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@sun @7666 @demha
it's not quite the same thing, don't think. north-meri natives were (mostly) forced out of places with guns. true "land acknowledgements" generally come from people who can't even pronounce tribe's names though, and personal unpopular (and never going to happen) opinion, yeh, is "just make everyone citizens with equal rights and have the emotional-interest-vested lands be national parks". then there would be arguments about who's allowed to use what national park resources, but letting some tribe in oregon fish for religious reasons and nobody else is as stupid as making "religious freedom" carveouts for christians. (let people grow their own peyote though, dumb drug war

@sun @Goalkeeper
can't find any source for this on cursory search (no original post on claimed source account "eon systems"; "eon systems" website gives no information on anything (at all) either; lists a few famous science guys as advisors, but quick web search also yields no overlap of e.g. "george church" or "stephen wolfram" + "eon systems"; and the "team" page seems to list a few people who appear only in places like "cryopreservation wiki". also most recent result i'd heard of at least was https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07763-9 , much more vague (admittedly haven't been paying so much attention this past year or so as once was me

also more than 6 orders at the computational level; ~7? dealing with synapses rather than just neurons. and liable to find more complications in actually mapping from cellular differentiation etc

with a big limiting factor still being computational architecture to efficiently run a connectome though, and changing that being the biggest limit to otherwise seemingly more easy to achieve "agi", probably pointless to discussion

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@sun @vitalis @coolboymew
looking wiki now, apparently CE was used in reference to various calendars reckoning from various dates? like 'common era of the muslims, common era of the romans, common era of the jews. sensible to me when gregorian calendar with epoch becomes global standard that we have a "global common era" now, or just CE

CE is in use by everyone in china and assorted other countries (jp still calls it "western era", older china term). insisting on "just AD" anyhow seems only a thing in places with big christian populations to get mad