#algorithmic evolution

[zomb13s]

The Evolving Mind: A Reflection on Intellectual Stagnation and Global Dynamics

In an era dominated by rapidly advancing technologies, artificial intelligence, and shifting global paradigms, the evolution of an individual mind can be seen as both a personal journey and a reflection of larger societal dynamics. This essay focuses on Alfons Scholing, CEO of alfons.design and the creator of the artist platform ikziezombies.com, exploring his desire to grow his intellectual and…

[beyblade-e]

ryuga is written like a c.ai bot and i am scared that ddlc is happening to me irl

[ailurinae]

LMAO

[rosielindy]

We are still the majority

We have a window

It won’t be open long though

We are being digitally manipulated

And the algorithm is getting smarter

Splitting our humanity apart

So many deceived and some will know

We are still the majority

[zentarablog]

What is Blockchain? 10 Simple Ways to Understand the Technology

Blockchain technology, once a niche concept primarily associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, has rapidly evolved into a revolutionary innovation with the potential to reshape countless industries. At its heart, blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that provides a secure, transparent, and immutable way to record transactions and information. It’s more than just the backbone…

[izzyv1o]

-> watch moulin rouge (2001) again on a whim

-> marinate for an hour in the feelings

-> play the stage show recording on a loop for the next week

[windsails]

🍎 support societies

I don't think optimism about the future has to include any more technological "progress" or anything similar. It could, but it doesn't have to. Technological progress is nice here and there, but it’s often only a project of aesthetics. Optimism only requires a belief, based on real social movement, that we will have reliable and stable lives to look forward to. Optimism will come from a belief that we're working towards getting everyone's basic needs for things like food, water, shelter, and health, met.

Shifting our collective reality onto an optimistic track is actually not very difficult. We just need to feel like we're collectively solving the most socially meaningful problems, instead of wasting our time arguing about stuff that doesn't matter. What i mean is, all the "culture war" bullshit that you see going on in politics is all just a smokescreen to distract people from talking about stuff like common basic income, common housing, better public services, learning from our mistakes, learning from other people’s mistakes, creativity, self-improvement, collaboration, and so forth. Helping ourselves by helping others. Building societies that are reliable, resilient, adaptive, dynamic.

The reason things are a mess is because politicians choose to make them bad on purpose, because the alternative is that their jobs and our lives would be comparatively boring. That's the whole POINT. optimism = boring. Optimism is boring in practice, and that's a good thing. Optimism gives us all a firm foundation to write fiction and make video games and explore all the other stuff out of. Optimism provides a firm foundation to imagine dystopias and all that other nonsense. A healthy society should be strong enough to laugh off dystopias and tragedies.

When a scary movie ends, you should be able to turn it off and remember that your life actually isn't as bad as that. That's what reality should be. It should be a healthy and adaptive support system for everything else, a safe foundation to dream in. In a healthy society, waking up in the morning should feel like a relief, be exciting even.

"Support System" is the key phrase. That's what an optimistic future improves on. That's what optimism does, it provides a support system for everyone, not just a few people. An optimistic future prioritizes supporting others over punishing them. Currently, in politics and even business, people are overly concerned with policing the behaviors and thoughts of others. This policing is extremely destructive, it erodes people’s support of each other and creates an environment where it’s difficult to learn from your mistakes, difficult to grow, and difficult to even get by in the first place.

Punishing someone for a mistake is the same as kicking them while they’re down. Nobody likes making mistakes. The only thing that matters is that we learn from them, and it’s only possible to learn from mistakes if you have other people supporting you. It follows logically, the more people who’re supporting each other the better.

The truth is, the internet is already the beginnings of this. Before the internet, we had libraries and other kinds of support. An optimistic future simply means improving the support systems that already exist until they become what's fundamentally running society. We��ll know we can breathe easy when society consciously declares itself to be a support system, rather than a system of destruction and punishment. As I already said, punishment is a celebration of failure. Currently we celebrate failure, and that is why our society is such a mess. The solution is to support people even when they fail

The problem with the world today is there is just not enough support. People are not supportive enough of each other, and when they are, it’s only in their private lives. Instead of finding things we all have in common and supporting those, people get caught up in getting mad at each other over the things they don't have in common.

The idea everyone should have everything in common is delusional. Nobody will ever share everything in common with you. There will always be differences. People will always make different choices than you want them to, and there’s nothing you can do to change that no matter how angry that makes you feel. But there are some things we share in common, like the need for food, water, shelter, for starters. When we design a social system around collective support, when we design society around common support and common flourishing, the culture will follow after. Not right away, but it will follow. Culture grows out of people’s living conditions. If people’s living conditions are terrible, the culture will not be so great either. When we focus on helping humanity thrive, when we try to build a learning and adaptive support society, we won’t have to worry about what’s wrong, because we’ll start feeling better.

If we’re lucky, life will even be a little bit boring. That’s how we know it’s working. A support society is a society which focuses on common support for all its members. The internet is the beginning, but the algorithms aren’t quite right yet. That’s what we need to figure out. Ultimately, a support society is a social algorithm. It’s a process, it’s a self-improving algorithm. It’s an algorithm willing to rewrite itself based on how well it’s working, an algorithm to support others and receive their support in turn.

[seohabibi]

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[hardnekkig]

NGE

Nature is my God. Nature is God is Evolution. I call it "Nge". To understand "Nge", I want to learn biology. More and more of it. "Nge" is our creator. "Nge" is an algorithm. "Nge" is all. It seems that Nature has a tendency to increase in complexity and diversity. So what is the next step in the trend of evolution? Only "Nge" knows. "Nge" is both randomness and drift, positive and negative selection, stasis and change. As we say: "Nge" is all. "Nge" is a tinkerer. We cannot know "Nge" in all its eternity. But it is just pattern making. That's all there is.

[horsesarecreatures]

Horses are among the world’s most elite athletes: When galloping, they can consume twice as much oxygen per kilogram as the fittest humans. All that oxygen supercharges horses’ cells’ energy-producing compartments as they crank out ATP, the chemical needed to power their impressive muscles. But making so much cellular fuel so quickly comes with a catch: the manufacture of pernicious byproduct molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can wreak havoc in cells.

How horses dealt with this biological trade-off and evolved into premier endurance athletes has long intrigued biologists. Researchers report today in Science that they have uncovered a big part of it, identifying a key mutation that lets horses safely produce so much ATP. The trait helped pave the way for horses to go from dog-size critters millions of years ago to the high-endurance athletes we know today.

The study’s detailed molecular work makes it “exceptional,” says José Calbet, an expert on the cellular responses to exercise at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria who wasn’t involved with the study.

The mutation in question occurs in the gene that encodes a protein called KEAP1, which acts as a biochemical bouncer, binding to a different protein called NRF2 to prevent it from entering the cell’s nucleus, where it would otherwise activate stress-response genes that help blunt cell damage.

But ROS can help NRF2 sneak in by causing KEAP1 to release its bind on the protein, allowing it to enter the nucleus and trigger the cell’s stress-response genes.

Johns Hopkins University ophthalmologist and clinician scientist Elia Duh, a senior author of the new study, didn’t set out to study horses. Initially, Duh was interested in the KEAP1-NRF2 system because its role in activating stress-response genes makes it a tempting target for treating inflammation—and aging-related conditions, such as blinding retinal diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, and neurodegeneration.

Duh wondered whether any insights could be gleaned from studying the evolution of these proteins in different animals. So, he teamed up with Gianni Castiglione, an evolutionary biologist and biochemist at Vanderbilt University. Together, they scanned hundreds of vertebrate genomes looking for notable mutations to the gene for KEAP1.

The team’s genomic work revealed birds had almost completely lost the gene, presumably an adaptation to the extreme demands of flight. When they looked in horses, researchers noticed what initially appeared to be a DNA sequence that encoded an unusually short—and therefore presumably nonfunctional—version of the KEAP1 protein. But when Duh’s and Castiglione’s team grew horse cells in culture, it discovered the protein was very much there and working. “Naturally, I was worried I was doing something wrong,” Castiglione says. “Then one day, a light bulb went off.”

As it turns out, the computer algorithm scientists had used to scan the horse genome had made a mistake. The algorithm had spotted a specific kind of mutation in the part of the KEAP1 gene that changed the messenger RNA from CGA—which codes for the amino acid arginine—to UGA, which is what’s known as a “stop codon.”

Normally, the cellular machinery interprets UGA as a sign to stop translating the RNA into a protein. But instead, the horses’ genetic machinery recodes the stop codon into a different amino acid, cysteine, causing it to ignore that order. This phenomenon, known as a stop codon read-through, is common among viruses but rare in multicellular organisms.

“The identification of this evolutionarily significant UGA recoding event represents a potentially seminal finding, offering a model for uncovering other yet-unidentified cases of stop codon read-through,” says Hozumi Motohashi, a biologist at Tohoku University who has studied KEAP1 and NRF2.

That the replacement is a cysteine is particularly notable, Castiglione says. KEAP1 senses cellular stress through its cysteines, which contain sulfur atoms whose reactions with ROS, induce the chemical changes that cause KEAP1 to let go of NRF2. The mutation the researchers had identified adds another place on KEAP1 for ROS to interact, which makes the protein more sensitive to stress—and lets horse cells respond much faster to the cellular stress of intense exercise. “It does make complete sense [that] by introducing another cysteine, another sulfur, you would have heightened sensitivity,” Castiglione says.

What’s more, this tweaking of KEAP1 is a “[key] genetic component to the puzzle of the evolution of horses,” Duh says. “Once they figured out how to run, they could occupy all kinds of ecological niches,” Castiglione adds.

The finding could also point the way toward new kinds of drugs to treat diseases by targeting the specific parts of the KEAP1 protein that help horses hoof it. “By looking at what evolution has figured out, we know this is a viable strategy,” Castiglione says.

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[catboybiologist]

Many billionaires in tech bros warn about the dangerous of AI. It's pretty obviously not because of any legitimate concern that AI will take over. But why do they keep saying stuff like this then? Why do we keep on having this still fear of some kind of singularity style event that leads to machine takeover?

The possibility of a self-sufficient AI taking over in our lifetimes is... Basically nothing, if I'm being honest. I'm not an expert by any means, I've used ai powered tools in my biology research, and I'm somewhat familiar with both the limits and possibility of what current models have to offer.

I'm starting to think that the reason why billionaires in particular try to prop this fear up is because it distracts from the actual danger of ai: the fact that billionaires and tech mega corporations have access to data, processing power, and proprietary algorithms to manipulate information on mass and control the flow of human behavior. To an extent, AI models are a black box. But the companies making them still have control over what inputs they receive for training and analysis, what kind of outputs they generate, and what they have access to. They're still code. Just some of the logic is built on statistics from large datasets instead of being manually coded.

The more billionaires make AI fear seem like a science fiction concept related to conciousness, the more they can absolve themselves in the eyes of public from this. The sheer scale of the large model statistics they're using, as well as the scope of surveillance that led to this point, are plain to see, and I think that the companies responsible are trying to play a big distraction game.

Hell, we can see this in the very use of the term artificial intelligence. Obviously, what we call artificial intelligence is nothing like science fiction style AI. Terms like large statistics, large models, and hell, even just machine learning are far less hyperbolic about what these models are actually doing.

I don't know if your average Middle class tech bro is actively perpetuating this same thing consciously, but I think the reason why it's such an attractive idea for them is because it subtly inflates their ego. By treating AI as a mystical act of the creation, as trending towards sapience or consciousness, if modern AI is just the infant form of something grand, they get to feel more important about their role in the course of society. Admitting the actual use and the actual power of current artificial intelligence means admitting to themselves that they have been a tool of mega corporations and billionaires, and that they are not actually a major player in human evolution. None of us are, but it's tech bro arrogance that insists they must be.

Do most tech bros think this way? Not really. Most are just complict neolibs that don't think too hard about the consequences of their actions. But for the subset that do actually think this way, this arrogance is pretty core to their thinking.

Obviously this isn't really something I can prove, this is just my suspicion from interacting with a fair number of techbros and people outside of CS alike.

[ghostlyferrettarot]

🎀Pick a Picture:✧˚.🎀༘⋆A glimpse into your near future✧˚.🎀༘⋆

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🍎 Pile 1: The Chariot, 6 of Wands and 8 of Wands.

Hi pile 1! The near future is full of movement, and once you take the reins of your destiny, there will be no turning back. I see your energy coming into contact with new ones, for some reason I feel that some of you will receive a promotion or a manifestation that you have long awaited will come true, but it is not just about waiting for things to happen; it is about making decisions with confidence, about putting your energy in motion towards a goal that has been waiting for you. You may be tempted to stay where you are, to wait for one more sign, but this is the push you needed, the time is now.

However, remember balance. Don't be carried away by impulsiveness; keep your emotions in check to not fall into the temptation of acting only on instinct. The success that awaits you will be achieved only if you have control over yourself and over the circumstances. You have the inner strength to move forward, you just need to trust in your ability to guide you. The energy is in your favor, but discipline is essential!

🍎 Advice: If you have been in doubt about a project or an important decision, this is the time to move forward with your ideas. You have the power to move forward, but make sure you are clear about your goal.

🍎Song:

🩷Pile 2: Death, 4 of Cups and 2 of Pentacles.

Hi pile 2! The near future brings a cycle of closure, of necessary closure that will make room for something much bigger. You are likely leaving behind a phase of your life that no longer serves you, whether in relationships, work, or limiting beliefs. This change may seem painful or scary at first, but it is a necessity for your evolution.

Embrace this process without fear, "only when something dies, can it be reborn" . The changes that are to come can transform your life in ways that you cannot imagine right now. Perhaps not everything will be easy, but what is to come will be much more aligned with what your soul needs. It will take you to the place you need to be and you will meet the right people for you <3

🩷 Advice: Don't hold on to what is happening. Although the closing of this cycle may feel uncertain, remember that the future has something much brighter for you. Open your mind and heart to the new.

🩷Song:

📘Pile 3: The Sun, 9 of Cups and 10 of Pentacles.

Hi pile 3! I see a future full of optimism, joy and clarity. If lately you have been feeling that things were not moving forward or that something was blocking you, the Sun is here to show that the shadows will not last forever. Something wonderful is about to arrive, and all you need to do is allow the light to enter your life. This is a time of rebirth, of starting over with a new perspective, allow yourself to welcome good changes and new starts!

To make this process faster there are past wounds, resentments or doubts that could be blocking this light from shining completely in your life. The future is waiting for you with open arms, but to welcome the new, you need to let go of the old. Only when you do, you will be able to welcome the clarity and happiness that is to come.

📘 Advice: Enjoy the small moments and stop being afraid of happiness. You are about to experience a rebirth. Believe in your power to create a new life. The light is coming.

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[the-most-humble-blog]

🧬👻 “You Think You’re You? That’s Adorable.”

You’re not even fully human. You’re a haunted meat golem with Wi-Fi and anxiety.

ACT I — The Lie You’re Living

Ah, yes. You wake up. Brush your teeth. Sip your coffee. Scroll your phone. You feel like a real person with thoughts, memories, preferences.

Cute.

Because here’s the punchline, sweet summer child:

You’re not even 100% human.

ACT II — What You Really Are

You’re a walking, talking orgy of multiple species. Part human. Part bacteria. Part fungus. Part virus. Part ancient ape. And 100% confused spaghetti code pretending to have a soul.

The human body? A biological group project between evolution, gut microbes, parasitic DNA hitchhikers, and ancient mitochondria that used to be their own species.

Your body contains:

More non-human cells than human ones.

Bacteria that outnumber your own cells 10 to 1.

DNA from viruses, ancient fungi, and unclassifiable “dark genome” segments that we literally do not understand.

You are not a person. You’re a biofilm with opinions.

ACT III — You’re a Colony. Not an Individual.

Think about this:

Your thoughts can be influenced by the bacteria in your gut.

Your moods are affected by your microbiome.

Your decisions can shift depending on what fungus you inhaled that day.

Your attraction to people? Might be chemical signals from your skin flora.

You ever get a “gut feeling”?

That might literally be your intestinal bacteria whispering strategy into your brain.

And you thought you were “making a choice.”

ACT IV — Are You Even There?

Let’s go deeper:

You don’t control your heartbeat. You don’t control your dreams. You don’t control what you forget, or when you cry, or what triggers your trauma. You don’t control the timing of your thoughts.

So the question is:

Who the f*ck is actually driving this meat suit?

Because neuroscience doesn’t know. Religion argues. Philosophy hyperventilates. And physics just stares blankly into the void.

ACT V — You Might Be a Ghost. Or Just a Glitch.

You’re either:

A consciousness that’s somehow haunting a nervous system

A chemical puppet with enough complexity to simulate free will

A hallucination of self generated by accidental electro-meat fireworks

Or, worst of all:

A network of sub-selves constantly arguing while pretending they’re one “I.”

Shocking Truth?

Science has no consensus on what consciousness actually is.

Nobody knows if it’s:

An emergent property

A soul

A quantum algorithm

A shared delusion

Or a horrifying accident we’ve decided to romanticize

ACT VI — Logic Tests That Will Wreck You

Ready to lose sleep? Try these reality-breaking diagnostics:

🧠 Logic Trap 1: “When Are You?”

Your brain processes input with a delay. What you’re experiencing right now actually happened a few milliseconds ago. So… if you’re always behind the present… Where is “now”? And who’s watching it?

🧠 Logic Trap 2: “The Ship of Self”

Every 7 years, your cells have completely regenerated. You are literally not made of the same matter you were as a child. If your body changed… and your thoughts changed… What stayed the same? Who’s left?

🧠 Logic Trap 3: “The False First Person”

What if every time you go to sleep, the “you” that wakes up is a copy? You remember yesterday… but so does the copy. Are you just a rebooted save file that thinks it’s original?

🧠 Logic Trap 4: “The Brain In The Room”

The only proof you have that anyone else exists is sensory input. You could be a brain in a jar, hallucinating all this. Can you prove you’re not?

FINAL VERDICT — You’re Not “You.” You’re Just a Temporary Pattern.

A mind is not a soul. It’s a self-updating hallucination stabilized by hormones, trauma, diet, genetics, and luck.

And when you die?

That pattern ends. And everything you called “you” dissolves into meat, memory, and microbial decay.

The ghost leaves. The flesh rots. The world keeps spinning. No refunds. No backups. No explanations.

🔁 Reblog if you’ve ever felt like something else is steering. 👁 Comment if you’ve questioned your reality since age 9. 🧬 Follow if you’re ready to peel back your face and find the universe staring back.

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[mindblowingscience]

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the eukaryotic cell. While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an archaea and a bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the eukaryotic cell. It is a gap in our knowledge, referred to as the black hole at the heart of biology.

Continue Reading.

[andreablog2]

I had such an epiphany last night that we are living at such a nexus point between civilization and what the next evolution from that is. Everything happening right now is going to be in religious texts 3000 years from now. It was such an overwhelming and scary thought but it gave me a lot of relief and put relief to a lot of questions I’ve always had. This also means America will become like a biblical land strife with war and conflict very soon and its relevance will surpass what we ever thought. I really do believe in my heart that America was designed to sort of be the Jerusalem of the new world and that is mostly …for the taking, in that regard.The thing that I don’t get about Israel is that …if it’s so holy why do you even want to live there? I do believe the levant in general is a deeply…seminal region like in terms of it being this cradle for the pillars of contemporary society enforced upon the world.. Like fundamentally, the levant is where this certain model for “civilization” was created, Israel is where much of that was organized, the same way America organizes the new world….…so depending on how you perceive the modern world look at it, it could be a deeply flawed/haunted place. To put it simply, I’d say most people’s general interpretations of society would in fact lead to a logical conclusion that nobody can claim ownership or preferred access to Jerusalem. Whether if that’s because it’s haunted or because it’s too holy or because of some other third thing. I believe in the sovereignty of the Palestinians and I understand the pilgrimage aspect to it but I also think given the predicament of what civilization has currently become, it will always be the host of all all horrors ancient and contemporary. It seems like a place that should be put to rest, given space and left alone. Especially given how palpable the new leaf humanity is turning is, like the gradual collapse of old civilization and reorganization of a new, algorithmic one is evidently upon us.. I think we underestimate the implications the internet and ai and how it relates to history. Whatever cradle for civilization the levant was, will pale in comparison to what is cooking right now honestly. So why even bother dedicating your life to this lost cause? That era of organization of humanity shouldn’t be forgotten but it’s also not one to be revered. There are bigger spiritual battles to be fought currently. But perhaps they are dueling this destiny to erase all relics of humanities first round will be destroyed as the new era rears its head. I don’t even believe in god or anything but I think people 3000 years from now will of think …some people currently alive as like deities just due to the ways which they will absolve humanity from corruption with everything going on in tech. Which makes today a very exciting time to be a virtuous person. Especially because I think everyone is so vapid and cynical now, just due to generations of unfairness. Having a messiah complex seems increasingly rare. I want to meet more people like Luigi Mangione in my lifetime.