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It's coming (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time a fungus used the body of something else to get to where it needs to go.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mushrooms are just the fruiting body of the mycelium network. What we have here is someone cutting a dick off and having it pilot a Gundam.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

You do have a wonderful way with words!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.

Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah the reality is they essentially used mycelium as nerve fibers, but I was riffing on the headline. There was also certainly no learning going on. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mushroom Robot Army vs OpenAI Robot Army... whose side are you on?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I, for one, welcome our new fungus overlords.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A mushroom overlord sounds like a fungi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You just voluntered to be mulch for the spore beds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I'm proud to serve our benevolent leaders

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Humans lose anyway.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Glory to the human-mushroom-hybrids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Mushroom Intelligence vs AI vs Humanity is the RTS I didn’t know I wanted

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone got the DOI? I promise I won’t build a small swarm of wheeled mushrooms.

[edit]: Found it! https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

But you didn't promise anything about arachnic legs!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

Making the dystopia less boring one step at a time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait until they give mushrooms the ability to talk and they call us ugly meatbags and future soil.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My shroom trip vision made me believe that we are just a seed to spread spores and how that is why humankind loves exploring and burying each other in the ground. I also went into the afterlife where my mind connected to the underground network of mycelium and I could see all past memories of people that died and were connected. Before the vision though was the worst experience ever and I won't do it again

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Is it strange that I'm less concerned about mushrooms being able to talk than I am about mushrooms being able to see us?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

[Mushroom global hive-mind] : "Good, good. It's all going according to plan"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How long until we can play doom on mushrooms?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I can play doom on mushrooms any time I want

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How long until mushrooms can play doom on people?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can play it on gut bacteria, so it seems possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

How long until mushrooms can play Doom?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Cue the Jurassic Park quote we all know, but for some reason is constantly ignored.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Cool, it can run for US President next if that’s still a thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Aroo!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It's all fun and games until we're overrun by cybernetic goombas.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's something heartwarming about using the human ability to use technology to overcome limitations to help another species.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Thats basically the premise of the Uplift series by David Brin

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What was that 70s movie?

Night of triffels? Or something?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Night of truffles will be the parody version

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Anyone who has seen mushrooms grow and multiply knows this is some next level scary shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A fungus among us, how novel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet he's a fungi.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least a good spore to hang out with

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You know, if they fit the mold

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's just hope that that fungus won't start worshipping Gork and Mork any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

“Trust the Fungus.” –Luigi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This wasn't the type of GYO adaptation I was expecting...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

So, this is real. Very cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Think of the neat new ways techbros are going to be able to fuck us in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Vangers 2.0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yet another scary mushroom dick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Neat.

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