In hindsight I would have been much happier, healthier and wealthier if I had just gotten a construction job or something after HS instead of torturing myself through a CS degree lmao
I’ve grown up doing hard manual labor most of my free time and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer that over taking exams and being stressed 24/7 for years.
It won’t take long until cheap special purpose chips hit the market. Then you’ll have your offline model. There are already models that run on consumer hardware, but it’s for enthusiasts at the moment and not the same quality (but almost). But if you want to spend thousands on a PC that can handle the largest models, go ahead.
it’s baffling to me that these big tech companies haven’t created a subscription that lets you opt out of data collection yet. such a low hanging fruit to improve their image and probably make even more money
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That’s just factually wrong. The Middle East (and by extension the Levant) has always been a hotbed of diversity because its unique geography.
You would have found anything from black to pale white (but tanned obviously) skin, black to blond/red hair, brown to blue eyes. Most were darker skinned and dark haired like a modern Middle Eastener, but it wasn’t a monoculture, like implied here.
Easiest counter example are the Scythians, but there are countless more.
their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their form cut like sapphire.
I’m thinking this is referencing any usually covered parts of their body. By tanned I mean, the part of the skin exposed to sunlight, so mostly their hands, face and feet.
Eurasian steppe people, so horse-warrior nomads, 2900 to 1800 years ago, spoke the Scythian language (member of the Eastern Iranic language family). Mostly Indo-European, more specifically Irano-Aryan, but mixed with Ancient Northeast Asian (ANA) ancestry (think speakers of Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic people) the further you go East. But the Scytho-Siberian world included some other peoples from Central Asia and Siberia, Eastern Europe.
Their way of life probably originated in the East in southern Siberia more on the ANA side of the spectrum and then it migrated west and picked up more Indo-European traits.
They like horses, gold, war, Phrygian caps, various hard drugs, weird sex rituals, animal&human sacrifices and possibly even cannibalism.
On their religion from Wikipedia: “According to Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the Scythians worshipped a pantheon of seven gods and goddesses (heptad), which he equates with Greek divinities of Classical Antiquity following the interpretatio graeca. He mentioned eight deities divided into three ranks, with this structure of the Scythian pantheon being typically Indo-Iranic:
In the first rank was the head of the pantheon:
Tabiti, the Flaming One, who was the goddess of heat, fire and the hearth
In the second rank were the binary opposites and the father and mother of the universe:
Api, the Earth and Water Mother
Papaios, the Sky Father
3)The third and final rank was composed of four deities with specific characteristics:
Targī̆tavah, the forefather of the Scythian kings
The Scythian “Ares,” the god of war
Gaiϑāsūra, who might have been associated with the Sun
Artimpasa, a more complex goddess who was a patron of fertility and had power over sovereignty and the priestly force
An eighth Scythian deity mentioned by Herodotus was Thagimasadas, who was worshipped only by the tribe of the Royal Scythians.
This pantheon was a reflection of the Scythian cosmology, headed by the primeval fire which was the basic essence and the source of all creation, following which came the Earth-Mother and Sky-Father who created the gods, the latter of whom were the four custodians of the four sides of the world regulating the universe.[11] The world inhabited by humans existed between this celestial realm and the chthonic realm below the earth.[8]”
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Wouldn’t grow something from the inside require a very strong force to “move” the already present one? Instead growing from the last “layer” towards the outside would require a lot less force, but perhaps a lot more matter....
Generally in trees you have the xylem in the middle which transports water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant. You have the phloem on the outside, it transports photosynthetic products and nutrients to all parts of the plant. The cambium where growth happens sits between them, because there they get easy access to water minerals and nutrients. The xylem is a mix of living and dead cells. The tracheids and vessel elements in the xylem, which are responsible for water transport, are dead at maturity. So it’s probably too hard to move them to grow from the inside out for trees. This whole process of growing thicker is called secondary growth as opposed to primary growth at the tips of stems and roots.
Also if were the other way around and trees would grow from the inside out, you’d have to have vessels going from the leaves to the center of the stems to deliver nutrients, which just complicates everything. And the tree wanted to grow from the inside by 1cm, every “ring” in the xylem would have to grow one centimeter longer in circumference or crack. It’s much easier to just add a layer on the outside. Also having living layer around the tree probably helps it defend itself from pathogens. If all the mostly dead woody stuff was on the outside fungi etc would have an easier time invading, I think.
People lived in hot deserts without AC or melting their skin off for thousands of years.
You maximize shade, maximize plant cover, maximize wind carrying away heat, maximize heat being reflected or radiated away. That means you implement passive cooling techniques like wind catchers or qanats, build narrow streets to shade the ground, make everything brightly colored, you have as many trees as possible, open waters for evaporative cooling etc…
You can do that in modern times too, look at Masdar city. US city planning is just completeley backwards. You can’t plop the same city that “works” in a temperate climate and expect it to work in a desert.
alright then maybe it really is FAE. from my understanding that is what mostly leads to freaky growth. wouldn’t it just get Trichoderma if it was too moist?
Pretty sure AI/robots will just replace us eventually and be our ““offspring””.
If not, and we don’t return to monkey either, you’re going to see rapid speciation thanks to genetic engineering.
People will probably use different bodies like driving different cars, like Altered Carbon, but more like Man After Man.
You have a body for swimming, a body for hiking, a body for doing the naughty, etc… “you” will either be a brain in a jar or just a chip or just a virtual “soul”, slipping in and out of bodies. And some people will wear bodies like fashion, with new trends every year etc…
Perhaps you’ll see people inhabiting these bodies full time, living “normal” human lives, with their entire families being the same. Like a mermaid village or something. And you’ll see many such communities living simple or even primitive lives, but with completely alien bodies.
And I’m pretty sure 99.999% of humanity will be completely unrecognizable within just a few hundred years. But I’m guessing some regular old homo sapiens will always stick around, unless some fanatic intentionally wipes them out. But that’s kind if hard if you can hide the information necessary to reconstruct all of humanity on a USB stick.
yeah, as it stands in this current healthcare paradigm, 90% of doctors are practically useless beyond the most obvious diagnosis. I’d rather not have to wait until that paradigm changes 100 years from now…
doctors be like (examples I’ve actually seen with friends and family):
“take this Accutane that will fuck up your life forever for something that can be fixed with diet changes”
“It’s just stress, take it easy” turns out to be cancer
I can see the case for banning AI in almost every sector, but for medicine the upside is just too great to pass up. And even if it’s only used for anamnesis to point you and your healthcare providers in the right direction.
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Honestly even if the Fediverse is mainly run by corporations, that is still 100x better than the non-fediverse. Mainly because the direct and immediate competition from other instances will keep them in check. You can’t pull shit like Reddit, when users could immediately leave and get an almost perfect substitute. And I believe there will always be a substantial amount of crowd or privately funded “community instances”, whose major goal is just good social media.
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Why do trees stems grow new "parts" inside and not outside i.e. why is the oldest part of the stem the innermost "ring" and not the outermost?
Wouldn’t grow something from the inside require a very strong force to “move” the already present one? Instead growing from the last “layer” towards the outside would require a lot less force, but perhaps a lot more matter....
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