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Part of me is really hoping this is just a dumb marketing stunt

that is until you can't have a hospital bed due to those idiots.

I can picture an alien picking me up and making horrible experiments on my body alright, so I understand your worry...

First and foremost, congrats!

In Argentina doing a bachelor + master while working is called a Monday. It's partially unfortunate since it "delays" the finish date of the degree and even makes a lot of people drop out because they found a cushy enough job.

But coming out with a degree along with years of professional experience makes up for the "delay" in getting the degree at least tenfold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves

In the original version, Ali Baba (Arabic: عَلِيّ بَابَا, romanized: ʿAliyy Bābā) is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret treasure of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame".

Open sesame alright...

This is the biggest elephant in the room I have seen in my decade+ career. At the same time, look how bad Apple is in software compared to its hardware... It's not an AI only problem, it's almost like software in general gets a free pass on being very unsafe or low quality because no one wants to face the same "profit reducing red tape" that civil engineers or similar face.

At least in Argentina that is because it's not the land of opportunities it used to be in the late 19th/early 20th century.

I guess I was very ignorant about the elephant example! Thanks for the links

Funny, I knew about the chimp wars but totally forgot until you mentioned it. Seems like I was biased in favour of all animals, lol.

I'll search for Goodall's literature to know more. It does sound to me that cognition and self awareness is a continuous function in the sense that there is no discrete threshold in which morals emerge.

Wolves are a very interesting example too, but I also remember something about the concept of "alpha" being discovered only in captivity wolf packs. Also need more reading.

Thanks for the links!

not if our current trajectory stays undisturbed

Humans have enough cognitive ability to stop themselves from killing for fun (so when they don't, we deal with them using human invented laws), while anteaters eat ants for nutrition.

Animals in general cannot reason at a high enough level to avoid instinctual behavior.

if we apply human moral standards to the animal kingdom

Which we should not, since human moral standards are for humans. Animals can at best behave in a way that suits us.

Or in summary, since we can be nicer, we should. Animals can't, so making excuses for human evil saying "animals are more violent" is a non starter IMHO (no one is making excuses for humans here , AFAIK).

Of course we can define violence in a way that does not include morals, which would make my argument "defending animals" void. But my (probably not the most benign) interpretation was that the definition of violence used was one that included some sort of morality, as if animals could do better.

Very interesting convo, thanks.

much more violent as well

I'm not sure about that. What non-human living entity does things on a scale and violence akin to "I'll fill this ant nest with liquid burning metal for artistic purposes" ? A blue whale eats a lot of krill individuals for sustenance, a dolphin can only rape/kill one thing at a time, etc etc.

Surely they can't be serious?

Is anyone at META going to do anything about anything at this point?

Recently the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library"

Guess what the other far right president of the region says (Argentina's). Makes me sad.

The war machine is the one funding so the framing makes sense. Not that I like it... I would prefer that the concept of a war veteran was non existent but that is akin to wishing the moon was made out of cheese.

Yesterday I was using opus 4.6 through copilot (don't ask...) to rubber-duck-brainstorm a big feature that needs a lot of care.

I got some inspiration from it but it misinterpreted very basic stuff. might be a skill issue on my side, I do not know.

Same. I do have an excuse due to lack of space in my apartment, but once we move...

here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UC3TdBx-8

Facilitates legal immigration. At least that was my case (not at Meta thankfully).

do you want to gatekeep science even more than it is?

sometimes wonder what their reaction would be if intelligent beings on Venus one day learned to fly, to sail in the dense air, to penetrate the mysterious cloud veil 45 kilometers above them and eventually to emerge out the top of the clouds, to look up and for the first time witness that glorious universe of Sun and planets and stars."

like when in matrix revolutions they climb up above the clouds and see the sun for the first time :')

I wonder if in a parallel universe without the extremely stupid metaverse sidequest this could have been prevented.

Yesterday I was doomscrolling computer vision related stuff on LinkedIn

blink twice if you need help

except for the shareholder's wallets. sometimes.

Domain Driven Design is something that I have only come to know with full understanding at my current job and oh my it is useful. It's not a silver bullet, but for complex domains it's a must.

What would be the difference between curing a fetus versus a newborn? Isn't editing out the bad gene better than just aborting gestation? For the person gestating too, since going through an abortion is psychologically damaging

Not a shooting star, but the tiny new island reminds me of this Tintin comic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Star

Textbook whataboutism.

It reminds me of Resident Evil in some way. Thank god they are researching AI and not bio-weapons!

Then the AI will invent superduper ebola to help a random person have a faster commute or something.