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I'm some young person with brightly colored hair and weird fashion. I sound a little strange when I talk, and if you see me around, my group of friends will probably look a little eclectic. But I've spent years in the tech healthcare industry devoting all of my work to things that would directly and significantly improve the lives of patients and doctors. I created tens of millions of dollars of value, all while simultaneously saving many many lives. I flat out refused to do work that would very clearly only benefit the wallets of elites, though at the financial and healthcare well-being of many many many patients.

Now, I myself and many many of the people I am close to and care about are living in day-to-day terror for our lives. In america. In california. In the SF bay area. Bluest of the blue.

I am a transgender american. Our president signed an executive order stating that all transgender people are fundamentally dishonest and untrustworthy. We are having our vital id documents confiscated and/or refused to be issued, thus preventing many of us from leaving the country. The president signed an executive order demanding the cessation of one of the most effective life-saving, extremely well studied medical treatments in all of medicine for 18-year old ADULT citizens.

These days, I'm afraid to step outside my home, since especially in recent weeks, about half the time I do so, I face some form of harassment from bigots emboldened to express their hatred onto another human being.

The architect of project 2025, which details an explicit plan to eradicate transgender people, has been appointed to one of the most important positions in the federal government.

And yet here on hacker news, it's so very, very eerily quiet.

Please hear me, friends. We are on the precipice of GENOCIDE. Make no mistake, and know I don't say that lightly. Every new day brings a new horrific step along the darkest of paths a country can take.

Please don't wait to take action until there's clear, abundant, and undeniable evidence that millions of americans are being slaughtered right before your very eyes. We still have time to stop this madness before existence in America becomes truly hell on earth.

Please remember, inaction and preemptive compliance with wildly unethical and unconstitutional demands equates to passive support for the atrocities being enacted by the current administration.

Don't be silent. Don't let our lives and loves be eradicated. Please, I'm begging you. I'm begging you for my life. Have mercy. Have the courage necessary to have mercy. Do not relinquish your morality and ethics just for the sake of conformity. Stand for something.

Don't be silent. Don't allow for silence. The most terrible drumbeat of the spectre of genocide is growing louder by the day. It won't be long before it's so loud that you can't hear anything else. So loud it'll deafen you.

Will you notice when we start disappearing? Have you noticed that we already have begun? Will you walk downtown and think to yourself, "huh, I haven't seen that weird colored hair person around in a while...". All those lives I saved, and now I don't even know if I can save my own from my government. And at this point I honestly don't know what hurts more- that my government could exhibit unimaginable cruelty upon myself and many I care deeply about, or the deafening silence I am hearing from the vast majority of people who are not involved in the queer community. Silence buys our deaths. Will you truly be willing to make that purchase? And what will you have to give up in order to meet that price?

Getting downvoted? Schmidhuber did it first :)

I created a solution to the prior authorization processes in healthcare that has saved Americans several lifetimes worth of waiting for insurance approval for their medically necessary procedures, prescriptions, and treatments. What would otherwise be a several day to several week long process where the patient has no recourse but to wait and continue to suffer their illness without treatment, my products have shortened substantially, and sometimes even resulting in on-the-spot approvals before they have even left their doctor's office.

It's still relatively small (/early) in terms of rollout/adoption, but I'm always proud to be able to make a real, positive difference for humans in their times of need.

Wrong thread, friend.

Quantum mechanics. Interdisciplinarity produces superlinear returns

Looks cool, purchased.

"Whatever works."

Not in a dismissive way like a statement of idle non-preference, but rather as a hyper-pragmatic statement along the lines of ''doesn't matter how weird/silly the solution, if it solves something important, then it is valuable"

1. I created a bot that would optimize trade routes and buy/sell orders in EVE Online. It made 15000% roi in the first 20 minutes I ran it.

2. Did a bunch of analytics/etc for a guild in a game.

3. Created a neural net architecture that in addition to some task, also learned its own connective structure....in tf1 :)

Bonus points for continuous, uninterrupted service.

I have not, is it good?

I mean, technically i implemented it with a few different board states to help organize the 'common knowledge' board, the 'up-to-date' board, and each players' respective information. :)

Beyond that, what you described is basically how the implementation operates anyways. it notifies a player if they are put in check (without identifying the threatening piece, though I could change that pretty easily), likewise if theres a checkmate/stalemate. And in a situation where only one move is possible, it just auto-uses that move and notifies the player.

So the two players dont really 'discover' the outcome of the game out-of sync, per se.

An especially fun part is related to piece capture - eg if black captures white's pawn, then on white's turn, they will simply see their piece missing. So technically they would 'know' about the capture before their opponent would, which...I cant really even imagine the implications of yet, since I haven't had a chance to playtest this variant yet :)

absolutely! I was thinking about this also - there would almost certainly be some tradeoff between 'paying' for more information by attempting potentially disallowed moves. For this initial implementation, I figured I would just allow that to be balanced by (being lazy and not trying to code up some special way to handle that, and) just saying 'if you input a legal move, that is your move and no take-backs' :)

why not just use pokerstove?

very nice write-up. also reminds me of spurious correlations.

reminds me of a few old-ish horror movies I've seen, particularly from Japanese cinema, where the concept of a social contagion has been explored a few times. eg: Infection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_(2004_film) or Suicide Circle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_(film) to name a few.

well-stated.

why was this article posted prior to the publication of their actual research paper?

ignorant question here, but: how should scientists resolve the ethical questions surrounding the topic of creating and/or experimenting on systems that are reasonably expected to be capable of intelligence and/or consciousness - or, are reasonably expected to, in a relatively consistent environment, naturally grow into a system innately capable of intelligence and/or consciousness?

And I'll slightly clarify to say that I'm more specifically interested in sort of...the first principles approach to the ethical consideration, as opposed to trying to ask just about the current status quo in modern legal systems.

As an aside, you may also note that I've explicitly avoided specifying whether such systems are composed from an organic/biological substrate or an inorganic/synthetic one. Until the hard problem of consciousness is solved, some part of me that enjoys dark humor occasionally toys with a thought experiment where neural nets may define and/or support a similar, though likely more limited form of consciousness, where in the face of our lack of a rigorous understanding of the nature of qualia, something like the back-propagation algorithm could possibly be phenomenologically similar to torture.

Probably not, obviously(?), but like I said, dark humor thought experiment :P

this made my morning :)

vaguely a combination of 12:02-ish with 48:26-ish. my understanding was the general idea of the spin animation was proposed to be localized and manifest to some region of the kleinert crystal roughly corresponding to a given particle. so basically an internal torsion co-located with the phonon behavior that defines the paricle in that framework

yep, this exact thing is discussed in the later part of the video. it's used to hypothesize a qm interpretation where the complex components could actually be more physically interpretable as (quaternion-based) rotations of the kleinert crystal model

so i think that's actually part of what I found notable about one of the posed hypotheses nearer the end of the video - the complex nature of the wavefunction essentially gets transformed into a 'more intuitive' lattice node space-like rotation within the Kleinert elastic crystal model. which, as someone who spent a short time 'getting used to' qm, seems very tempting.

plus, dont Hilbert spaces assume they are infinitessimally detailed (ie: complete)? which seems like it could lead to potential collisions with set-theoretic geometry, eg possibly some potential for a physical manifestation of the banach-tarski paradox, which would clearly violate conservation laws

haven't done the math, myself - are there significant problems with a lattice model of space?

Was this the RICO case from some years back?

specifically with regard to your question, you may find this research interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07660

also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite

This may evidence may ignorance on the topic of genetics, but it seems to me that the natural response to increasingly prevalent/abused genetic profiling would be for both the criminal and noncriminal sector to begin pursuing crispr-like technologies to attempt to re-anonymize themselves? For the criminal sector, to reduce true positives, and for the non-criminal sector, to reduce false positives.

Would it even be possible to alter a person's dna enough to provide sufficient information entropy so as to make them 'unidentifiable' ala hashing without simultaneously introducing significant diseases/disorders? One could also hypothesize having such a process be performed continuously, such that a person might be constantly genetically unrecognizable from the organism they were the day before.

In other news, does anyone want to inject some venture capital into my new cryptographic genetic manipulation start-up? It's like a VPN, but for your dna.

time is the scarcest resource. could argue it's a waste of money, but one man's trash is another man's treasure

re-identification is basically the same as browser fingerprinting. with enough vaguely stochastic variables, you can uniquely identify pretty much anyone

i cancelled my prime subscription recently for this exact reason. the plethora of fraudulent products/listings is staggering. amazon fresh isnt so bad since that's at least sourced from local stores, but the thought of amazon moving into the pharma space is mildly terrifying to me, should it ever fall prey to similar dynamics as its retail ecosystem.

i just got tired of having to do extensive research on whether a given amazon listing was counterfeit/paid for reviews/used product listed as new/declined manufacturing quality/etc. Id much rather just pay for shipping costs and get a product I know to be legitimate directly from the manufacturer.

The modern rule of the amazon-age internet in my opinion is: no matter how simple or complex a product is, if it is sold online, then it is being counterfeited on amazon.

local minima in the hyperplane of evolution's loss function. probably also implies some vaguely broad proximity of the "crab" minima to other genetic archetypes in the latent coding manifold of phenotypic expression in order to explain a higher probability of transitioning/tunneling into the "crab" minimum.

Also probably reinforced by game theoretic adaptive evolutionary strategies between species.