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1. pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:03 JST pistolero

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   • cyberpunklord420
   @rainignterror1080p @ehhh I'd say his ship is the one he is in. It's not the ship of Theseus otherwise.
   
   Consider how many of your cells decay and are replaced over the course of your life.
   • cyberpunklord420 (ehhh@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:03 JST cyberpunklord420

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     • tomboy justice chan
     @p @rainignterror1080p Consider that the person you are today is not the same person as you were maybe a year, or two years ago.
     :awoo_tired: shotgun snuggler :clownpiece_smug: likes this.
   • tomboy justice chan (rainignterror1080p@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:04 JST tomboy justice chan

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     • cyberpunklord420
     @p @ehhh well i would argue 51%/a little more than half of whatever exists since 100% is just a replica and less than 50% is still majority ship which i would say it's still the ship
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:04 JST pistolero

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     • tomboy justice chan
     • cyberpunklord420
     @rainignterror1080p @ehhh Then whose ship is Theseus in?
   • tomboy justice chan (rainignterror1080p@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:04 JST tomboy justice chan

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     • cyberpunklord420
     @p @ehhh probably in a replica the problem is nobody knows where that halfway point is
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:05 JST pistolero

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     • tomboy justice chan
     • cyberpunklord420
     @rainignterror1080p @ehhh It wouldn't be a famous question unless there was an agreement.
     
     How many pieces have to come off the ship in order for "the ship of Theseus" to no longer describe the ship Theseus is tooling around the Aegean in?
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:06 JST pistolero

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     • cyberpunklord420
     @ehhh Joke. The "ship of Theseus" is an old philosophical question: if Theseus sets out on a ship, and over the course of his travels he has to replace pieces of wood, and eventually replaces every piece of wood, is it still the same ship? If someone collects all the broken pieces and then puts them together, which one is the ship of Theseus?
     
     So I have had this computer, all the parts have been replaced several times, just incremental changes and upgrades, it's not really got a "birthday". (I actually did make two computers out of the discarded parts.)
     behold_the_ship_of_theseus.png
   • tomboy justice chan (rainignterror1080p@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:06 JST tomboy justice chan

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     • cyberpunklord420
     @p @ehhh wouldn't the ship that got put together with the broken pieces be the ship of theseus and the one that theseus replaced piece by piece be a replica at that point?
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:07 JST pistolero

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     • cyberpunklord420
     @ehhh I've got the Box of Theseus so I have no idea.
   • cyberpunklord420 (ehhh@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:07 JST cyberpunklord420

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     @p I've never heard of that..
   • cyberpunklord420 (ehhh@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 16:18:08 JST cyberpunklord420
     does anyone celebrate the birthday of their PCs?
     
     What do you consider to be the birthday of your computer? The date that you unpacked it? The date that you've finished assembling it? Or, the date that you've installed the OS?