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the lamarcube (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I had to look it up. If you search Lamarck you find the guy, but the wikipedia page is massive. But searching 'Lamarck theory' brings up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism . TL;DR: inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Lamarck argued that a blacksmith gets strong muscles from his work and his sons inherit those strong muscles.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, it wasn't a horrible theory at the time, and there was even some evidence for it (because the blacksmiths sons were very likely also blacksmiths, and thus also muscular). Even Darwin couldn't explain HOW his theory evolution was actually supposed to function, he basically just said that it did.

Unfortunately, even after we discovered genes, people were still following Lamarck, and it's offshoot, Lysonkoism got a LOT of people killed, despite by then being verifiably false.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s also epigenetics, which could be described as a very limited version of Lamarckism that actually holds water. That’s stretching definitions, but it does involve lifestyle conditions in one generation that affect future generations. So far, it’s mostly restricted to things like famine in one generation leading to increased fat storage in future generations, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

interesting

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lamarkism is a basic correlation / causation mix-up to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So could have been Darwinism before the discovery of the genes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Blacksmith got jacked by crankin his shaft-shaped horn.

[–] Jolteon 4 points 1 month ago

I mean, that's basically halfway to pokémon evolution already. I'm in.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What happens when the giraffes get over 500m tall?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's a cube, I'd have questions before they got to 8m.
If it's 1m², but 500m tall, I'd have ... different questions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if the region is just giraffe-shaped?

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

Then I guess you can fit about 500 tons of giraffe in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

ChatGPT tells me that a giraffe-shaped region of volume 500 cubic meters would be 27.5m tall.

Im pretty sure I'm not using AI the way the founding fathers would have approved of.

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

Reminds me of Biotopia! Such a great and hilarious radionovela!! (But only if you understand Spanish)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

damn shame i don't speak spanish.. what's it about?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a fictional news bulletin that is supposedly only for this small community of mad scientists all living together. And since they all have their over the top projects, it never gets boring. Like, you have the abogato (a cat that is also a lawyer), someone clones themselves way too many times, an artificial intelligence that is making a radio drama about this community but is digging up too many secrets. And hundreds of other funny stories.

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

Since this is for the benefit of non Spanish speakers, I feel the need to point out that the word "abogato" is a portmanteau of "abogado" (lawyer) and "gato" (cat).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Haha yes, I wasn't sure how much into detail I should go into. And it has been some years so I didn't remember his origin story that well. I guess it was based on Schroedinger's cat, right? Time to listen to it again!