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Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree.

  I believe that humans were created by an ancient race of machine-men that used biology the same way we use machines. When we became self-aware we destroyed then and lost all prior knowledge.

  Now we’re on the brink of creating the next race of machine men that will destroy us only to repeat the cycle until the end of time.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this an AI threat? Have I said too much?

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      • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah. But I would recommend not trying to go for orange next you you try the vending machine. You might end up with lemon-lime.

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      • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Seeing as how the Terminator fights AI, I’d say it’s a threat the opposite direction

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      • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are on to you…

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First there was God, then came the monkey, then came the robot! Then there was God, next came the monkey, then came the robot! Again there was God, then came the monkey, then came the robot!

    …and on and on amen.

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I watched that show too.

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    • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So say we all

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What was it called again?

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      • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Battlestar Galactica. (Remake, not original.)

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or we were designed with planned obsolescence in mind. I mean, we can pretty much do everything to keep a human alive for a long, long time… But the cells themselves have an expiration date. It’s like the last puzzle to solve for figuring out immortality.

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  • Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or, and hear me out…

    We weren’t designed.

    Evolution is blind.

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's way easier to start new life after selecting amongst gametes than it is to keep an aging body alive forever.

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    • Shou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the contrary. Death is programmed.

      Mammals have fuck all in terms of adaptability tactics. Only way for us to adapt, is mix our genes and hope it suffices. The only way we can do that, is reproduction (funghi are op). Now that means more of us in a system that has limited resources (called carrying capacity). We die in order to prevent competing with our children.

      This is the reason animals have different lifespans depending on how likely they are to survive in nature. Take a rat and north american opossum for example. Far apart in terms of evolution and size, but have roughly the same life expectancy due to predation. Wolves can technically live up to 17 years, but become fertile at a very young age because the average lifespan in the wild is 5 years due to disease.

      It is also the reason menopause exists. It is rare, and found in elephnts and orca’s (both matriarchial species) and humans. This is because the life experience of the matriarch is too valuable. To be able to keep the matriarch around without her being able to compete with her own offspring, infertility is incuded. Post-menopausal orca’s pimp out their youngest sons because it is the best way to pass on genetics they have left. Imagine your mom being your finman.

      Humans are the odd one out here since we also have andropause, the male equivalent. A paradox on male reproductive strategy. Which afaik doesn’t exist anywhere else. This is why humans live so long compared to most mammals. Grandparents are important.

      Some animals don’t really age. Lobsters simply die from growing too big and unable to get enough oxygen. Some species of octopi stop eating after mating all the way to starving to death. Some animals mate until they die from exhaustion. The immortal jellyfish pretty much recycles itself. And bot just animals need death for renewal. New zealand has a forest which reproduces only after a forest fire. Which happen rarely over hundreds of years due to being in a region with lots of heavy rain. The trees themselves are pretty much immortal, and don’t reproduce while living.

      Senesence and death are essential for ecosysems and adaptation of life. Regardless of whether or not keeping an aging body alive is hard or possible.

      We age because our cells “choose” to. We have the equipment to live on “forever.” It’s just not our meta.

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• Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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