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Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious—and how would we know?

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Who upvotes this phony bullshit from "singularityhub"?

There's only one worthwhile sentence in this slop:

To be clear, there’s no evidence brain organoids can think or feel.

edit: A reason behind the hype. "Biotech" is yesterday's "AI".

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

people upvote sensationalist bullshit because it's what they emotionally respond to.

lemmy is rapidly become reddit redux, at an even faster pace. tons of crazy people on this site who are just here to get high on ragebait.