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310 sats \ 5 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jan \ on: Neuronal Connectomes in Vitro & Computer Emulation (brain in dish & computers) science

I decided quite a while ago that I wasn't going to die. I'm more into science figuring out how to signal our bodies to quit aging or even reverse aging, but this would be acceptable also.

Either way, someone better get cracking, in not getting any younger... yet.

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @nerd2ninja OP 8 Jan

Excuse me, you can get your own ass cracking on the solution lmao.

I think I want to open up an "openworm" like repo called "libremind" or something to organize tasks that need done so everyone who wants to work on it can (rather than having no clue where to start other than assuming its probably expensive and requires college to even begin to try to work on).

And then license the whole thing under the GPL

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jan

I'm a high school educated truck driver, so like if one of the tasks is "don't forget to pick up milk on the way home" I totally got your back.

I'm not, however, going to guarantee that I get the correct fat% milk... I'll leave the fancy math to you college kids.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nerd2ninja OP 8 Jan

Too many people give up on learning too early in life. I only know what I know not because I thought it'd be good for some career trajectory, but because I actually enjoyed what I was learning about in part from being enamored with the possibilities of the magic I could cast with my knowledge.

I'll put it this way, too many people don't have hobbies. Don't think about "working on solving immortality" think about a part of that problem that could be useful and make it your hobby to play around with little projects that are useful for learning that needed skill.

300 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 8 Jan

I'm still learning things, I've always enjoyed learning, just not in a school setting 😁

I dive into hobbies pretty hard, bitcoin has been the latest one, and I think it's going to consume the better part of my time in the near future.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja OP 8 Jan

I'm not college educated. I agree school kills genuine intellectual curiosity. A complete kill joy.

My computer experience comes a lot from books I got from a library while I was in elementary, the built in help menu in the windows command line and later in life from job experience and then again hobbyist interest learning Linux.

My knowledge of neurons is from YouTube, a few academic papers I found online and a biohacker dedicated to open science (The Thought Emporium).

When I read some boring academic paper, the fun I get out of it is from daydreaming up magical future possibilities.