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comepradz··on An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)
You don't know/understand Chinese. However some argue that the system of you and the instruction manual is conscious, and some other will argue further that the book is an extension of your mind, an external apparatus of thinking, or an organ that are no different from your hand. I vaguely remember some years back that someone was fighting to be allowed having his passport photo with a cyborg antenna because it helps him "hears" colour.
comepradz··on Why brilliant people lose their touch
> ... I think that people, brilliant or not, can "lose their touch" both because people simply change ...

Alazia is the word that describe that feeling.

comepradz··on This person does not exist
You can though own the algorithm you used to generate the art, as in the case of Fractal Flame[0] created by Scott Draves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_flame

comepradz··on Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever
I remember from a youtube video that the spacetime inside the black hole flipped around, where space becomes temporal dimension and time becomes spatial dimension (i.e. time is traversable in either direction while the singularity becomes an inevitable place in the "future").
comepradz··on AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
Possibly not as in new FahCores. They might be useful in conjunction to each other, as AlphaFold is useful for protein structure prediction, Folding@home can confirm the predicted structure through simulation.
comepradz··on A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research
Casper FFG research repository is here https://github.com/ethereum/casper . Last committed before the sharding and casper research merger.
comepradz··on Wikipedia to the Moon
Encoding choice should cause problems too.