I think if anyone wants to "bring back extinct organisms" they should start with an extinct lichen as proof of concept.
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Colossal also engineered white coats; while dire wolves apparently were normally reddish brown.
Because these animals owe more to G.R.R. Martin than to anything else.
@michael_w_busch @futurebird so I guess maybe it's less like llms than elon's ongoing grifts: rip off the visuals of a piece of fiction and get praised for realizing that vision even if the tech behind it is no more real than it was when the fiction was made
Thinking specifically of the robots that have the I Robot aesthetic but are at best teleoperated and at worst literally a guy in a suit
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@futurebird @dedicto @arjankroonen OMG she's REAL
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I think if anyone wants to "bring back extinct organisms" they should start with an extinct lichen as proof of concept.
What's that? You say you don't know of any extinct lichen? Well, that seems like a problem don't you think?
What's that? You say you aren't even certain how many genomes you'd need to have the whole organism? Hmm. Maybe we should ponder this.
Show me you can bring back a lichen first. Show me that you even *understand* the lichen.
@futurebird Didn't Beatrice Potter write a screenplay for "The Lichen that Digested the Earth" before she wrote Peter Rabbit? Maybe I'm remembering that wrong.
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@futurebird Didn't Beatrice Potter write a screenplay for "The Lichen that Digested the Earth" before she wrote Peter Rabbit? Maybe I'm remembering that wrong.
excuse me WHAT that sounds amazing please be true
