Imagine living your entire live as a sentient being not knowing you’re actually just a logic gate in a huge-ass computer.
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smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Spoiler: it’s “just” a display. Bateria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
bassomitron@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would bet there’s someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 9 months ago
“What up YouTube, today we’re going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!”
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is that a vintage xkcd?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s basically reality for all of us
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 months ago
Guess it’s not long until the Vogons come.
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 9 months ago
Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 months ago
If we’re really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
And then when AI researchers come along to make it so we don't have to be logic gates in that computer, we complain about "losing our jobs."
prole@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Well yeah because this is capitalism, and those lost jobs will be lost forever, and everyone who was working them will suddenly have no source of income with nothing to replace it. Instead of taking care of those people, they’ll just be collateral damage.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Spoiler alert: 42
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Potatisen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The what now computer?
atocci@kbin.social 9 months ago
The crab computer
Gork@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I see this being incorporated into a maths lesson about vector addition.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That gives me some 3 Body Problem vibes.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Haha that’s exactly what I was thinking of, the million human computer.
Asudox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re made using these crabs.
Also called “soldier crabs”
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wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] 9 months ago
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Mictyris guinotae is a species of soldier crab of genus Mictyris, endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. They were named after Danièle Guinot, a professor at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in France, and were first treated as a separate species in a tribute volume to Guinot.
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