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 1 year ago
Spoiler: it’s “just” a display. Bateria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would bet there’s someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 1 year ago
“What up YouTube, today we’re going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!”
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that a vintage xkcd?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s basically reality for all of us
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 year ago
Guess it’s not long until the Vogons come.
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 1 year ago
Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 year ago
If we’re really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Spoiler alert: 42
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Potatisen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The what now computer?
atocci@kbin.social 1 year ago
The crab computer
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I see this being incorporated into a maths lesson about vector addition.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That gives me some 3 Body Problem vibes.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha that’s exactly what I was thinking of, the million human computer.
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re made using these crabs.
Also called “soldier crabs”
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wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] 1 year 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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