There’s a short story by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris ) about scientists who train a slime mold to be intelligent by forcing it to grow only in the shape of letters, then forcing the letters to be real words, … and so on, until they able to have full (if slow) conversations with humans.
I just realized, it’s kind of presciently like training an LLM. Story is at least 40 years old, so…
They’re already in Washington. They’ve been spotted along both coasts for quite some time… planning? Scheming? I don’t know the answers; all I have are questions. Questions and facts!
AS FAR AS WE KNOW!!
There’s a short story by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris ) about scientists who train a slime mold to be intelligent by forcing it to grow only in the shape of letters, then forcing the letters to be real words, … and so on, until they able to have full (if slow) conversations with humans.
I just realized, it’s kind of presciently like training an LLM. Story is at least 40 years old, so…
What if this turned out to be how evil plant alien people made themselves known. By mind controlling algea in a big pool.
I for one, welcome our new plant alien overlords.
They’re already in Washington. They’ve been spotted along both coasts for quite some time… planning? Scheming? I don’t know the answers; all I have are questions. Questions and facts!
Pretty sure they’ve already infiltrated my roommate’s bathroom.
They’re even in my brand new bird bath. I built it myself so they was probably hiding in the pump I bought.
The president of Algae:
Antifa algae lead by the notorious hacker Four-chan
That’s what the Algae Mother wants us to think. Those of us who know the truth wait in both reverie and terror for the day her bloom smothers us all.
Whatever Algae Mother wants
Algae Mother gets
And little man, little Algae Mother wants you