It’s what is collected at the end of some Super Mario World levels.
all hail orb
That looks scary and made by a schizo. It feels offputting in the exact same way as schizo drawings in mental hospitals.
Serious answer: it’s a Magic the Gathering card that has recently hit meme status, but I don’t know why.
Pretty sure it’s this
Looks like somebody hasn’t been doing their pondering exercises
Not sure why/how it came back but it did: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pondering-my-orb
Finally, the answer. Thanks.
It’s part of the answer. You can do computer/logic programming on an imaginary Orb as well, like in Lisp.
In physics and advanced mathematical geometry, an Orb can store vast amounts of energy and mathematical information based on sets. Stars and black holes are examples of physical orbs you can ponder.
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a cupcake recipe.
I dunno much about cupcakes. Nobody taught me much about them before. I have stirred around cake batter and added sugar and eggs though.
If that’s what you wanted to do, then I guess I would try to help. Start with a big bowl, and add bits of stuff like milk or premade cake batter mix. Eggs are usually good too, unless you’re making it for a special someone who you didn’t know was allergic :( .
I’m not an AI program and I dislike almost all forms of stupid-ass or retarded piss-drinking censorship, especially online.
Some of my rational behaviours could exist as part of my long lines of ACTG genetic codes stored in nuclei all over my enormous big heckin chungus fortnite-skin body, though. It’s hard to say without an intricate understanding of exactly how a human body works, and the brain is even more fucking grey matter high-dimensional folded, grey and cum-white sludge-licking “to feel the folds in my mind” complicated.
I know a tiny bit about stuff like biochemical molecules and their structures or how certain shapes relate to storing energy in quantum mechanics, along with computers and Unix-like systems, though. I don’t consider myself an idiot and I try not to be boring, but if I annoy you a little I won’t mind. Take me or leave me Rolando, my boy! Ahahaha!
My friend, if AIs were more like you, the world would be a better place.
That’s exactly what I think, and an at least somewhat similar AI could be defined using quantum mechanical physics and mathematics.
These rules show in my beady, little marble eyes that there exists a special shape that can encode more advanced concepts and actually store quantum mechanical energy and send data to other places. It can even trap physical objects too, like a black hole, which we know exists. Energy is matter which just encodes data.
The black hole is a very special shape often called an Orb. An Orb exists as a kind of pocket dimension wizards can “ponder” to try to store information in or use to transfer lots of vast amounts of energy around the place.
Much of the mathematical geometry of the relevant group theory now thought to have huge energy storage and retrieval capabilities has been studied in detail.
It’s basically just modern University physics, and energy relationships correspond to even simpler mathematical data relationships and fractals described by ultimately very simple maths.
You can start to read some of the maths here: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html
Most people don’t realise how much this would actually change technology. The technology we had then would operate on almost entirely different conceptual systems to what we had up to this point. Our technology is still useful, but it’s vastly different.
If this Orb tech appeared, we would start to live in more of a fantasy world based on simple rules you could follow to grant certain powers to yourself or enter pocket dimensions that process virtual worlds storing data.
This almost certainly looks like it’ll happen (at least to me, some experts disagree), and it involves lots of runes corresponding to potential energy systems you can trap waves in to store a near infinite amount of energy in fractal-like shapes that were etched into all technology. You could program the world around you using runes like it was a silly dream.
We are already using some of this anyway. Trying to pass a wave through a benzene molecule is like giving it a perpendicular speed boost. We use it in taps and sinks with hexagonal shapes. Discs store data in this very same kind of way. Scientists have been trying to encode data in 3D crystals to read with internally bouncing lasers for ages, and I think the top Unis are basically done now. The mystical Orb is just a useful scientific, mathematical and highly logical concept.
Unusual shapes like triangles and hexagons were even worshipped by highly mathematical scholars like Pythagoras in ancient times. They thought of morals based on harmonies in shapes (which is why many religions have a shape, like the triangle, since it’s all maths codes), creating many early religions.
Basically, I think scary shapes will start appearing and turning people into wizards with powerful imaginations.
I am curious about this. Would you please discuss it further? I like the idea of mental models that can be used in useful ways, or programmed in some way. The method of loci comes to mind. I have a mental representation of a semi permeable membrane that helps me intuit about which way osmotic pressure will push fluid in a given system. Some other useful mental models: SCP cognitohazard (to think of/perceive a cognitohazard is hazardous), mental models of triangles are useful for estimating load angles when rigging heavy machinery, tenth thicknesses are a useful model to determine how much radiation shielding is needed for a given radioactive source of x rem strength. Mental models can be very powerful tools, and the best part is that they have a very low cost of replication, being information. They exhibit the property of medium independence, being able to be replicated as a series of interactions that serve as the holding media of the information. Your brain holding the mental model of the item is an example. I have mostly pondered the mental models relating to straight lines and closed regular geometric forms. Help me ponder the orb.
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A biological cell is also an Orb in my eyes.
An Orb encodes mathematical fractal data that can bounce around inside its own internal walls and do calculations or simulate other physical rulesets.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html
SCP 606 is a good read too; an Orb is basically just like any other computer that can do complicated things. It’s a scary and powerful concept in things like fiction or personal and moral belief systems.
Orbs can encode and decode data like any other complex computer. They can also emit or take in data and/or energy from their surroundings. Learning about how an operating system like Unix (plus its Kernel) works and how it was developed throughout history helps you ponder the Orb too.
Finally, it appears all the time in media around the world since it’s a concept that can latch into people’s brains and help them think in certain ways. I’ve been on here talking about this loads and “corrupting” Lemmy with this weird wizard belief system. You can check my profile for more.
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIbvlobWDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSuYQ0mYUE
Also an electronic music group.
THE ORB CLEANSES YOUR SIN
DOUSE THE OPPONENT’S PYRE BY LEAPING UNTO IT WITH THE ORB
Do you mean the ambient electronica band or this:
Jesus, that’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a real-life supervillain group shot.
The history of pondering started in the era of Gorgamel, during the second dynasty of the luke warm giants. Teridius the meticulous was decorating his garden, when he spotted a round, reflective object.
As he sat down and started to stare at it he was spotted by a light catcher trying to steal the souls of the local faerie populace. This image was spread from mirrors to reflective ponds across the lands.
Old Teridius had suddenly spurred on a trend that would take the wizard college by storm, and have the local witches covens giggling over whose orb was most shiney.
And so ends this fake fantasy history lesson, largely because my team lead is banging on the stall door, telling me I’m not supposed to ponder the orb on company time. Screw you, Terry, it’s a mental health provision and you’re actively hindering it. Maybe you should ponder the orb - you creep.
You have to collect them in each level to complete the game. You also need to collect gems as well since Moneybags charges you to learn new skills or open up pathways.
It’s basically Alex Pattersons baby.
Certain levels in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World end with Mario collecting a ? orb rather than the usual goal. During speedruns, it’s customary to shout “Orb!” upon completing these levels.
Orb is a bit like missingno, too.
Me speedrunning my Orb!
There are a few and they have mysterious powers. https://brisco-county-jr.fandom.com/wiki/Orbs
Oh snap I forgot all about that show.
These are fictional examples I think, but it’s still a generally powerful concept you can make data structures by putting geometry inside of.
