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Figure AI threatens lawsuit to suppress reporting(jackpoulson.substack.com)
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The Carry-on-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop(theatlantic.com)
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Toward a Shallower Future(noahpinion.blog)
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Amazing. Also neat that we may actually learn to treat human infections better after this discovery. "Erik Frank. Laurent Keller also adds that these findings 'have medical implications because the primary pathogen in ant’s wounds
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by sethbannon 3y ago
If we could have solved the really big problems that remain with SaaS apps, we probably would have already. We're really good at building them. Most of the really big problems the world is facing require really hard solutions. Often th
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Top Underfunded Opportunities(progress.fiftyyears.com)
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Progress Index(substack.fiftyyears.com)
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by sethbannon 3y ago
So this is a common argument against longevity -- that dictators would remain in power for even longer. A simple counterpoint: imagine a world were we all did live until 500 years old. And there were some bad dictators in that world. If you
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by sethbannon 3y ago
This is huge. Yes it's in dogs but for the first time the FDA has said lifespan extension is an acceptable endpoint for a therapeutic! This could help open the floodgates for longevity therapeutics and will be written about in the his
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by sethbannon 3y ago
This is why for domains like science, tools like Elicit are so needed [1]. They've been doing some interesting work on factored cognition to avoid these sort of hallucinations [2]. 1: https://elicit.com/ 2: https:&#x2
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Elicit: LLMs to Automate Research(elicit.com)
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Elicit – LLMs to Accelerate Research(substack.fiftyyears.com)
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Illumina: The Measurement Monopoly(centuryofbio.com)
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Spinout Playbook: A Guide to Spinning Out of Academia(fiftyyears.com)
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You and Your Startup(blog.dscottphoenix.com)
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Thanks for helping me catch a 10 year old typo!
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by sethbannon 3y ago
True. And you're likely to lose your team's trust to. If employees see a leader telling white lies to potential customers (or to anyone) they're likely to ask "I wonder what white lies they're telling me?"
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Great example of how sacrificing integrity to potentially cut corners is long term self-defeating.
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Fwiw I published this post when my startup was falling apart because of my mistakes and I had no idea how to save it (and in the end couldn't).
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by sethbannon 3y ago
I'm the author of the post. Happy to answer any questions anyone has! So many lessons learned the painful way.
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Post author here. If a customer asked "and I'll be able to upload my own data?" and the response was "absolutely" even though that functionality didn't exist yet because we knew we could build it before they la
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by sethbannon 3y ago
Post author here. We did work out a repayment plan for some taxes. Payroll taxes are generally "if you have the money in the account, you have to pay immediately" though, so we wrote a large check for those as soon as we discovere
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by sethbannon 3y ago
I felt like folks were getting too optimistic in the early days and now I feel folks are getting way to pessimistic. We don't know if any of these failed replication experiments actually made the same LK-99 the Korean team did. The onl
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by sethbannon 3y ago
One of my favorite things about the Hacker News community is the unexpected popularity of things like this, about the welfare of non-human animals. As someone who cares deeply about this issue, it's heartwarming and gives me hope. I do
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Guide to Synthetic Biology(readcodon.com)
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VC firm helps climate scientists turn research into startups with grants program(cnbc.com)
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GPT-4 Capability Forecasting Challenge(nicholas.carlini.com)
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Population Clock(census.gov)
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by sethbannon 3y ago
There's something indescribably magical about visiting a site that's only been visited by ~8k people max and hasn't been updated since 1998. Like landing on a secret world. http://warriorguyver.com/gfa/ol
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A Protein Printer(readcodon.com)
3 points by sethbannon 3y ago|0 comments

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