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Follow-up to old post about man-made horror: man-made horror has been commercialized and is also live-streamed. (Brain organoid computing)
  • You don't need to "tie a specific neuronal activity to a thought or memory" to know whether a set of neurons can have humanlike memory or emotions. We know that specific brain regions are required for specific brain functions. Most famously, we know that hippocampi are necessary to form new episodic memories due to Patient HM. This organoid does not have anything like these necessary specific brain regions, so we can be pretty sure they don't have these human brain functions.

    Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "tie a specific neuronal activity to a thought or memory" We've known examples of single unit neural activity being correlated with thoughts for many years, see place cells and Grandmother cells. Really, the whole field of systems neuroscience studies this at some level. And I think that field has made some progress.

  • Follow-up to old post about man-made horror: man-made horror has been commercialized and is also live-streamed. (Brain organoid computing)
  • I don't find brain organoids to be disturbing or all that interesting. Organoids are not very different from classical cell culture. And organoids of human neurons are not very different from organoids of mouse neurons.

    This is not anything like a human brain living in a dish.

  • This is my reason for joining "Fuck Cars"
  • One problem with cars is that they kill people in crashes. Larger, higher cars are more likely to kill people.

    As someone who lives in a car dependent city without a car. I prefer when my neighbors try to kill me with a small car rather than a large car.

  • Google Messages' text editing feature is live for beta users, and it could come to you soon
  • I found Google messages to be unreliable: refusing to send a SMS if the Internet connection is bad. The signal that the message failed to send is a single hollow checkmark.

    I switched to fossify messages, which just sends SMSs or MMSs and doesn't create its own flawed messaging protocol

  • Am I wrong though?
  • Here's a quote from the Wikipedia page:

    In 2016, Opera was acquired by an investment group led by a Chinese consortium, the consortium included several Chinese companies such as Kunlun Tech and Qihoo 360.

  • Are there any things in Linux that need to be started over from scratch?
  • The goal of the zig language is to allow people to write optimal software in a simple and explicit language.

    It's advantage over c is that they improved some features to make things easier to read and write. For example, arrays have a length and don't decay to pointers, defer, no preprocessor macros, no makefile, first class testing support, first class error handling, type inference, large standard library. I have found zig far easier to learn than c, (dispite the fact that zig is still evolving and there are less learning resources than c)

    It's advantage over rust is that it's simpler. Ive never played around with rust, but people have said that the language is more complex than zig. Here's an article the zig people wrote about this: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

  • America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing?
  • I don't think it hurts the economy since moving people to producive areas increases productiviy.

    It does hurt homeowners, who have managed to capture the regulatory regime by pressuring their city government into passing and maintaining zoning laws.

  • Federation seems to work now

    It seems like comments show up immediately now. At least on Lemmy.world

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