Even if we do bootstrap AGI. why do you think it'd become a singular central authority? And maybe you should update your fantasies. If you want a pretty glorious look at the concept of space habitats as havens for the spectrum of cultural modes humans can create, I recommend Alistair Reynolds The Prefect, which takes place in the Glitter Band, an environ of thousands of space habitats in the Epsilon Eridani system
Is there any indication that this desperate ploy to reframe any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza or recognition of innocent Palestinians' basic humanity and rights as purely foreign propaganda is working at all? It's absolutely craven
Executive Editor Kevin Merida said journalists who signed a harsh condemnation of Israel would not cover the war; The newspaper's owners criticized the decision, and Merida resigned
I don't see how the tag => file path will be workable. As you add and remove tags, your actual file system is going to go strait to hell. Dear god I don't want to think about what that would be like to browse from the terminal
I recommend anything by Alistair Reynolds, but in this vein I'd have to go with his Revelation Space trilogy (there's technically a 4th, but it's only loosely connected to the others), specifically the first three of the Inhibitor Sequence books
Sorry, I can't find the thread about the update so posting here as next best place: after the 0.19 update I have to relogin every time I restart my browser. I don't delete cookies or sessions on close, so this is not the expected behavior. It's only mildly inconvenient, not a huge deal but I thought I'd report it
In the decentralized network of the fediverse where freedom of association is king, you're free to start your own instance that will federate with everybody. Of course, the other admins are as free as you are and may decide to not federate with you. Such is that degree of freedom.
This video tours Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). NIRCam’s high resolution detects tiny knots of gas leftover from the star’s explosion, as well as light echoes scattered across the field of view.
The only objective purpose in life is to spread your genes.
Not even that. It's not like you've failed at life if you don't have kids. You just haven't spread your genetic information. Saying that its your purpose to spread them implies it's the genes purpose to be spread. Genes simply are, they don't have a purpose just like you don't; evolution has just given organisms behaviors and mechanisms that make it very likely that they will be regardless of that lack of purpose.
There's a Wikipedia page for that: Vandalism on Wikipedia. The short answer is that they don't allow it, it's done by malicious editors and it's something they have been combating since its inception.
Does this really solve the ethical wicket of human embryo testing? Is tricking stem cells into forming an embryo really that different from fertilizing an egg with a sperm cell to form an embryo? Like, would this still develop into a functional human being if implanted into a womb?
Maybe it's just a carryover from my time in reddit where I never ever chose to look at /r/all but y'all are making me glad I stick to just my subscribed feed
Even if we do bootstrap AGI. why do you think it'd become a singular central authority? And maybe you should update your fantasies. If you want a pretty glorious look at the concept of space habitats as havens for the spectrum of cultural modes humans can create, I recommend Alistair Reynolds The Prefect, which takes place in the Glitter Band, an environ of thousands of space habitats in the Epsilon Eridani system