Another explanation for the observed results could be that enzymes, loosed from the irradiated cells, might be hanging around in the soil and continuing their biochemical jobs. Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani (opens a new tab), an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.

Sounds more plausible. Even without cells containing them to optimize the process, if enough of the biochemical components remained in the soil, even with broken up DNA and RNA strands, it seems plausible that the processes of life could continue for as long as there is an energy input, like keeping them in an incubator. Even to the point of going through most of the motions of life, including the assembly of enzymes.

They would need to either try with a mixture of minerals that never had any contact with any biological spillover (hard to do on Earth), or catalogue all the chemical compounds present in the breathing soil samples.

I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:

• Most people like laws that let them avoid responsibility
• Most people are, or have been, parents at some point
• Most parents will offload the responsibility onto “the government” instead of admitting to poor parenting

This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I’m afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.

In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.

Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.

AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?

Yes, I get that they may want verification with government ID… but unless they do it at a firmware level, anything above a FOSS Linux kernel on my own unlocked hardware, is fully under my control.

So far, it sounds to me like “age verif theatre” as applied to single user “jailbroken” systems. If they added this on a locked down Android system, as a requirement for network access (note: this is an actual proposal being floated around) then that would be of some concern… but systemd? 🤨

QUESTION: if I run my own system with local accounts, full root access, and no remote accounts… why should I care about whether systemd “MAY BE ABLE” to store someone’s date of birth?

Sounds to me like, for all I care, they could add fields for ethnicity, religion, d size, political orientation, colonic maps, or whatever else they want.

If it’s to build systems shared with underage family members, schools, or other public system… I personally DGAF.

(Skipping the AGI buzzword BS…)

How do the dream cycle and memory consolidation work?

(I find it a bit intriguing though, that people would have time to both write novel-length responses on social media, and do any actual work 🤔)

What are those dream cycle and memory consolidation it’s using?

AGI sounds like BS (by definition)… but what’s behind the buzzword? This guy is supposed to be smart, might as well have built some stuff around an LLM that makes it leap forward.

Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn’t work, and self-consumption only works when it’s the exact same model feeding its own next version.

Is it a majority stake? In the video, he makes it sound like they’re co-owners… which says nothing, and the “our brands” wording is also common as a hyperbole.

If they earn money from pushing quality content, adding similar channels, adding Patreon financing, backer-only specials, merchandising, placing content on other platforms… “the other shoe” could be simply making a profit.

Whether Electrify will eventually sell out in turn, is a separate question.

When one has 20 million subscribers who get notified of the videos, those few cents per Ad, add up quickly. He’s also worked his ass off on the quality side of YouTube, which has earned him a lot of good will and supporters.

Goes to show that quality content, can also be profitable. It’s not all about the bottom dwellers.

I’m sorry to say this, but it sounds like you got duped, hard.

When estimating support numbers, remember the 90-9-1 rule. In opinion creating spaces, most of the Creators and Contributors are interested actors. What you thought were large numbers of “fellow people”, were most likely opinion creators, grifters, and a small number of genuine believers. The bulk of real people, were most likely the lurkers whom you never saw or heard from, and who likely held all sorts of different opinions.

Your one vote was barely relevant, the important part was to plant a series of messages in the minds of those silent 90%. Once the goal has been achieved, and the opinion space no longer needed, those genuine believers get discarded, and the next opinion creation space is spun up with the same formula.

Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.

The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.

https://www.robaid.com/gadgets/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on-dynamic-user-interface.htm

Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

No… Google’s 😆

This is what I get:

Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on “superficial topics”

Wait a moment… They asked an LLM, to tell them what was “junk”, and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?

It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.

scientific fields such as space exploration

I’m having a weird experience with Google’s “Discovery” feed. Apparently, I’ve blocked enough keywords and sources (~100), that all it shows now, is science, tech, and space. Makes me… want to check it from time to time? 😅

Yes. The issue is the accepted belief (among professionals) that “IQ doesn’t change through life”… which is nice as a goal to develop a less biased “ideal IQ test”, but also a really bad preconception when evaluating actual IQ test results.

There are many preconceptions like that in psychology, they need a periodic kick in the butt from actual data.