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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe.English
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    6 minutes ago

    it seems likely some of them would be space travelors by now.

    You just said:

    There are billions of areas in the universe that are millions of years older than us

    And:

    amount we’ve advanced in the last 125 years

    Logically, you understand that with two vastly different times scales over that much distance…

    The chances of overlap is infinitly small?

    Maybe they passed by before our solar system even formed. Maybe after our sun burns out they stroll by.

    But why would they choose to spend their time wandering around in a spaceship anyways?

    Even if they had instant travel making distance and time absolutely meaningless. If life is so plentiful and there’s so many that are that advanced, exponentially more at our level, and innumerable planets supporting more basic forms of life…

    Why would they care about us?

    We’re one in trillions to them.

    Quick edit:

    Back to the point, in that scenario we’d never be “no contact” because they wouldn’t care.

    Any one planet wouldnt even be a rounding error.

    We wouldn’t be one of the few they want to study. We’d be one of a huge number

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe.English
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    22 minutes ago

    What?

    You’re literally ruling out the most likely scenario:

    Life is spread out all over, but even if they knew we were here, they’d never get to us.

    Like, there could be a planet on the exact same level as us, thinking the same thing about aliens. But if they’re 1,000 light years away, all the know about Earth is it has water. Something they might not even consider relative in the search for life if they don’t need water.

    And even if they wanted to send us a signal and could figure out where to send it, best case scenario we get it in a thousand years and they have to wait at least two for a response they’d have no idea if we’d be capable of sending back.

    Even if every planet tried to contact the first 10 planets with life they find, eventually the novelty would wear off and they wouldn’t keep wasting all the resources just to add another tally 2k years from now to the list of planets with life.

    Everyone gets hung up on aliens wanting to interact with us, because we want aliens.

    If an alien civilization is advanced to know about us, they don’t give a fuck about us. And they wouldn’t, except if they’re planning on such long timelines that their procedure for finding life is to just steer a couple giant asteroids at us.

    A civilization capable of noticing us, just wouldn’t have anything to gain from interacting with us.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Déjà vu is a non traumatic flashbackEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Deja Vu is a “save error” where we basically skip RAM and throw something straight to the hard drive. So we “remember” as we experience it, but can never get ahead of the present moment to “remember” the future.

    Because it’s still just the present. We’re just experiencing a very short term glitch which is relatively normal, or accidentally inhaled a bunch ether or something similar and shits gonna be weird for 2-3 minutes straight before it wears off and the brain recovers.

    Like, there’s not just short/long term memory. There’s a bunch of different types, but the “now” experience is it’s own type of memory and last fractions of a second. Break that even momentarily and you experience deja vu because everything just goes straight to the next level of memory. Which is working memory and cover seconds to minutes.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•ISIS teaching recruits how to use AI ‘responsibly’English
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    2 days ago

    This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…

    It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…

    But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.

    Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.

    It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.

    Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’English
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    2 days ago

    In a viral Substack post in November, he took particular aim at the federal government’s poverty line, which traces back to the early 1960s and was calculated by tripling the cost of a minimum food diet at the time.

    The poverty line’s narrow focus on food leaves out how much other expenses are now sucking up incomes and lowballing the minimum amount Americans need to get by.

    Green estimated that food makes up just 5% to 7% of household spending, but put housing at 35% to 45%, childcare at 20% to 40%, and health care at 15% to 25%.

    Base something on a single metric, and it doesn’t take long for it to become pointless…

    Because that’s the only thing anyone is paying attention to.

    Calories are cheap, and subsides for shit like corn syrup is hurting more than it helps. But it pumps the calorie count up which trades short term starvation for slightly longer term health issues.

    It’s nothing new, different demographics have been trying to raise the alarm for decades, generations even.

    Everyone just ignored it till it hit the suburbs, and now want to act like it’s brand new.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain | Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.English
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    3 days ago

    God damn UK…

    In a closely monitored human challenge study approved by national ethics bodies, they deliberately infected healthy young adults who had no prior immunity with the original strain of the coronavirus. Most developed only mild illness, and none reported lasting problems, but after a year they performed slightly worse, on average, on memory and decision-making tests they’d taken before being infected. The difference was roughly comparable to six IQ points. Although that experiment followed participants for only 12 months, longer-term population studies suggest that cognitive symptoms are among the slowest to resolve after Covid, with full recovery proving elusive for a significant minority even years after infection.

    Invaluable research, but crazy it got approved.

    6 points is very significant

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•US datacenters face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against AIEnglish
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    4 days ago

    They don’t need bots for that…

    They’re not manipulating social media, they own and control social media.

    They can hide what they want, and promote what they like. No need for accounts to vote/share, it can happen behind the scenes. Why have 10k bots to vote on things that you control?

    I don’t think people are understanding the scope of these data centers

    Your talking about using a F1 car for a daily commute that last an hour but never goes over 45mph…

    I’m not saying they’re not dumb enough to try that first, I’m saying its more likely you give them this capability, and they’re use it.

    Probably before the 2028 election