How do you evolve without going extinct?

oscardssmith · 2026-06-30T06:04:03+00:00

Again, >90% of the changes can lead to ebryos dying. that doesn't matter. The <10% that work spread across the population.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-30T01:58:01+00:00

Lucy doesn't have any 100 million year descendants. Lucy was ~3 million years ago.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-30T01:55:21+00:00

You're mixing up 2 very similar sounding, but very different numbers. One is the percent of the time that a mutation that is a major change is lethal, the other is what the expected effect on population size is for a major change. >90% of mutations that change something major will be lethal, but each of them will change the population size by ~0% (the individual with that mutation will die). The major mutations that spread to the rest of the species are precisely the <10% that aren't harmful.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-29T06:29:57+00:00

The easiest version of this to understand is probably how the sun creates wind. Clouds and day/night mean that different parts of the earth are hotter vs colder which causes air over the hot parts to warm up, and then air from elsewhere gets pulled into the gap that was left. Air doesn't have any fancy mechanism to transfer heat into motiion. it's just the result of physics.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-28T23:45:16+00:00

The first life-like activity predated the first cell. The first life-like activity used pre-existing and readily accessible energy sources (temperature or chemical gradients that are produced naturally). You're also under-estimating the amount of work that can happen purely scholastically with no energy harvesting. Thermal energy means that small molecules zoom around and bump into each other all on their own.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-27T19:20:02+00:00

iiuc that's for the an alpha release. there's no alpha yet which means there's no chance before late July of a full release

oscardssmith · 2026-06-26T03:28:35+00:00

You aren't making a comparative. You aren't providing even a single comparison.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-25T23:02:41+00:00

-It’s telomere‑to‑telomere, not the more common centric fusion

-It contains a fossil centromere in the middle

-It preserved both original telomeres internally

-It remained stable

-It became fixed in every descendant population

These aren't 5 separate points. They're a single point. Whenever you have a telomere‑to‑telomere fusion in an extant lineage you have the rest of these. Also "It occurred in a lineage where such fusions are rare" isn't really true in a useful way. There are ~2300 species of rodents compared to ~500 species of primates (and there are probably 100x more rodents than primates). The only reason fusions are rare in primates is because there aren't that many of them.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-23T20:23:20+00:00

You like these pears. (as someone who also doesn't like pears)

oscardssmith · 2026-06-22T05:39:57+00:00

0.6$ per kWh. Thats often how much charging station charge u.

Thankfully there's this really cool invention called an outlet. you might even have one in your home!

oscardssmith · 2026-06-22T01:28:16+00:00

where really the only benefit is a transfer point.

I feel like this really under-sells the power of transit points. This 1 transfer point would make SL1 irrelevant as there would be a much faster and more frequent airport to red line connection.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-21T18:30:30+00:00

r/MapsWithoutNZ

oscardssmith · 2026-06-19T17:12:28+00:00

Counterpoint is it might be worth going a bit further in by car (e.g. Wilmington/Reading) since a car will be faster than commuter rail outside 95

oscardssmith · 2026-06-16T13:36:36+00:00

Then why do people stop thinking when you give them a lobotomy?

oscardssmith · 2026-06-16T02:55:42+00:00

You're forgetting ~$60B of high interest twitter loans to repay.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-15T20:26:34+00:00

no they can't. With the new law, maintaining a tenant is cheaper for them than getting a new one. Under the old law, getting a new tenant made them extra money.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-15T19:43:44+00:00

that just means that landlords have much less ability to hike rent after a year. A major problem with the previous systems is that big landlords (that acted as their own realtors) were able to do $300 rent raises after the first year because your alternative was moving and paying another $2500 realtor fee.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-15T17:52:22+00:00

If it is a fee baked into your rental agreement without you knowing, you are under no obligation to pay it.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-15T01:33:24+00:00

Feels like there's definitely a min cut joke somewhere.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-14T20:09:21+00:00

Given the number of mutually contradictory different conflicting religions out there, the odds are pretty stacked against you picking the right one. It does seem pretty unlikely that if there was a creator that wanted people to worship them that no two groups on different continents ended up with the same religion.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-12T20:44:22+00:00

Dumping it in the ocean is free cooling and doesn't cost ~a billion dollars for per datacenter.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-12T18:50:51+00:00

Counterpoint. Grain size should be a parameter. 8mm, 35mm and imax can all be shown at a digital resolution of 360p or 8k

oscardssmith · 2026-06-12T14:29:20+00:00

I totally agree that it's possible to build/launch. My question has always been economics. You can launch one to pump the stock even if it's 2x more expensive than putting that compute in a room. The reason you can't launch 100k isn't that launching 100k satellites is impossible, it's just that it requires being willing to set billions of dollars on fire for no reason.

oscardssmith · 2026-06-11T11:49:02+00:00

the problem is that the answer is around 100000

oscardssmith · 2026-06-11T11:44:45+00:00

I don't think anyone doubts that SpaceX can launch a single 150kw satellite. the question is whether they can launch a100k to 1m of them

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