>>108758798
idk but years ago seeing threads on forums where users were competing with each other like who donates more resources was one of the weirdest dystopian things i've ever seen in my life, along with posts like
>listen buddy, i donate 60% of my dual core as opposed to your 20% so lower your tone when you're talking to me okay? i'm doing science
100% of those guys are most likely reddit moderators nowadays. only they could have such such strong combo of high-energy midwittery and duning-kruger.

Undercover mining botnet

Did it ever even do anything?

What about AI? Will AI get us a prophylactic herpes vaccine?

>>108758798
I use this shit in the winter to heat up my tiny ass home office room.
Generally I think it has helped a lot with research, but ultimately all pharmaceutical companies have no incentive to actually cure cancer until maybe in 30 - 50 years when all their medications that limit side effects of radiotherapy and such become generic.
Think of the shareholder value that would be lost.

Looks like it helped some findings in misfolding proteins leading to Alzheimers.
Almost all research is step by step rather than huge leaps these days.

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did they found any aliens?

>>108758798
I saw veritasium (yeah infotainment shit) talking about how google beat them with AI. I guess there's different ways to do this nowadays.

I rather run Hentai@Home.

>>108759431
>did they found any aliens?
yes but from on earth so hushed and shut down

For me it was this >>108759431

>>108760390
ay carumba

>>108759562
At least that actually helps humanity.

>>108758798
the only thing i fold is cheese

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>>108759431
>mfw back in 2010 I was wasting computing power for this absolute piece of shit that achieved nothing and was announced to be a big nothingburger instead of mining bitcoin

>>108762217
no refunds

>>108758852
>nerds comparing hw specs is dystopian somehow
The fuck you on about nigger?

Cheesed

>>108759431
I ran this on Mac OS 9

u did work for pharma companies to profit off ur shit stupid fucking goycattle

>>108758852
dystopian doesnt mean everything you don't like.

>>108758798
unironically a paper mill, just like pretty much everything running on boinc too (and almost all the papers about how feasible volunteers computing is)
the rosetta@home lab did develop a drug, however they did it without the volunteer compute

Yes

>>108759431
Ye-

>>108758852
I remember a science teacher getting arrested for theft because he loaded SETI onto the machines in the school's computer lab. They didn't even ask him to reimburse the school for the additional electricity use, just went straight to filing criminal charges.

>>108764623
Did he go into the slammer?

>>108764623
>One news report said that the district had to replace the computer processors due to their 24-hour use, but experts say that using a computer all day is actually easier on the processor. “Most advice given on computers nowadays is don’t power them down,” Farber said. Wear and tear on electronics is greater when they heat up and cool down, as they do when a computer powers on and off, he said.
>Reports also say that the district expects it will cost it more than $1 million to remove the program and fix other problems. Experts find that unlikely. If the district can remotely remove the program, it could take one minute to uninstall the software on all the computers at once, Anderson said. However, if a worker must visit each machine to uninstall the software and that process takes a minute or two for each machine, the process could take some time.
>Niesluchowski isn’t the first person to run into trouble for running such distributed computing programs at work. In 2002, a Georgia man faced criminal charges for using computers at the college where he worked to run programs for the distributed.net project. He was given probation. A year earlier 17 employees at the Tennessee Valley Authority were reprimanded for running the SETI program on their computers.

>>108759431
If it did you you really think they'd tell you?

>>108759431
Assuming life is much more likely around G2V main sequence yellow dwarf stars like our sun:
>roughly 1x10^22 to 4x10^22 G-type stars in the observable part of our universe
>20-50% of those have rocky earth like planets within their habitable zones according to Kepler research data
>44% to 50% of G-type stars are part of multi-solar systems
>conservative estimate is 50% of viable planets retain an atmosphere
When assuming 1x10^22 stars with 20% chance of earth like planets and eliminating 50% of those due to being in multi-solar systems you're still looking at 5x10^20 earth like planets within our observable part of the universe.
You shouldn't be asking if life is out there (it is) the real question is is there sufficiently advanced life out there right now that we could detect? This requires that life is intelligent and reached the equivalent technological developmental stage of our industrial revolution.
You can account all you want for having a moon with a similar ratio to our own, plate tectonics, having either a magnetic field or deep oceans with frozen tops, yada yada yada. Do it all you want you're still left with a meaninglessly large number of planets and that's before accounting for the fact that life is very much theoretically possible around other types of stars or the fact that multi-solar systems aren't actually as much of a death trap as we previously assumed, so on and so forth.
What is the likelihood of there being another intelligent lifeform out there with enough of a technological signature for us to detect them? Probably fuck all. Even right now as we're moving away from widespread radio tech towards digital communication our tech signature has already diminished significantly. There is a tiny window in time where a civilization that doesn't build gigantic beacons to announce to the universe that they are there is detectable. Sorry to say but bio signatures are a fucking joke, there is always an abiogenic process to explain it.

>>108758798
>use your computer to make number go up
The original Cookie Clicker.

>>108766568
imagine risking your job for this
why
at least bitcoin make sense

>>108769705
At the time it was unprecedented so those who got in trouble for it didn't consider anyone would see it as a problem. One of the guys had actually been trying to get his employer to shut off computers overnight to save energy but the employer prohibited it. In that situation, it was logical to think the employer wouldn't care about some software running on the computers overnight when they weren't being used.

>>108766568
>One news report said that the district had to replace the computer processors due to their 24-hour use
Lol some company probably embezzled a bunch of money doing this, and they probably just sent some faggot out with a tube of thermal paste so that he could pretend he was "replacing the processor". Look goy, it's a new CPU, look how much cooler it's running. Your old CPU was overheating because it was worn out, O ALGO.
>>108758798
didn't do jack shit except waste people's electricity
wouldn't be surprised if some people's computers got infected with miners and they thought it was normal because "muh folding @ home bro!" like imagine writing a malware that just replaces folding@home with a lookalike but it mines crypto instead. kek

>>108759431
They were never looking for aliens. They were looking for humans 2.0. Universe is full of self optimising competing chemical processes (phosphine on Venus, oxygen on Earth, methane on Mars must have come from somewhere) but we're so hellbent on looking for macroscopic signs of live we miss them. (Do you want to see real aliens? Touch grass, watch ants.)