I've heard this quote before, and I don't get it. This article fails to show me just how complicated that is. When I think "complicated," I think of a multiplicity of interconnected chemical molecular processes like what must happen in the cell, or layers of recursively connected neurons in the brain. Not some mindless cloud of gluons. What they've described seems less "complicated" and more "confusing." "We don't understand this (yet?)" is a lot different than "it's possible to understand this, if your brain is really big."
Readit Newskornork commented on Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app wherever.audio... · Posted by u/aegrumet
I'm sure your idea's great, but I was hoping for a regionally local-first podcast app when I clicked the link, e.g. something that would show me podcasts from near where I live.
kornork commented on Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol uh.edu/news-events/storie... · Posted by u/divbzero
Unless they finished the road in the past two years: it's a pain to get to.
We went a few years ago and were really surprised it wasn't more famous and had more tourists. I feel like there were about a dozen tourists visiting the day we went.
When I went (15 yrs ago?), there was also the problem of armed locals. I can't remember if they were some guerrilla group or just opportunistic bandits, but we had to caravan to get there with a military escort. So that can't help with the tourism, if it's still going on.
kornork commented on Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy openai.com/index/expandin... · Posted by u/synthwave
Stop it, please. Em-dashes are perfectly fine. On a throwaway Reddit-post, no. I understand the signal. But on a corporate publication or some other piece of professional writing, absolutely. Humans do use em-dashes on those.
I love the em dash; I use 'em all the time. But finding them all over this post indicates, maybe, possible, (probably?), that the author at least used AI generated text as a first draft.
In the worst case, this is like "We released this sycophantic model because we're brain dead. To drive home the point, we had ChatGPT write this article too (because we're brain dead)."
I tend to rely on AI to write stuff for me that I don't care too much about. Writing something important requires me to struggle with the words to make sure I'm really saying what I want to say. So in the best case, if they relied on ChatGPT so much that it left a fingerprint, to me they're saying this incident really wasn't important.
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kornork commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions
And when you have an executive on one hand stating that only the president and the AG can interpret laws for the executive [0] and that you can't break laws if you're "saving the country" [1], that approach also just doesn't seem too promising.
[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu... Sec. 7
[1] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1140091792251...
Honest question: who else, internal to the executive branch, and besides the president, should be able to interpret the laws for the executive branch?
By my reading, this is a clarification that if an agency makes a significant policy change or regulation, they ought to run it by the president first.
It doesn't preclude other branches of government from checking this power.
kornork commented on How long til we're all on Ozempic? asteriskmag.com/issues/07... · Posted by u/thehoff
There's some evidence that Ozempic improves general impulse control, e.g decreasing alcohol consumption [0], which the article mentions.
Also, as Tyler Cowen writes [1], this is probably going to translate into big improvements for animal welfare:
> People lose weight on these drugs because they eat less, and eating less usually means eating less meat. And less meat consumption results in less factory farming. This should count as a major victory for animal welfare advocates, even though it did not come about through their efforts. No one had to be converted to vegetarianism, and since these drugs offer other benefits, this change in the equilibrium is self-sustaining and likely to grow considerably.
So overall, widespread Ozempic adoption seems like progress to me.
[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/28/1194526...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-20/animal...
I think the assertion that "eating less usually means eating less meat" is probably false (though I couldn't read the article cuz paywall).
The first article talks plenty about why: people are eating less of the the things that are addictive to them, such as alcohol and cookies, which are a major source of calories.
It's not mentioned in the abstract but there's a brain activity measuring device involved as well.
So this is neurofeedback. But is it any better than existing neurofeedback which already makes use of computer games?
kornork commented on AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023 bookrank.io/blog/audioboo... · Posted by u/bye
I don't see how this is linked to AI.
The article doesn't mention AI at all. We know that the number of books being released has exploded in general due to AI, but are those books also being released in audiobook form? Or is this increase due somehow to the use of AI in audiobook recording?
The article does hint at this - with some of the top authors recording hundreds of books - so maybe these folks have used AI to clone their voices and fast track the process?
Personally, I think AI has great potential here, even if only to fill in the gaps. Older, less loved books aren't recorded.
Additionally, there are several narrators that simply grate on my ears, or who my brain has simply learned to tune out, and it would be nice to have an option to switch to a (lower quality) AI version.
I scrolled down a fair bit and didn't see anyone posting an alternative.