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-Spoken in intro, panned hard left-

Tucker - "That sucks."

Tyler - "I know, right?"

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The Prediction Paradox

Imagine a superior being - an omniscient god or a superintelligent computer - that can predict your choices ina particular game with almost total accuracy. The game involves two boxes that the Being places before you and a nice sum of money that will be yours if you win the game. You are given two options: either to take what is in both boxes or to take what is in Box 2. What is in the boxes depends on what the being predicts you will do; the Being can make one of two predictions

1. If the being predicts that you will choose both box 1 and box 2, then it will put $1000 in box 1 and nothing in box 2.
2. If the Being predicts that you will choose only Box 2, it will still put $1000 in box one, but it will now put $1,000,000 in box 2

If the being predicts your choice correctly, and as far as anyone knows he always has predicted correctly, you stand to win either $1000 or $1,000,000. But it is theoretically possible, thought unlikely, that the being will predict your choice incorrectly. In that case, either of the two following outcomes will result:

1. If the being bredicts that you will chose both boxes and you chooose only box 2, then you end up with nothing.
2. If the being predicts that you will choose only box 3 and you choose both, then you get $1000 in box 1 and the $1,000,000 in box 2, for a total of $1,001,000...


(That plus some article about M.C. Eschers paintings, I'll type that out later)

*Solo*

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Go fuck yourself, I'm gonna eat some toast

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If you didn't care what happened to me,
and I didn't care for you,
we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
occasionally glancing up through the rain
wondering which of the buggers to blame
and watching for pigs on the wing.

You know that I care what happens to you,
And I know that you care for me.
So I don't feel alone,
Or the weight of the stone,
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.

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I guess you have to have a problem
If you want to invent a contraption
First you cause a train wreck
Then you put me in traction

Well, first came an action
And then a reaction
But you can't switch around
For your own satisfaction
Well, you put my house down, then got mad
At my reaction

Well, in every complicated situation
You're the human relation
Makin' sense of it all
Take a whole lot a concentration

Well, you can blame my baby
For her pregnant ma
And if there's one of these
On the order for laws
It's that you just can't take the effect
And make it the cause

Well, you can't take the effect
And make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank
Because you made up a law
When you people robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause

I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall
Well are you sayin' I'm innocent?
In fact the reverse
But if you're headin' to the grave
You don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl yellin' at her brother
'Cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blamin' me for what you did
And that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck
Is enough to get one pause
You seem to forget
Just how this song started
I'm reactin' to you because you left me broken-hearted
See, you just can't take the effect
And make it the cause

Can't take the effect
And make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank
Because you made up a law
Blame people robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause