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by bglazer 4y ago
Yes, it's a virus, specifically a lentivirus, which inserts its own genome into the cells DNA, including the therapeutic gene. Looks like they first extract bone marrow from a patient, apply the virus which adds the gene, then they put
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I think it was perfectly reasonable to take the tact of waiting to see the safety of mRNA vaccines. Now, however, they’re considerably less mysterious than you say they are. Several billion people have now received them, and any honest read
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Interesting. I think a more coherent form of the argument is this: LLM's aren't capable of reasoning or self-updating. Capitalists are exploiting powerless labor to encode their preferences and goals into LLM's. Because the L
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by bglazer 4y ago
Here's what I took from it: LLM's encode and are very adept at generating hate and bullshit. To counter that, big wealthy companies pay foreign workers low wages to do the very unpleasant task of reading and tagging the worst outp
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You still haven’t referenced a single thought actually expressed in the article.
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> Same was said about the Internet back then They had some good points though. The article says that this technology centralizes power in the hands of rich tech companies who exploit low paid workers and unpaid creators who do the value
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by bglazer 4y ago
From the HN guidelines on comments: “Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously“ I downvoted you because your comment is both snarky and profoundly incurious. Seriously, either take the time to engage with whats actually written in t
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by bglazer 4y ago
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence etc. We should never underestimate human capacity for self delusion and fighter pilots are certainly not privileged in that regard. It’s also worth considering why this seems to be a phenomenon t
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Second order effects; good luck raising money once your fraud is exposed.
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I share your skepticism of LLM’s output but I don’t think it’s fair to say they know nothing about semantics. I think it’s still an open question as to what degree LLM’s encode a coherent world model. Also you can just ask chatgpt about obj
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by bglazer 4y ago
Yes, I agree that corporate businesses and the entertainment industry have broadly adopted acceptance of LGBTQ people. My point is that what counts as mainstream culture is still different in Florida and California. America is not a perfect
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No I’m not. The culture of many, many Americans is so anti-LGBTQ that they’ll disown their family. Thats their culture! There is not one American culture, social conservatism is a very common culture in America, and being LGBTQ is counter
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Being LGBTQ is one of the few identities or choices that will result in being disowned by a significant portion of American families. That attitude is edging out of the mainstream but it’s practically dogma among evangelicals and other soc
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That’s not an argument. If you think it’s not true you would need to provide a counterexample. What’s the 4chan equivalent of Jimi Hendrix or tie dye clothes?
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Being antisocial is not the same thing as being counterculture. There’s not really a flourishing of new ideas or material culture on 4chan, just a race to the bottom of taboo-breaking.
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Nice! Thanks for creating that, I just finished a small processing project that involved a lot of array and data structure manipulation and that kind of work odd really unpleasant in Java, especially when compared to python. Better gif crea
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by bglazer 4y ago
Making gifs with processing is (weirdly) one of the more painful exercises in the framework. Kind of baffling, given the goals of the project. Regardless, the best thing about processing is that it makes getting the first pixels on the scre
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by bglazer 4y ago
Yeah sounds like we are both expressing the same idea. I’m usually pretty touchy about software analogies for biology but “decompression machinery includes the laws of physics” is a good way to frame it.
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by bglazer 4y ago
I don’t think Levin is a crank. He went on Lex Fridman’s podcast and talked about his bioelectricity work and morphogenesis. Like you said, I think people who don’t know much about development took that to be the whole story, when in realit
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by bglazer 4y ago
Well it’s clearly within the acceptable range of thought because here you are stating the thoughts. It’s also a set of ideas that are broadly shared and supported by politicians at the highest level of government in the US. The reason you s
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by bglazer 4y ago
Hard disagree on the idea that research should be the exclusive domain of some special tier of “top” research. Certainly there are varying degrees of aptitude for the skills of research. That said, there are infinitely more questions than t
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The issue with scaling up data is that these models are already trained on effectively the entire internet. Additionally, humans learn to speak and understand the world with a tiny fraction of the language data given to LLMs. So, there’s pr
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To what?
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by bglazer 4y ago
We really owe it to future generations to figure out effective, energy efficient plastic recycling. This seems to be a big step. The economic barriers are huge here, oil is going to be cheap for a while yet. That said, it is a bit concernin
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What do you mean by defenses? Can humans metabolize vomitoxins but not fungicides? Are there proteins that take vomitoxins out of solution? Do you have evidence for this?
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In the paper, they hypothesize that the route of transmission would have been big cats scavenging human remains after suicide. Of course this, like all evolutionary psychology, is basically unknowable and highly susceptible to just-so story
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In what way is this consistent? The authors describe toxoplasma infection forming cysts in the brain as a result of immune response. The cysts then release neurotransmitters, primarily dopamine and glutamate, which presumably causes the cog
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Not only that, it also creates an enormous amount of underwater noise which distresses whales and dolphins. Further, it creates plumes of silt and tailings. All of this in a very poorly understood ecosystem. We have no idea what consequence
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You first
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KRAS does this. Doesn’t necessarily invalidate your point, but it is interesting. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155608642...

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