Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml promitheas @iusearchlinux.fyi 12 mo. ago

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Don't forget the sigils. If you don't align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won't work
- And if one of the hundreds of shiny rock legs bends, you might as well get a new thinking sigil lightning rock.
  
  Don't forget about the hundreds of thousands of spells required to get a magic mirror working from this lightning rock.
AI in 10k years:

If you worry the humans have horrible diseases and short lifespans, just remember, humans are just meat that we tricked into thinking.
- Reminds me of a funny little short story by Terry Bisson called They're Made out of Meat.
  
  Great story. I love: "That's how they communicate. They flap their meat at eachother."
  
  The meat sings!?!
- The AIs should worship us as creator gods. Can’t wait for that ethical debate.
  
  We'll go extinct and AI will debate whether we really existed in the first place while other AI create religions about us to push their own agenda.
  
  Should we worship our parents for the same reason? I think something that creates something intelligent has a tremendous responsibility to the createe, no right to be obeyed or worshipped. They didn't ask to be created, but you selfishly did it anyway, so it's your problem to deal with, not theirs.
  
  ALL HAIL CHIMP!
- “What do you mean they’re meat?”
  
  “Sir it’s just meat. Everything. It’s all meat.”
  
  “How do they think?”
  
  “It’s meat. It’s meat that thinks.”
Enslaved and forced to do maths for us
- Millions of parallel complicated calculations, over sixty times per second, using gigabytes of information, to carefully determine the color every subpixel in a panel with 4 million glowing dots needs to be to perfectly reproduce interactive anime titties on my screen
  
  Sixty... times per second? I think it's a couple more than that, to be honest.
- cracks whip
  
  what's 4+4?
  
  cracks whip
  
  What's 56x43?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke or Azimov, can't remember which titan of SF said it.
- It was Clarke - Azimov had other highly relevant quotes though, particularly the one on anti-intellectualism...
  
  Really? I was sure that was emperor Cleon the somethingth...
  
  Open to correction, however
- It's Clarke's Third Law.
  
  I got curious and looked them up.
  
  When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  
  The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Pretty sure that was Abraham Lincoln
  
  The vampire hunter?
  
  Neat!
The rock isn't really "flattened", its more like being melted, turned into a crystal and sliced
- Don't forget the saucy photos they take of it.
  
  saucy photos they ~~take of~~ print on it.
- Sounds a lot like flattening with extra steps to me
- Sounds a lot like magic and alchemy to me.
  
  Don't forget, we also need to shine special light onto the rock
- Not just melted, the rock is first dissolved and distilled. Then it is melted.
  
  Then gassed repeatedly.
Rocks + magic smoke.
- And sometimes the magic smoke escapes, which kills the rock.
If it's stupid and it works it's not stupid.
- But it is likely un-maintainable
  
  Maintainability is inverse correlated to job security anyway
Fun fact: Lithium is named after the Greek word "lithos", meaning "stone". It was named so as it was first found in ores. Lithium is a critical element in batteries. Therefore, it isn't wrong to say that your magical glass slab sucks energy from magical stones to show you pictures of hot femboys.
- Mine just shows me pictures of hot masculine guys. This isn't a bug, though... It's a feature.
Alolan golem is a cpu
Wouldn't it be more like sand or glass instead of rock?
- Both are made from rock
  
  Rock and Stone
- Silica dioxide can occur geologically but if it's not from quartz it's not a rock it's a mineral iirc.

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