• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      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…

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        6 days ago

        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!

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      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.