hanjeanwat

Or, at least, our form of life outcompeted all others out there. We don’t actually know that life only started the one time.

it's a juvenile, which has a brown head!

you're not wrong. unfortunately it's about the only thing that will pass an ethics board, outside of patients who are already having neurosurgery and consent to more invasive procedures.

I'd argue that it's not intelligence alone that lets us land a machine on the moon — it's our cooperation, written language, learned culture, communication. An individual person cannot land a machine on the moon on their own. It is not intelligence that produces that, but intelligence contained and continually improved upon within a superorganism of social culture.

Yes! It evolved at least 25 times (that we know of). Animals, plants, algae, fungi, etc. all invented multicellularity independently and in many of those groups did so multiple times.

excellent longread on the development of AlphaFold - with interviews with Baker + Jumper and more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein...