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Engineering Sleep 2 years ago

I don’t think any serious biologists agree with it. There is a hard physiological need to repair cellular damage from metabolism, UV (this a big deal in unicellular species), etc. If this theory was correct, and it is possible to do it entirely while awake, there would be species (apex predators in particular) that would have evolved without the need for it, like everything that is not a hard requirement. But this is not the case.

Engineering Sleep 2 years ago

Alternatively, perhaps elevated orexin levels during the day cause wakefulness such that you just don't need as much sleep, regardless of how efficient the sleep is.

As noted elsewhere ITT, there is a strong biological need for sleep, and its main role is very likely to reduce reactive oxygen species (though the amount needed vary by genetics) Orexin levels increase the noradrenaline ones, which is one of the few antioxidants able to reach neurons (along with melatonin) and by this way also increase slow wave sleep, making it more efficient. So yes, this could be a way they would need less sleep.

Engineering Sleep 2 years ago

For me they significantly increase REM, it seems at the cost of slow wave sleep. (this is logical as orexin agonism prevent REM sleep)

Engineering Sleep 2 years ago

Repairing cellular damage (mitochondrial and main DNA) from oxidation thanks to slower metabolism is the main reason. On a side note taking vitamin E (an antioxidant that passes the blood-brain barrier) seems to have slightly reduced the need for sleep for me.

Your comment takes 630 bits, the screenshot of your comment on my computer takes 2.1 MB, about 218k times the size. Either this is a compute overhead the LLM has to do before it can think about the meaning of the text, or if it's a E2E feedforward architecture, less thinking about it. This is simple for us because neurons in the retina pre-process its stream so that less than 0.8 % is sent to the visual cortex and because we have evolved to very efficiently and quickly extract meaning from our vision. This is a prime example of the Moravec's paradox.

Stop Using Discord 2 years ago

Because of real-timeness (you don't need to refresh a webpage, you can see if someone is typing). I am not aware of a forum software that have this feature (I don't know them well, so I can be mistaken). But most of the time you don't need it.

r/borrow 3 years ago

Who would loan to someone with this record? More likely money laundering.

1. The neurons are simply not firing /exchanging neurotransmitters.

2. That’s not true. They might look they have recovered but passing a standard cognitive test and the artifice will go away. The brain is notoriously bad at healing itself because mammals and especially humans don’t produce new neurons after teenage apart from very restricted areas (SVZ, stratium, which are still controversial btw).

Mine is plainly impossible:

Prompt: You forgot how to breathe

Despite X's attempt to breathe, the autonomous and unconscious neural network fails to respond, leaving him unable to restore his breath. As time passes, X's oxygen levels plummet, and his body gradually succumbs to the lack of oxygen. With no alternatives available to regain their ability to breathe, David sadly succumbs to the situation.

I should have said I would lost consciousness before and that the autonomous would have taken over and maybe I would not have died.

- it means you answer more to the person than its argument (ad hominem) - it is uneccessary and 9/10 when used for a disagreement, especially at the beginning of a response, it is meant to be patronizing.

While we're on conspiracy theories, Elon Musk would have more motives (they seem to not be in good acquaintances nowadays based on their Twitter profiles and he also has a competing LLM (Grok)), such a games of thrones petty revenge from him would be less surprising than from Google. But Ilya convincing the rest of the board seems much more realistic.

People are assholes online. Sometimes even trolls. But in real life, they're often just respectful normal people.

I really don’t think this is the case and it really doesn’t match my personal experience. Especially under their true name, people behave as they would talking face to face.