Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too. www.404media.co/oldest-livin...

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Anthropic: "We are straight-up huffing paint at this point." h/t @drjennings.bsky.social @merz.bsky.social

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I also think, and maybe this is controversial but it’s just my opinion, it’s ok to just take it on faith that other people are consciousness even as I demand proof that the computer is. I believe this is totally reasonable and normal.

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What's great is near the end of the book, the main character's lefty elderly father talks about playing Metal Gear Solid with the grandkids and it turns into a bit about how the Internet was conceived in the sin of the atomic bomb and carries forward an unchanging dream for the death of all life.

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