sinalana.bsky.social
京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
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The highlands!
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Also all of these stories usually include "the programmers first asked the AI to exhibit these behaviors" and then everyone pretended to be surprised when the behavior happened.
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Ha
bsky.app/profile/blub...
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They literally asked it to make up and role play a blackmail scenario like this
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/a...
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It's not about disproving something, but rather about the fact that anything can have an abiotic cause
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Forget about technosignatures; if you wanted an alien civilization somewhere far away to detect a biosignature from Earth fairly unambiguously (let's say their measuring instruments are pointing towards Earth), what would change about our current biosphere/atmosphere?
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I can't imagine the feeling! Great piece of work.
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I love niche construction literature but I didn't it was associated with increase in complexity
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Thank you. My reflection was inspired by a this kind of paper / gaia theory. Maybe if you consider a complex organism as an ecosystem
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When novel phenotypes occur independently on the tree of life (convergence) they can be the result of the same (homologous) or unique (nonhomologous) genomic elements. But how common is parallelism across deep timescales? Are stories like eyes or antifreeze proteins more common?
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eg humans can modify the environment quite a bit, maybe to the point of climate control or surviving a small asteroid strike or something.
Are there any papers about life complexity and resistance to extinction?
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Having concluded that you couldn't trust the first 'response', what made you decide you could trust the second one?
Technically it didn't lie nor tell the truth either time, it just generated something based on the same process and the same data both times.
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They must have changed the chairs since last time I was there because in my time it wasn't half as nice! Just stained, holey seats.
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If spiders count as a bug, in French there's a saying
Seeing a spider in the morning will bring sadness, seeing a spider in the evening brings hope
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In several cultures, telling a wish to a ladybug means the ladybug will bring your wish to a deity that may grant it
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Also all of these stories usually include "the programmers first asked the AI to exhibit these behaviors" and then everyone pretended to be surprised when the behavior happened.
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+ imperialism commentary of course
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I say that as someone who's highly pro self-driving cars and thinks it'll have big benefits for the handicapped communities as well as areas underserved by public trans. I just think it's weird how both against gov't and corps, we've given up on the privacy discourse that was prominent a decade ago.
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It's not a reading of the paper. It's 2 fake people hyping each other up about whatever topic, usually very shallowly. No good for anyone really
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Almost done! I couldn’t leave out this edible assortment of medieval tiles from the British Museum.
The biscuit recipe was inspired by flavours from the same period: honey, ginger, and clove.