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by Gatsky 4y ago
Saying that Temasek has annual returns of 14% and that the EV of burning money is zero are logically inconsistent. The EV of burning $275million is actually about negative $1 billion over 10 years, offset by tax savings.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I would say the biggest fool is Temasek, Singapore's state investment fund, who set $275million on fire (0.1% of their net Portfolio). They really lost their minds on this one.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Although I share your skepticism of this person's statements, I wouldn't describe a cure as 'unimaginable on any timeline'. One plausible approach to 'curing cancer' would involve detecting very small populatio
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by Gatsky 4y ago
My car had a flat battery once. The repair service came by and the guy asked me what I do while he was replacing it. I said I worked in cancer research/healthcare. Without hesitation he said to me: "What do you think about the ide
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers. Tight and well written, not dated at all.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
It is hard to know really. Nobody is incentivised to report the true scale of the protests. If the scale of the protests were laughably small and of no concern to the CCP, it could just be a coincidence that China announced their scientists
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Folic acid supplementation reduces the toxicity of a chemotherapy drug called pemetrexed, used in lung cancer and mesothelioma. That could be why it was recommended. Sorry about your father.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Can you give some idea why Bitwarden is better?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Although this seems true at first glance, it is likely that state sponsored cutting edge Chinese AI research would not be disseminated publicly. China does also have certain 'advantages' in the ethics and scale of training data co
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I doubt China would just blow up a bunch of American aircraft carriers with a nuclear weapon, unless they were under existential threat. China would be severely disadvantaged in a nuclear conflict I would have thought, and would try not to
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by Gatsky 4y ago
> For instance, numerous monoclonal antibody trials failed to show reproducible efficacy for nearly 20 years before the eventual success of rituximab in 1997 (ref. 7); anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody data lacked clin
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by Gatsky 4y ago
That's interesting. Are these walls insulated? Brick is a very durable finish, but it has certain disadvantages. It is labour intensive to lay. It requires more planning for passing electical and plumbing conduits. It also can have unf
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not really, the clinical signs were subtle, I couldn’t hear the AR. If you had a ‘protocol’ to pick up these edge cases, you would be doing a CT and echo on every chest pain that walks in the door. The workup was perfectly evidenced based a
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Curiosity is essential. Eg guy with chest pain and trop rise gets sold by ED as a NSTEMI. But why is the pulse pressure so high? Hang on what is that scar on his back? Oh he had an aortic root repair 20 years ago after a car accident... Ok
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by Gatsky 4y ago
That Adam Savage footage… Ok, thanks, never getting on one of these things. It is just a flawed concept basically.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is raised by one of the peer reviewers and the authors reply (scroll down).
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I don’t know if hubris is a sufficient explanation here. Bankman is a bit hard to pigeonhole. He isn’t a textbook narcissist like Adam Neumann. He doesn’t appear to be a psycho/sociopath a la Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein. He als
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by Gatsky 4y ago
My comment was about how there is often more to the story than a simple bad guy narrative when someone acts in reprehensible ways. You seem to be saying the same thing, so I agree with the sentiment. As to the role that EA played in it, I d
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Disagreeing.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well he was into EA when he was a nobody at University… I doubt that it was all for show. Generally, in public downfalls like this, people over ascribe the causes to moral turpitude. There aren’t enough details here to say either way yet.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I doubt that Bankman would have sanctioned that though, since he’s already admitted to malfeasance. An insider could leak the keys and arrange for a cut of the proceeds, was my line of thinking.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
If this is real, most likely an inside job. I mean FTX staff probably had a lot of their own crypto on the exchange, so now that it appears Bankman stole it from them, why not steal it back.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Is that you, Clive? This doesn’t seem very plausible to me. You are proposing that there could have been an alternate universe where, for example, instead of sending iron ire to China for steel production, Australia could have become the st
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I presumed your comment about consistency was regarding the fact that on the one hand EA has at its core applied utilitarian ethics, but on the other hand the greatest source of EA funding is from an apparent charlatan. Of course I don&#x27
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by Gatsky 4y ago
EA and BankmaniFried receive your criticism for trying to do good. Is it really the case that other billionaires who earn their money say selling cigarettes, or helping old ladies gamble their life savings away, or selling vaping kits to ch
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Youtube is different imho. Lots of quality content, long form, carefully crafted. Many popular creators post infrequently. Not free of trash obviously, but qualitatively different to tiktok’s mind hacking. YT also pays creators better AFAIK
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The wikipedia article has a section on it. But just consider nerve cells that control limbs. A nerve cell consists of a neuronal body and a long axon. If you have a longer limb, you will need a longer axon, and therefore a larger neuronal b
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Women are born with their supply of eggs, so they are more ‘pristine’ than any other cell. Sperm are generated continuously throughout life, and there is evidence sperm quality decreases over time. Some diseases associate with increasing ag
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Agree, this is something that would take centuries probably. The most plausible way to do it would be including extra copies of TP53 under appropriate regulation. This has been done in mice and they seem fine. Unfortunately, it would need t
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Nature writing an article like this is like a newspaper writing that journalism is a waste of time. It's quite odd, perhaps they do it for the clicks. Nature, and what it represents, is of course part of the problem.

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