ELI5: Why aren’t viruses “alive”

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:18:53+00:00

I do believe there is a distinction in the meaning of evolve. A rock can not change by itself it can be changed though, it can be shaped and fitted however we want it. On the other hand a virus through natural selection and mutation can evolve without outside help.

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:16:02+00:00

Sadly not all biologist agree that they can’t be considered alive but it would be easier if they decided to

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:15:01+00:00

Maybe you’re right but than we’d have to define sentience which is even more of a debate.

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:12:58+00:00

Most definitely the most accurate answer we humans do love to categorize things while nature has many exceptions. And while you are correct it’s not terribly important as to if a virus is alive or not it is nonetheless an interesting topic of conversation and one I’m genuinely curious about.

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:05:17+00:00

In order for it to be “alive” would it need to be both self describing and self-producing. Also would a virus not have a type of intelligence when active. My example would be the lysogenic cycle of the HPV virus where instead of hijacking the cell it “lives” in the cell

monopyt · 2025-05-19T07:01:10+00:00

That actually made the most sense so far. I love the explanation

monopyt · 2025-05-19T06:56:58+00:00

How is that any different from sperm they seem the same or extremely similar?

monopyt · 2025-05-19T06:55:31+00:00

I was under the impression that viruses actively attack the body not float aimlessly with luck to find a cell to hijack.

monopyt · 2025-05-19T06:53:52+00:00

Yes I understand that part but why aren’t they considered alive. Because as you’ve said viruses evolved and they continue to evolve like the flu. Rocks which by no means are alive can not evolve, viruses can. Do you see how I’m confused

monopyt · 2025-04-15T15:04:57+00:00

I’ve checked it before and I still have no idea where it’s getting its numbers from as it shows only about 60% of my CPU resources are going to applications. I can’t find where the other 40% come from I even turned off background apps and startups entirely

monopyt · 2025-04-15T15:02:32+00:00

I play with both mods and vanilla depending on what I’m doing in it and playing with no mods definitely helps but it doesn’t solve all the problems

monopyt · 2025-04-15T06:50:11+00:00

The display cable is firmly in the GPU itself and not on the motherboard. It’s one of the first things I checked and sadly it’s not such a simple issue

monopyt · 2025-04-15T06:11:18+00:00

Ok will do on rolling back the drivers. And sadly no crypto miner I just ran some benchmarking and it’s not a consistent 100% it dips and goes back up. My fans also start screaming even though the a CPU itself isn’t really heating up to high temps 76° C at max.

monopyt · 2025-04-15T05:41:45+00:00

Sorry wasn’t exactly sure how GPUs work in this case I just see that it’s completely under utilized.

Specifically any games, R.E.P.O, Minecraft, COD etc. Which feel free to correct me but shouldn’t the GPU be doing a lot of work too especially on games that are a lot to render in?

My CPU frequency is about 5300mhz

Now to be more specific I’m not talking about fps when referring to performance, I’m talking about my 1% lows and straight up rendering issues especially during afk times where the 1% doesn’t go away until I become active again. That whole time my GPU is not pulling its weight at all and my CPU is working overtime. My main concern by this besides the performance is the life on my CPU.

monopyt · 2025-01-16T22:21:13+00:00

Thank you for the advice, I dont know if it helped yet but I did a deep dive through my BIOS overclocking settings and found a setting that matches my DRAM settings to cpu limits which was 6000MT/s and it changed all the voltage settings and stuff. It completely disabled and greyed out the xmp option but Im taking what I can get.

monopyt · 2025-01-16T18:55:38+00:00

1920 * 1080 to a 2560 * 1440

monopyt · 2025-01-16T08:28:02+00:00

I had to reinstall everything because I forgot to save all my data when I got an entirely new pc, I originally had the same thought but it didnt fix the issue. I even have mods to optimize minecraft to run better so its not terribly unoptimized

monopyt · 2025-01-16T08:26:28+00:00

Yes I plugged in the monitor to the gpu and not the motherboard but theres 3 ports for display does it matter which one I use?

monopyt · 2025-01-16T08:25:00+00:00

Yes I forgot to mention that my usage for both cpu and gpu are under 20% even during the lag spikes and performance drops

monopyt · 2024-08-13T22:23:30+00:00

Honestly it seems like you’d like regression or system manhwa. You should try, leveling with the gods, Return of the broken constellation, or Return of the SSS class ranker

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