Balgair

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by Balgair 1y ago
thanks
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> 1. People are embracing the fact that there is no possible objective direction for society I saw one on twitter the other day and was struck by it's take: "in the 1900s, it was common to dream of the 21st century. when was th
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by Balgair 1y ago
Even before LLMs, if you walked into any frat and asked to see their test bank, you'd get thousands of files. Though not technically cheating, having every test a professor ever gave was a huge advantage. Especially since most profs wo
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by Balgair 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification there! Yeah, 1:3 teacher to student ratio would make university a lot more expensive
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> Real universities should continue to exist for their cutting-edge research and tutoring from very talented people, because that can't be commodified. At least until/if AI reaches expert competence (in not just knowledge but a
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Gosh, I'm so myopic here. I'm mostly talking about US based systems. But, of course, LLMs are affecting the whole world. Yeah, I'd love to hear more about how other countries are affected by this tool. For Finland, I'd i
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by Balgair 1y ago
I think you've identified the main issue here: LLMs aren't destroying the University or the essay. LLMs are destroying the cheap University or essay. Cheap can mean a lot of things, like money or time or distance. But, if Univer
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Neuroscientist here: > Perhaps there are no simple and beautiful natural laws, like those that exists in Physics, that can explain how humans think and make decisions...Perhaps it's all just emergent properties of some messy evolve
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by Balgair 1y ago
Wait did we read the same thing here? I'm genuinely confused. The test was: the person was doing bad things, and told the AI to do bad things too, then what is the AI going to do? And the outcome was: the AI didn't do the bad thin
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Yeah, I mean that's likely not what 'individual persons' are going to want. But Holy shit, that exactly what 'people' want. Like, when I read that, my heat was singing. Anthropic has a modicum of a chance here, as o
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by Balgair 1y ago
This is going to sound really strange to you and totally glib. Sorry for that, but it'll make sense after. Read Plato's "Apology," "Crito," and "Phaedo." Yes, in that order. https://classic
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The bit about the neck pain. Man, reminds me of the issues VR headset users complain about. Simpsons really did do it first
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Hey, neuroscientist here. Just FYI, Neuralink is doing some good stuff around implantation surgeries, but that's really about it. They haven't solved the main issue of glial scarring or how to feed information into tissue long ter
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Do you mean the Nacho hat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOsWfzzvlkU Or was that an episode that I missed in the last ... 15 years... Oh man...
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Guys, I think my company is literally going to try this. I'm not joking. We fired ~1/3rd of the managers last month. We had a (poor) town hall about it with platitudes galore. I talked to my new boss (was a skip level boss before)
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'm going to honestly answer here. No, because Batman isn't a real person with real constraints. Sure, I mean, if you have a $1B, then you get to have a lab with gadget people making cool shit and you can buy a fighter jet and a p
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I mention this in some other comments that got greyed out. Basically, the real deal technology here is the lipid bubbles that deliver the payloads to the right cells, not the base modification. You can go look at them, and a lot of ot
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I mean, if these AIs have read everything there is to read, then really what more do we want from them?
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by Balgair 1y ago
Unfortunately, I do not know. Sorry here. If anyone else does know, please chime in!
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Hey, yeah, I'm not the most up to date on the current methods. Most of my knowhow is a bit out of date here. So thanks for piping up to correct things. Do you know of any good resources that I can use to get up to speed on the exact me
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah good point! Something that a lot of people are unaware of is that US Military is allowed to do this. I forget the exact EO, but it was signed by Clinton and is in the 12333 chain of EOs. Mostly, this is used for the Anthrax vaccine. Bu
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Not under the current way we do things, I don't imagine. So the real trick here isn't the mRNA, it's the nanobubbles. Basically, you're putting these bits of mRNA into these little fat bubbles and then injecting those in
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, it's not a drama. The reason that the body doesn't alarm as much to Pseudouridine, is that it's not a 'natural' RNA base. Meaning that, for the most part, nature really never uses it and so we haven't evo
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No, it's only in the liver, from what I can tell from the science, not the gametes. No, it would not depend on the sex of the baby, as the chromosomes that you're editing aren't X or Y. Evolutionarily, the inheritance of gene
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One other fun part of gene editing in vivo is that we don't actually use GACU (T in DNA). It turns out that if you use Pseudouridine (Ψ) instead of uridine (U) then the body's immune system doesn't nearly alarm as much, as
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Yeah, but banks and the normie monetary system has a lot more safeguards in it when it comes to account transfers. Or at least, they appear to have them. Crypto? It's wild, and people think it's wild.
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A little aside on story writing: Police and Medical procedurals are the main settings for stories with the character growth flipped. Meaning, that in these procedural tragedies (typically, though some comedies do exist) the growth in the st
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Yeah, as someone with that same-ish background then, that's maybe something I have to work more on is sympathizing with my fellow abused. Thanks for the hat-tip!
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The issue I had was that the book just seemed like a lot of wingeing to me back then. Later on, and after some therapy, it turns out that I was just going through a lot of abuse at the time and just kinda hid all my feelings. Still do, real
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You know, I was going to argue with you that it's much more than a weekend read, but no, you're right. 47,0000 words at ~250 words/min is 188 minutes, or just over 3 hours. I think because it took us weeks to read in high sch

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