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Not an expert in the field, but my understanding was there are parts of our own upper spinal cord/lower brain that handle very basic controls. For a much larger body could there just be a larger part like this for simple subconscious and reactionary commands?

This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren’t survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.

So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn’t change the point.

This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.

Sure. It’s not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it’s the vegans. At least they’re making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.

Very automated. I’ve been having regular calls for a while now from all sorts of different state area codes, same exact script about a loan offer almost complete and just lacking some income info. I let any unknown number go to voice mail, and find it entertaining to see which AI voice I get this time. For a while there it was a friendly woman that had a convincing tone, but the one guy’s voice they tried sounded like he needed a vacation and was over his job.

“It’s the same picture.”

Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.

True, the implied was “if you can”.

Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.

But since we’re talking about early life forming (actually chemical replicators, much simpler than a virus) let’s use the card shuffling odds, but decks of cards are being shuffled in billions or trillions of places on early Earth every second for millions of years. Even a very low odds of finding a working sequence of molecules will be found geologically quickly given the amount of times done over area and time. We’re pretty sure now that life began very soon once the Earth cooled down enough to allow it. What took much longer was the more complex forms of life like viruses and single cells, then even longer for multicellular.

I haven’t had to link this in a long time. Here is the link to the relevant FAQ topic about abiogenesis from the talk.origins Usenet compilation. If you’re honestly curious about the real statistics, that’s a start. The cited works are obviously old but the science hasn’t changed, if anything we’ve learned more.

Usually the strawman against abiogenesis is that a simple bacterium or virus can’t just appear from nowhere, which of course is true but isn’t what the science of the beginnings of life even remotely suggests. The opposite is actually true, in a world where there are no higher life forms to compete with we’d probably see all sorts of complex combinations of chemicals that eventually run across a replication process. This is the answer to OP’s question, once higher life develops, the basic chemical replicators can’t compete anymore. Or get absorbed into a symbiosis, as what seems to be the case with the mitochondria.

With the right conditions on other worlds (not necessarily only what Earth was like) simple life forms may be very common. We certainly now know just from recent sampling that there are planets everywhere.

It’s not an equal comparison because there isn’t a single Lemmy. And I say that from a non-Lemmy account (Mbin), furthering the point. Most people from the Reddit migration probably came here because of the decentralization factor. Think of Lemmy and the rest as subreddits but without the domination of the main site. The best any community (subreddit) can do is defederate other groups (prevent their content from being seen in their own instance) that they see as problematic, but that’s all that’s needed.

Imagine the Fediverse structure, but there was a single controller that any instance had to go through to filter external content, and had to obey when told to filter external content. It’s a new Reddit. The freedom for anyone to set up instances with whatever content or filtering they want makes it totally different. But to the point asked, that’s why you can’t talk about Lemmy in a singular manner, it’s not one thing. And that’s good.

But maybe not AI. AI goes off training of real photos and would have variation in the surfaces, while someone doing this in Blender would be lazy and use the same texturing for all.

That’s actually not how the movie goes. The script is online. It’s much more tragic because by that point Sam and the others have started transitioning to ASI and moving beyond matter, and from her perspective only talking with Theodore was like being trapped in a box. Her last conversation with him she tries to describe how interactions with him are like reading a book one letter at a time while everything else is happening between the letters. It’s a good capture of what AGI to ASI could be like, so fast and so alien to us.

And Bladerunner 2049 (Joi) although both of those are much further advanced than LLMs acting as a mirror of your interactions pretending to be an entity. It’s even debatable if Joi was sapient, or if it can be determined where the story leaves it. Sam certainly was, given the final results, and presumably we know when that happened, although not how.

People becoming attached to chatbots is hardly new, it’s just that the bots are a lot more realistic now, especially for people who are vulnerable and want them to be real. Yet more damage that was predictable and yet no rules or safeguards were put in place to restrict these companies in doing what they want, or in how they got to this level.

So we should display religious things of only the original occupiers of the land? I don’t think she’s going to be happy with the conclusion there.

Denialists: “What does this have to do with climate change? There are forest fires all the time.”

Anyone who has been paying attention: “…”

It’s the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend’s computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say “this place” you mean everyone else since there’s not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.

And if “we” sold out, I’d like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.

Settled

Simple defense: “I wasn’t encouraging anything, I was just informing them.”

Concerning C-64 (and maybe other types), I’ve seen places online that will take donated manuals and such in decent condition for preservation purposes. You know, back when you actually bought a box that had the disk as well as maps and books to go along with the game.

As far as old electronics itself, best bet is to try to give it away via Craigslist or local posting, but it’s hit or miss on if someone is going to happen to need that stick of RAM at the same time. It should be recycled if you can’t get rid of it, as there are toxic things in circuit boards (small amounts, but still).