Recent comments in /f/Futurology

Drewsef916 t1_jde2iou wrote

Unlikely.

There are many types of stem cells, the only type that are politically controversial and scrutinized from religious people are embryonic stem cells. And that is because these are the cells that go from inception, to baby. So to people who argue that life has begun with the emergence of these cells research on them is immoral as it is akin to harming a baby.

However the many other types of stem cells are not part of this controversy and have nothing to do with this stage of inception, such as hemapoetic stem cells used in bone marrow transplants, mesychmal stem cells etc. The stem cells utilized in this research would fall into this category, as they are adult somatic stem cells induced into a plueropotent state.

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jde1k8q wrote

>They tried the saving mission

This BS probably works for you with younger dudes, but I've been in thinking capacity since the time it was called 'global warming', and it has always been about "everybody dies unless we stop fossil in ___ years".

>start doing what the scientists recommend

As far as I'm concerned we're already doing it. And we're already on positive trajectory as compared to those RCP scenarios that were extensively used in 90s and 2000s as mainstream scenarios.

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dern_the_hermit t1_jde0lsj wrote

> ive yet to see any of these bold claim stories bare fruit

Would you? I mean, how often do you note the claim and then follow up on it later? If you've ever dismissed a bold claim story that DID bare(sic) fruit, would you be aware of it?

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m-s-c-s t1_jde06t7 wrote

They tried the saving mission, and most countries ignored the recommendations at any meaningful scale. You want a positive outcome? Stop making excuses about the source of the messaging and start doing what the scientists recommend instead of claiming we’re already on a positive trajectory.

Edit: it bugged me so I had to address it. 10-20% of global GDP and millions of people is no longer “local.” Moreover, the catastrophes are not “looming,” they’re already happening as articulated by the scientists in your own source.

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KeyanReid t1_jddzusm wrote

If I'm not mistaken, this advancement responds to a key area that causes many implant users to abandon their prostheses after time, which is that the body just adapts to life without it (thus making the prostheses a bit of hassle).

Not here to say "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" but yeah, Futurology sub, progress in the areas I understand need progress...what's the problem here? That the perfect solution hasn't arrived yet?

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94746382926 t1_jddue88 wrote

They're not getting much attention right now since Deepmind stays pretty quiet these days an LLM's have the spotlight. But to me they're the most exciting because they seem to hold the most potential for scientific applications. The best performing AI will probably be a mix of many different architectures though if I had to guess.

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DauntingPrawn t1_jddtbgn wrote

Not on their own. We know the human brain has different processing centers, and I think AGI is going to require activation and routing networks to invoke specific functional networks, ie image processing, language processing, etc. So I could see graph networks to work out simulated thought processing of inputs that produces probabilistic routes through those functional networks, with a sort of reality filter or expectation filter -- maybe a Boltzmann type of energy activation -- to choose from those results.

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justingod99 t1_jddrf31 wrote

No one gets as successful as he is without some merit. It’s just a circle jerk of hate for him here. Just like anything republican or religious. I prefer balance, but people here just want a sounding board and absolutely go batshit crazy when someone disagrees or offers a different opinion. I got banned from TwoXChromosomes for disagreeing with a poster who said “every” man has a rape fantasy. 🤷🏻

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