Imagine dying then you wakes up in a void with electric signals telling you to mine crypto
I'm all for mad science and spitting in the face of God, just keep the profit motive out of it
These neurons can maintain the blockchain while reducing environmental damage by 5%
But where will we get enough neurons?
:porky-happy: starts calculating how cheaply you can get a desperate Bangladeshi farmer displaced by climate change to sell you his brain
well this here pile of human brain cells learned to shit post on a communist website so anything is possible I guess
I love it how we just took all the "You tried to play god, now suffer the consequences" scenarios from movie history and decided we gonna make them all come true simultaneously.
well if we fuck up hard enough, then the various consequences might partially cancel each other out
It will be epic when the genetically revived T-Rexes get wiped out by the bacteria that escapes from under the arctic ice sheets.
Then the murder-nanobots start falling from the sky like microscopic murder-icicles as the hydrogen bombs we sent into the sun to cancel out the overuse of chalk dust that we tried to use to undo climate change causes a massive solar flare, shorting out the entire power grid.
Watches a spasming 3D model created by a bunch of techbros.
Gives a scathing, based, critique about how such a creation is an "insult to life itself" and its gamerbrained use case is deeply anti-human in its ableism, techbros crushed, no preparation just an honest off the cuff opinion.
"I feel like we're nearing end times."
Holy fuck what an absolute chad.
Imagine if someone told Miyazaki about NFTs and what the environmental impact of the blockchain is
I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself
Holy shit :michael-laugh:
They go to a studio led by a guy who's borderline anti-industrial and say they want to make self-creating art using computers lmao
I've never agreed with two mutually exclusive opinions as much as I did in this video
Strange feelings after watching that. Miyazaki's point about the character reminding him of his friend who has a disability and castigating the creators for assuming that something like that is "monstrous" makes you realize how deeply, reflexively empathetic Miyazaki is. It's also very funny how hard he shut them down, basically saying "if you want a scary monster then animate it yourselves". You can tell his producer gets it, when he asks them what their end goal is, but it takes them so long to answer and their answer is seemingly so unrelated that you get the feeling that they have no goal artistic, technological, or otherwise.
Slime moulds, on the other hand, can solve NP hard problems in linear time.
There's a LOT of really cool untapped potential in biological computing. I just wish we had a social framework we could trust to develop it ethically and use it benignly.
Yeah, the soviets used analog computers to create NP-hard heuristics in similar way.
TBH, for many NP-hard problems algorithms exist that "almost" solve those problems, giving an answer that is at worst several times worse than optimal, and slime moulds use the same approach.
True, it's not like P == NP under whatever paradigm the slime mould's using, but it's heuristic is a lot better than our state of the art a lot of the time and it's expensive enough to simulate that it'd sometimes be worth getting an actual slime mould in a lab on a custom lattice instead of trying to book 1000 supercomputer hours or whatever, which is extremely cool.
I think without eyes or a mouth or any of that stuff it isn't really human anyways. Like I guess there's human DNA and stuff, but it's not like it has all the stuff for pain reception or whatever. Or maybe it does!
These neurons never had those things. They're just random neurons or something.
we don't know enough to do this kind of research ethically. Full stop.
Just because you cannot recognize someone as a person does not mean they aren't a person, also. There are people who still need to use giant iron lungs to breath and they are definitely people.
The fact that technology is still accelerating and we are seeing technology that used to be a sci-fi thing only, like holograms or whatever this shit is kinda scares me shitless, especially since there is no proletarian state controlling the direction of research which is instead aimed at "lol I saw this in a movie once, it might be cool" a la Elon M*sk, causing some rich fools to do stuff that both holds us back as a species (like commercial spaceflight for the sake of getting William Shatner to space) and actively endangers us (whatever this shit is, or the insistence on individualistic solutions to climate change like electric cars)
shut this shit down right fucking NOW right fucking NOW NOW NOWNWONWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOWOWOW
Why the FUCK are people allowed to do WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TECHNOLOGICALLY what the FUCK
Imagine freezing yourself thinking the future is going to be awesome only for you to regain consciousness inside of a mobile game, and not a good one. Stuck as a low level unable to get ahead because you literally can't buy microtransactions, the only pleasure you get is viewing a blurred softcore porn you can barely make out on the cover of the gacha pack in the item store. Knowing you'll never be able to afford one but fantasizing that one day it just might go on a 99% off sale allowing you to finally see what's inside. Your day is nothing but grinding to afford the virtual rent which if you fail to pay, you will be deleted forever. Welcome to the future. Capitalism won.
Forget all of that, I just thought of an even worse post-mortem dystopia: Becoming an NFT.
I just pictured the ending of Superman 2 where the bad guys are stuck in a 2D frame hurtling through space.
"No."
"The response 'No.' is not valid response. The valid responses are 'no' and 'yes' only. Do you understand?"
"yes"
"Thank you for consenting to the release of your autonomy, your endless life in the metaverse awaits you!"
