Hacker News with Generative AI: Thought Experiments

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
Advertising, Democracy, Thought Experiments
11 points by smnrg 16 hours ago | 4 comments
Boltzmann brain (wikipedia.org)
The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.
Cosmology, Physics, Philosophy, Thought Experiments
148 points by josephwegner 114 days ago | 150 comments
Sentinel-free schemas: a thought experiment (minimalmodeling.substack.com)
Schemas, Databases, Thought Experiments, Data Modeling
16 points by todsacerdoti 257 days ago | 2 comments