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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not running the game's code on a biological computer (maybe that's next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Imagine living your entire live as a sentient being not knowing you're actually just a logic gate in a huge-ass computer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Spoiler alert: 42

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would bet there's someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

"What up YouTube, today we're going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That's basically reality for all of us right now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Guess it's not long until the Vogons come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If we're really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then when AI researchers come along to make it so we don't have to be logic gates in that computer, we complain about "losing our jobs."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah because this is capitalism, and those lost jobs will be lost forever, and everyone who was working them will suddenly have no source of income with nothing to replace it. Instead of taking care of those people, they'll just be collateral damage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sounds like the problem is with our economic system. There are ways to fix that. Even ways to fix "capitalism" so that it isn't necessary, without changing the fundamental concepts of freedom and personal property that people are so worried about.