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Not running the game's code on a biological computer (maybe that's next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Spoiler: it's "just" a display. Bacteria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.

[–] Potatisen 52 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

The researchers found that when two swarms of crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities

I see this being incorporated into a maths lesson about vector addition.

[–] LazaroFilm 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That gives me some 3 Body Problem vibes.

[–] bassomitron 13 points 10 months ago

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking of, the million human computer.

[–] Asudox 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're made using these crabs.

Also called "soldier crabs"

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[–] wikibot 4 points 10 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.

^article^ ^|^ ^about^

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Imagine living your entire live as a sentient being not knowing you're actually just a logic gate in a huge-ass computer.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] bassomitron 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would bet there's someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

"What up YouTube, today we're going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!"

[–] sir_pronoun 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That's basically reality for all of us right now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Guess it's not long until the Vogons come.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If we're really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sounds like the problem is with our economic system. There are ways to fix that. Even ways to fix "capitalism" so that it isn't necessary, without changing the fundamental concepts of freedom and personal property that people are so worried about.

[–] AbidanYre 10 points 10 months ago

Spoiler alert: 42

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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