AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH--- Bonobo's after being uplifted directly into capitalist servitude

There's an old folk thingy from Borneo that claims Orangs can, in fact, talk. But they don't, because if humans found out they'd be forced to get jobs and pay taxes.

plays stellaris once

why can't i make the bonobo population into a client state?

this is a classic sci fi plot

And every single fucking time it goes bad for the people involved

Like literally every single instance of a species being uplifted in sci fi is a cautionary tale about interference with others, and usually has the uplifted species be violent/used as a weapon

Literal fucking Torment Nexus bullshit

They used to extract value from animals on industrial scales, like horses and stuff. They still do now of course but it's very grisly (watch dominion) because it's more about getting their flesh, skin, oil, etc.

Anyway, we used to use them in "jobs" but it turns out machinery and mechanization was way more profitable, dumbass.

We don't need more workers you fucking idiot, like half the Western population pushes around numbers on a spreadsheet for living. If we want more productivity maybe we should force these assholes onto an assembly line building stupid bullshit before we fuck with porcupines.

Those Planet of the Apes movies are all about how this is a super great idea

Wot if animals paid taxes

Leave the animals alone you ghouls

Really? Dolphins are by far the obvious candidates for first uplift. (They will be immediately sent the the Hague for perpetrating a genocide against porpoises)

"OOK!" - Head librarian of Unseen University

Anyone who considers something like this seriously has to die immediately. This is pure evil in like the way Michael Myers is described by Dr Loomis. It has to be destroyed.

What's the business model?

:gulag:

Liberals can't even lift people out of poverty, what do they think they're gonna do to help animals exactly?

What? The cutting edge of domestication science was a Soviet fox project, genetic engineering is in its infancy, and a comprehensive understanding of the brain and sapience is nowhere in sight. How the fuck would we uplift an animal even if we wanted to?

Fuck you, pay me

The wrong creatures are in the zoos

A bear, the second it's "uplifted":

I don't remember whether I read this but I swear to God it is a thing that exists. I over found an "an"cap comic book online which was a kind of parallel universe thing. One universe was the one we know today, just a few years in the future: huge smoking ban signs everywhere, owning gold was illegal, there were no cats so people were forced to bike, meat was expensive/illegal so people turned to cannibalism, everything was grey and dull, you know, what we're currently used to now.

But then there was the parallel universe, an "an"cap utopia in which there were no states, the colours were bright and happy, people paid at vending machines by putting in pieces of bullion and monkeys could speak. Yes, somehow one of the bazinga technologies unleashed by removing the yoke of the state was making moneys sentient. I'm not sure but I remember an "an"cap monkey cop.

It was some of the most amazing agitprop I've ever seen.

in capitalist usa, monke return to us

How truly unimaginative.

Why do they all have the same smile?

If those guys aren't doing some kind of comically soulless capitalist scum routine they definitely deserve to play some Minecraft.

Put my old shift supervisor on the floor with a bunch of apes so he can try to make them work the machines. I’d pay to watch the worker uprising.

Wait a minute, Statue of Liberty! That was our planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!

Get your chrome-ass claws away from the monkeys you soulless goddamn robots

Sorry to bother you

So it's been something like 7 million years since humans and chimps parted ways (probably as a result of a chromosomal fusion event that might be difficult to replicate!). Let's assume we can use artificial selection, fast generation times, and targeted germ line mutations to speed that process up, what sort of efficiency could we get? 10x? Someone put me on ice so I can see the dawn of the First Bonobo Suzerain of 702023.

When you've played spore and then felt smart after

Bazinga brained dipshit thinks we have Sci fi tech I guess.

So the animals are gonna get to vote then right? Taxation without representation was supposedly what America declared independence over

This would make a great horror movie

I'm not taking advice from someone named McEntush

if we can uplift a neighborhood, we can uplift a species

What if we could genetically engineer more serfs into existence

I don't want to live anymore. This did it. Cya never, suckers

It’s funny when capitalists reinvent slavery, but with animals and the IRS.

classic bluecheck doofus opinions

Flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters to commodify everything

David Brin would like a word...

kinda the plot of children of time by adrian tchaikovsky

a faction of humans creates a garden planet and then tries to infect monkeys with a virus to make them sapient, with the endgoal being a monkey slave workforce that sees humans as god

obviously it failed at the first hurdle and spiders accidentally get uplifted instead

Anyway let's see what else he's posted

What is Radiation? Many fear it because they don't understand it -- here are some quick notes:

Radiation is the emission of energy as waves or particles, and you are constantly bombarded by some form of it. In fact, low levels of radiation are emitted from decaying atoms in your own body, and many foods are technically "radioactive" (like bananas).

Radiation is emitted as atoms attempt to stabilize their atomic structure, throwing off excess energy. In nuclear reactions, like fission or fusion, this happens very fast. In radioactive isotopes, or "unstable" atoms, how radiation is emitted (decay pattern) and over what time period (measured in half-lives) is of key interest.

At a high level, there are two types of radiation:

• Electromagnetic radiation: made up of photons with no mass, which includes visible light, radio waves, and X-rays, etc.
• Particle radiation: made up of particles with mass, which includes protons, neutrons, electrons, etc.

Radiation that is potentially harmful is specifically called ionizing radiation. This is radiation, both electromagnetic or particle, with enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, or alter the nucleus directly. Both are not ideal, particularly if this happens to be your DNA.

When people mention "nuclear waste", they're typically referencing "transuranic" elements (heavier than Uranium) that form when fissile material absorbs a neutron, but doesn't split. Transuranic waste emits particularly strong forms of radiation and can have half-lives of tens of thousands of years.

Of course, there are known methods to transmute these byproducts to less troublesome elements, or use the waste itself as a power source (radiation is just energy, after all). It's also not difficult to simply store it with proper shielding methods.

To this end, it's important to understand that radiation shielding is fundamentally probabilistic - at such a tiny scale, particles can also just flow through materials instead of stopping. The goal of shielding is not to block all radiation, but to reduce it to safe levels by the time it reaches the other side. Again, we're constantly exposed to radiation and our body can easily handle small amounts of it.

However, different types of radiation require varied methods of shielding. Below you can learn more about ionizing radiation:

Oh he works at an investment firm, let's see how they advertise themselves

@a16z

we invest in software eating the world

Okay so this guy is just evil