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offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 00:57 [#02572567]
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LAZY_TITLE

really interesting stuff


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 01:26 [#02572571]
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say hello to your ancestor the fornicating flan


 

offline wavephace from off the chain on 2019-03-28 01:37 [#02572576]
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Hello


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 02:39 [#02572582]
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I think location greatly affects speed of evolution. Like
right on the coast offers creatures 3 very different
potential evolutionary pathways- stay on coast, sea, or
land. Or a rainforest or coral reef. Probably the most
important environmental input for a living thing affecting
its fitness.. is all the other living things. So when one
thing gets more complex (more sophisticated predator maybe)
the fitness criteria for all other living things it affects
also becomes more complex. Maybe the burgess shale just
happened to be a 'rainforest'y location. Or maybe if genes
are legos that can attach 1 other piece, to simplify, maybe
another piece evolved that can attach 3 pieces or something,
thus making more combinations.


 

online belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2019-03-28 02:55 [#02572584]
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melvyn bragg is a badman. i wanna see the carpet with teeth


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 12:22 [#02572601]
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Yeah I think that's definitely true, lifeforms seem to adapt
to complexity via random mutation, whatever is an
advantageous mutation to the situation is spread, whatever
no longer works disappears via environmental
changes/predation. Something as simple a small cluster of
light detecting cells on your back can mean the difference
between life or death. Suddenly detect a shadow blocking the
light on your back, move quickly!


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 12:25 [#02572602]
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yeah if I had a time machine its one of the first places id
go to see all these weird things


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2019-03-28 17:48 [#02572639]
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I love prehistoric life/paleobiology so I'm really glad to
find this. Will check it out when I get home from work!

I know what you mean about wanting to go back in time to see
what things really looked like (vs. just their impressions
left in fossils). It still blows my mind to think that
megafauna like dinosaurs or some ice age mammals actually
walked the earth... (to say nothing of all the smaller
creatures that came about from the Cambrian era) Amazing.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-28 17:58 [#02572643]
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yes please listen its really interesting the guests are very
knowledgeable in this one.

Yeah whats really interesting is how a lot of these animals
existed for tens of millions of years but infact represent
evolutionary dead ends, they have no decedents, they
couldn't adapt fast enough to changes, or were superseded by
a more efficient animal. I mean I don't think our fate as a
species is any different, on geological times scale we
barely exist


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:20 [#02572819]
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there are so many lush things to listen to on the Beeb site
like that, wish i had the time to get thru em, will check
this one out tho.. (there's a REALLY good one on EVP
recently, i think it's on the 'Seriously' one...?)
How the fuck did DNA come about anyway? Is that evolving too
or is it like a runtime thing that doesn't change? I used to
just stare at my hands and think about how they came about
until I felt quite strange, fun.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:24 [#02572821]
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yeah its very strange if you think about it, we are
topologically the same as a nematode worm, a torus shape
with a mouth and an anus. What I find freak is how we have
fractal fingers bodily symmetry



 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:25 [#02572823]
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Also, I think i read somewhere that there are occaisonally
big leaps that they can't really account for with mutation
just pootering along.. that's quite fascinating.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:26 [#02572824]
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hah yeah, and another way to look at human brains is that
they evolved as secondary organs to our stomachs in order to
get them food!


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:28 [#02572825]
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yeah that's what the Cambrian explosion was in essences,
just simple life forms and suddenly in a short time scale
geological, multitudinous lifeforms sprang forth, what
caused it is a matter of great debate


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:29 [#02572826]
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you can see that with simpler life forms like sea slugs and
sea cucumbers that don't have a brain as such just large
ganglions and collections of neurons that enable them to
feed and do other actions but not necessarily think


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:31 [#02572827]
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alien looking


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-03-29 21:31 [#02572828]
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It’s not like there’s one God who created everything


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:33 [#02572829]
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he must have been on acid during the Cambrian explosion,
stuff that looked like living toilet brushes shuffling round
on the ocean floor


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:36 [#02572831]
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chimps hav betr memry than us just like ai chess is easier
than ai face recognition cuz its stupider
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:38 [#02572832]
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yeah their short term memory is amazing, ive seen that vid
where they do the touch screen stuff with squares


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:38 [#02572833]
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go back in time and imprint yer penis in burgess shale


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:39 [#02572834]
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and put little legs/eyes on it


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:42 [#02572835]
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matter is data. energy is algorithms in time. its a computer
program.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:43 [#02572836]
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some of the fossils are that weird it looks like someone's
penis grew legs and wandered off


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:46 [#02572837]
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they can synthesize rubies, they can probably synthesize
apparently old rock imprints. an imprint is just empty
space/removal of matter. all u need is old rock/ chisel/
spare time


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:46 [#02572838]
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if the end of the universe is the maximum state of entropy,
are we just experiencing god's hard drive defragging
backwards?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:49 [#02572839]
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Surely we aren't at that's stage where we can synthesise
rock with cholesterol molecules in it where a ancient worm
had lunch, I think that will happen though good trade in
fake fossils


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:50 [#02572840]
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LAZY_TITLE

bit of ontological discourse for Umbro, I haven't listened
to this one yet though


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:51 [#02572841]
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an interesting question. maybe the chimps know.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:54 [#02572842]
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yeah that a dead give away that we are living in a
simulation, the fact they can do that thing quicker than I
can blink my eyes


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:54 [#02572843]
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the programmer put in a wrong variable there


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 21:58 [#02572844]
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Have corporations thought of putting little nike shoes on
the imprints or have them eating mcdonalds french fries?
Nike, doing business since 508 million bc.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:03 [#02572845]
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hope an advertising executive doesn't see your post


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:04 [#02572846]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:05 [#02572847]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:06 [#02572848]
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loooooooool


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:11 [#02572849]
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complicated watch gears used to be the best metaphor for
whatever the universe is or is doing, now computers. so just
like convergent evolution re-invents wings/eyes
independently, computer programs maybe re-invent whatever
the universe is doing. So i don't get how the universe can
calculate so much. if i rotate one thing about another thing
in 3d space, i have to program to 'rotate about z to get in
the correct z plane, rotate about y to get in the correct y
plane, do the desired rotation, unrotate y, unrotate z' (i
might have remembered it slightly wrong). But the universe
has zillions of planets rotating, not to mention zillions of
grains of sand/dirt on each planet, and it's like voxel
geometry so it is calculating all the stuff inside
the surface of a planet as well, not just external mario 64
surface polygons.
Maybe it doesn't do rotation algorithms since that'd lag, or
maybe each 'tick' of the program takes zillions of 'years',
we just don't feel it because our brains only update on the
next program tick. maybe everything merely calculates
immediately locally like a cellular automata, even sight is
your eyes interacting with immediately local photons.
gravity spooky action at a distance is tricky but maybe
doing same. or instead of moon rotating around earth, it's
just 'moon moves in straight line (object in motion stays)'
AND 'tug slightly in straight line to earth as gravity'. So
2 straight lines each tick can simulate rotation for more
efficiency.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:17 [#02572850]
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Yeah I think this is one of the most fundamental questions
of physics, what is the information density?

is there a locality to this sort of thing, i.e. are things
only rendered when there is an observer, when there is no
obsereve effect is it just in some probabalistic state, Are
we thinking in too simplistic terms to describe what is
actually going on?



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:17 [#02572851]
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Principle of locality


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:18 [#02572852]
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Ma6ybe the universe is a demo scene entry.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:19 [#02572853]
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Is-there-a-physical-limit-on-information-density

wonder if this guy is legit or just making it up for fun


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:20 [#02572854]
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sorry bum link


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:21 [#02572855]
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yeah what we perceive at the passage of time could be like a
quadrillion operations per pico second on some alien demo
scene party


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:23 [#02572856]
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I was thinking of the ethics involved in future games,
imagine you had a game like sim city full of actualised
Artificial intelligences would it be ethical to send in a
Godzilla creature to destroy their town for a bit of fun,
dare you turn of your computer? would it be ethical to do
so?


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:23 [#02572857]
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Oh yeah I was going to write but forgot. Like you can get on
the ground and see all these complicated insects. a flea
even has its own mite parasites, i wonder what is the
longest chain of that, i know one whale in a documentary had
actual normal crabs as parasites around its eye, maybe those
crabs have parasites that have parasites, gets to a single
cell soon i guess, a chicken egg is a huge single cell. well
maybe the universe simply doesn't compute that stuff unless
someone looks at it. then again you can watch a bug move,
look away, look back and it didn't pause, it's further
along.. but maybe something else was watching it.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 22:26 [#02572858]
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perhaps it doesn't render you intervening brain waves so you
don't notice any discrepancies, I think we are that
connected to nature in an intrinsic way we wouldn't notice
if nature was fudging the numbers so to speak


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 23:13 [#02572860]
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Why does evil exist?
Universe Programmer: Because it's entertaining.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 23:16 [#02572861]
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I guess the bleak answer would be if everything was rainbows
and lollipops 24/7 that would be like living in some
Sisyphean purgatory, nothing would be good in a relative
sense. well that's one viewpoint, not one I necessarily
agree with


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 23:26 [#02572862]
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That's a weird thought, like the bug didn't actually move,
my brain was just edited to think it moved..

actually I figured out the most likely scenario, occam's
razor or whatever... why update all this complicated reality
made of zillions of atoms/quarks calculations etc... when
you can instead simply update the mind. Astronomically way
more efficient. Only things you observe or think about need
to be calculated. Distant planets? They're compressed to
vague blurry concepts of any information you're seen or read
about them. It's all memes. The universe is just memes in
your brain. I'ma call this "w M w's razor". The only other
"razor" that exists. Nothing exists until you think about
it. Maybe my mind has been tainted with a sickness to make
me think about bad thoughts and monsters in order to make
them memetically exist. It is the matrix, soipsism, it's the
model that makes most sense computationally.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-03-29 23:28 [#02572863]
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yeah have you ever seen a video game that renders things at
a distance at low rez but it gets higher when you approach
it, I reckon it could be like that


 


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