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Hekate

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25. The phrase that keeps coming up in my mind is "clever monkeys" -- you know, the brightest primates ...

Reply to summer_in_TX (Reply #20)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:42 AM

Dec 14

…in creation, so enchanted with our own curiosity and cleverness, so pleased with ourselves — and so lacking in foresight and self control that we are going to bring the world down around our ears.

Clever monkeys.

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The Jackpot Renew Deal Dec 13 #1

If we think nuclear threats are scary. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #3

Maybe but hopefully not angrychair Dec 13 #6

The same with nukes, but Putin keeps threatening to use them. Irish_Dem Dec 14 #26

The Jimmy Stewart movie? JoseBalow Dec 13 #7

The Peripheral Renew Deal Dec 13 #8

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that JoseBalow Dec 13 #10

A great science fiction show. Based on books about the Jackpot. JanMichael Dec 13 #14

Yep. COVID will be seen as child's play. JanMichael Dec 13 #15

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JHC montanacowboy Dec 13 #4

Chirality VGNonly Dec 13 #5

Seems to me someone is going to make this qazplm135 Dec 13 #9

Aren't the Prions that cause Mad Cow Brain disease just an mirror or inverted protein? mackdaddy Dec 13 #11

Prions interfere with the folding of proteins. I don't think any mirroring, chirality, or inversion is involved. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 14 #17

Reminds me of those tiny Black Holes they're working on at CERN JoseBalow Dec 13 #12

Reminds me of Sarah Connor warning us about the Skynet KS Toronado Dec 13 #13

The Golem. It's an ancient and archetypal... keep_left Dec 14 #22

Assessing the Risk of Takeover Catastrophe from Large Language Models Celerity Dec 14 #23

Things just keep getting better and better. StarryNite Dec 14 #16

K&R ReRe Dec 14 #18

"...a viable mirror microbe would probably take at least a decade to build..." LudwigPastorius Dec 14 #19

The arrogance and short-sightedness of humans is boundless. summer_in_TX Dec 14 #20

The phrase that keeps coming up in my mind is "clever monkeys" -- you know, the brightest primates ... Hekate Dec 14 #25

What? Humans thinking about the consequences mountain grammy Dec 14 #21

this was a dr who episode. pansypoo53219 Dec 14 #24

And y'all thought Fermi's Paradox was just some dusty science textbook thing . . . hatrack Dec 14 #27