AMA: Ask the Spook

[Juneberry]

Do you add an s to the word math?

[Spook of the lost]

No, but I do pronounce aluminum, aluminium

[Juneberry]

Is aluminum vs. aluminium similar to to-may-to vs. to-mah-to?

[Spook of the lost]

Yeah, aluminium is the British way of saying aluminum.

[Juneberry]

Why do you use the British version?

[Spook of the lost]

They created the word first, plus it's amusing to see people give funny looks when I use alt variants of words lol

[Juneberry]

Do you have a favorite word?

[Spook of the lost]

Singularity. As in quantum singularity (black hole) or technological singularity (the point when machines become self aware and surpass humans)

[Juneberry]

Which kind of singularity interests you more?

[Spook of the lost]

both actually, the quantum sort because that's where the laws that make everything work kinda fall apart, no one knows what happens inside a quantum singularity, only that it's an anomaly in space time where gravity is so strong nothing can escape without exceeding the speed of light and the rules do not make sense.

the technological sort because I'm a transhumanist, and I think it's possible to live alongside sentient machines, possibly up to and including cybernetic augmentation. I wouldn't mind uploading myself either but that's a long discussion lol.