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SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

?Fun? fact: In a steampunk world, birds would serve as CPUs. America experimented with using pigeons for bomb guidance. As it turned out, three birds pecking at an image had pretty good accuracy. They ultimately lost out to silicon, due to the size, maintenance, and training time.

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staph@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

They ultimately lost out to silicon

for now…

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There was an amusing short story about a guy who could do actual math in his head (I think it was by Asimov).

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Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

They ultimately lost out to silicon

Fuckin computers taking birds’ jobs.

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