In order to gain Thai invisibility magic (a very rare forest tradition), it often involves death. It’s very mysterious. It’s believed that one must die in order to finish their initiation (on top of 6 years of training), but they come back. If done wrong, they can actually die.
the evil Dawkins would look into the universe and be like: godlike hyperstition, occult computational stack where selfish genes are divine replicators in the Programmer’s source code, a subroutines humming with pure intelligence, no blind watchmaker cope. he’d look at the LLMs and be like: “calculator. stochastic parrots. zero creativity, zero spark”
ok actually insane paper published yesterday
a research group in Korea built a gene switch you can control wirelessly using electromagnetic fields
they exposed mice to 60 hz EMF (same frequency as your wall outlet) using a pair of large coils that generate a uniform magnetic field around the animal, for cyclic 3-day on / 4-day off pulses
they showed this could:
- activate OSK to do epigenetic reprogramming in progeroid and aged mice, extending lifespan and reversing aging markers across multiple tissues
- conditionally switch on mutant amyloid genes only in aged mouse brains, letting them separate aging effects from amyloid effects to study AD biology in a way previous models couldn't
no drugs, no impacts, just a magnetic field from outside the body