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nathanielbuildsatesseract · 6 months

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Suffering from a bout of insomnia this morning and found myself reading about the genetics of longevity. I'd never thought about it in such terms, but the accepted logic among the non-woo crowd seems to be that deleterious mutations which manifest early in life are genetically unfit, while mutations that don't negatively affect you till later in life can slip under the radar. If you've got a 1/20 chance of being eaten by a grue in any given year, something that doesn't kill you till you're 50 isn't as dangerous as grues. If a mutation gives you an advantage evading grues (or finding food, or getting people to fuck you, or whatever) in the early years and only have bad side effects later in life, then that's also genetically fit. Combine these effects and you get a natural lifespan for an organism. For humans this is less than 10^2 years even though the lineage of all our cells runs back more than 10^9 years. And we're a fairly long-lived species!

This is just...awful. It's senseless and stupid and unnecessary. An intelligently designed genome would eliminate or mitigate as many deleterious mutations as possible, but natural selection is a blind idiot god that isn't optimizing for any value besides maximizing the number of copies of each gene. For multicellular organisms, this has generally (though not universally) resulted in a ticking time-bomb locked into the very code that makes us us.

This was even more depressing to read about in context, because this book is about animal intelligence (specifically, cephalopods), and humans are probably the longest-lived quasi-intelligent species on the planet. Octopuses and cuttlefish are so full of ingenuity and personality and usually die after just a year or two. Imagine how much more they could think and do if they lived as long as humans do—and now imagine how much more we could do with the same factor of life extension.

We're lucky, though, in that we might be able to do something about it eventually. Death is, speaking pretty much literally, a genetic disease. And applied intelligence is the cure.

#i really really hope we get there really really soon #death is bad #later today would be ideal #accidental longpost #effortpost #where is my glorious transhumanist future?

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self-loving-vampire · 1 year

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The story here is truly wild and highlights the power games have in terms of bringing people together. It’s something I have a lot of personal experience with as well.

And then there’s the top comment, which says:

Yoshi-P's blog post about him is so touching. Especially this last paragraph..... "Once time passes, I'm sure there will be a day when I can see him again. When that happens, I'm sure he'll find me with a sprout on my head, not knowing my right from my left, and reach his hand out to me with allies he found on the other side, saying: "Oh, you must be a newcomer! It's okay, it's lots of fun over on this side, too. Let's go adventuring together!" And in that hand, will be the Nu Gundam."

#death is bad

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ghost-bxrd · 1 month

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Headcanon that when Jason so much as says “ow..” on the comms the rest of the batfam immediately assume he must be dying.

#look Jason NEVER complains about being in pain #so it must be BAD #and after one close call #(and one death)#they’re not taking any chances #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #batfam #robin #bruce wayne #ghost talks #red hood #batman #damian wayne #tim drake #batdad #headcanon a

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blueskittlesart · 2 months

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i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS #game emulation enables piracy yes but it’s also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool.#there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation.#this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products #if they’re not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON #it won’t just happen to bad games. it won’t just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going #forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again.#i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr #personal

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konakoro · 1 year

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The world was so ungrateful to you...

#animation #2d animation #disney #dreamworks #warner bros #early 2000's 2D animated movies fucked so hard and the public was too cowardly to admit that #they let several great movies die a bad man's death and i will always be furious about it...#hall of infamy

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lazylittledragon · 4 months

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you know what fuck it we’re doing dadstarion

#bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #astarion #tavstarion #idk if this is canon to the dorianverse yet but he looks like a little hobbit!!!#this is a Long long long time post brain i think. since they’ve sorted out the daywalker thing #i don’t think he’d be affectionate but i think he’d be VERY protective #they’re not bad parents in the way that they neglect or mistreat him or even just don’t love him #i think they love him to death but you just shouldn’t give your small child a KNIFE #this one is my favourite sister bc she reminds me of robin

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hey-its-zezzy · 1 month

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are you kidding me his bald ass is busted in a day

#my post #breaking bad #death note #l lawliet #walter white

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onionninjasstuff · 2 months

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i present to you the au that has been brewing up in my head for a couple of months now, dr steals-your-ending (thanks sm @scatterbrainedbot for coming up with the name, it slaps)

i need future mikey focused shenanigans like air, so heres my take. idk when i have the time and energy to work on it more but im glad i at least have this bad boy of a comic out of my system for now <3

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt bad future #dr steals-your-ending #dsye au #rottmnt leo #rottmnt raph #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt draxum #tw sibling death #tw family death #tw grief #oh wow this took forever

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v0idwraith · 10 months

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David Szymanski: in my game i have invented the Iron Lung as a cautionary tale

Billionaires: at long last, we have created the Iron Lung from classic horror game Don’t Create The Iron Lung

#titanic #oceangate #james cameron #ffs this fucking thing literally has WORSE navigational abilities than the iron lung #relying on elon musk’s network for wifi not even having a beacon #again i feel bad for any researchers on there but #what kind of fucking dumbass pays $250k to be sealed in a metal death tube #like they can’t even open it from the inside it has to be opened by crew on the outside #iron lung

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bigfatbreak · 18 days

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Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

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theeio · 1 year

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omg its death!!! hi!!!!! hiiiiiiii

#draws #doodles #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots death #big bad wolf #the big bad wolf

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nathanielbuildsatesseract · 7 months

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Our immortal descendants will look back on this period with incomprehending horror at how we managed to be so blasé about the current state of affairs.

#death is bad #transhumanism

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rustic-space-fiddle · 2 months

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