White is a bloat colour, it takes more energy for your monitor to display white than any other colour since white is all parts of the LED on.

0/10, you’re worse than a ai data center.

We can do it to living people (Gene Therapy is just editing DNA using an inert virus to deliver the payload and modify gene expressions), and there is a very good chance CRISPR allows it for in utero cells.

If we had zero ethical boards, we’d be at the active experimentation stage to discover what each nucleotide pair precisely does which would involve growing humans directly.

That being said we are doing things that are close to it. For example look up the term organoid. Then Brain organoid. Then realize pretty much every university is growing unique but stunted human brains and experimenting on them; and then realize these organoids dream. Anyway that existential horror aside, this also extends to almost every organ in the human body. We’re essentially brute forcing gene expression discovery at the individual component level; if we were to scale that up to a full human (or get much, much faster computers so we could simulate it) we’d have the totality of DNA fully understood.

From there it’s trivial to combine our current tech that allows free form editing of DNA with exactly what we would need to change.

Only superficially. It’s really hard to tell what percentage of our DNA is actually useful, or could be useful under conditions we haven’t seen, or is actually a part of any given variation. What we do know, of the number of DNA combinations we have seen if we play out each possible version of those variations there’s around 4^2000 variations. Or in other words If a billion people were born every day since the start of the universe, there would not be a single duplicate person. And this is the extreme low end estimate based on limited data sets that generally don’t even include people of every major region, much less interesting micro-populations that have been breeding in isolation for a thousand years or more.

Now lets assume we remove all causes of congenital blindness. Generally speaking the number of genes making up most identified causes are less than 20 total. That would (simplified, yell at me later math nerds) knock that number down to around 4^1995.

That would still be more viable combinations than we could possibly run through from now until the heat death of the universe, assuming current population growth rates which we’ll have until we invent birthing pods.

In other words we’ll probably be fine, but if we need to, and it’s allowed to be researched more, we could just simply artifically introduce safe variation. i.e. people giving birth to people they aren’t genetically related to anymore.

We’d have to define the end goal clearly enough for it to be feasible. Is it possible for a machine to do every -action- a human is likely to do, as an imitation? Sure. We’re pretty close to that now.

Can we define consciousness or intelligence in a way that does not eliminate free will, so that we can build a machine that has either? That’s a much harder ask. Free will is the opposite of a deterministic universe, and if we’re in a deterministic universe then absolutely a machine can be made as good or better than a human, but we won’t have free will so whether or not we ever make that then depends on the starting conditions of the universe.

If we do have free will the question then becomes what gives us free will and can we recreate what gives us free will so we may impart it on others.

It’s just as likely any GAN, of which LLMs are largely a subset, which does cover nearly the entirety of what current ‘AI’ is, to develop into True AI as any given duck suddenly generating a metal xenon egg.

While certainly far be it from me to be the arbiter of what consciousness or even a replacement-level intelligence is, simple ‘neural’ networks and generative adversarial networks aren’t ever going to be more than simple machines. They’re great at generating chaos and deciding what is or isn’t close to what is not chaos, by the very narrow definitions that they are given, and with enough of them stacked I’m sure you can trick someone into believing they’re alive; but that’s still a far cry from being equivocal intelligence, or any kind of intelligence.

LLMs have as much chance of magically transforming into True AI as frogs have of transforming into the Bagger 288.

Well see here little buddy, back in the 1980s you’d get this little cardboard circle with a variety of characters on it, and there was this whole game around building a tower and knocking these circles off the tower, but no one played the game. Hell most people refuse to believe a game with them existed. They were going to be the next big collectible before Pokemon brought back trading cards and beanie babies took over for anyone that didn’t like cards.

Some pogs were also metal. For some reason.

Years later a weird asian man made a face and coincidentally got pog brought in the the common vernacular, but that’s a different pog entirely, a pretender to the throne. Every day I lament that that asian man made that silly face, if only because it has obscured to the true nature of the pog.

Pre-birth DNA editing to ensure a healthy and ideal child.

Eugenics is awful. It’s horrible. There is no question and there’s a million historical and fictional deep dives one can do to objectively prove that it is against any form of morality you could possibly come up with.

But, improving the human experience, ensuring no one is born with a disability, ensuring that everyone has the best possible chance to enjoy and experience life would be amazing. If society could get its collective shit together we could in fact make sure that every person gets the best possible experience of our species. We could pretty much entirely eliminate childhood cancers. We could make super heroes (relative to unmodified humans). We could eliminate genetic defects that have plagued families and entire populations since pre-history.

That is literally all political ideologies. Read ‘On Authority’ already. It’s free.

It being ‘bad’ is kinda the point. It is a critique of capitalism, even in its current neutered form. It is a simple intuitive proof that if everyone started out on the same fair playing field; which is impossible in capitalism but would be the ‘idealized’ state that anarchocapitalists, Laissez-faire capitalists, and neoliberals would love to pretend the world has ever had or can ever had, capitalism will still end in an absolute collapsed state of a brutalist monopoly.

You have to add random cheat rules to even have a little fun with it, but there is no effective way to make capitalism have an end state that isn’t a total monopoly.

Parker Bros (and the various companies that bought it out after parker bros did) just didn’t really care that it criticized them as much as any other capitalist entity, because they made money.

That’s generally just the mold itself. While you can have competing cultures the nature of the Penicilium genus means you don’t have to really worry about bacterial growth and other mold growth would have competing colours in almost all cases for dairy products. With bread and fatty meats where you might see penicilium you are right to worry a lot more, but the nature of modern dairy means whatever spoils it tends to be monoculture as it’s generally a ‘whichever infects first has too much of a headstart to allow competition,’ when with bread and meat mold has a harder time penetrating the substance (giggity) and has much more competition respectively.

Pasteurized dairy is only vulnerable to so many pathogens that you can kinda guess what spoilage you’ll get based on sight and smell (at least down to the genus, it’s impossible to get much more specific without a full lab test).

Isn’t this just a variant of IPFS?

Intel Arc has been out for a while and while it technically competes it’s not good enough or stable enough to handle the high end.

Yeah just because they build cages for kids in the desert near the border doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen! It’s just optional infrastructure in case you want to put your kids in a cage. It’s totally voluntary.

Blue green mold on a diary product is almost always a Penicilium genus mold and probably won’t kill you.

Worst case is it gives you an incredible case of the shits which is infinitely survivable in the modern era. Best case scenario is you get a new taste and texture experience that few humans have ever been brave enough or hungry enough to experience.

Bowling Alleys, at least some of the ones I’ve seen lately. There was a period in the late 00s where bowling alleys thought they were the shit and started charging upwards of $20/player/lane, plus $30+ dollar pizzas. Not to mention the arcade jumping from quarters to dollar-credits.

The last couple I’ve found have all but dropped that, basically back down to the $15/lane/2 hour model with however many players and complimentary shoe rental. One even had $5 personal pizzas (that yes were just Totinos or similar heated up, but hey it’s better than $30 for a red baron).

I guess the ones that survived covid realized no one was willing to spend a nice dinner’s worth of cash on a night at what should be the second cheapest type of third space available to people.

Turn off transcoding and/or unify the codecs on your totally legally acquired library that you legally ripped yourself.

SWERFs love specific instances, so probably.

That would be ridiculously expensive and time consuming. The question does not present a lead up scenario but one would assume whatever deal this is doesn’t allow for a lot of prep time or extra money.

Additionally any money that would exist in that time period that survived to today… would still be present in that time period. In a pre-computer world it’d be easier to get away with what is essentially counterfeiting or what would be explained as counterfeiting to those that caught you; but that’s still a massive risk for saving at best a few years building up that wealth yourself.

And that’s all assuming you didn’t create a paradox by allowing those two versions of the same item to exist simultaneously. Like you traveling back is fine, as you wouldn’t exist in 1945, but bringing items that did exist would either displace the money to avoid the paradox, changing the future possibly significantly which breaks the rules, creates a paradox which would cause you to no longer exist.

So I suppose in your mind all the academics Stalin had murdered all deserved it yes?

Generally yes? Exceedingly few ‘academics’ were ‘murdered’ in the USSR, are you confusing it with China who made ‘academics’ work in the fields as a way to force them to understand how their ‘lessers’ were living?

Stalin also didn’t ‘murder’ anyone. He didn’t have that authority vested to him. There are multiple historic sources showing Stalin fighting with the council to do things, which is not something a ‘dictator’ has to do. All of the purges were backed by the democratic authority, and generally well backed. The implementation sometimes went awry, because it was the 1940 and 50ss and proving identity was basically impossible.

I suppose murder in the name of the soviet state is acceptable as long they’re political enemies right?

Depending on the enemy, yes. Objectively yes. And you also believe this. The Nazis were political enemies.

I suppose the Uyghurs are all happy and definitely haven’t been persecuted or reeducated hmm?

No. They haven’t been. Again no international neutral party has ever supported the idea of a genocide happening on the Uyghur people. Not a single one. There are a handful of people, literally less than two dozen, none of which have ever been shown to live in China, that have generated the totality of claims against China during their response to the Terror attacks funded by the US and Turkey. If you believe this propaganda point, you’re doing the meme of a ‘enlightened centrist’ that doesn’t realize their ‘center’ is a heavily propagandized and heavily curated version of reality that does not line up with actual reality.

It’s also the dimension of the political compass in which authoritarians would prefer we not talk about so I talk about it as much as is feasible.

The political compass is useless. It’s the Meyers Briggs of the political world – i.e. it has no scientific backing whatsoever and Buzzfeed quizzes are objectively more accurate to the realities of the world.

The alternative to authoritarian socialism is libertarian socialism which is where any person who values both theirs and their fellow humans dignity and mutual respect would want to live.

That is just socialism. There is no difference. That is literally the basis of all socialist movements. Read any theory, read any manifesto, read literally anything any of these ‘evil dictators’ wrote. Anything. Did you know Xi Jingping has a doctorate and has published more internationally peer reviewed papers than any other world leader? Did you know he has nine books? Did you know Stalin published at least two? Did you know there is no such thing as ‘Stalinism’, a term that first appeared in the late 2000s?

There is plenty of information out there, translated to all ten major languages that over 90% of the population at this point.

When you rule with an iron fist, when there is no due process, when there is no personal representation only state representation and the ability for change that can only come from a functioning and healthy democracy; people are squashed under the boot of those in power a la Orwell’s Animal Farm. Neither of these worlds are ones I want to live in; nor do I want for any of my loved ones.

The USSR had jury trials*. China has jury trials. There is due process written into both constitutions. The reason you believe there was not is not ‘historical record’ it is simply the propaganda you were taught by a system built exclusively to dissuade you from any useful action. All revolutions will get to the stage where the people are in charge of the state – and that will require massive amounts of violence, and that will result in massive amounts of violence. Because people do not give up their power. Tomorrow, if the US were to undergo its first people-led democratic revolution, your neighbors that own land or are fans of those owning land will be subject to violence. They’re not going to give up their greed easily. Many will work with countries that are enemies of their people in order to stop the revolution. There isn’t another solution that has been proven to work, unfortunately.

• Yes, during specific war-time purges these were illegally suspended, not by Stalin, but by individual officers who lost their jobs and many were executed by the state for violating rights. As Stalin wrote he deeply regretted not dedicating more resources and not having clearer directives on how to carry out the trials of suspected nazi and US collaborators, especially in liberated lands that had extensive nazi collaboration where proving fact was difficult.