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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • No. I’ve no idea what could have possibly brought you to that conclusion

    Luckily it’s easy to find research from that period:

    This model requires that the tubulin is able to switch between alternative conformational states in a coherent manner, and that this process be rapid on the physiological time scale. Here, the biological feasibility of the Orch OR proposal is examined in light of recent experimental studies on microtubule assembly and dynamics. It is shown that the tubulins do not possess essential properties required for the Orch OR proposal, as originally proposed, to hold. Further, we consider also recent progress in the understanding of the long-lived coherent motions in biological systems, a feature critical to Orch OR, and show that no reformation of the proposal based on known physical paradigms could lead to quantum computing within microtubules. Hence, the Orch OR model is not a feasible explanation of the origin of consciousness.

    https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021912

    I rember that time as well, although it seems my memory is better than yours, despite you being waaaaaaay more confident.

    If you have further questions tho, ask someone else. Good luck finding someone better equiped to talk about this stuff tho. Every days another burnt bridge, right?





  • Yep

    The thing is if it’s entangled, why is there a fiber cable?

    If it’s teleportation, why is there a cable?

    However what actually makes consciousness in a brain is (hypothetically, technically) microtubules forming a very tiny cable inside of which quantum superposition is able to be maintained while we are conscious. When even brief quantum entanglement used to be insanely hard anywhere and an environment like the brain considered impossible.

    Like, it’s hard to tell what really happened from OPs article. But there should be much better articles explaining it, and this could actually end up being crazy important. Like, 20-30 years from now this might be how we finally get a real AI.

    Quick edit:

    Like, rather than one straight line to send data, if this can maintain even just entanglement in a simple fiber optic cable…

    Then that’s huge.

    If they just stretched a string between two containment chambers that each have an entangled particle, then what purpose is the string even serving?




  • I haven’t seen it.

    But I do know the founder daily carries one everywhere, and just won like the highest rank in PCC shooting with one. He had to change the brace to a stock tho to enter lmao.

    They all look mall ninja as shit, and really shouldn’t be legal. But they’re ridiculously fun and actually practical, well, as practical as you can get when 99.999% of gun owners never come close to needing one.

    That shit might not keep being true for long tho.





  • Headline is damn near misinformation…

    But that’s the guardian’s fault:

    “In the face of rising demand and surging prices, I’m proposing a two-year pause on authorization of new datacenter tax credits,” Pritzker said. “With the shifting energy landscape, it is imperative that our growth does not undermine affordability and stability for our families.”

    He wants to cut off new credits (which is good) but he’s a fucking billionaire and this plan would be a huge benefit to the ones who got in first.

    We didnt even have time for this before we found out just the noise of data centers fucked people up.

    Pausing shit ain’t enough, but no billionaire will ever put the people over profits. And Pritzker decides every single second of his life that he’d rather be a billionaire instead of our ally.

    Stop expecting him to be


  • In all seriousness it’s gonna be bad.

    FEMA ain’t gonna be able to handle anything that actually happens, but at least this hurricane season will be right before midterms.

    It won’t get republicans to vote D, but it’ll depress their turnout if he leaves them “out to dry” right before midterms. But what would be worse for Republican turnout than him not helping, is actually trying to help (at least red states he likes) and failing miserably.

    It’s not that I’m cheering for future suffering. I’m realistic it’s gonna happen, and I’m hoping the silver lining is republican voters realize Republican politicians don’t give a fuck about them.