Comment shades of Lysenkoism (Score 1) 22
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.
Comment Yep. (Score 1, Troll) 41
A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.
Comment Re: Could we be any more stupid? (Score 2) 74
Good thing we hardly are made out of any bacteria.
Wait...
Comment Re: So no software updates then (Score 1) 20
In which subfield is development not happening rapidly?
Comment Re: This will be very niche (Score 1) 20
Won't you want those things to be software upgradable?
Comment Re: Yes, Congress should be more care wrt delegati (Score 1) 121
No they didn't, because Congress set the limit by statute and did not give the FCC authority to override it. This isn't complicated but you're still getting it wrong.
Comment Re: Go to court ... (Score 1) 76
Some give him planes, some want him to build a resort on top of their genocide...
Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 2) 83
At this rate we will end ourselves with AGW before we achieve AGI.
But if not that, it'll be nukes or biotech.
It's looking increasingly like the great filter is that ambition exceeds ability while ability also exceeds restraint, and at the same time, a species gains the ability to destroy itself. TBF our sample size is small, but it remains compelling...
Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 198
Hell, your parents were busing gene editing when you were conceived
Really? They were deliberately choosing genes? They selected them from a list? We usually only see that in science fiction, please provide more information on this amazing technological development!
Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 198
They're all part of one creature with an inadequate brain and too many assholes. It's money and power (but I repeat myself) versus humanity and always has been.
Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 198
I thought they were a hoax according to the liberal left. At least, that's how it was before covid.
Is someone paying you to say stupid shit? How do I get that deal?
Comment Re:Ya no! (Score 1) 58
Such restrictions in the constitution were primarily set up to prevent harassment by government by unwarranted invasions of personal space.
[citation needed]
Comment Re:"I feel AGI is close at hand" (Score 1) 12
It's probably all a symptom of dysfunction inside the company, maybe the sociopaths and game players have moved in?
Uh yeah, a bunch of years ago. That's why they removed the evil canary from their mission statement.
Comment Re: oops (Score 1) 74
I like how zionists insisting that other people are mentally ill can only suggest horrible things and then think that proves anything other than that they are terrible
Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 3, Insightful) 83
If this is accurate, this suggests that abiogenesis is easy once one has a stable, watery environment, since it happened twice on Earth.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
One potential conclusion about the Fermi paradox [...]
Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?
Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.
