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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Not running the game's code on a biological computer (maybe that's next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Imagine living your entire live as a sentient being not knowing you're actually just a logic gate in a huge-ass computer.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would bet there's someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

"What up YouTube, today we're going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!"

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That's basically reality for all of us right now

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Guess it's not long until the Vogons come.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

If we're really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And then when AI researchers come along to make it so we don't have to be logic gates in that computer, we complain about "losing our jobs."

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well yeah because this is capitalism, and those lost jobs will be lost forever, and everyone who was working them will suddenly have no source of income with nothing to replace it. Instead of taking care of those people, they'll just be collateral damage.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like the problem is with our economic system. There are ways to fix that. Even ways to fix "capitalism" so that it isn't necessary, without changing the fundamental concepts of freedom and personal property that people are so worried about.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Spoiler alert: 42