Why “Life” is being discussed
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These are great! At the moment I'm tinkering with the original Maxis A-Train for DOS, one of my favorite games. With some AI help I'm adding quality of life features, like bette…
by fleeno · Oct 16, 2026
Yeah — science is seemingly only just getting into the question of how much of an inner life bumblebees and other solitary bees might have. There's a lot of surprising things ab…
by dofm · Oct 16, 2026
> Model outputs are deterministic. Your API provider may be injecting untunable amounts of randomness, but if you're not at the whim of an opaque cloud service, your model can b…
by saghm · Oct 16, 2026
I have never, I hope I'm not living under a rock, heard this from Google. Not with Gemini and not in the pre-LLM days where they were indexing the web Facebook is run by a crimi…
by alex1138 · Oct 16, 2026
AH, you clearly haven't had the "5 different chargers breaking and begging support to send a different production batch". (And paying for every charger.) My scanwatch is beautif…
by Reubachi · Oct 16, 2026
Oh, think it will/can be worse than that. The collapse of the present system can mean all out genocidal wars, either by eugenic and deranged humans doing it to themselves o…
by baranul · Oct 16, 2026
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Life is the capacity in matter, formed of one or more units called cells, for processes such as cell signalling, homeostasis, metabolism, cell growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life eventually reaches a state of death. Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organising systems. Defining life is further complicated by viruses, which replicate only in host cells, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which could be very different from life on Earth. Life exists all over the Earth in air, water, and soil, with many ecosystems forming the biosphere. Some of these are harsh environments occupied only by extremophiles. The life in a particular ecosystem is called its biota. Read more on Wikipedia