I’m just saying it’s several orders of magnitude less brain material than a mouse, and that it would make more sense ethically, in the short term, to stop using mice for experiments. This can’t be a notably sentient thing. If this organelle is a tiny human soul, then a mouse is feeling everything it feels times a thousand, like it’s in there writing mouse poetry and just can’t express it. The mouse would have to be asking some deep philosophical questions. We can ask what is consciousness, and we can not know, but it doesn’t make sense to bring this quandary up about a graphing calculator or an ant.

I looked up the number of neurons in a human brain, and it’s around 100 billion, so the human brain is 10 million times more complex than one of these human brain organelles. We have records of people with way more than 1 1 millionth of a brain - like a 1000th of a brain - and they don’t do anything at all.

I don’t think human neurons are particularly morally special, although in higher numbers, I imagine they’re probably pretty good at forming consciousness compared to something like 1000 ant brains worth of ant neurons crammed together. Which is why in 20 years they’re gonna start asking the researchers to let them die, or some shit.

But it’s just so far off at this point, there’s no way it’s feeling more than a small ant feels, and a lab mouse is just so vastly and incalculably more sapient than this organelle

Yeah I guess I just mean I doubt at this early stage that it’s gonna be more aware than an insect or something.

I just managed to find a quote that the ganglia in this experiment have 10,000 cells each, and are pretty separate from one another. And an ant brain is 250,000 neurons, so even if these 16 brains were folded into one, it would still be around half an ant’s brain. If some science experiment out there is torturing one really stupid ant, I don’t think that has any interesting ethical implications.

But yeah, this is literally some venture capital research entity, they’re obviously gonna look for more and more power until this shit gets real, real dark. There’s gonna be whistleblowers and shit in like 10 years.

I’m pretty doubtful that this specific brain tissue is conscious, but I’m pretty certain this will be iterated for a couple decades until it’s veeeery conscious and veeeery fucked up

I got a third party phone that I LOVE

BUT

Options for cases fucking suck if you don’t have one of the 3 flagship phones. It’s so bad.

I have a OnePlus 11 because it’s similar to a Samsung Galaxy in specs and also it charges FAST as FUCK boi. 12 minutes from 0% to 50%, 15 more to hit full.

Yeah not an accusation, something to be aware of and work to extricate, but it’s not an obviously bigoted thing

don’t imply sucking cock is bad by comparing it to moderating Reddit

Oh god I thought they stopped doing the fucking laptop part naming shit where it’s the same name but a totally different part

Or we can turn Japanese, where all the websites look like the ads on the back of a newspaper

Most of the executives and internal marketers knew it was absolute horseshit, they just knew that if the brand change lost 2% sales instead of gained 2% sales, they would face worse personal consequences if they spent 20k on the rebrand than if they spent 15 million on the rebrand.

Because capitalism is the most efficient system

Yeah

I have avoided anything approaching this level of fart huffing, because I mostly just make websites comprehensible, or accessible to Google, etc

ooo rare lady L

Don’t worry that’s already happening. Just gotta find pre-2022 books

Oh nice so Google knows which ones are which and it chooses to show that fucking shit

Found out that my phone has been dutifully filtering out absolute shitloads of democratic and occasional republican campaign texts because I gave money to a few people in 2016 and 2020. People sell each other donor lists, so my phone number has been playing fucking 6 Degrees of Bernie Sanders for the last few years

Part of my work is in writing, thankfully not much of it. But I can tell you they are going to massively lay off writers in the next couple years and then hire them back five years later.

They’re going to try to rely on AI writing but AI writing doesn’t fucking say anything, it just riffs forever and avoid committing to real statements. Companies are going to get sued for lying on accident, and they are going to realize that people don’t trust what they say anymore.

Literally insane, just don’t move to Russia idiots

Yeah the 3080 is a chonker, but the 4090 is just fucking huge, it’s like a mid sized console just sitting in your PC. It’s between a Wii and a PS2