natosaichek

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by natosaichek 5y ago
It's true! If you didn't know who you were, and were asked to take odds on the probability that you were phs, I hope you'd bet that you weren't, 'cause odds are about 10 billion to one against.
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by natosaichek 5y ago
The ability to solve widespread coordination problems is... probably orthogonal to consciousness? Bees and ants do it without consciousness, and humans clearly suck at it. Or you could say: The odds of them being capable of using their sent
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GPT3-Generated Short Stories(theoreticalstructures.com)
1 points by natosaichek 5y ago|0 comments
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Neuralink monkey mindpong deconstructed [video](youtube.com)
1 points by natosaichek 6y ago|1 comments
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by natosaichek 6y ago
This breakdown of the video Neuralink shared by an expert in the field gives great context to what is being shown and drives home how impressive the demo was.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
I think you're overestimating the speed at which these changes will happen. It will likely be ~a decade before the first non-paralyzed person uses this device. It'll take many more decades before they're widely available, m
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by natosaichek 6y ago
There is a small battery in the device, which is charged wirelessly through the skull. In the images here: https://neuralink.com/approach/ It's the part wrapped up in gold-colored tape.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
the chip is implanted in the motor cortex, I believe, so the training consisted of rewarding the monkey for moving the cursor to a target. After the monkey has played the game a bunch, you can correlate the neuron firings generating motor s
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by natosaichek 6y ago
You have to conduct testing to show that the device is safe and effective before you can begin marketing it. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/premarket-approval-pma/p... If you've never gone through the pr
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Neuralink monkeys are housed with at least one other monkey for grooming / social activities, and are in the same room with visibility to other monkeys. Are they as happy as zoo monkeys? Probably not. But they're probably much h
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by natosaichek 6y ago
This is a great summary. I will just add that my understanding is that Neuralink is heavily focused on surgical speed, and a few seconds per thread is the slowest it will ever be. It will likely be much faster than that.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
It's legally prohibited until a certain amount of animal testing has been performed. They're aiming to do the first human implants within a year.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
The implant definitely can write, but it's more power intensive than reading, and lower priority.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Enforcement is the challenge. Without tracking down every reviewer, there is currently no way to determine whether a review was left by an employee of a covered/relevant company, or just a 'civilian.'
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Onboard the fuel is methane (evaporates) and lox(just oxygen). What toxic debris do you imagine rained down? Who knows better than spacex what they're doing? The EPA?
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by natosaichek 6y ago
I mean... they did collect the poop and test it. The fraud was allegedly in double-billing samples, lying to investors about the riskiness of the business and forging the credentials of doctors to get more samples to test.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
I was too. :-D Which team were you on?
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by natosaichek 6y ago
I thought of the story of wenseslau moguel who was "executed" by firing squad, (including a shot to the head) but survived and crawled away from the carnage after dark.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Well, the instrument wouldn't me measuring yellowness... it would be measuring electrical impulses that (in some individuals) correspond to the (verbally asserted) perception of "yellow". "Yellow" is not a characte
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by natosaichek 6y ago
The human retina is composed of cells that are responsive to different wavelengths of light. Color is the word that we use to describe the subjective sensations associated with certain patterns of stimulation of those cells. There is no &qu
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by natosaichek 6y ago
What do you mean by "directly"? Color is a human abstraction over the reception intensity of certain wavelengths of light.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Of the blogs that have been written, I'm a big fan of Zvi's articles on "moral mazes" https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/quotes-from-moral-ma...
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by natosaichek 6y ago
Chevy is putting together an electric conversion kit: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/chevrolet-readies-an-el... I think solutions like this will be best for the near future for folks who want a car wit
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by natosaichek 6y ago
I think the last is actually about a prisoner and his interrogator / torturer.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
It runs fine on linux.
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by natosaichek 6y ago
<sarcasm> No you don't understand. Cocaine is totally different from crack. </sarcasm> But I couldn't think of a 'danger' equivalent off the top of my head. What are some examples?
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by natosaichek 7y ago
It's got 10 ac outlets. Plug in your favorite charger?
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by natosaichek 7y ago
Don't even need the casing to be discarded. If the casing gets hit by the laser and gets vaporized, that's fine. The reflective layer underneath then becomes visible.
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by natosaichek 7y ago
One practical way of imposing such limits might be to eliminate limited liability. If owners are directly responsible for corporate actions, that might provide a defacto limit on company size based on profitability, insurance costs and org
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by natosaichek 7y ago
A song is typically 3-6 minutes, while a podcast is typically 10x that. I think that delta probably can make the difference reasonable.

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