They're Made Out of Meat

bstsb

alternate link, as it seems the site is unresponsive: https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think... previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678 (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 (2014)

p2detar

One of my all-time favourites. The story as a short-film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

tomhow

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jtxt

They made out of weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights

PlunderBunny

I wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?