<div dir="auto">A freaking STONISHING the two local scioly teams put together six days ago with NO adult advisors NO teacher advisors NO human trainers NO existing student expertise NO farms nearby trained entirely by chatGPT going against 48 California teams won third and second place. spike</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 10:07 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of<br>
Dave S via extropy-chat<br>
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>…I've got chickens. They eat what they can find, including bugs, plants,<br>
snakes, and lizards, and pretty much anything I give them, including food<br>
scraps, chicken feed, and dried meal worms and soldier fly larvae. So<br>
chickens turning bugs into tasty meat and eggs is nothing new…<br>
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>From an energy cycle perspective, we might be better off with slugs as<br>
chicken food. Roaches scurry about and use up energy. Slugs are sluggish.<br>
Good chance we can produce them in arbitrary quantities using few resources.<br>
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>…Another approach would be to chemically process insects into something<br>
like fake meat that has none of the flavor, smell, or texture of bugs. -Dave<br>
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We have a persistent marketing problem with getting people to eat bugs,<br>
regardless of how they are processed and regardless of how good or how<br>
nutritious they are. It’s analogous to the marketing problem Charlton<br>
Heston introduced in the last 5 seconds of the movie with Soylent Green.<br>
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