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I tried to read this article but something about the writing style made me go cross eyed. That being said, it sounded like something I had heard before and lo and behold...

Literally raised 4 years ago: https://github.com/prisma/orm/discussions/15164

I'm not sure the real intention of this blogpost, but my takeaway is "someone who has no idea what is going on finds a problem <LLM OF CHOICE> left for them, like a little code land mine".

Now we know...

We dont need a SciFi story for that, reality is full of "I was just following orders" statements...

Whether those orders are from a person, a radio/telegram message or an AI output wouldn't really matter.

Edit to add: Charlies Angels and Mission Impossible are two shows where the protagonists get instructions from a faceless controller. That could easily be a TTS from an AI.

The fact there is still coal(and oil) in the ground pretty much rules out any "advanced" industrialized civilization that came before us.

I also use the Carboniferous Period as a metric as to why "Advanced alien life" isn't more abundant (and I believe it should be factored into the Fermi equation)...

All those trees growing, soaking up sun, dying and just laying there to be compressed and buried without anything to decompose them, and then humans using them like solar batteries to power civilization (i.e. burning the coal), is one of those million-to-one things that enabled the human race to develop beyond basic society.

We needed all that coal and oil (and gas) based power to get to the point - industrially and technologically - where we could even build solar panels or nuclear to replace them, so its not like you could start from first principals and jump straight to modern power generation either.

The odds that the same sequence of events - fungus and bacteria not having the tools to decompose lignin (or whatever the alien equivalent is) - to happen on an extra-solar planet is ... pardon my pun ... astronomical :D

(yes, I used a dash to separate ideas in a sentence, deal with it...)

> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?

Or the Nixie [1] (actually nixie was earlier, but went out of business in 2017)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_Labs_Nixie

Life imitates art imitating life: The story [1] of the Brontosaurus is an interesting one...

[1] https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2019/08/31/bronto...

Except it’s not…

https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

I believe Microsoft of all people solved this a while ago by using the gyroscope in a phone to produce a de-blur kernel that cleaned up the image.

Its somewhere here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computation...

That almost looks like a scene from half-life 2

Or… and bear with me on this…

They could just read your text message and browser history

That actually happened with texts to a grandmothers phone number that was (eventually) reassigned.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/family-sho...

Honestly, the first article about peacock feathers having laser cavities was far more interesting and completely distracted me from the "Cat facts vs AI conundrum" article.

The best use of the SMS in the MacBook… or should I say SMACKbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw

Schizophrenia is the price we pay for owning a Cat

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38041862/

And let’s not forget “Ken Lee”

https://youtu.be/vUAaHkGpJy8

At that point you’re almost, but not quite into the realm of “forth”

Amphetamine Dopamine Ketamine

Now thats a party!

(and as I said in another reply) Strychnine

Strychnine

side note: It kills you by making all your muscles tense so strongly that you can't breath any more. The muscles in your face tense in a way that it gives you whats called a "Strychnine Smile".

Or just put mirrors on the ground to reflect the sunlight back out /s

Also doesn’t help that it’s actual name is “Worcestershire sauce” which is even more difficult to say.

Enjoy your toxoplasmosis, and subsequent schizophrenic symptoms… but at least your cats got to hunt all the diseased rats they like, right?

It would still be encoded, assuming your (analogue) POTS call traversed more than one exchange then it would have been coded to g.711 (ulaw or alaw) for that inter-exchange. Although (from memory) that would be 10ms packets.

What about megatron and sound wave… and in fact most of the decepticons

Transformers: Robots in disguise!

This kind of question is meaningless, and I’m pretty sure it comes from the old view of neurons being somewhat akin to a 1-1 or many-1 digital switch (it isn’t).

In fact, we currently don’t even know the full extent of the types of neurons in the brain or the way they function and interact [1]

There are neurons that only fire when a certain percentage of their inputs are stimulated, some that have a temporal component to their firing and more.

In all the computer neural net research I read I never saw an implementation that truly explored or implemented more than a few types (like 3-4) of neuronal input and only one type of output

[1] https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain/brain-anatomy/types-neurons

Considering they’re superconductors cooled by liquid helium there’s not a lot of scope for “cool-off” lol

Also in the production of Sodium batteries, which while significantly lower in energy density compared to Lithium, they have bigger cycle counts (and as such are/can be used to buffer grid based wind/solar generation)

And your point is?

Diamonds are a cartel backed, price gouged, selectively distributed, commodity whose only production cost is digging them out of the ground.

On top of that they are pretty much the most common gemstone.

The cartel I mentioned earlier has also had a heavy handed approach towards the producers of artificial diamond.

All of this is a long winded way of saying “what is your point?” Diamonds and Common earth element man made magnets have absolutely nothing in common.

Didn’t the Beatles write song like that?

Actually there are (Ebola, haemorrhagmific fever etc) are mostly deadly and easily transmissible - however they tend to be self limiting in part because they are so deadly and (luckily) because they aren’t airborne and thus distance … literally the distance between groups of people helps limit them. (Also the fairly short incubation period).

However all of that is irrelevant since the GP was musing on the “huge genetic diversity of humans” being a barrier to xenomutation of animal viruses to humans.

Thats not the case, because humans are pretty much genetically identical to near a 1000th of a percent - so a particularly virulent virus that mutated from an animal to a human because of an organ transplant has a pretty good chance of causing a major pandemic.

You don’t even have to take my word for it, Covid, swine flu, h1n1 are all examples of animal infections jumping - and that’s without the added long term exposure / selection pressure a transplanted organ would provide.

Caveat: I’m all for this kind of research and development given the lack of transplantable organs in many health departments, but I’m also in favor of r&d for artificial replacements too.