ALittleLight

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by ALittleLight 2y ago
That's interesting. I was just reading about how high dose IV vitamin c can induce cell death in a wide variety of cancers, but somehow, despite this being known for decades, nobody has done rigorous research on it. https://
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
I think it's simply evolution - things that get attention will have the most attention, by definition. People copy and vary the things that get attention and hit upon new and better attention getting strategies. Mukbangs and prank vi
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
This seems very negative and pessimistic to me. My tech utopia fantasies are alive and well. One key mistake the author makes is misjudging the average person >They are people who need to game the attention economy by increasingly disre
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
If you look at political identification by academic discipline [1] you can see that the harder sciences tend to have smaller Democrat to Republican ratios relative to things like English Literature, Psychology, or Fine Arts. To me, this imp
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
What is the point of saying "I warned my comment would sound vituperative"? Acknowledging a flaw in the motivation of your comment doesn't negate that flaw, it means you realize you are posting something mean spirited and co
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
What has Gary Marcus done to be considered "The wisest people in your field"? Looking at his Wikipedia page, he seems like a professor who wrote a couple books. I don't see why I should privilege his view over people at Ope
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
If you imagine a future where LLMs get faster and cheaper even without getting better it means we'd be able to automatically repeat questions 100x and every answer could come with a pretty good confidence measure.
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Just googled "Joe Rogan rapamycin". Seems like he talks about it in multiple episodes with (at least) doctors Peter Attia and David Sinclair.
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
That's funny. I was recently scraping tens of thousands of YouTube videos with yt-dlp. I would encounter throttling of some kind where yt-dlp stopped working, but I'd just spin a new VPS up and the throttled VPS down when that h
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Does a single payer healthcare system change this? Presumably that would change who pays the healthcare provider - not who owns the healthcare provider, right?
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
This seems unnecessarily negative and pessimistic. "Content" is the stuff or substance that people want to consume as opposed to all the associated stuff (branding, SEO, "hooks", whatever). "Content creator"
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
There are already plenty of people who promote scam cures. We shouldn't deny potentially useful treatments to patients in dire need just to reduce somewhat the business of scammers. Detect and punish scammers if they are an issue. Allo
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
I love it. I think it needs an undo button. It sucks being most of the way through the hard level when you accidentally double tap space and ruin your game. I also want to see score as a percentile of everyone who did it or as being X out
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Performance seems to get worse about midway through. I assumed it was an intentional difficulty increase though.
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
This reminds me of the company Loyal - a startup aiming at medical approaches to longevity by first treating pets/dogs. It's easier (I assume) from a regulation/moral standpoint to test therapies on animals instead of humans
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
You've picked a funny first example. I've actually wanted to work on software related to fecal sample collection and am passionate about it. I have an intestinal issue - and as a result I'm always watching out for signs of pr
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Or: c)
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
If OpenAI, or whoever, turns the AI crank once more and we go from GPT-4 to 5, and the jump is the same size as 3 to 4, then I think the answer will be pretty clear: AI content will improve in quality to meet or exceed human content.
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
In my ChatGPT app or on the website I can select GPT-4o as a model, but my model doesn't seem to work like the demo. The voice mode is the same as before and the images come from DALLE and ChatGPT doesn't seem to understand or mo
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Okay. How many 45 year olds get MRSA?
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Yes, it is surprising. As I mentioned, 0.4% chance of death for a 45 year old man from all causes. That's surprising. Unexplained rapid onset respiratory disease to MRSA to dead is also surprising. More evidence is needed - that depend
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Actuarial table says death from all causes at 45 is ~0.4%. It's an unlikely death, paired with another unlikely death - the previous Boeing whistleblower. I'm really confused by the reporter's attitude. It seems like the exac
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
I can't assess this, but I do worry that overnight some algorithmic advance will enhance LLMs by orders of magnitude and the next big model to get trained is suddenly 10,000x better than GPT-4 and nobody's ready for it.
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Seems like there should be an optional trial end, in addition to conviction or acquittal, for "prosecution shouldn't have brought this case", where the accused would get some kind of compensation. I don't know the detai
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
What's an example of a company that reproduced the TikTok algorithm?
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
Streaming services already deliver in lower resolution than they available based on network conditions. Good upscaling would let you save on bandwidth and deliver content easier to people in poor network conditions. The tradeoff would be
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by ALittleLight 2y ago
It's not about feeling like your safety is threatened physically or that you will be hurt or killed. I agree "threatened" or "safety" language is slightly out of place - but I'm not sure what the right alterna
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by ALittleLight 3y ago
It's definitely getting competition though.
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by ALittleLight 3y ago
This has to be bad for Spotify, right? Infinite low cost music generation from multiple competitors challenges Spotify's moat and forces them to develop a similar product and compete away profits from innumerable challengers - or else
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by ALittleLight 3y ago
One click is aiming too low. We could get to zero click letters of recommendation. Student's AI (SAI) predicts student will want to apply for college. Based off student's preferences, interests, conversations, queries, browser h

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