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by 6177c40f 2mo ago
This comment strikes me as being in bad faith: "Oh so you don't like A? You must be on the side of ¬A!" I ask, humbly, that people please not do this. Nothing good has ever come of it.
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by 6177c40f 2mo ago
Suit yourself, I often wish I could form spores, desiccate, and rehydrate at a more appealing time.
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by 6177c40f 2mo ago
However, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!
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by 6177c40f 7mo ago
Reminds me a quote from Gibson's Spook Country : "That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: the most interesting applications turn up on the battlefield, or in a gallery."
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The Adaptyv binder design competition (2024)(blog.booleanbiotech.com)
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
I find AI replies to generally be less annoying and more constructive than comments like this, TBH.
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
I think we might make new jobs, but maybe not enough. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get good at sharing wealth over the next few years. Maybe something like UBI will become so obviously necessary that it becomes politically feasib
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
Sharpen sticks, hoard water maybe? We were always going to die someday, I don't see how this changes things.
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
You say this like it's some kind of ominous revelation, but that's just how capitalism works? Yeah, prepare for the future. All things are impermanent.
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
More indirection in the sense that there's a layer between you and the code, sure. Less in that the code doesn't really matter as such and you're not having to think hard about the minutiae of programming in order to make som
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
I think we're entering a world where programmers as such won't really exist (except perhaps in certain niches). Being able to program (and read code, in particular) will probably remain useful, though diminished in value. What wil
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by 6177c40f 9mo ago
Cheaper than hiring another developer, probably. My experience: for a few dollars I was able to extensively refactor a Python codebase in half a day. This otherwise would have taken multiple days of very tedious work.
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AI could enable catastrophic pandemics(bluedot.org)
3 points by 6177c40f 11mo ago|0 comments
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An illustrated history of the deadliest epidemics (2023)(thebulletin.org)
3 points by 6177c40f 11mo ago|0 comments
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Some common viruses may steeply raise risk of cardiovascular disease(eurekalert.org)
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
So, if we were to implement what this author is proposing, governments would be allowed to jail people indefinitely simply because they used effectively unbreakable encryption- regardless of whether what they encrypted was illegal (or evide
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
> his perspective radically to lack merit What perspective would that be?
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
I mean, as a rationalist, I can assure you it's not nearly as sinister a group as you seem to make it out to be, believe it or not. Besides, the explanation is simpler than this article makes it out to be- most rationalists are from Ca
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
You're right, I misread you.
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
I think it's a meaningful distinction- most rationalists aren't running murder cults.
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
No, the downvotes are because rationalism isn't a cult and people take offense to being blatantly insulted. This article is about cults that are rationalism-adjacent, it's not claiming that rationalism is itself a cult.
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
To be clear, this article isn't calling rationalism a cult, it's about cults that have some sort of association with rationalism (social connection and/or ideology derived from rationalist concepts), e.g. the Zizians.
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
I mean, > Because these dodecahedrons have been found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland — but not in Italy — Guggenberger views them as "Gallo-Roman products&qu
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
Fun fact, in the novel the computers were Cray X-MPs (sadly Cray is now semi-defunct, since they were bought and merged into HPE) [1]. [1] https://cray-history.net/2023/08/20/cray-systems-in-popular-...
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
I'm not certain they're correct there, as various studies seem to quote different numbers. Either way, I'm not sure rats are so much more efficient that it would matter: e.g. if the half-life in rats was a few tens of minut
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by 6177c40f 1y ago
Very unfortunate situation, but I'm doubtful that it's the bacteria causing it. As far as I can tell, it just doesn't produce enough formate. The body is pretty good at metabolizing formate, so it really only causes blindness
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Robusta is great if you don't go with the low quality stuff. Good quality Vietnamese Robusta is very enjoyable (and much higher in caffeine than Arabica, which I think is a nice bonus). There's also the possibility of hybridizing
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Looks like it comes from the original RIKEN article [1], where they call it an "artistic rendering" instead of an "artist's impression." More accurate, I suppose, but I wish people would just actually say if an imag
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Parylene C, a chlorocarbon: [1] > Derivatives of parylene can be obtained by replacing hydrogen atoms on the phenyl ring or the aliphatic bridge by other functional groups. The most common of these variants is parylene C, which has one h
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
I do that. Cook it to an internal temp of about 145 F (about 63 C). That's hot enough to kill Trichinella in an under a minute (as well as other pathogens), but the meat will still be pale pink and juicy. I've only done this with

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