[FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

[Marcus Daniels]

Just got bill at our house for a small bag of those engineered antibodies for a cool $90,000 US.   Things get more interesting when it is $900.  
Technology does move that fast, e.g. this GPU comparison w.r.t. ray tracing.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/nvidia-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti-review-a-tale-of-two-very-expensive-graphics-cards/4/


On 9/21/18, 10:02 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

    Same as it ever was.  Death is already *mostly* voluntary.  Anyone can commit suicide any time they want.  That the overwhelming majority of us *choose* not to is important.  The particular alternatives we continually choose to engage define us.  Would you rather ingest engineered cells?  Or perhaps (as I did) engineered antibodies?  I've long thought that the Singularity is metaphysical hooha; and generalized AI will arise through a merging of wet- with hard-ware ... chip in the brain before brain in the laptop, an evolution not a revolution.  So, programmatically controllable cells just seems like a natural step along the way ... much like the spittle bug's kidney and the built environments we all find surrounding us.
    
    On 9/21/18 7:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
    > There’s almost certainly blue-screen-of-death scenarios here – we die of bugs, or bio-malware. 
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    > *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
    > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
    > *Date: *Friday, September 21, 2018 at 8:46 AM
    > *To: *'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam at redfish.com>
    > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize?
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    > And then what will we die of? 
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    > Before we make life infinite, we better change the laws to make death voluntary.
    
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    ☣ uǝlƃ
    
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