Ok but eventually you will have an intersection of many filters that cannot occur so often. This can be called a great filter due to both its magnitude and rarity. In order for civilizations to progress we would need to overcome these filters. You can go further with this idea that among these great filters there are even greater filters that occur, until finally you use the time scale of the universe and conclude with a “greatest filter”.

So... Would I need to feed my computer for it to work? Can I accidently starve my computer to death? Can it get infected with ACTUAL viruses? So many questions

If aliens landed on earth and gave us a big, shiny red button marked 'Do not press. Ever' and then departed without explanation, I am super confident that we would press the button.

Great now we just won't get computer viruses anymore but have 2 worry about computer dementia. I can see Norton selling anti dementia software for the low price of $11.99 a month.

Wow, I'm going to take a pass on answering. I have typed, backspaced, and re-typed my thoughts three or four times and can't come up with a reasonable definition of know vs. "know".

Even the Turing Test of intelligent behavior didn't bail me out. I don't feel qualified to venture beyond opinion as to whether the one AI I have played with, chatGPT, would truly pass the test. And whatever I have done, it is not a true Turing Test as I am not comparing chatGPT's answers to a human's answers and trying to discern the difference.

Gotta get them clicks though.

>you may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension

The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:

From the article: It’s one of the most exciting areas of cancer research, but identifying the tumors through blood tests remains difficult, particularly for early-stage detection.

Despite breakthrough blood-test research for many types of cancers and specific sources such as lung and breast cancers, and the flourishing field of development of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests, screening generally still involves invasive biopsies of cells.

Researchers at the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney, Australia, are hoping to change that, with the development of their new biotech, the Static Droplet Microfluidic (SDM) device. It can quickly detect circulating tumor cells (CTC) that have split from the cancer source to enter the bloodstream. It paves the way for very early detection, monitoring and treatment.

“A single tumor cell can exist among billions of blood cells in just one milliliter of blood, making it very difficult to find," said Majid Warkiana, professor from the UTS School of Biomedical Engineering. "The new detection technology has 38,400 chambers capable of isolating and classifying the number of metabolically active tumor cells."

The SDM can pick out tumor cells through a unique metabolic signature involving waste product lactate.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11e9crg/new_medical_device_can_detect_and_analyze_cancer/jactf2a/

'There's no aliens in the sky because women won't fuck' is the single-dumbest fucking thing I've ever read on reddit.

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And were SPECTACULARLY young compared to that? So youre just proving my point, its absurd to think we can apply what little we know to the universe at large.

Hey, thats great that you dont let your bias in the way things look impact you but unfortunately we know that most people do. Dont get confused though, everything is deep. Everything is connected. The people who try to convince you otherwise are just trying to get you to look elsewhere so you dont see what theyre doing.

The funniest thing about your comment is that, in terms of the Drake Equation, the universe is still *spectacularly* young. This fucker's barely in pre-school, mate.

Interesting, a more simple and practical solution

Without fossil fuels and modern chemical fertilizers, the carrying capacity of the earth is probably a couple billion people lower than the current population.

So it's not going to be "we all."

Random selection from the citizenry.

Such an idea is anathema to Enlightenment liberalism. 'But what if we make a homeless bum God-king bluh bluh bluh'.

But look: if you idiots were any good at designing a society then randomly selecting some schlub and getting a philosopher king only slightly less competent than a certified genius should be peanuts. It's been several centuries of Enlightenment liberalism's hegemony and they have only gotten more smug about their lack of ability to uplift society's lowest.

Ha! I don't know. The people doing this must have a difficult job and I'm sure they don't know what they're doing.

This is sad

but is water really wet? or does it just make other things wet? 🤔

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WTF is a Black bot,? Lol

I can't wait to tell that bot it ain't Black is it doesn't fill in these simple stereotypes...... S/

> Elon Musk’s innovative idea for freight transport

I wish people would stop spreading this myth. The original Hyperloop proposal is just a vacuum train. An idea that has existed for decades.

The "loop", or whatever they are calling the Teslas in a tunnel idea, is just a road tunnel. An idea that has existed for more than a century.

> we would need more energy than the energy previously hold in all that burnt fossil fuel

That would be necessary if we had to split all the CO2 into carbon and oxygen. But we don't have to do that; we can inject the CO2 into deep basalt formations, where it will turn into rock.

So we just have the energy cost of concentrating the CO2 from the air and pumping it underground, which is a lot less.

I'm Black so please tell me what my culture is.... Or what it's supposed to be.

I don't think it's that deep. It's literally pixels on the screen and mfs are calling it a different race.