Things that should seem amazing but just don't

Oedipus married his own mom and the segway guy went off a cliff on a segway.

cool we can bring extinct animals back to life

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/should-we-bring-extinct-species-back-dead

this thread has never made any sense, but i feel like this thought should prompt people running out into the streets but instead it feels like part 47.b of the wednesday morning news haul

Is it a complete coincidence I started a poll about that just moments before your revive Zach? :)

(Thread rules btw, lets see how she fares imho)

not a coincidence! :)

i feel like there's something wrong with me that the thought of reviving extinct species doesn't completely upend my day, because it should. and it doesn't seem to upend anyone else's day either. it's bizarre.

i guess this thread could just replaced by a link to a good medium post on how the capacity to be amazed is diminishing. i don't even care if it's true or backed up by evidence, i just want someone else to sympathize. i miss childlike amazement. possibly i'm just slowly dying like everyone else is

what if we can bring species back, but it's only really dumb and ugly ones

O_O

now THAT'S amazing

It's weird because we simultaneously seem to be basically living in The Future (like, all of the amazing scientific and technological shit from movies and books is happening! Right now! New and amazing stories every day!) and The Past (like maybe it's time for Norman Lear to dust off his typewriter and get back in the game). Exasperation over the latter often leaves me too busy shaking my head in depressive amazement to register that two daddies can have a baby all by themselves now.

Like, we're ultimately just going to wind up reviving extinct species for the benefit of survivalist racists who want to chew them apart with assault rifles, so why even bother?

It's weird because we simultaneously seem to be basically living in The Future ... and The Past

this is called the present

I knew there was a word, thank u

np; i love to dust my old grammars

reviving extinct species at this juncture sounds to me like a way to fill our hearts w joy at human ingenuity and compassion right before they all perish again but this time with us

maybe we could bring back some sea creatures that are tasty that enjoy warmer oceans and lots of sunshine

No no, I miss it too. And this may sound very 'society is in the gutter' but pre-Internet the experience of amazement wasn't as easily diminished? That's what's bothering me. Say something is completely amazing for you and (on social media esp) the next guy will say "you didn't know that lol you fool" , crashing round the corner in mere seconds.

I don't know how to change that, apart from believing one should never be ashamed or feel inhibited by being amazed.

Many xp's

who in your life is saying these things? is everyone just super rude or something, because when I bring up stuff like that people are usually like "oh yeah, pretty cool, huh? saw that a while ago"

I couldn't give you any names, my friends certainly would respond the way yours do. But outside of friends it seems to be en vogue to be cynical? I don't know. Can back it up. But I do feel the same way ZS feels, in that amazement is frowned upon more. (But admitted, this could be an anxiety I feel not backed up by reality)

reviving extinct species at this juncture sounds to me like a way to fill our hearts w joy at human ingenuity and compassion right before they all perish again but this time with us

yeah, we can't even keep the species alive AT THE MOMENT from going extinct, let's concentrate on stopping that before we expensively and pointlessly resurrect animals with no habitats who'll just be trophies for rich bastards and scumbag hunters

Arnav Kapur, a student in @MIT’s Media Lab, can surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.

The future user interface is your MIND. pic.twitter.com/4VQfPhaqxV

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) April 26, 2018

oh cool, now we can google anything in our minds and have the answer delivered back to us without anyone else ever knowing. cool. 77 retweets

So wait a repository for knowledge in one’s own head that we can access at any moment?

nah (not yet), just googling. but it's not hard to imagine the ability to download a copy of wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download) and search it "locally" (entirely within your head, rather than doing an API call to google)

and once again, my trenchant dystopian thoughts on things like this - wealthy people will have access to it first, and they'll always have access to the newest, best performing, best accuracy versions, so it will drive inequality unless all of a sudden wealthy powerful people decide to share their power with the poorest people.

all of you already have this technology, don't you

you're looking at the screen and beaming your reply back
you're in a yacht, in your mind

Think of the endless possibilities for implanting personally tailored falsehoods into the minds of selected groups, based on their online profiles. It's a propagandist's wet dream.

a godlike musical genius, a dog

ワンちゃんが情熱的にピアノ弾きながら歌ってる動画が最高すぎ pic.twitter.com/gP8jtczapg

— ཧཔདད།གཐའཛྷ (@GUCCIMAZE_LAMED) August 18, 2018

no big deal, just a normal video

That it can take a millennium for cold, briny deep ocean water to circulate around the earth’s oceans and come back to the Antarctic currents where it started.

exactly.

that should be amazing! in 1632 the discovery of such a fact would have resulted in the execution of a dozen people by the catholic church. today, perhaps it will be selected as the featured page on wikipedia

Meanwhile the revive of the ox gallstones thread has just blown my mind

oh cool you can just draw wave physics now and it pretty much looks real

Made some more progress with my river render. Switched from using advected textures to Stefan Jeschke's Siggraph 2018 Wave Profile ideas. Looks much richer! #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/9ZaejVsngK

— jpg (@greje656) September 15, 2018

I bet Ray Harryhausen would have buzzed his tits off over that!