If all that we know exists does so both entirely for and entirely within our experiencing mind, then we are all gods of our own tiny universe.

I am a real boy! I am!

I’m real, I swear I’m real! [stares in mirror for thirty minutes repeating that]

According to a line in a New Yorker article profiling Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, “Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer.”

The key paper for simulation theory, the idea to which Musk was referring, is a now extremely famous 2003 paper by an Oxford philosophy professor named Nick Bostrom, the founding chair of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute.
Bostrom’s core idea was a compelling one. It has been amended, and different forms of it have sprouted, but in its most basic form it goes like this: First, assume humanity makes it in the future. If we do, computing power will likely increase; the more powerful computers get, the closer these theoretical future beings will get to the point where they are able to simulate worlds with conscious beings like us in them. Then, evaluate how likely it is that, across the whole span of time, we are the ones living in the real original world rather than in one of those simulations of it?

the only real choice left to any of us is: to doubt it all, or, believe it all…

If all that we know exists does so both entirely for and entirely within our experiencing mind, then we are all gods of our own tiny universe.

Absent all that for serious fans, I think on/off data covering multiple years along with some informed subjective analysis of the team, other player’s skills, roles, system, lineups etc.. is probably more accurate than just blindly accepting some single metric.

No one takes box score aggregators as seriously as you pretend they do, but I still guarantee you’d be better off building a team with BPM than with raw on/off and the eye test.

You could put together a garbage team with guys who have positive on/off numbers. Much harder to do with BPM!

Calm down. I was making a joke because of how poorly Draymond played over those 6 games. I don’t actually think Frank is better than Draymond.

But what does it say that people thought you were serious?

But maybe Draymond isn’t as good as Draymond….if you know what I mean.

You mean Draymond isn’t playing as well as Draymond used to? Because, uh… maybe we should introduce you to this thing called BPM, which has been showing Draymond’s regular-season performance as slipping since his (surprise!) age-25 season.

Anyone could have guessed that an undersized PF/C would peak from 24-27 and start slipping thereafter, although he’s still one of the best playoff performers this century. Most likely, to my mind, is a combination of near-total disinterest and normal aging.

the idea behind waiting for payton isn’t that he is going to save randle… the whole point behind it is that he’ll look better than however he is looking with the worst pg’s in the nba….

Sometimes I feel like djphan’s less knowledgeable burner account. I’m real, I swear I’m real! [stares in mirror for thirty minutes repeating that]

I don’t know what the fuck kind of offense Fizdale is running but it appears to have a strong “give the ball to Randle and let him create something” kind of component to it. That’s not good. That needs to be removed. Dude needs to not be dribbling the ball and making spin moves and trying to do up and unders through three defenders and all of the heinous shit he’s doing now.

This is basically my thinking. Fiz is relying on Barrett and Randle et al to create all the offense. When Payton plays that seems to change some, that’s all. I certainly don’t think Payton is great fucking shakes but he’s certainly a better creator for others than Frank or DSJr are.* Which isn’t blaming Frank for Randle’s woes so gtfo with that. Also hoping that the open 3’s will eventually start falling, as that seems more reasonable than ‘he’s permanently worse than he’s ever been.’ Yes, he’s the fifth or sixth best player on the team, but he’s the fifth or sixth best player while playing worse than he has in the past so..

*Basically anyone can create for Mitch, why that isn’t the main option I do not know.