atemerev

16 ms·

331.
by atemerev 2y ago
I am not doubting abiogenesis itself; I am just noting that most probably it didn't happen on Earth. The article merely shows yet another pathway to producing complex organic molecules. There is an immense gap between complex organic m
332.
by atemerev 2y ago
Assumed age of LUCA: 4.2 billion years. Age of Solar system: 4.6 billion years. LUCA had ribosomes. A ribosome is assembled and shaped by about 200 different proteins, it is an ultra-complicated molecular machine. Conclusion: pre-LUCA evolu
333.
by atemerev 2y ago
Well, "Trump is awful" is not the same as "Conservative party is awful" or even "pre-Trump Republican party is awful". Trump is unique. There are no equivalents for Trump (yet) in UK and Australia. It explains
334.
by atemerev 2y ago
Dogmatically rejecting global state even if it simplifies things in some particular case _is_ poor taste. Even a goto can be elegant sometimes.
335.
by atemerev 2y ago
So, the only thing that stopped AI from learning from all our science and taking over the world was the difficulty of converting PDFs of academic papers to more computer readable formats. Not anymore.
336.
by atemerev 2y ago
D and Crystal always fascinate me. And if Go is a system language, Erlang and Common Lisp are even more so.
337.
by atemerev 2y ago
While being smarter than Trump is a very low bar to take, Putin and Dugin are not the sharpest pencils in the box either. Smart people are often beaten into submission by bullies. Being smart is not everything there is.
338.
by atemerev 2y ago
The "certain segment of his supporter base" is now completely managed by Russians in their information / cognitive domain.
339.
by atemerev 2y ago
Because, unless you are a Big Corp, you can't afford to buy H100s. Being able to run AI on consumer hardware is essential for many AI hackers out there. And no, renting hardware on "AI clouds" is not reliable — still outrageo
340.
by atemerev 2y ago
I would prefer some medicine without vice signalling with particular gestures from 1930s, thank you.
341.
by atemerev 2y ago
Yes, I’ve been thinking recently that the path to AGI is not brute force, and never has been: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-llms-closer-agi-than-we-t...
342.
by atemerev 2y ago
Well, “for thousands of years” is not an argument. People were living without brushing their teeth for thousands of years. There was no modern medicine for thousands of years. Children were routinely dying from infections for thousands of y
343.
by atemerev 2y ago
The latter explanation is interesting, thank you. Experimentation is fine.
344.
by atemerev 2y ago
Why Americans are so fond of strange diets instead of eating some simple balanced food and not caring much? Raw, carnivore, paleo, whatever. Here in Europe, we tremble in horror about the though that somebody can consume "raw milk&quot
345.
by atemerev 2y ago
With room-scale setup, is it even necessary? The headset absolute position and rotation are already tracked. All room-scale VR kits are less expensive.
346.
by atemerev 2y ago
Played the game (Mafia offshoot with some more complications) with my Swiss friends. The first round was very cringe, and everyone was fully predictable. Then, when people got the taste of it, I’ve seen their eyes glow, as they suddenly und
347.
by atemerev 2y ago
Bright-colored controllers were so much better. Also the way they were attached before is much better. Switch 1 was the work of art. This one looks like the work of A/B testing and “we are losing customers as they choose Steam Deck ove
348.
by atemerev 2y ago
There are many uncensored open-weights models available that you can run locally.
349.
by atemerev 2y ago
You can be perfectly spearphished by a plaintext email, sent by your “colleague”, mentioning some current issue at work, and asking to verify some ticket or by your “friend” mentioning a highly personal issue that only you two were supposed
350.
by atemerev 2y ago
This is what Aider doing out of the box
351.
by atemerev 2y ago
Yes, you would. And I would prefer to eradicate all damned fascists out of the world, like we did in 1945. We are not the same.
352.
by atemerev 2y ago
Under capitalism, a private company has duties to shareholders first. If you want companies has duties to their host country first, there are other social systems for that. Perhaps fascism.
353.
by atemerev 2y ago
I am all for unlimited immigration (for law-abiding people who can earn their living, of course), Net Zero 2050 (burning oil and coal for heating and energy generation is blasphemy), and getting rid of agricultural subsidies. That’s good fo
354.
by atemerev 2y ago
This is why we have direct democracy here in Switzerland. Just skip the middlemen.
355.
by atemerev 2y ago
People are just analog neural circuits. They are not magic. Human brain is one physical implementation of intelligence. It is not the only one possible.
356.
by atemerev 2y ago
And that is exactly what we won’t have anymore, at least on the job. They are not paying us for our satisfaction and our understanding.
357.
by atemerev 2y ago
You are rewarded for something that is useful to the market, i.e. to other people (useful enough so they agree to pay you money for it). If something you know is no longer useful, you will not be rewarded. It was true 100 years ago, it was
358.
by atemerev 2y ago
It might be a dystopian nightmare, but the transition to it is inevitable, and closing one’s eyes and doing nothing might not be the most optimal strategy. Delaying or fighting it will also not work. What “something else” do you have in min
359.
by atemerev 2y ago
You are the smart one; I hope everything will work for you!
360.
by atemerev 2y ago
There are many people who can afford to do nothing. They rarely do, and those who do, are not necessarily happy.

More ›