Spacecosmonaut

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by Spacecosmonaut 5d ago
I recognize that if a document were to be published tomorrow containing solutions to all formulated open problems in mathematics we will have gained very little in mathematical understanding. But surely, if we know that the dead ends of exp
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by Spacecosmonaut 5d ago
Mathematicians insist that in many cases the route toward solving a problem is more valuable than solving the problem itself. This may have been true, and may still be true for now, but this seems to implicitly assume that future generation
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by Spacecosmonaut 13d ago
My read: OpenAI & Anthropic have realized they are reaching model capabilities that cannot be monetized -> too risky. Product liability issues. Fundamental control problems with current gen AI are not solved via RFLH. Human knowledge
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by Spacecosmonaut 2mo ago
Isnt the sensory grounding even in abstract cases some (limited) intuition that simulates in a mental world model?
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by Spacecosmonaut 2mo ago
This seems temporary. AI generated images will become the norm for many applications. Today we wonder whether a model in an advertisement is real or generated, 5 years from know this wont even be an interesting thing to consider. In many co
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by Spacecosmonaut 2mo ago
I wonder, how does distillation deal with unprobed spaces in the knowledge landscape? Is a distilled model worse in some niche area that was not probed? Presumably, this is why frontier labs dont distill their own models internally to relea
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by Spacecosmonaut 2mo ago
I wonder how much of the sloppy feeling is created by the knowledge that its AI generated.
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by Spacecosmonaut 4mo ago
Sure, but if we continue that analogy it does mean that there will be no human contributions to frontier mathematics.
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by Spacecosmonaut 4mo ago
Accelerationists may argue that the eroding of proper attribution and proof verification by humans is a meaningless short term struggle of a dying field. Mathematics seems to be entering an era where human + machine maximizes performance, m
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by Spacecosmonaut 4mo ago
Perhaps P=NP. The new algorithms are handed down to us. We can apply them without fundamentally understanding why P=NP.
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by Spacecosmonaut 4mo ago
Accelerationists may argue that the eroding of proper attribution and proof verification by humans is a meaningless short term struggle of a dying field. Mathematics seems to be entering an era where human + machine maximizes performance, m
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by Spacecosmonaut 6mo ago
"Generative AI is art. It’s irredeemably shit art; end of conversation." I think most people cannot destinguish between "genuine" creativity and an artificial almalgamation of training data and human provided context. Fo
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by Spacecosmonaut 6mo ago
There is genuine value in a wisdom of the crowds assessment of future events that is only sharpened up by the requirement to put money on the line.
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by Spacecosmonaut 7mo ago
Regarding point 2: I think most people cannot destinguish between "genuine" creativity and artificial almalgamation of training data and human provided context. For one, I do not know what already exsists. Some work created by AI
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by Spacecosmonaut 9mo ago
AI tools are here to stay. They will start to creep into everything, everywhere, all the time. Either you recognize the moment at which it becomes a significant disadvantage not to use them (I agree that moment is not now), or get left behi
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by Spacecosmonaut 10mo ago
If you take the ambitions of robotics and AI companies seriously then what they are trying to create is the equivalent of unleashing 100 million cloned copies of the smartest and most well adjusted people you know upon the economy at a frac
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by Spacecosmonaut 10mo ago
How about "bleeding edge"
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by Spacecosmonaut 10mo ago
Couldn't Google just do it better though?
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
I'm a genetic engineer at a large pharma company. We corrected the HTT gene in patient derived iPSCs in the lab. The region is a long repeat sequence of which a section needs to be deleted. Because of this the locus is quite difficult
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
One would probably engineer these cells with a killswitch, such as doxycycline induced Caspase9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1895037/ . The transgene engineering is totally possible without a viral vect
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
Regarding point 3: The problem from the perspective of websites would not be any different if they had been completely ad free. People would still consume LLM generated summaries because they cut down clicks and eyeballing to present you in
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
Let me clarify that I dont think any of what I described is a given. I think its one of the more likely outcomes of our future. I think its prudent to own a small amount of Bitcoin (or basket of cryptocurrencies) in order to hedge against t
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
Bitcoin is the only immutable peer to peer system ever created (barring advances in quantum computing, and even then the protocol can be updated). In a world headed toward web 3.0, generative AI content & virtual reality, I think there
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by Spacecosmonaut 1y ago
Obviously, an LLM is in a perfect position to decide whether an add can be "injected" into the current conversation. If you're using it for creative writing it will be add free. But chances are you will also use it to solve r
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
I added my credentials to address the "malicious scientist" scenario that some people may associate with leaked genetic information. You dont need an individual's genome to create rather dangerous gentic weaponry. For example
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
The impact of lifestyle is undeniable and large. Good genes will not protect your body from alcoholism. And if I were a betting man, I would bet against determinism emerging from a better understanding of combinatorial genetics. I do think
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
For the vast majority of people lifestyle is much more deterministic than genetics. There are a few exceptions causing relatively deterministic adult onset diseases: Huntington, APOA4 homozygosity, FAP, BRACA mutants. These are rare however
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
I'm a genetic engineer at a large pharma company. Genetic engineering of human model systems is my specialty. If I were a malicious actor, I could not do anything useful with the genome of any one person. Most peoples genomes are borin
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
We are on the cusp of being able to plow through vast quantities of literature and data in an instant using multimodal machine learning models. Journal articles are written for people. The landscape is changing. We are headed toward a futur
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by Spacecosmonaut 2y ago
We are on the cusp of being able to plow through vast quantities of literature and data in an instant using multimodal machine learning models. Journal articles are written for people. The landscape is changing. We are headed toward a futur

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