Everybody wants science to cure cancer, but the moment someone does foundational research they lose their fuckin minds.
Guys, the alternative is cutting up mice and pigs.Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
All I want science to cure is billionaires, we’ll take it from there. Concentrations of wealth that enable making brains grow eyes are a bug, not feature. Ever read “Whitey’s on the Moon”?
That problem is very much one that’s beyond the domain of scientists. That’s like saying “All I want literature to do is decipher the genetic basis of cancer”. Trust me, if science were able to cure billionaires, it would.
Science gave us the guillotine, I choose to hold out hope. Pinpointing and publishing where all the wealth’s being concentrated would be an excellent Science Task
Science didn’t give us the guillotine, no matter which scientific method or forbear you’re using to determine scientific nature. At best, engineering gave us the guillotine, but I rather doubt there was any actual engineering design going on when they first made the Halifax Gibbet, except insofar as “I need a simpler and more consistent way to lazily kill petty criminals” was “defining a need”.
Iam not sspecifically talking about this example and I am not trying to imply this tissue has any sort of consciousness but if “foundational research” means “man made horrors beyond my comprehension” maybe we need to find another way, and if we cannot, maybe we just shouldn’t torture conscious beings in the name of science and progress.
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Nature is full of horrors beyond your comprehension. If you want to make that less so, manmade horrors are the only way to do it.
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This is by no means torture, quite the opposite in fact. Neurons are little prediction machines, and if you don’t give them stimuli, they either make their own of degrade. Particularly in small clumps of cells like this, you can’t be sure of whether they’re conscious, but if they are, they’re having an amazing time learning about the light signals.
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That touches upon the actual issue here. We dont know if they’re conscious. We don’t have a solid idea of what consciousness is, where it comes from, what it consists of, or where the line is drawn. That’s the sort of knowledge you only get by performing these sorts of experiments.
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I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
I have no mouth and I must scream.
I’m sure they can work out a mouth next
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
Are we sure that’s not just a weirdly angled picture of a chihuahua or muffin?
This is what you get with some further coaxing.
this guy coaxes
Tech venture capitalists for some reason:
A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.
This can’t possibly go wrong.
If we’re lucky, in billions of years this one will decide NOT to create “AI”.
It’s pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn’t just nothing happening.
The eyes don’t just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.
I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.
Maybe you overestimate the popularity of the places you frequented? Or maybe people’s memory simply isn’t that good
It’s not about raw numbers, more like subgroups, if that makes sense?
Lemmy is a niche place, yes? Skews techie, nerdie, someone very internet heavy. At least that often seems to be an assumption I see about the place. But I don’t think it’s true, so I would just like to test that assumption, this is just an observation in that test.
I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse, I also think it skews very young comparatively, for the latter in particular I think this is a good test.
It’s also of course possible that the techie, nerdy internet heavy crowd subgroup is big enough that even isolated to that sample, the chance of encountering someone who has seen the image before is actually that small, but nonetheless it’s a worthwhile observation.
I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse
That’s interesting to see your perception of it being fairly diverse. My perception is quite the opposite. It feels like there’s only a very specific demographic in here, and sometimes I even feel like leaving,due to being out from that group
How would you define the demographic and yourself? I guess I am far away from that demographic too, but still like it. Having spent ages on Reddit and left when the api crap happened.
It feels like people are mostly from usa, a few from europe and a minority from other places. Most users give the impression of being economically above the average. Being tech-savvy doesn’t even need to be mentioned >.< but people tend to be a bit elitist about it. In fact, elitist it a word that describes much of what I observe around. It’s tricky to talk about it, because no one likes to be pointed on such things, but it’s something clearly observable from anyone from outside, like me
Actually no. My account is 2 years 7 months and before I have been on reddit for ages. But I cannot remember ever having seen this.
Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.
Horrific state of consciousness? They’re probably having the best time of any of us
if bright then pulse highA riveting existence!
Light definitely elevates my mood
It’s just like me fr fr
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
Hurry up, make ads for that thing.
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This could be exactly the scientific breakthrough we needed. Imagine a future where we all have one of these and it watches ads on your behalf. It can’t close its eyes. It can’t look away. it’s the perfect audience!
