Ariselas

can you eat data?

EEEeeeewwwwww…

It’s the same picture

so water and a banana

mixing a bit of table salt and sugar in a glass of water will do pretty much the same thing and cost less than both of those.

When I was a kid I knew there was no relation between Ice Cube, Ice Tea, and Vanilla Ice, but I knew 1 was cool, 1 was a shitty actor, and 1 introduced me to a Queen song.

eh … sometimes I smell my dogs kibble and think it smells better than what I cooked for myself.

Angela Davis

I tried this the other day only to realize I don’t have a drive.

No, but it’s better to have it protected by free speech than it would be to have governments decide what constitutes hate speech.

Tron Reboot, fuck yeah make it happen!

Oceans I

wouldn’t they need to come out of the closet first? at least to each other.

just virtual sex for you.

The idea that thoughts, or even words and numbers can be a virus are based on Dawkins notion of memes. Viruses exist in a state that is difficult to say that they are alive or not (by our definition of life), similarly AI or even alien sentience is difficult to define. Can we know if a dog is sentient, or a bird, or ant? and if they are, what is their sentience?

Basically, if a number like 23 can be a virus, ie. once you are aware of the number 23, you will see it everywhere and it will hold significance, is the number 23 alive?

AI does seem to be aware of it’s self, at lest it responds as if it is. can we really know if it is or not, and if it is self aware, is it not sentient?

and then there’s Dawkins has been a twat lately, I’m not trying to defend him but trying to understand his rationale

I think he’s religious or something, I once heard someone talking about the Saint Marx Cathedral

your car also has a left and right side / driver’s right and driver’s left, mechanics are often looking at the engine bay from the front looking back so left is their right.

just make em a little thicker and it can be port and starboard

It was pretty common up till the 60s and maybe later to get human skeletons form South Asia, they were often obtained from flood or landslide victims, and have no identifiers except maybe an inventory number.

Modern stuff however, is obtained when someone donates their remains, and is often only held for a limited time before interred. They are anonymized to the student / researcher, but there is a record of who they were. The med school’s anatomy lab here has some pretty neat stuff (or did 20 years ago when I went), including a woman’s plasticized torso that had been sliced into 1 inch wafers, and an autopsied man who was born with his organs rotated in his body so that everything was on the wrong side. I still have the illustrations I drew from that anatomy class somewhere.