Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
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Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
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Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#2> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long.
I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#3> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long. I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
I think ML is likely to be material to us making many more such discoveries. So much of the current constraint is not in the knowledge to identify the interesting pattern, but the capacity to look for it at scale.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#4Dehydrate!
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#5I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that company.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#6I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that company.
It won't be very useful if you're already old, more practical approach would be to freeze yourself in your youth until they find a way to stop ageing.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#7> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long. I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
I think ML is likely to be material to us making many more such discoveries. So much of the current constraint is not in the knowledge to identify the interesting pattern, but the capacity to look for it at scale.
Yeah but you missed the point op was making
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#8I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that company.
I mean, it's been going on for over fifty years[0].
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundatio...
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#9I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that company.
It won't be very useful if you're already old, more practical approach would be to freeze yourself in your youth until they find a way to stop ageing.
You could unfreeze yourself when they figure out how to reverse aging.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#10> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long. I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
I've been reading "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". But it's really about the process of discovery in nuclear physics. And most of the discoveries were made by accident.