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Hi! I’m trying to find the original source (creator / short film / music video / animation) of this clip.

Link to the clip (X/Twitter): https://x.com/kentril3/status/2000369829887475877?s=46

Does anyone have any good recommendations for papers or review articles that give an up-to-date overview of the literature on infinite decision theory? In particular, is there a default/orthodox theory in this area that is to infinite decision-making what expected utility theory is to standard, finite decision-making? I've seen discussions of surreal decision theory, relative utilities, and so on, but is there some consensus evolving around an orthodox theory for decisions involving infinities?

Does anyone have any good recommendations for papers or review articles that give an up-to-date overview of the literature on infinite decision theory? In particular, is there a default/orthodox theory in this area that is to infinite decision theory what expected utility theory is to standard decision theory? I've seen discussions of surreal decision theory, relative utilities, and so on, but is there some consensus evolving around an orthodox theory for decisions involving infinities?

Does anyone have any good recommendations for papers or review articles that give an up-to-date overview of the literature on infinite decision theory? In particular, is there a default/orthodox theory in this area that is to infinite decision theory what expected utility theory is to standard decision theory? I've seen discussions of surreal decision theory, relative utilities, and so on, but is there some consensus evolving around an orthodox theory for decisions involving infinities?

The sperm whale is the loudest object in the entire observable universe, at 230dB.

For comparison, the Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear explosion ever denoted (with a blast yield of 50 megatons of TNT) was 50dB quieter at 180dB. The average Type II Supernova is 20 dB quieter, at 210 dB. It it theorised that the Big Bang itself, the very origins of the observable universe itself some 13.8 billion years ago, was around 6dB quieter, at 224dB.

At normal volumes, a single sperm whale call would instantly obliterate the Earth and all matter in the Milky Way. For this reason, sperm whales typically use their inside voices when talking around human divers.

I'm definitely the asshole in this situation. So, AITA?

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EDIT: Go fuck yourself.

Years later, the ride still spins on. Its carousel frame rotating continuously, driven by some transient energy. Each seat swings ever so gently in the evening winds. In the distance, grey clouds glowing from the dusk sunlight glide above sullen fields of ashen grey. Like spectres of some forgotten past, it rises auspiciously above the rest of the static landscape, its artificiality and machinery forming a jarring contrast against the distant skies. Glancing ever so slightly beyond it, one finds not just more but a literal endless array of similar structures stretching towards the horizon. Rollercoasters, whose empty carriages, condemned like Sisyphus, continuously fall, only to make the ard