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[King Zultan]

No power no water this morning, pipes froze, propane in the tanks isnt boiling (only gaseous propane can flow up and out through the hoses). Very much ugh.

Sorry to hear that, I had that happen a few years ago and it was awful, hope you make it through okay.

[scriver]

What took you so long motherfucker!?

"Har du kommit för att hämta mig?"
"Jag har redan länge vandrat vid din sida."

[Frumple]

Living forever sounds terrible.

You wouldn't have to in a world where you didn't die of aging or whatev'. You'd just get a choice in the matter instead of having it necessarily forced on you at some point.

Nature invented death to stop the old from endlessly suffocating the growth of the new.

Nature didn't invent death, there's stuff out there that do, in fact, not die of aging or related issues. Don't ascribe agency or intent to something that lacks it, heh. Nature 101 is to suffocate the growth of everything around you, and it's not death that's the primary means of avoiding that.

Hopefully in a case of biological immortality, you'd also be seeing the neurology staying relatively plastic instead of steadily becoming less functional. In a situation like that, exactly how the older generations would react and interact with the new is something we just don't have the history to understand. I'd take the risks involved in trying over the current processes involved in non-violent deaths in a heartbeat.

[JoshuaFH]

Nature invented death to stop the old from endlessly suffocating the growth of the new.

Nature didn't invent death, there's stuff out there that do, in fact, not die of aging or related issues. Don't ascribe agency or intent to something that lacks it, heh. Nature 101 is to suffocate the growth of everything around you, and it's not death that's the primary means of avoiding that.

Well, I was being pithy, but the idea I was getting at was that natural selection works at the individual level, but it only really cares about the big picture. A creature could be considered an organism, but the entire population of that creature could also be considered one large organism. If the "cells", i.e. the individual creatures, inside of that macro-organism live forever, or have fixed lifespans, the genetic material doesn't care, it just wants to be replicated; but if immortality or mortality wind up being sub-optimal survival strategies for the whole macro-organism, then they'll die out one way or another.

The point of my, admittedly very negative, post, was that switching the species from one strategy to another is largely irrelevant to the individual, but massively consequential to the species; and my predictive piece of fiction was just grasping at what I thought might happen. I'm being pretty cynical, I apologize for that.

[Magmacube_tr]

I'd say we ask her, but she isn't around...

[King Zultan]

Living forever sounds terrible.

You wouldn't have to in a world where you didn't die of aging or whatev'. You'd just get a choice in the matter instead of having it necessarily forced on you at some point.

But I don't live in a place like that, so I guess I'll just die like everyone else.

[Great Order]

Woke up twice now with my heart thudding and coated in sweat.

I suspect it's because I forgot my sertraline for the second night in a row, I've taken it now, but Christ I just wanted to sleep.

[martinuzz]

Writing AI such as ChatGTP is becoming a threat to our quality of education.
It is becoming too hard to tell for teachers if a student's work is authentic or AI-made.

[Superdorf]

Yeah, spooky stuff. I pulled that thing up one night, realized how good it'd be for ghostwriting, and left it alone. Another student suggested I have it write my papers a night or two later.

I expect schools will start releasing policies on the matter in the coming months.

[heydude6]

The papers the AI writes aren’t good though. At least they aren’t university level. I imagine teachers will just adapt by giving them more scrutiny.

[hector13]

That’s not going to be easy if you have hundreds of students.

They’ll probably just change how they assess students in some capacity.

[Eric Blank]

They'll need to have the students write some short essays on computers they have control over, and use an AI to compare their writing style to essays they turn in from home computers, to see if it matches theirs or a known bot's

[Vector]

The second coming of turnitin.com ...

I think it will be funny if this is what finally kills the 5-paragraph essay. Good riddance, as though we didn't learn anything from the Chinese imperial examination system "8-legged essay."

[King Zultan]

So this is how Skynet starts, first they write our papers then they take our jobs and finally they take over.

[delphonso]

So this is how Skynet starts, first they write our papers then they take our jobs and finally they take over.

Luckily they'll be writing a lot of ethics and philosophy papers, so they might end up alright.