hanjeanwat

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   by hanjeanwat 4mo ago

   Or, at least, our form of life outcompeted all others out there. We don’t actually know that life only started the one time.
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   by hanjeanwat 5mo ago

   it's a juvenile, which has a brown head!
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   by hanjeanwat 11mo ago

   you're not wrong. unfortunately it's about the only thing that will pass an ethics board, outside of patients who are already having neurosurgery and consent to more invasive procedures.
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   Memory is a physical trace of experience down to the level of a cell(quantamagazine.org)

   4 points by hanjeanwat 1y ago|0 comments
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   by hanjeanwat 1y ago

   I'd argue that it's not intelligence alone that lets us land a machine on the moon — it's our cooperation, written language, learned culture, communication. An individual person cannot land a machine on the moon on their own.
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   by hanjeanwat 2y ago

   Yes! It evolved at least 25 times (that we know of). Animals, plants, algae, fungi, etc. all invented multicellularity independently and in many of those groups did so multiple times.
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   by hanjeanwat 2y ago

   excellent longread on the development of AlphaFold - with interviews with Baker + Jumper and more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein...