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by dsign 3y ago
Can they use the excess of wine to make some sort of non-alcoholic beverage? If my local supermarket sold "soda made of repurposed French wine" I would definitely buy a bunch of it and drink it at each social occasion, provided th
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by dsign 3y ago
It's not clear that compute will scale as it did for the next 33 years. But it doesn't really need to. I read the article and I was thinking "my God, I remember I used MSE that weekend in my pet ML project and it really didn&
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by dsign 3y ago
But practicality is just a technological problem. And not to make a fine point of it, the chips of the machine where you are writing or reading this receive far more “technological attention” than any human being. That fact in itself is not
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by dsign 3y ago
I wish I could upvote your comment more times. Everything you said. But I also think this is not sustainable long-term, to have to decode each biological mechanism by putting together large teams and lots of $$$$$$$ working for many years.
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by dsign 3y ago
Do we even know if Parkinson's mechanism is the same in all people? Or, is it really a set of things that arbitrarily and uniquely go wrong and end up causing symptoms that clinicians give a loose common name? I was reading this paper
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by dsign 3y ago
I honestly wonder if people would consume the music they know is AI generated. And by "honestly", I mean "I don't really know but I want to." I've been watching videos of Guy Michelmore in youtube. Not because
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by dsign 3y ago
Baruch de Spinoza, Francis Bacon, Hans Christian Andersen, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. I wonder if we would have enjoyed any of them had they been allowed to enjoy love. Let's pray in gratitude for the moral laws that made them possible
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by dsign 3y ago
The devil's advocate here! One would think there isn't enough land in America for people to build houses (of any type?). Or, are you going to tell me that laws made by men (and women, but mostly men) make it illegal to be housed a
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by dsign 3y ago
I tend to agree. But physics, humanities and biology could give a really good background for top hard SF.
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by dsign 3y ago
Has anybody read modern[^1] science fiction that uses "scientific and technological breakthroughs"? Or, something close in thoroughness to Jules Verne "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" or "The Mysterious Isla
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AI is building real antibodies in a lab(wired.com)
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by dsign 3y ago
Bear with me on this one. Look at Cuba, and North Korea. Those two suffer famines, crippling blackouts, and the harrowing and pervading stench of failed civilization. Yet, the citizens of none those countries are trying to topple their gov
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by dsign 3y ago
> I believe it’s hard to build a business on open-source AI at this stage. I would say it makes sense to build a business on running open-source AI models. I’m a hacker with side-projects. The outputs of ML models are useful to my side
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by dsign 3y ago
I've been writing some science fiction that interpolates where things are going with the Internet and online surveillance (ala 1984 v2), but reality always trumps fantasy; this one hadn't occurred to me.
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by dsign 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, but modern e-books tend to be eyesores. You would think that with image formats able to encode 10 bits or more per-color and CSS[^1], and all the features digital fonts support these days, people could do a bit better. [
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by dsign 3y ago
Let's assume this is confirmed and that tomorrow an inhibitor that also works is found. How many decades from now until one can go to the doctor and get the inhibitor prescribed? Any bets?
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by dsign 3y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks!
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by dsign 3y ago
> It seems to me senescent cells build up because we always have enough food Sorry, I don't see the "logic" on this. I see the logic on the article though, which boils down to this: our bodies' only goal is species&#x
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by dsign 3y ago
My two-cents from my armchair spaceship: I thought we had solved quantum mechanics! If this material is real, why can't somebody run a computer code and calculate its theoretical conductivity/resistance? Did I suffer all that chil
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by dsign 3y ago
I learned a lot about aging by watching this Minecraft video[^1] and building the kelp farm. That farm stops working after some (long) time, given the way that kelp grows in Minecraft. If Avomance had done the math beforehand, he would have
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by dsign 3y ago
> Yet when I asked her about Ukraine, she repeated all the standard Russian government propaganda about an alleged NATO threat and stated that she was "neutral" on whether Russia should invade Ukraine. For a recent emigre from
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by dsign 3y ago
I have done a bit of research on that. I don’t think that current aerogels are engineered to withstand full atmospheric pressure. With that said, the approach would make sense for a number of reasons: - Helium and hydrogen “escape from ever
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by dsign 3y ago
On the plus side, if killer AIs need datacenters this big, it will make it easier to kill them back (if anybody survives their initial rampage, that is.)
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by dsign 3y ago
There is a world of difference between a selling point and the actual thing, but I would be delighted to be proven that there are movies where the viewership requires hard science to understand the plot. > that does not make them anti-in
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by dsign 3y ago
I don’t know. I have met plenty of people during my life who didn’t like math. Would they vote to remove Calculus from high school curriculums, if they believed it would level the playing field? Yes, and without blinking. >> Such a pl
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by dsign 3y ago
Somebody's mind got poisoned by watching The Expanse. But this is on the writers and producers, for producing so much crap, not on you son.
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by dsign 3y ago
Hey, this is easy to fix: buy self-published books. Most authors don't really care about DRM, giving most of their revenue to Amazon or the man in the middle, or having to accept that an illustration they commissioned and paid $$$ for
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by dsign 3y ago
I don't understand that mentality. I'm a nobody-have-nothing and I dread the day somebody would link some of my Internet pseudonyms to my real-life identity. If I had a few billions stashed somewhere and it was of public knowledge
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by dsign 3y ago
> So, empathy that drives altruistic acts is not the same as "strategic self-interest". If we are to see it in a reductionary way, let's do it properly: usually it's the interest of the species (or the offspring) driv
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by dsign 3y ago
>> It's the last job you want to automate with "AI". Have you been at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France? The security people there look like paratroopers[^1]. It's terrifying, and it's a reason I avoid t

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