Jesus Christ my city subreddit is a shithole, so many bots plus I assume the actually quite reactionary libs and whatnot brigading anything to do with Venezuela. IG and the other socials are even worse from what my family is telling me. I just feel we’re fucked, irl organizations seem to be struggling just to cook a very weak sauce, how can we organize in this vast sea of misinformation, visibly rising every day, and from which even progressive libs seem willing to drink deeply?

I drink your milkshake!

“The Bolitoglossa chirripoensis grows slowly, can take up to 20 years to reach adulthood, and has a low reproductive rate, which limits its population recovery capacity”

Woah

Aljazeera reporting that this was leaked to multiple sources, pretty much confirmed.

The Israelis had a very detailed fucking fake story about how these guys died involving a surprise Hamas attack and sniper fire lmao. So I can’t imagine Netanyahu will just give up, expecting like a false flag attack now, something bigger.

Yeah Tylenol is a trash med that would never get approved today, especially not OTC. Unfortunately it’s one of the only things they let pregnant women take for pain. We need more research into the opiate drugs, there are atypical mu agonists that actually don’t carry as much addiction and overdose risk (gee I wonder why these didn’t get discovered when they were looking for a replacement for heroin/morphine), kappa antagonism might be useful in chronic pain, and delta agonists seems promising as well.

No expertise here but couldn’t you just stick a bunch of it in a pile and create a sort of artificial meltdown leading to a bunch of radioactive waste?

Funniest outcome: Zohran squeaks out a win after the runoff has been computed. 200 million pours into the race and the Republican candidate wins

Which of them were blasting breakcore at the ice detention center?

The very first paragraph of the final report from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a PDF that took 3 years and presumably millions of dollars to create

Americans are already familiar with how the Chinese government conducts economic warfare with crucial technologies such as semiconductors: corner the supply chain, then choke it to weaken the United States. But this is not the last time Beijing will run this play, and it is not even the most dangerous version of it.

Imagine a not-so-distant future where researchers in Shanghai develop a breakthrough drug that can eliminate malignant cells, effectively ending cancer as we know it. But when tensions over Taiwan reach a breaking point, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the strategic apparatus of the Chinese government, hoards the treatment under the guise of national security, cutting off supply to the United States. After years of access, this lifesaving drug is immediately in shortage, requiring doctors to ration it while American biotechnology companies scramble to reconstitute production in the United States. The streets and social media overflow with people demanding that the United States abandon Taiwan. The Administration faces an agonizing choice between geopolitical priorities and public health.

This scenario is fiction. But something like it could soon become reality as biotechnology takes center stage in the unfolding strategic competition between the United States and People’s Republic of China (China).

Alright, changing my “taller than the average man in Napoleonic times” talking point to this one which seems way more relevant

This is pure speculation but I’m 90% sure that the NVidia drop had nothing to do with Deepseek R1 and was actually insider trading on the “news” that Trump was considering a tariff on Taiwanese chips.

First, R1 was released on the 20th, 5 days before the stock dropped. It wasn’t at all a secret, basically it was the talk of the town that whole week and their capabilities claims were shown to be solid very early on by many many people running independent benchmarks. But the market didn’t react.

Second, the big AI companies want all the compute they can get, they aren’t satisfied with training 10 or 100 or 1000 times more quickly, this is why they’re talking about trillion dollar data centers with nuclear reactors. Also of note, R1 was trained on Nvidia TPUs with the same amount of vram as the H100s. You couldn’t cheaply train such a model on any other brand of hardware, demand for Nvidia products isn’t going anywhere.

Third, if anything it’s the AI software companies that would take a big drop, they’re the ones who are supposedly spooked and scrambling to replicate R1 internally. The major software only players took only a small hit but recovered quickly, that would be Microsoft and Meta. Google is also a hardware company, they’re trying to move some of their chip fabs to TMSC but their TPUs are made by Samsung. They took a small hit and have not yet recovered. AMD is a hardware company, they have fabs all over including sourcing from TMSC, same story. Intel, a similar company, no change whatsoever, they don’t use TMSC at all. Nvidia took the big one, and they get ALL of their chips from… TMSC. All the action happened about simultaneously in after hours weekend trading.

Fourth, when the tariff news dropped the market seemed to be unaffected almost as if it had already been priced in over weekend trading.

Interesting read! So they have never significantly tapped into your chemistry or science knowledge? I have a college kid who doesn’t love taking money from me and randomly lost a bunch of financial aid this year. Thinking of forwarding this info to them but I’m a little worried it would be demoralizing as a first non-work-study job…

Like, if you didn’t like reservoir dogs even a little I guess just quit. Otherwise, just don’t watch once upon a time in Hollywood and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the rest.

“Let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant brilliant billion of stars.” -Kamala Sagan

“considering the more left wing politicians never seem to win the primaries”

I got the result I was brave enough to say I wanted yay

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Very well, I’ll take that as a sort of compliment lol.

So I guess I start where I always do, do you think a machine, in principal, has the capability to be intelligent and/or creative? If not, I really don’t have any counter, I suppose I’d be curious as to why though. Like I admit it’s possible there’s something non-physical or non-mechanistic driving our bodies that’s unknown to science. I find that very few hold this hard line opinion though, assuming you are also in that category…

So if that’s correct, what is it about the current paradigm of machine learning that you think is missing? Is it embodiment, is it the simplicity of artificial neurons compared to biological ones, something specific about the transformer architecture, a combination of these, or something else I haven’t thought of?

And hopefully it goes without saying, I don’t think o1-preview is a human level AGI, I merely believe that we’re getting there quite soon and without too many new architectural innovations, possibly just one or two, and none of them will be particularly groundbreaking, it’s fairly obvious what the next couple of steps will be as it was that MCTS + LLM was the next step 3 years ago.

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You’re describing like 95% of the entire USA though, and 80% of the entire world. I am also prone to judging humanity as not so great, but we literally need them for the revolution. Well maybe not the initial part, but we’ll need most of them to get with the program in short order.