Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.

Yes. However the frequency it blocks is ~2.45GHz which is the same frequency as WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. and used to be the only other antenna other than the cellular antenna, where the frequency ranges from 600MHz-2.5GHz.

This used to be good practice because you would first remove the sim card disabling the LTE communication, unless the hardware was compromised, and then place it in the microwave to disable all other signals.

With the introduction and proliferation of eSIM on both devices and carrier sides, removing the SIM card no longer provides much protection and the additional of many other communication methods, most notably 5GHz 802.11x, the microwave trick doesn’t really do anything either.

But it used to work.

No, the problem is greedy corporations.

There is an active need for many developers, think of every time you’ve used terrible software, every time a program crashed or you found yourself manually doing something and thought “there should be a tool for this”, every bad search and broken social media site.

Hell, we’re supposed to be in the middle of an “AI boom” and someone has to actually implement all those pie in the sky “automate away everyone’s jobs”. While AI can, debatably, write the code for that, it still takes a person to design, architect, implement, test and validate those systems.

No. The entire technical foundation on which “computer science” is built is crumbling due to lack of maintenance and funding and desperately needs people to fix it, however corporations are doing their what they do best; devaluing, destroying, and parasitizing their surroundings.

That’s an interesting theory I haven’t encountered before, thanks for sharing!

However, I’m not finding anything that suggests to me that Orch OR is really anything more than Penrose catching Nobelitis.

Looking at some of those recent “big results”:

• Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats is making a huge leap from “inhibiting basic cell functions results in delayed offset of anesthesia” to “quantum brain hypothesis proved!!!”. It’s a very cool result with important implications, but I would be very surprised if there isn’t already a well proven existing mechanism to explain the result. If I were to bet it would be related to axonal transport, but that’s largely speculative on my part.
• Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architectures is much closer to the kind of experimental result I’d expect, but describes an optical communication medium, not a quantum one. It might have some important implications in biophotonics but that’s also a theory worthy of hefty skepticism.

In summary, carry on you crazy bastards! But I don’t think you can make any difinitive claims about consciousness and certainly wouldn’t consider Stuart Hammeroff and Roger Penrose “the experts on consciousness” especially with how poorly defined and nebulous the concept is.

for a fully silicon one, it would need suspended in an acid so they can interact and (literally) vibrate as a group.

I think there’s something more that you’re trying to communicate here but I’m unsure of what it is. Getting silicon, or semiconductors more generally, to “literally vibrate as a group” is the basis of a significant amount of analog electronics, MEMS, NEMS, etc. most notably in RF signal chains and the like. Do you have a link to where this comes from or something?

you’re talking about on a macro real world level

We’re talking at about the same scale of microtubules with 10¹ nm feature size and 10¹ um component size. I used the example I did because it scales nicely to real world level where most people will have encountered it and so be somewhat familiar with. The primary differences I see are of dimension (semiconductor manufacturing methods can’t do “true 3d”) and of medium.

lump of a compound contraining other elements

That’s how silicon semiconductors work and how that “semi” part gets controlled.

for Silicon to vibrate it needs to be in acid

I know it’s a shitpost but silicon dioxide, which is grown on top of the silicon wafer during manufacturing, is one of the most commonly used piezoelectrics. Every clock and oscillating signal in modern electronics is due to ‘vibrating silicon’.

I’d love to talk to someone in the middle of the computer science and developmental psychology Venn diagram.

Not that person, but an Interesting lecture on that topic

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