Yeah, I think there’s a vast difference between what we have now (ChatGPT and whatnot), vs the theoretical possibility of an AGI (artificial general intelligence), or even an AI based entirely off of human neural patterns. Mind you, brain uploading sounds hard, so maybe I’d see a completely synthetic AGI as more likely.
But if we were ever to develop an AGI, we’d better start giving those things humanesque rights fast.
I mean, I agree with the meme completely, but I’d also want to turn around in their arms and cuddle them right back. I’m a fan of both hugging and being hugged, and it might be a sensory thing.
One one hand, I don’t trust Kotaku articles as far as I can throw them. On the other hand, I’m hoping the “major games going out of stock” part isn’t gonna be a problem in terms of historical preservation of these games.
And oddly, it also seems like handheld dipped into near-nothingness even sooner than arcades (perhaps due to things like the Switch and the Steam Deck merging the former field into PCs and consoles, I guess?). How common were arcades when the original version of the Nintendo Switch came out (2017-ish)?
It honestly reminds me of some statistics implying that deaths due to violence may be overrepresented in media perception, while deaths due to cancers and heart problems are seemingly underrepresented in coverage by comparison.
Mostly asking because this appears to have happened in a fictional world’s ecology (Pokemon, oddly enough), and I have no idea if the concept has any basis in reality.
(In Pokemon, some subspecies seem to have gone extinct in their equivalent of Hokkaido, but some remained extant in the prefecture/region just to the south in-universe)
I was talking about Sinnoh/Hisui, but the other region I was thinking of was Kitikami (from Scarlet/Violet’s Teal Mask DLC), as white-stripe Basculin seem to show up in the latter’s waterways.
But yeah, migrations between Hisui and Johto might still have happened, considering that Sinnoh still has Sneasel in the modern day, but only the Johtonian subspecies.
And in IRL taxonomy, they’re more closely related to animals than plants, but probably diverged long before sponges came about, let alone other animals.
I was essentially asking whether any neurological influences from those species in your gut would cause more consumption of dairy in general, or just yogurt, or neither
So, a certain edutainment manga/anime (Cells at Work) initially depicted eosinophils as “kinda sucking at fighting things that aren’t parasites, but excelling at flatlining parasites”. How did we go from that interpretation, to recent papers on COVID patients turning up with oddly high eosinophil counts?
So let’s say the spacecraft itself is about 1 billion metric tonnes, the sail is made of 7 layers containing titanium oxide and magnesium difluoride, the beam can keep itself consistent, and the intended acceleration is 1g…
Soon to be a dead one (lemmy.world)
Men only want one thing and it's wholesome (lemmy.today)
Nevermore go smash (lemmy.world)
Is PLA a good material for 3D printing a tool intended to remove pack ice from a driveway?
Switch 2 Rumors Swirl As Major Nintendo Games Go Out Of Stock (kotaku.com)
[Game] Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is Now Steam Deck Verified (steamdeckhq.com)
I’m extremely excited about this one personally.
Charted: Video Game Industry Revenues By Year & Platform (www.visualcapitalist.com)
A self-care reminder (startrek.website)
Rapper Danny Brown shares cautionary tale after losing Steam Deck (www.dexerto.com)
Considering tigers may have a mental capacity for revenge, is it more accurate to call them vengeful or spiteful when wronged?
Do some animal species relocate their populations over the course of centuries or millenia, to the point of self-extirpation in their original territory?
Trust the fungi (ttrpg.network)
What somewhat-“friendly” bacteria species are common in Greek yogurt, and would their gut presence likely increase consumption of other dairy?
Did our understanding of the function of human eosinophil cells change substantially in recent years, and if so, why?
What are the most common chemical elements in pc gaming electronics (actual PC tower and monitor, sim equipment such as a HOTAS) by mass?
How does one calculate the necessary surface area for a laser-propelled light sail for a spacecraft, so it doesn’t get shredded by the beam?
Edit: I assume we’d at least have to take intended acceleration and the mass of the spacecraft into account, at least, right?
Apparently some humans are born with two spleens. What evolutionary pressures likely created the trait, and what future pressures could drive second spleens to become more common?