Software engineer. I sometimes boost stuff!
some very early hypothetical scenarios were like
Defeating the prison guards results in more escaped prisoners.
If you don't defeat the growing goblin encampment they'll raze the nearby town.
As you fight certain factions, their influence in the region shrinks and their territorial control may pass to another faction or have war break out.
All of these and more are literally trivial in the _current feature set_! Very exciting!
@sue ... Aaand then I click on the link and realise this is about a whole different sense of declarative/imperative
@sue I think the notion of prompts that directly execute code that doesn't go through sandboxed agent-specific APIs is kinda terrifying. I wouldn't trust it
@ashleygjovik this is all just so cool. It just kinda works. It makes sense. It feels right.
@silasmariner Thank you!! If you haven't gotten to the place to think about how siphonophores work, you may want to go there next. They basically incorporate other organisms into their "colony" body and somehow incorporate their DNA and like git-merge it (at module level, so more like Docker I guess) and then it becomes one organism. There's very very little research into siphonophores right now & their physiology may just explain exactly how this could happen.
@ashleygjovik whatever. What I'm trying to say is that this is by far the most exciting idea I've heard all year. Possibly for several years. and I'm here for the implications that there was actual incorporation of genetic material from several organisms into a single nucleus. Somehow. Absolutely batshit and frankly I love it.
@ashleygjovik I guess rather than anything particularly radical having happened in the evolutionary timeline, the alternative and dull explanation is that these sections simply bred out in the alternative branches that we compare to. But there's _so much_ junk DNA that it feels like breeding _out_ is next to impossible and it can really only be pushed _in_. But fuck do I know. I did have someone with a clue start writing a response earlier without sending, I think you've twiddled some feathers..
@jalefkowit you didn't ask but if I posted enough to warrant one I'd want one
@alexlac51 @ChrisMayLA6 not to worry. I have a lot of Scottish family and a lot of sympathy for your stance, and don't intend to start a fight, so I'll leave it there. Hope we have more democratic societies going forwards
@alexlac51 @ChrisMayLA6 bizarre because a referendum was held fairly recently, as these things go? You and many of your fellows no doubt wish for a different govt and full devolution to, presumably, the point of a fully separate national identity. But not everyone feels that way, and democracy includes everyone, not just the ppl you agree with....
@ashleygjovik I am sharing the doc around a bit, but so far I think it's coming across as a bit too mad to be true, and my crowd are wary of jumping on crank stuff. Personally I kinda feel it's not even as mad as it sounds, and the further through I get (I am having to search a lot for the terminology to get proper context) the more sold I am. Hope your get traction -- deeply curious what ppl with a clue think about this all
@researchfairy very good, very good. We struggle to find placement of feeders that are accessible to borbs but don't get ravaged by squirrels. The robins normally manage to get a bit wherever we put it (except for the ill-fated suction-pad feeder on the kids' window which was literally never ever used. Terrible idea it turns out. Seeds were there for 2 months, untouched, before we surrendered to the inevitable and moved it)
@alexlac51 @GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 what a bizarre thing to say. What if a second referendum were offered?
@ashleygjovik this is awesome. I'm very slowly reading through the paper now but it's blowing my mind
Earlier this year, I made several scientific 'discoveries'. Basically a perfect storm of events put me in a position to take on evolutionary biology as a systems engineer & with fresh eyes, unattached to any institutions or need to stay within consensus opinion.
I've been validating them, then begrudgingly documenting & publishing.
I didn't want to have to be the one to have to say any of this, especially this latest one: humans are siphonophores with jellyfish brains.
https://zenodo.org/records/16471873
@ChrisMayLA6 read that same stat in the observer this morning. Seems like the obvious sensible path (and was essentially the promise given by many loud members of the Brexit camp pre-referendum). Appreciate the source material link here, thanks
@altruios @jadedtwin @WhiteCatTamer @Eatsbluecrayon yes but also: maths is magic
@LikeItOrLumpIt how does one do that? I never figured it out
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