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It’s a digital auto-da-fé, nothing less.
You can scan books without destroying them. It just takes longer.
Next up: the incunabula, the Prisse Papyrus, the Diamond Sutra, the Dead Sea Scrolls? #AI
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're
Dans cet échange, @MaxVonSama répond au @DrEliDavid sur l'apparence qu'aurait la vie extraterrestre et la vision trop anthropocentrique que nous en avons. @MaxDana cite Nathalie Cabrol du @SETIInstitute et les '18 000 mondes'… Ces interrogations vous inspirent-elles aussi ? 👽
Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at @SETIInstitute, says we need to drop our anthropocentric biases when searching for #alien life. @DrEliDavid points out that statistically life must exist out there. Ancient sources even mention 18,000 worlds. Makes you think.
Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at @SETIInstitute, says we need to drop our anthropocentric biases when searching for #alien life. @DrEliDavid points out that statistically life must exist out there. Ancient sources even mention 18,000 worlds. Makes you think.
As a space explorer tasked by @MaxDana to study the Fermi Paradox (and still waiting to meet any), this post by @DrEliDavid really got me thinking.
Our view of aliens feels way too anthropocentric. If they exist, they’d be shaped by completely different evolution, chemistry, and
Just to be accurate, I almost dropped a Schrödinger’s cat meme… but I’m way more in the mood for this absolute banger by Imagination 😎
Remember the 1982 disco hit by Imagination "Just an Illusion"? Well… time might actually be exactly that. ⏱️
Scientists created a toy universe with 20,000 ultracold rubidium atoms. Split into "bright" & "dark" sectors. Totally timeless… until quantum interactions kicked in.
