How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound?

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

  • smileyheadEnglish
    127·
    10 months ago

    Spoiler: it’s “just” a display. Bacteria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.

        • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
          48·
          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.

        • wikibot@lemmy.worldBEnglish
          4·
          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.

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    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
      48·
      10 months ago

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

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          61·
          10 months ago

          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.”

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            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.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
              1·
              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.

              • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
                0·
                10 months ago

                Capitalism doesn’t have anything to do with freedom or personal property. Become a communist and keep fighting for those two things.

                • FaceDeer@kbin.social
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  I’m speaking primarily to Americans with that line since they equate all of those. I’m not going to get into a debate about how accurate it is, the main point I’m making is that there are ways to decouple the economy from “needing to have jobs” that don’t require changing the fundamental nature of society (aside from the “need for jobs” part, of course).