Very hostile alien kidnaps you and ties you into a chair. You can't escape, you can't do anything, you are entirely at his mercy and he has an alien gun pointed at your head.
He says that he will ask you questions. You will answer YES or NO. Any other answer, or lack of answer, and he will shoot you instantly.
Alien claims he knows the correct answer to all of these questions, and if you get enough of the questions right, he will spare your life and reward you majestically.
Alien does allow you to gamble with a coin. He also doesn't give a shit about your reasoning or motivation behind your answer.
The questions are: 1. Is there God? 2. Did something exist before the Big Bang? 3. Is space infinite? 4. Is time infinite? 5. Is everything possible? 6. Do you have free will? 7. Is there more than one universe? 8. Is the universe you are in entirely deterministic? 9. Does life have any special meaning? 10. Can systems evolve endlessly?
Christian Scott
ayy lmanononononononononono
Luis Johnson
The alien is probably trying to fuck with me and will kill or not kill me independent of my answers, for the majority of these questions are either ambiguous without further specification of terms, have no simple yes/no answer but rather a more subtle one, or assume by their phrasing something that isn't true and therefore have no meaningful answer anymore than "have you stopped beating your wife yet".
Carson Taylor
>>The BOOM
Matthew Campbell
>have no simple yes/no answer
Only questions 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 have simple yes/no answer. Questions 1, 2, 6, and 9 depend on what axioms you have agreed to.
Jack Ortiz
Ah, I see the game now.
Only a couple of these questions have a "yes" or "no" answer; the rest have a correct answer other than one of those. Thus, the alien will reward you based on your answers to those questions, and disregards the rest; he cares about having ENOUGH of the questions right. 8 out of 10 (or so) answers will definitely be wrong because no correct answer is allowed, so maybe all the alien asks is that of the 2 questions with a correct "yes" or "no" answer you pick the right one, and disregards the other questions?
Angel Reed
I answer yes to every question. Statistically I get at least half of them right.
Logan Brown
> You are subject to a game of semantics with an alien
I answer yes to every question.
Jeremiah Williams
>1. Is there God? Question ill defined >2. Did something exist before the Big Bang? unknown >3. Is space infinite? Infinitely divisible? Probably not, Infinite in expanse? unknown >4. Is time infinite? Infinitely divisible? Probably not. Will continue forever? Probably. >5. Is everything possible? No. >6. Do you have free will? If I lack free will, it is not of my own choice. >7. Is there more than one universe? Wouldn't multiple universes still be part of the same over-universe and therefore the set that contains everything includes all "universes" would still simply be the Universe. >8. Is the universe you are in entirely deterministic? If it were deterministic I would have no free will in my answers. >9. Does life have any special meaning? The purpose of life is life's continued existence. >10. Can systems evolve endlessly? Why wouldn't they?
Your scenario is laughable, I would know nothing the alien would care to know unless it was about an Earth specific detail and more likely human culture question.
>cooperating with hostile aliens
Dylan Ross
Look who got shot.
t.alien food
Grayson Kelly
If the Universe was deterministic my answers would be the same and I would still get shot. But I would have no choice or blame for my answers and the alien would have had no choice or blame for kidnapping, questioning and shooting me.
Juan Brooks
No to everything except the last one: I don't understand what you're asking.
Carson Ward
Then who's to blame? The initial conditions? Even in a deterministic world from your perspective you have free will.
Grayson Edwards
NO YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO YES
Christian Gray
is this from a movie ?
Eli Perez
1. NO 2. YES 3. NO 4. NO 5. NO 7. NO 8. YES 9. NO 10. YES
Wyatt Carter
If the system is perfectly deterministic only the initial conditions and simulation rules matter.
The same initial conditions and rules will always have the same result.
Kayden Lopez
It's the Ayy Lmao version of Pulp Fiction
Cooper Edwards
You won.
Joshua Gray
wat movi
Landon Hall
How is it possible to go faster than light Then ask them if I can have a blueprint and some materials While he grabs them I take the keys and the anal probe and attack them Fucking saved
Ryan Collins
>wat movi ... take a guess
Tyler Campbell
animated version It's from one of the Alien programs on The History Channel.
Julian Taylor
1. Define "God." 2. So the Big Bang definitely happened? 3. Depends... the Big Bang happened? 4. No 5. Yes 6. Flip a coin 7. No 8. (see question 6) 9. Yes 10. (see question 5)
Wyatt Jenkins
laugh at this dead man!
Lucas Ward
can I fuck the alien?
John Rodriguez
Since you are a part of that simulation you can't tell that all of your actions are predestined and it seems to you that you do things intentionally.
Aaron Reyes
thx
Josiah Johnson
laugh at this dead man *who made first contact with ETI.
I'm going down in history brah idgaf about dying
Lincoln White
>I'm going down in history brah as the first man to be probed by big xenomorph cock. you'd freak the fuck out if you see them irl, you know it and i know it
Christian Hill
>implying i'm not fapping to intergalactic terror porn rn
Easton Wright
ur sick bro :o
Ian Walker
>1. Is there God?
probably not, because you are the ugliest son of a bitch i've ever seen *spits at alien*