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TheBlight··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
I really don't care about whatever esoteric theoretical math or biological insight this thing has supposedly cracked. Make robots work. That will impress me infinitely more.
TheBlight··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Didn't even bother looking into it because there's obviously not enough data yet to say anything substantial about GLP-1s and Alzheimers. But your comment should probably be the top.
TheBlight··on The Disappearance of the Public Bench
I also like clean safe unobstructed sidewalks and parks but along with benches, we've made a decision. We've decided that putting the mentally ill in a facility and arresting people for public drug use is not something we're comfortable with at the expense of those other things. I don't personally ageee with this decision but it is apparently the consensus.
TheBlight··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
Because of your personal politics?
TheBlight··on xAI joins SpaceX
Ok then short SpaceX stock when it IPOs.
TheBlight··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
Bookmark it.
TheBlight··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
What it looks like to me is that Carney the businessman is trying to work for the best terms in an eventual annexation scenario.
TheBlight··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
This ignores physical geographical reality.
TheBlight··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
Isn't it somewhat laughable when something like 3/4 of Canadian exports are to the US?
TheBlight··on In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
If you type something into the computer you should assume everyone in the world will eventually be able to see it.

If you send your DNA to a company in the mail you should assume everyone in the world will eventually be able to see it.

TheBlight··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Simulation scaling will be the most insane though. Simulating "everything" at the quantum level is impossible and the vast majority of new learning won't require anything near that. But answers to the hardest questions will require as close to it as possible so it will be tried. Millions upon millions of times. It's hard to imagine.
TheBlight··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
"Scaling" is going to eventually apply to the ability to run more and higher fidelity simulations such that AI can run experiments and gather data about the world as fast and as accurately as possible. Pre-training is mostly dead. The corresponding compute spend will be orders of magnitude higher.
TheBlight··on Tim Bray on Grokipedia
So by your logic, there's only room for one gatekept source of general purpose information on the web? No one besides entrenched progressive interests can do anything to Wikipedia. It's like reddit. We're tired of your guys' spaces. So sorry if this offends.
TheBlight··on Tim Bray on Grokipedia
Although I'm sure it's been a blast, we don't need to play by your rules any more.
TheBlight··on Rapid Brightening of 3I/Atlas Ahead of Perihelion
Planetary scientist academics are angry because he's getting all of the attention and it isn't even in the field he's most known for previously. Even smart humans are still humans.
TheBlight··on Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations
Try reading the article. You might enjoy it and it will answer your question.
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Biden issued several blanket pardons for any crimes that people may have committed for a period of a decade. That doesn't strike me as particularly discerning.
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Surely everyone on the Coinbase platform is vetted seeing as they're a publicly traded company. Presumably the vast majority of Binance users are not in fact money launderers.
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
No one was imprisoned for "insurrection." The vast majority were charged only with entering restricted grounds.
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
How does pardoning CZ "prop up the ecosystem"?
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Balaji was the former CTO of a rival company. Wouldn't he be incentivized to not support CZ?
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
There's a potential implication that the president wasn't the one making the decisions and they were political favors doled out by unnamed and unaccountable staff. If the president felt strongly about that perception he could've signed them himself. But he seemingly didn't.
TheBlight··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
There's an argument the prosecution was political. See: https://x.com/balajis/status/1981423831572238856
TheBlight··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
I knew this once I heard OpenAI was going to get into the porn bot business. If you have AGI you don't need porn bots.
TheBlight··on Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
Have you lived in an RV for very long? After a few days it kind of sucks.
TheBlight··on Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper
We'd assume most interstellar objects are comets because that's which objects you find on the outskirts of a solar system and are the easiest to get kicked out. We'd assume they're mostly like our comets due to the Copernican principle. We shouldn't assume we're special.
TheBlight··on Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper
The same as the ones from this system. Borisov had the same characteristics.
TheBlight··on Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper
Vera Rubin isn't even giving us data dumps yet. It's going to be like a veritable firehose of interstellar object detections. Should be a wild time for the field.
TheBlight··on The New Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Is Smaller or Rarer Than It Looks
He has a fairly large h-index for someone with an alleged "poor reputation."

"Avi Loeb's H-index, which measures a researcher's scientific output and impact, is 132. This indicates the high level of influence and recognition Loeb has garnered within the scientific community based on the number of his publications that have been cited a certain number of times."

- Google Gemini

TheBlight··on The New Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Is Smaller or Rarer Than It Looks
This is interesting. If it is indeed much smaller than initially estimated then it's unusually bright/reflective. On the other hand, if it is actually very large then it suggests its track through the solar system may not be random.
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