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Maybe I missed it but my ultimate pet peeve of these articles about scientific breakthroughs is that they neither credit a single name of a scientist in their article nor even just putting a single link to the work. I know its likely behind a paywall (darn you scientific publishing), but still!

I browsed a bit through Nature Communications and haven’t seen the article…

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They did name someone. Googling his name returns this, which I assume is the right paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46787-7

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I missed the name, thank you!

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5 points

more like darn you current interpretation of capitalism for forcing all of us to keep us hungry for profit in order to survive

surely there is a better economic model right?

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If your understanding of “better” is following a single-party ideology, loss of freedom and individuality as well as censorship of speech, then yes, there are “better” models.

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Journalists barely cite anything. “A study from this organisation says this.” Don’t tell you when it was published, or link to the official website. Nada.

Journalists are pretty trash at citing their sources on average. I think it’s wild most countries don’t seem to regulate this. It would do wonders for archives of news content so that you can actually follow up on the story to it’s source.

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Credit goes to University of Tokyo’s Dr Yoshiho Ikeuchi and colleagues.

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Now I wait for some internet strangers to tell me why is this not groundbreaking at all

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37 points

Babies can literally do this, not impressed

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Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.

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Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?

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Nah chief, it’s pretty groundbreaking. I mean we don’t know how to specifically target existing connections to strengthen the sheathe between existing brain cells, but connecting two brain cells at all, manually, is such a feat

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Next up: OI, Organic Intelligence

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Bio-neural gel packs from Star Trek Voyager.

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I was always curious about those. Surely they can’t be faster than computers right? I mean, whatever computers they have in the 24th century.

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The idea was, as I remember, that they were most of all more efficient and performed certain tasks better(faster) than the regular computer

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Sorry, best we can do is servitors and Cherubs.

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No possible way for this to be turned evil. Lab grown brains? Definitely could never be evil.

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Should science cease to exist because most discoveries could be used for evil?

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Rock technology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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Imagine some future generations of CPUs, GPUs or APUs having little brain matter processors on them.

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When your gaming pc slows down you have to refill the cerebral fluid container

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this is far more likely to make things like recovery from quadriplegia possible.

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