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by bglazer 9mo ago
I genuinely did not expect to see a robot handling clothing like this within the next ten years at least. Insanely impressive I do find it interesting that they state that each task is done with a fine tuned model. I wonder if that’s a limi
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by bglazer 10mo ago
This is a very tiring criticism. Yes, this is true. But, it's an implementation detail (tokenization) that has very little bearing on the practical utility of these tools. How often are you relying on LLM's to count letters in wor
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by bglazer 11mo ago
He Jiankui is better known for performing the first germ-line (i.e. inheritable by children) genome editing of humans.
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by bglazer 1y ago
> evolution doesn't care about us beyond reproduction age This isn’t totally true, group/kin selection are important.
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by bglazer 1y ago
What?
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by bglazer 1y ago
Please don’t post chatgpt output
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by bglazer 1y ago
AlphaGo showed that RL+search+self play works really well if you have an easy to verify reward and millions of iterations. Math partially falls into this category via automated proof checkers like Lean. So, that’s where I would put the high
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by bglazer 1y ago
Yudkowsky seems to believe in fast take off, so much so that he suggested bombing data centers. To more directly address your point, I think it’s almost certain that increasing intelligence has diminishing returns and the recursive self imp
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by bglazer 1y ago
Here's one: Yudkowsky has been confidently asserting (for years) that AI will extinct humanity because it will learn how to make nanomachines using "strong" covalent bonds rather than the "weak" van der Waals forces
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by bglazer 1y ago
The article makes very clear that costs are rising for "pet day care" just as quickly as for real day care for children. This can not be explained by regulation, as pet day care is far far less regulated compared to daycare for ch
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by bglazer 1y ago
The author directly addresses this in the article. This was engagement farming driven by growth metrics.
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by bglazer 1y ago
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ You should try this. I was a lifeguard for several years, and I think the key is that there are almost always signs a person can’t actually swim. They cling to a flotation device, they stand
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by bglazer 1y ago
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential. It’s when bone marrow cells acquire mutations and expand to take up a noticeable proportion of all your bone marrow cells, but they’re not fully malignant, expanding out of control.
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by bglazer 1y ago
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by bglazer 1y ago
First, I’m almost certain that this article was also partially written by AI. See for example this paragraph obviously copy pasted from Deep Research “Overall, a more nuanced view of AI in government is necessary to create realistic expecta
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by bglazer 1y ago
Posting LLM generated ads on HN is the fastest way for me to lose amy respect or interest in a company
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by bglazer 1y ago
This shows just how completely detached from reality this whole "takeoff" narrative is. It's utterly baffling that someone would consider it "controversial" that understanding the world requires * observing the worl
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by bglazer 1y ago
Please, I really don’t think you’re discussing this in good faith. “And the fact is that the people of Gaza could end the conflict whenever they want. All they need to do is surrender and hand over the hostages” So no, Israel decides how an
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by bglazer 1y ago
You didn’t answer the question. Why won’t Israel commit to a permanent ceasefire if “the war ends when the hostages are released”? Why do they insist on being able to start the war again in 60 days if the hostages are all they want?
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by bglazer 1y ago
I keep hearing the “the killing would end if Hamas would just release the hostages”. But the Israelis keep offering ceasefire terms that include full release of hostages but no permanent cessation of hostilities, only 60 days and not even t
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by bglazer 1y ago
Molecular dynamics describes very short, very small dynamics, like on the scale of nanoseconds and angstroms (.1nm) What you’re describing is more like whole cell simulation. Whole cells are thousands of times larger than a protein and cell
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by bglazer 1y ago
Don Pinkel is not well known but he was a pioneer in the 60’s at St. Jude in Memphis in developing the first combination treatments that pushed the childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia cure rate from effectively zero to about 50%. https:
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by bglazer 1y ago
The problem with this machine-learned “predictive biology” framework is that it doesn’t have any prescription for what to do when your predictions fail. Just collect more data! What kind of data? As the author notes, the configuration space
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by bglazer 1y ago
You are part of the universe. You can create meaning. So, the universe has meaning if you create it. Meaning is an emergent property of letting hydrogen sit around in a gravity well for a long time.
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by bglazer 1y ago
Stop posting llm slop
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by bglazer 1y ago
Apparently, the article for David Woodard, an American composer and conductor has been translated into 333 languages, including Seediq, a language spoken in Northern Taiwan by about 20 thousand people. I am absolutely baffled as to why this
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by bglazer 1y ago
It doesn’t know anything about where it “needs” to go. One of the weirder and more unintuitive things about molecular biology is just how fast everything moves inside a cell. The CRISPR molecule diffuses from one side of the nucleus to the
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by bglazer 1y ago
Germline gene editing is still considered risky and unethical. That is, editing cells that form eggs and sperm, thus changing the genome of some of the descendants of the edited person. This is somatic editing. These edits will not be inher
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by bglazer 1y ago
No, it’s not what you describe. Also it seems like you think the mRNA vaccines were harmful. Can you briefly describe what mRNA is and how the mRNA vaccines would have harmed this child?
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by bglazer 1y ago
The “How to make superbabies” article demonstrates a couple of fundamental misunderstandings about genetics that make me think the authors don’t know what they’re talking about at a basic level. Zero mention of linkage disequilibrium. Zero

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