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[the-big-mood]

Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.

[endy-buxexas]

Okay, the comments on this post are insane and wondering why the fuck they did this, and if they're torturing a brain to put it in a simulation of hell or why they couldn't give it a happy game.

1. To steal something from someone's tags earlier: it's a clump of meat. If you've ever played DOOM before, you have an identical clump of meat in your brain; it's not a whole person.

2. DOOM is an extremely optimised game with a satisfying level of complexity to train something like this in, and that provides immediate results to said training due to the nature of the gameplay. It's also open source, elegantly coded, and has already been ported to everything. Pretty much no recent "cosy game" shares in any of those qualities, and earlier games might be too simplistic to properly test out what this thing can do.

3. It can't fucken think y'all. It's just meat wires. It doesn't know it's killing cartoon demons in hell because it's not a brain.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

yeah this specific situation is closer to an organ or an automatic biological reflex

the specific discomfort around this is just another example of the general philosophical implications of all studies and implementations involving Brain organoids, which have slightly more ethically complex concerns than other fields of stem cell like work. which is that you have to figure our where you stop thinking of something as an organ and start thinking of it as a consciousness.

because we (broader consensus not "we" the person reading this) generally feel comfortable doing scientific research on cells and some animals, but there's a certain point where it becomes about animal cruelty. human or animal brain matter aside how complex is the growth going to eventually become before it is essentially in mechanical exploitation.

see my personal more detailed (but still under-informed) thoughts here

sorry to come back to this but this truly fascinates and concerns me for so many reasons

obligatory "Ah sweet. Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension." comment so first of all: brain organoids. which are grown from human stem c

because i do think it's important to check in on what is happening in science and technology and see how that aligns or clashes with your personal framework of comfort and why

[chongoblog]

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[def-not-enjolras]

guys wait let prev speak

[thebibliosphere]

Every now and then I think about one of the ER visits I had for a migraine attack that was so severe my hip dislocated from the force of my convulsive vomiting, and I had to hold my head up with my hands because shortly after that my collarbone popped out and subluxated my neck, so I couldn’t lift my head up without help. All while in excruciating, radiating pain and continuing to throw up uncontrollably.

I had two nurses in that room with me that night, one who thought I was lying about my hip dislocation and thought I was being difficult on purpose until she actively saw my neck subluxate, and then she turned white as a ghost and ran to fill my script.

And the other who helped me up onto the bed out of the wheelchair, all but carrying my full weight as he murmured over and over again, “it’s okay, you’re okay, we’re going to help you, you don’t need to be sorry” as I kept apologizing for being difficult.

I’m sure I was one of many, many people he saw that night. He looked exhausted. But he still chose kindness. I think about him a lot. I hope he knows it made a difference.

[troutreznor]

pigeons but shoot it like a hardcore show

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[corsonavecowboy]

"Vertical Societies" (2023) by Richard Nadler

[aletheyass]

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

[apas-95]

wgat did u say

[ook-cavegirl]

I think every movie regardless of time period or tone should have at least 1 (one) trans person in it. Like at the beginning of The Godfather some Sicilian tgirl should come to Vito and be like “Godfadda, I need money for my breast implants” and Vito should be like “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for this family. I’ll find you the best surgeon in New York”

[enba-and-luka]

[lateleviathan]

THIS IS NOT THE END OF STOPKILLINGGAMES

THERE'S A WAY TO BYPASS THE COMMISSION AND PEOPLE ARE ALREADY WORKING ON IT

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Tldw; there is majority support in the European Parliament for a bill that would cover most of SKG's issues, and if passed this would bypass the decision of the Commission. There are also ongoing lawsuits in France and other places that would likely lead to some legislation. There is also a bill being worked on in California that wouldn't stop current games from being killed, but would stop future games from being killed

[snorlaxatives]

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

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[orcboxer]

kinda bullshit the English language doesn't have a discrete word for an unlit campfire. you light a campfire, but what is it before you light it? also a campfire, I guess. I need to invent a word that can be intuitively understood as "the arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire"

[dorian-they]

well "an arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire" sounds like it's just a bundle of sticks and I think there is a collective word for that maybe

[orcboxer]

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Actually, fuck the myth of the Tower of Babel. The real beautiful utopia where we can all finally truly understand each other doesn't lie in sameness or uniformity, it lies in the giant and digital Rosetta Stone we are going to build and broadcast across the entire world

[solarpunk-nightbird]

So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point

The Rosetta Stone was and is real.

This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.

The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.

The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this cultural explained or understood that sort of event."

The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists

Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928

That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.

Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!

And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs

True understanding depends on ethical translation and language preservation, not on unity of language

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