jajko 1 day ago

But there will never ever be such guarantee that could be taken seriously. How do you know that 2 star generations ago (so say roughly 10 billion years ago), in our previous neighborhood, a massive hypernova wiped out advanced civilization and you are now just consuming molecules that were once part of sentient living being, even with IQ much higher than yours?

Nah, you can never be 100% sure, its one of those situations reachable only on paper.

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Terr_ 1 day ago

The phrasing "any known living organism" already excludes that.

Even if it didn't, a guarantee in product marketing is a promise and quasi-legal committment, not a certification of objective universal cosmic truth.

In some cases, everybody knows that statistically there will be at least one case where the guarantee is broken, but that doesn't void anything.

shikon7 1 day ago

On that premise, knowing too much might literally starve you.