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alkyon commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

Neal delivers. I recently learned that viruses are not considered living being, but I'm nevertheless happy they're included here because they're both relevant and interesting in this context.

alkyon · 9 days ago

They do have genes and are subject to natural selection so to say the least they are a clear borderline case.

alkyon commented on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/lentil_soup

UncleMeat · a month ago

But what's the issue? I can eat beef and beef tendon separately but if they are blended together it suddenly becomes bad?

alkyon · a month ago

Mechanically separated meat is a marketing term. It's neither 100% meat (in fact it contains tons or fat and joints) nor a good quality meat (this one is sold separately). I don't buy any products that list it among its ingredients.

Ground beef its not the same thing

alkyon commented on Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] nber.org/system/files/wor... · Posted by u/jnord

Tade0 · a month ago

Poland's GDP per capita went from less than 20% that of the UK in 2005 to 38-48% currently depending on source.

Those sausages have only become less affordable.

alkyon · a month ago

It only makes sense to compare GDP between countries on PPP basis. Otherwise you don't account for currency rate fluctuations and difference in averge price level.

IMF figures for 2025:

87% GDP per capita PPP, 50% nominal GDP per capita

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

alkyon commented on OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened the-decoder.com/leading-o... · Posted by u/Topfi

andrewstuart · 2 months ago

Humans hallucinating about AI.

alkyon · 2 months ago

They started believing the very lies they invented.

alkyon commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth

maffyoo · 2 months ago

Fusion is 30 years away

alkyon · 2 months ago

The future is now

Posted by u/alkyon 2 months ago

'Almost unheard of': experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell theguardian.com/music/202...

alkyon commented on Gore Vidal: American Prophet newstatesman.com/ideas/20... · Posted by u/B1FF_PSUVM

mtillman · 2 months ago

Julian is still my favorite book and Creation is a wonderful read. He understood how man worked very well. Lapham is sorely missed as well.

alkyon · 2 months ago

I have some good memories of Julian (though they are vague after 10 years or so and I would need to reread). Only recently -- after a long procrastination -- I read Myra Breckinridge. This one is even better, though politically incorrect I admit.

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alkyon commented on OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup wheresyoured.at/sora2-ope... · Posted by u/speckx

alkyon · 3 months ago

Their only moat is that they started 'AI revolution'. More shock waves like DeepSeek release are still to come. Not too mention that LLM->AGI transition in near future is a moot point. They're riding the wave but for how much longer?

alkyon commented on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor wsj.com/economy/jobs/u-s-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

andy99 · 3 months ago

Just for reference, Canada, with an economy less than 1/10 the US lost 66k jobs in August. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-bled-66-00...

My first reaction to 32k for the US is that it's obviously negative but a pretty modest decline.

alkyon · 3 months ago

Next major crisis (like worst-case scenario AI bubble crash) could cause US economy to shed 3 million jobs. Unemployment rate reached 9% in 2010, now it is just 4%. 32k is a fairly insignificant number compared with 160 million employed overall.

u/alkyon

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