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by mach1ne 3y ago
From the article: > Each zombie-creating fungus species evolved to match a specific insect, so unique strains have little effect on an organism except for the one they evolved to infect. For example, a cordyceps that evolved to infect an
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Yes, there are different cordyceps-like fungi for different species. The thing is, the neurochemistry of even fairly related insects is so different that the fungus would need to make too many adaptations simultaneously to be able to jump b
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by mach1ne 3y ago
>They stop fearing cats, and are thus at greatly enhanced risk of being eaten. Recent studies have shown that it doesn’t reduce their fear of cats, it reduces their fear in general. Manipulating the mammalian brain, other than in broad s
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Luckily this zombie fungus is very precise in what species it targets, and a fungus specialized in fruit fly would find it borderline impossible to jump even to other kinds of flies.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
It does not. Logical outcomes that use infinity as an intermediary are inherently not reliable. An example of this is the Ramanujan summation where 1+2+3+... results in -1/12, an outcome which is disputed among mathematicians due to th
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by mach1ne 3y ago
To be fair, infinity is not a concept that is in any way well understood or defined.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Nah, full-on babelfish is simply not possible. The meaning of the beginning of a sentence can be modified retroactively by the end of the sentence. This means that the Babelfish must either be greatly delayed or awkwardly correct itself eve
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by mach1ne 3y ago
> “Market can stay stupid longer than you can stay insolvent.” -> Yeah, that is called cope. You had me at the start but lost me here. That’s not speculation, that’s a fact. Some big shorters of the 2008 crisis almost went broke waiti
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Being attributed to CS Lewis I’d hope it’s more metaphorical than theoretical.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Not only are Cockney & Scouse less prevalent in entertainment, their standing is almost always represented as lower.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
A quick Google search implies that these haven’t been proper experiments. It seems as if the brain doesn’t necessarily learn to flip the image, but rather learns to somewhat process the stuff upside-down. A bit like learning to play video g
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by mach1ne 3y ago
>Eh there's a lot of propaganda from the US about China I wouldn't buy into it. I feel these statements at least partly stem from contrarian origins. We have a huge supply of facts as to why China indeed is a fascist totalitari
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Hugging Face Releases Agents(huggingface.co)
214 points by mach1ne 3y ago|125 comments
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by mach1ne 3y ago
I'm sorry, but I disagree with the analogy. If you can spitball the presentation, your time is likely spent better elsewhere than preparing for the presentation.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
I’m Finnish and this is not my understanding. Finland has a specific policy that every time a new neighbourhood is constructed, a percentage of those houses are allocated for the municipal government, who then rent them for these less fortu
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by mach1ne 3y ago
OpenAI minmaxed LLM development, DeepMind minmaxed other avenues of research, such as game-playing AI development. LLMs proved themselves first. Ockham’s Razor suggests there’s nothing more to it.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Yeah, the ”post-truth era” is a weird catchphrase which has been going strong for the last 5 years or so at minimum, yet the described dystopia has never arrived and never has been on track to arrive.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Yes, it’s really rather like alchemy in some sense. Stuff works, and often nobody knows exactly why.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
I would guess that the sounds animals make are highly context-dependent in a multimodal fashion. We will likely be able to detect some correlations, but decoding larger vocabulary seems unlikely.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
I can't get it working.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Didn’t the original image also have a lot of designer choices made which, in some sense, contaminate the results?
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Well, Christianity is a big reason. It was so successful for so long in part because it aggressively repressed any ideologies which could have threatened its hegemony. Since the Church considered the ’scientific’ domain to be part of its cu
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by mach1ne 3y ago
No, that comes when China catches up in the quest for superintelligence.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
Quite amazing when you contrast it with going to Ukraine as a volunteer today.
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by mach1ne 3y ago
I disagree. When watching How I Met Your Mother, I am always astounded that it was filmed in 2005. Practically nothing has changed in daily lives since then.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
But there weren’t Guinness judges around for that.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
>Here's the thing, current computational power isn't enough to achieve the scale of model that would be required for "god like" AI. We don’t know that. It would seem likely, perhaps, but we don’t know that.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
The ones who claim little risk of ASI doom are either omniscient or fools. The best tool humanity has to predict the future with our feeble minds with some consistent performance is the wisdom of the crowds. Lately a huge portion of the fol
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm) This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yes, but the parent comment used ChatGPT agreeing to their contrarian point as proof of the bot’s capacity for logic, whereas that was likely not what was happening there.

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