Not that I agree with your point in the first place, but I hope you’re also modding out FTL travel then.

As we are assumed to get enough oxygen no matter what, I think blood thinners to stop us from dying of a stroke would be fair game too.

The train of thought that leads to that belief is usually along the lines of: We’re the only sample we have. It’s more likely than not that what our planet and ecosystem has produced is not an outlier but the norm.

That being said, of course I strongly believe those to be fake and also assume that there is a huge amount of variance in what intelligent life with potential to develop spacefaring technology could look like. Therefore we’re probably not an outlier, but the possibilities within non-outliers are still so vast that our first contact would likely look a lot different.

Angela Merkel is a famous example of someone who has a doctorate in quantum chemistry and was a researcher before turning to politics.

Small addition: I wouldn’t call O3 (Ozone) charged. It “only” has some partial charge like water (H2O) does, but overall it has the same number of protons and electrons.

Now you could have ozonide (O3-), but that’s definitely a way more rare case.

Everything is a poison.

I don’t think that:

The tool embeds a digital “watermark” directly into the image that can’t be seen by the human eye but can be picked up by a computer that’s been trained to read it.

Is gonna be helpful for keeping AI generated images out of training sets. It would require the people who make the model to actually implement that tool into their model.

I don’t think most researchers not affiliated with google will chose to do that.

It doesn’t have the ability to just look up anything from its training data, that stuff is encoded in its parameters. Still, the input has to be encoded in a way that causes the correct “chain reaction” of excited/not excited neurons.

Beyond that, it’s not just a carbon copy from what was in the training either because you can tell it what variable names to use, which order to do things in, change some details, etc. If it was simply a lookup that wouldn’t be possible. The training made it able to generalize what it learned to some extent.