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ego_bot t1_j9iuoq4 wrote

Valid points. Will be interesting to see what happens when the AI art is actually competent and enjoyable.

However, it seems to be that humans inherently enjoy something less if they know it has been generated by a program in a few seconds. There is no creative process, no soul, "a mockery of what it means to be human." The AI itself isn't even a thinking being, not even close (though one day that could change).

You are right about one thing. We will adapt, one way or another.

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freakdageek t1_j9istzb wrote

Somebody’s gotta figure out what to do with all these mice. What’s left? Let’s see if we can make em really tiny. Tiny little mice. That’d be cute. Unless there was a bunch of em at once. Thousands of teeny tiny mice would be horrifying. Nope. That does it. I’ve changed my mind. Keep making em older. It’s not cute, sure. But it’s not quite horrifying, either. Good on ya, mice scientists! Ya found a good one.

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HelixFish t1_j9iskmc wrote

That’s a good thought! DNA and RNA have many regulatory elements though which can cause proteins to be made or to stop them from being made. It could be that a regulatory element on the ends of the telomeres stop these toxic proteins from being made, but when we age and the telomeres shorten the regulatory elements get lost. This causes the toxic proteins to be made, causing age related damage.

ELI5: The off switch for the toxic proteins could be on the ends of the telomeres, and when they shorten the switch gets turned on, causing age related damage.

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