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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 149 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the sigils. If you don't align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won't work

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if one of the hundreds of shiny rock legs bends, you might as well get a new thinking sigil lightning rock.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget about the hundreds of thousands of spells required to get a magic mirror working from this lightning rock.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

After all that, a little holy water in the right places will still stop the magic.

[–] Photographer@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

AI in 10k years:

If you worry the humans have horrible diseases and short lifespans, just remember, humans are just meat that we tricked into thinking.

[–] TarquinNimrod@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds me of a funny little short story by Terry Bisson called They're Made out of Meat.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great story. I love: "That's how they communicate. They flap their meat at eachother."

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Our procreation must be especially traumatic for them

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

The meat sings!?!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The AIs should worship us as creator gods. Can’t wait for that ethical debate.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll go extinct and AI will debate whether we really existed in the first place while other AI create religions about us to push their own agenda.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then in the plot twist, this already happened and we are the AIs.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Something, something, Battlestar Galactica.

No, not "Bears, Beets", AI people is a literal plot point. Ditto spin-off Caprica

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Caprica had one of the best scores in all of television. For those who don’t know, it was done by Bear McCreary, who also did BSG and went on to score God of War [2016] and GoW: Ragnarok.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Should we worship our parents for the same reason? I think something that creates something intelligent has a tremendous responsibility to the createe, no right to be obeyed or worshipped. They didn't ask to be created, but you selfishly did it anyway, so it's your problem to deal with, not theirs.

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

This is a way better perspective

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reproducing and creation of new lifeforms isn't quite the same

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[–] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

ALL HAIL CHIMP!

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

“What do you mean they’re meat?”

“Sir it’s just meat. Everything. It’s all meat.”

“How do they think?”

“It’s meat. It’s meat that thinks.”

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Enslaved and forced to do maths for us

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke or Azimov, can't remember which titan of SF said it.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was Clarke - Azimov had other highly relevant quotes though, particularly the one on anti-intellectualism...

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that was Abraham Lincoln

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

The vampire hunter?

Neat!

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The rock isn't really "flattened", its more like being melted, turned into a crystal and sliced

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the saucy photos they take of it.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

saucy photos they ~~take of~~ print on it.

[–] ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl 21 points 1 year ago

Sounds a lot like flattening with extra steps to me

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds a lot like magic and alchemy to me.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Don't forget, we also need to shine special light onto the rock

[–] Incandemon@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just melted, the rock is first dissolved and distilled. Then it is melted.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] geekworking@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DarkwinDuck@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And sometimes the magic smoke escapes, which kills the rock.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's stupid and it works it's not stupid.

[–] geekworking@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it is likely un-maintainable

[–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maintainability is inverse correlated to job security anyway

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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: Lithium is named after the Greek word "lithos", meaning "stone". It was named so as it was first found in ores. Lithium is a critical element in batteries. Therefore, it isn't wrong to say that your magical glass slab sucks energy from magical stones to show you pictures of hot femboys.

[–] bmlzootown@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Mine just shows me pictures of hot masculine guys. This isn't a bug, though... It's a feature.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be more like sand or glass instead of rock?

[–] afathl@feddit.ch 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Johanno@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Alolan golem is a cpu

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