Liam Vickers and Glitch Productions. Spoilers ahead for both of them, you're gonna regret it if you ignore this spoiler-warning.

When I'm talking about parallels, I'm talking about parallels between the world-building, not the plot.

If you're reading this, then you probably know that the left-hand facility decreases the abilities of left-hands until they are weak enough to be killed. If you do not know this, then please don't ignore my spoiler-warning, and go watch Design. When a left-hand is weakened enough, it must use secondary weapons to be able to fight. These secondary weapons are usually sharp objects, like knifes or blades. Stronger left-hands don't usually use secondary weapons. For example fifth-class left-hands are known to change the structure of their bodies at their own will, they can make weapons from their own body. Secondary weapons are usually mechanical or hand-made, while fifth-class left-hands mostly use weapons made out of their own bones.

The same can we see in Murder Drones, though I don't know where Uzi gets her biological parts from, knowing robots are usually not made out of body parts, her bio-mechanical features we see in episode four sets her apart from the rest of the others infected with the AS virus. Mainly the disassembly drones, who use purely mechanical weapons. This has led me to believe that the disassembly drones used to be standard AS-infected drones, like Cyn and Uzi, but were later modified by the company to a much weaker version who now need secondary weapons, like wings made out of blades, to fight.

The second parallel I want to talk about I also talked about in one of my previous blog-posts. Each left-hand has a curtained class, which is the cipher that their subject number starts with. Class 0 consists of left-hands capable of matter-distortion at the molecular level. Class 1-4 are, as far as I know, never really explained in the series. The fifth class is capable of bending their own shape and structure of their body to their will, as I talked about before. Class 6 is capable of producing poisonous substances. Left-hands of class 7 are often called defective, as there is something wrong with them, like that they're a hand-made left-hand or don't possess a real body. Eight class left-hands often use artificial limbs, like metal chains, as secondary weapons.

Though it's never said in the murder drone series, I think that such a classing system is also used for AS infected drones, we know that Nori, Uzi's mom, is assigned 002, and is thus likely a zeroth class AS infected drone, capable of matter distortion on the molecular level. Another person I think can be regarded as a class-0 AS infected drone is Yeva, 048, who's Doll's mom. Doll probably also possesses the same abilities as Yeva did, as being able to teleport, which is an ability closely related to matter-distortion on a molecular level. The murder-drones are probably sixth class, as they're able to produce nanite acid. We know that J's ID number is 676, as I talked about in another blog-post.

Left-hands are, as a safety measure, not capable of distorting the matter of other left-hands and can thus not directly hurt any other left-hands. This is known as the empathetic feedback response. There are ways to work around this, the most common one is to use secondary weapons.

This can also be seen in murder drones episode three, where Doll tries to distort the matter of Uzi's body, though instead she gets an error stating "--// ERROR: absoluteSolver_trn [like object non-interactive]". This is probably AS equivalent of the empathetic feedback response of left-hands.

So, as you can see, there are a lot of parallels between AS and the left-hand parasites. I don't have anything to say anymore, and this blog-post is getting long, so I'll end it here.

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So I made a... I don't know how to call it, a story? It's a half paper monologue about infinity as a metaphor. This is what I've written, this version is a bit more refined:

I found out that googology, the study and nomenclature of large numbers, reflects my personality in many ways. Today, I want to talk about infinity.

Infinity is banned in almost every professional googology competition. In less professional competitions, it is seen as a way of giving up. Though people who are new to googology often "give up" on accident, in the real world, giving up is the intended purpose of the act. Both in googology and in the real world, people would still blame you for using infinity. In googology, you get annoyed. In the real world, you can't hear them. At least, that was the plan.

Some people believe there is something after infinity, like infinity+1 or aleph-2, and so there are also people who believe in something after infinity in the real world, though there is little overlap between people who believe in something past infinity in googology and something past infinity in the real world. When using infinity as your final answer, both in googology and in the real world, you hope there's nothing succeeding it.

Infinity, though banned in most competitions as an answer, is frequently used as a means to get to a large finite number. This is very popular in googology, though it is not much appreciated in the real world.

Not many people are sure about infinity, what it is and how it works. If it's good or if it's bad. In googology, I'm sure I know how infinity works, though in the real world, I'm not sure about it.

To conclude, infinity, in googology, is used as a means to an end, but in real life, it is seen as something negative.

Please tell me in the comments if you think you know what the metaphor is. Also, I made a new axiom to add to ZFC, I will make a post about it in the future. Here it is:

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Murder Drone Theories

Murder Drones is a series on YouTube made by Glitch productions and Liam Vickers and is currently my favorite series. With the new episode, Cabin Fever, I want to talk about my theories over murder drones. I've got my inspiration from the YouTubers Unhelpful Commentary, Tyromaniac and RemGames.

Many different systems are used to identify drones, murder drones, etc... here are the ones I know of:

Names. The most obvious one is that worker drones have given names to themselves (like Nori Doorman and Thad). I don't think that they had names when the humans were still alive on Copper 9, they probably started using names when quick communication was needed to escape from the disassembly drones and ideas of individuality started to form.

Planet naming. It is known that the planet where the worker drones live is called Copper 9. This name has two parts: "Copper", which refers to a metal and "9", which is a counting number. The full name, Copper 9, might refer to the ninth planet marked for mining copper. A less likely theory is that this is the ninth planet visited by the Copper team.

Worker Drone ID. At the time-stamp 9:19 of Heartbeat, you can see Uzi's teacher playing solitaire. If you look at the bottom-left corner you can see WDID: #2342. This is probably the name that is used for these drones before they were naming themselves. 2342 seems like a low number of worker drones given that at least nine planets have been visited and mined by drones before him. It is more likely to me that this is the 2342th worker drone on the planet Copper 9.

Designation. A murder drones designation consists of two parts: a single letter which is used for communication and a string of 1's and 0's with an x somewhere in the middle which is used for identification. Example are N-0X0010010 and S-010011X01.

Group ID. Each Murder drones group has their own group ID. These are written with the name of the administrator of the group first (like CYN and ISA) and then with four letters for which I don't know the meaning of. Examples of this are CYN-MYKX (with N, J and V) and ISA-MMAC (with S and others I don't know about).

Absolute Solver. The Absolute Solver program uses its own IDs for identifying its host. There are three-digit numbers. Known examples are 676 for J, 048 for Yeva (Doll's mother) and 002 for Nori (Uzi's mother). If Liam Vickers uses the same system as he used for his series Design, then that means that the first digit is used to identify the class. J and possibly all murder drones are then in sixth class, who are drones that are capable of producing poisonous substances, like nanite acid. The drones Yeva and Nori are in the zeroth class, who are known for matter distortion on the molecular level, we can see Doll doing this in episode three where she teleports and makes exact copies of knifes, which she probably got from her mother, Yeva. In episode four it is shown that the bugs also use this method of identifying drones and thus we can conclude that these bugs, or at least some of them, were made for the drones infected with absolute solver.

I think that these were all of them. If I missed one, please tell me.

I want to talk about the bugs a bit because no-one else will. There are robotic bugs that you can see frequently crawling around in various places in the series. Most of them are not cleaned, meaning that removing bugs from a place is part of cleaning a place. As shown in episode four, Cabin Fever, the purpose of some of these bugs are to help drones infected with the absolute solver virus. We can see some kind of emotion from these bugs like being afraid when Doll comes home, being surprised though I can't remember when and being grateful when Uzi repairs one. Further evidence for these emotions is the third option that a bug in episode four gave to Uzi, who was mistaken for 002 (Nori). The choice was to "end my suffering (promo discount expired)". The fact that it mentioned suffering means that the bug is at least capable of that emotion. What we so far know that the bugs can do is crawl on walls floors and ceilings and being able to chat with people. I can't make a good guess for what the purpose is for these bugs or why they exist in the first place.

My second theory is that Cyn has infected N, J and V with Absolute Solver while they were still in the haunted mansion. They were close to humans when becoming AS infected. These humans didn't execute them or used their normal method of getting rid of this infection, but they instead send them to Copper 9 after hearing that humans were wiped from that planet and that there is now no-one there to stop AS from spreading, possibly upon request from JC Jenson in spaaaaacee!!!!

This post is getting too long. Bye!

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Great post! Here are some mistakes I've found:

In the beginning you state that many googologists suffer from the lack of definition of f₃, though I don't know any googologist that doesn't know this definition. You might have meant approximation or alternative evaluation.

The statement "f₃(x)=f₂(f₂(f₂(…(x)…)))" is incomplete, as there isn't said how many times f₂ is repeated and is thus undefined.

After the line "So the statement can be proven by showing", there are a lot of "…" for which the definition isn't clear (e.g. where does T₁*T₂*… end?).

This one is probably a typo, but you forgot the argument of aᵢ at the very end, as functions can't be multiplied.

Hey, anyone who might be interested in googology, I wrote a proof for the precise expression of f3(k) in the fast-growing hierarchy.

I wrote it bc i need to practice in LaTeX for my degree course, and so to practice properly I'm making a detailed explanation of the FGH.

I think the lower bound of f3(k) is way too generous. f3(4) has at least 10^10^20.55 digits, it's lower bound is 65536.

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In the beginning you state "Infinity is not an amount", though infinity is an amount, or cardinality, just like 5 or about 3 is. It might not be precise (like about 3) as it is not specified which cardinal infinity you mean (it could be aleph-0 or the first beth fixed-point) but it doesn't mean, just like with about 3, that it isn't a cardinality/amount any-more. It is true that most people have the intuition of infinity being somewhat equal to a googolplex, although most people do know that any finite amount, like a googolplex, is less than infinity.

In the second paragraph, you mentioned that people make statements like "There are infinitely many _" wrongly. This is true for some cases, like there are infinitely many things you could make in minecraft, but for some cases this "infinitely many" is correctly used. For example, the statement "There are infinitely many natural numbers." and "There are infinitely many configurations for the universe." are both true (the second one is true because you could assign a universe to each natural number in which the number represents the number of Planck-volumes between two particles). Then you go on to say that "Unless you start with an infinite set, there is no amount of mathematical operations that can get you to infinity." But that is obviously false, as an infinite set could be defined without an infinite set, or you would never be able to create an infinite set. An example of this is the set of real numbers. 0 is an element of N, and when n is an element of N, n+1 is an element of N for which n+1 could never be 0 and there isn't an m in N not equal to n for which m+1=n+1. This would get you an infinite set. Also, the statement "this infinity is better" is sensical, in a way that some infinities are better for creating large numbers in the FGH (when given a curtained system of fundamental sequences).

Also, in no way does infinity mean just "very much a lot", the term "nearly infinite" is used for that, which more precisely means "a lot more than will practically be used".

i saw your comment on that linguists journey post from prescriptivist to a little prescriptivism as a treat. i’m wondering how people use infinite wrong and how it’s supposed to be used?

Hi! Sorry for the delay.

Infinite is not an amount. It is not a very very big number or a number at all. In fact, I think by nature we often underestimate just how big infinity is. For some perspective I recommend looking into Googology- the study of unimaginably huge numbers and how to describe them. Once you wrap your head around those numbers, once I wrapped my head around those numbers best as I could, I had an even greater appreciation for infinity which was even bigger than all of those. There are not infinite atoms on our planet, in our solar system, not even in our galaxy or any finite bound beyond that.

So, to answer your question, people often make statements like “There are infinitely many _“ when there are just a lot but finitely many. I see this as very different than exaggerating because you can take finite steps, you can add something to the number and get to the bigger number you’re exaggerating to, but unless you start with an infinite set, there is no amount of mathematical operations that can get you to infinity. You can’t say, well there are billion and you said infinity so you exaggerated by this much. You exaggerated by infinity. Also nonsensical statements like “this is infinitely better” or “there is an infinite amount of love” or something. That just doesn’t make any sense. You can’t measure love and so you can’t really conceive of an amount of it and infinity seems like a fun unmeasurable word, but we actually can determine if there’s an infinite amount of something and you’re just using it for fluff to sound important.

Of course I acknowledge that this is a different meaning of infinity than its mathematical definition, one which means ‘very much a lot’, but it’s so sad to me to reduce something so grand and cool and unimaginable but still so useful and important as infinity, and the different sizes of infinity which can be baffling, and use it to mean ‘a lot’.

So there’s my treat of prescriptivism.