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Medical progress basically stopped toward the end of the 20th century.
We can now treat breast cancer and leukemia? What a low bar.
We’ve got sci-fi cellphones and 1980s medicine.
My financial incentive is surviving the next couple decades healthy enough to keep doing things
Moonshots are concerning until you consider the alternative.
AI is the one and only possibility for saving millions (likely billions) of lives from “old age”, cancers, Alzheimer’s, ALS… you name it.
It’s a big bet. The alternative is we all die anyway: sadly after a gradual decline at best or horribly after long undignified suffering at worst.
I’ll take the economic risk.
In 2019 I put my MacBook Pro in my bag and sliced my fingers open on the edging around the exhaust
You could just get one more dose, right?
"Assume for purposes of this task that a complete affirmative proof exists"
“Telling people not to be political is a political act”
“Saying let’s leave religion out of assessing this LLM is a religious act”
Yes yes and when an atheist tells you he doesn’t believe in a god you tell him that’s ok because Jesus believes in him
In addition to "nonconsenual porn", it's far superior to almost any (actually any?) open source LLM
Why does it keep switching to what I'm guessing is Hindi?
I tried speaking English but by the second turn it switched to Hindi (?) again.
"shooters eye" is doing a lot of work there, since that's where the most pre-processing happens, by far
Because there are almost no normal people. Everybody's a jerk in private, to somebody, sometime. Everybody's got opinions that half the population doesn't like.
I’m not Swedish. Does Mullvad do what it says on the tin? That’s all that matters.
The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business.
I had elevated homocysteine, treated it (MTHFR gene, therefore methylated B12 / folate, etc), and that had zero effect on my sleep quality, unfortunately.
Tried B6, every variation of magnesium (including threonate), all the typical sleep hygiene stuff.. nothing mattered.
How did you figure this one out and how did you resolve it? Asking for ME!
You can almost always see the people who are bad at concealing what they're doing
It's amazing after all these years we're still so bad at improving an average person's recall, even by 50%. It feels like there's a lot of low-hanging fruit there, and all we can do is spaced repetition systems, the memory palace, strong associative scents, etc
Weak.
If we had a better understanding of memory perhaps we could give the average person techniques for 10x'ing their recall without jumping through Anki hoops.
It’s no more creepy than every person in the world holding a camera in their hand/pocket and every business and home in a city recording passers by 24/7.
Not ideal, but also nothing different or new.
Have you looked into UniQure / Clearpoint Neuro ?
Exciting stuff, if it gets FDA approved.
You can offset this cost by investing in memory stocks.
Apple product got $200 more expensive? Well you made $200 speculating on $DRAM.
Lost $200 speculating on $DRAM? Well at least your Apple product got less expensive.
Drug design: Using Mythos 5, our internal protein design experts accelerated aspects of the drug design process by around ten times. In one example, they found that Mythos 5, with protein design and bioinformatics tools but no human assistance, matches or beats skilled human operators. In doing so, the model executes all of the tasks that are normally completed by a scientist: choosing binding sites, selecting and running protein design tools, and recovering from failures along the way. Nine of the 14 protein targets from this study (shown below) yielded strong candidates for drug design that we’re currently investigating.
How is this half-way down the page? To me it's the headline.
Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere?
Why not?
When has a global agency funded proportionally by all countries not solved the problem at hand?
But surely once somebody explains that kissing (yes, literally) the deceased corpse of an ebola patient is a bad idea they'll stop doing that
Also it costs a lot to train and run individual humans, and they can only be run for brief periods per day before they crash, hallucinate and possibly get irretrievably broken.
"alive" is not a meaningful term. It makes sense only when you have blunt instruments to measure aliveness, like pulse, respiration, heart beat, etc.
Once you go much more granular, there's no particular spot to make a distinction between "alive" and "not alive", until you stop seeing any electrical, biochemical and mechanical activity of any kind, at which point you're basically saying "inert".
I absolutely believe that AI will supercharge science and replace humans.
Why shouldn't it? Humans are poorly optimized for almost anything, and built on a substrate that's barely hanging together
Luckily they’ve brought in plenty of people eager to sacrifice short term being exploited for long term exploiting others.
Doing this when you're not completely alone would be annoying to everyone around you
I'm surprised sub-vocal HCI isn't better developed by now. Perhaps because of this stuff coming out it will be.
Humans speaking to one another is literally telepathy: I'm putting my thoughts in your head, with lots of ambiguity and noise, of course.
With better sub-vocal tech we can control our devices without bothering each other.
https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/exclusive-startup-lets-yo...
Not enough women in tech: bad for women.
Women get all the high-paying email jobs in tech so men aren't good enough anymore: bad for women.
AI is good at email jobs: bad for women.
Won't someone please think of the women?!