So it is only one virus in, and one virus out. Not one new virus is produced. Good to know.

Remember when we were told the cloud had perfect security?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

That seems to be the big thing today. Take something that would seem simple and logical, and redefine the bejabbers out of it. Shuffle, then rinse and repeat.

If we take virus' for instance, are they not acting more like parasites rather than dead minerals - finding a host in order to reproduce, or are perhaps parasites not alive either?

Yes, every word you wrote is true. But unless we force people to get the vaccine using threat of lethal force, some just won't. So we do the best we can.

Just went there - Thank you sir!

Oh, that seems like thinking people believe that computer virus' are the same as biological virus'.

Kinda like people calling an attractive female a "hottie", but knowing she is the same actual temperature as all other women, unless she has a fever from some illness. From a bug maybe? 8^). This is really not that complicated, and other than people who feel that everything needs heavy categorization, it really is.

Definitely not compelling! I can't imagine the level of lockdown to get a W11 system to behave itself.

Yeah, Im still dealing with the Windows 11 apocalypse, messing with update breakdowns, and a worrying new trend - the damn computer is working then failing with no update taking place. One of the "fixes" involved setting up a non-internet connected network to run beside my normal network. But most people expect internet access these days.

I haven't read it, but the outlines are a little disturbing.

The back story is occasionally we'd find actual bugs inside electronics. Extended from there to include surveillance devices, which were often small bug like things.

It's a nickname - Sorry that it is not understandable.

The first mistake was to abandon hunter gatherer lifestyle for an agrarian lifestyle. We've been doomed ever since.

Seriously though, students have always cheated - and these were caught, just like all the rest.

Humans have been performing genetic modification ever since we abandoned Hunter gatherer days. Technology is a genie that won't go back in the bottle. A lot of people think the USA "invented" the nuclear bombs. A fission weapon was inevitable after Uncle Albert figured out mass-energy equivalence, with the simple formula e=mc squared. Others knew the formula. Others knew it could be a game changer. Radioactivity pointed to the trigger and energy supply. The Allies spent a lot of time interfering with Germany's efforts during to develop one during WW2.

Point is - this is happening.

The main issue with LLM at present is the concept that we are going to build structures that will have an infinite demand for energy. It is one of those things "How much electricity do you need? answer "How much electricity do you have?" So they look toward re-starting 70 year old nuc plant technology, and using a remarkable amount of cooling water.

Anyone with two functioning brain cells should realize pretty quickly that this is not sustainable. The present day data center concept reminds me of the early days of computing, huge energy sucking heat producing tube based computers, some that required nonstop replacing of the tubes. Then along came transistors, then integrated circuits, eventually almost all of us carrying a computer in our pockets that is so much more powerful then the old Colossus and Eniac, that it is mind numbing to consider the trip from utter secrecy to ubiquity.

I'm pretty certain that the same will happen to LLM's either by miniaturization, specialization, or lack of available energy.

But it is not going to go away.

You win the internet this week! Well played indeed.

I was just about to say the same thing. I would not be surprised if new forms of life arise even now in the benthic environment. Probably not successful, but possibly.

The whole thing about not being able to define life, FTA, is partially, the moving goalposts regarding human created life, and the desire by some to heavily categorize things.

That's how virus' are not considered life even though they evolve, reacting to their environment, and reproduce. They rely on other life to metabolize. Perhaps we've adventurously defined life?

So while very intriguing, we have to determine if this first "life" was "life as we presently define it.

You do you, homie. Your life and choices are yours. And if your choices kill you, that's a you problem.

Funny, seems like everyone near you has been physically wrecked or killed by the vaccine. Cool story bro - Not one of my extended family had an issue with it, although I did have a fever for about 8 hours that three acetominiphen tabs took care of. And had zero complications in the 5 years since.

Racist comment noted.

Funny how you can now get arrested for Texting While Driving, even just holding your phone, yet BMW wants you to watch ads while driving. Waiting for the accident lawsuits.

I went from concern that they might get sick and die, to acceptance that it was their choice, to understanding that they were self-culling the herd of stupid paranoid people, and figured they were just being helpful. Always look on the bright side of life.

P.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Martha Lillard passed June 2026 as the last known person living in an iron lung after Paul Alexander spent 70 years in one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Yeah - good times.

Even stupid people believed in vaccines at one time.