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melagonster commented on Sci-Hub has been blocked in India   sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocke... · Posted by u/the-mitr
diggan · a day ago
> An individual scientist/researcher (most of them) is in pursuit of truth.

Maybe I'm in a certain type of bubble, but I kind of feel like that's a secondary goal (for many of them), while the first is finding and keeping a position that lets them earn enough money to survive. Some of them are lucky to be able to do both, but quite a lot of them are sacrificing the "pursuit of truth" because otherwise they wouldn't be able to feed themselves by working as a researcher.

melagonster · a day ago
Yes, but giving people a dream is a good way to let them look for low salary jobs.
melagonster commented on Claude for Chrome   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker
jimbokun · 3 days ago
I don't believe it's possible to give an LLM full access to your browser in a safe way at this point in time. There will need to be new and novel innovations to make that combination safe.
melagonster · 2 days ago
People directly give their agent root, so I guess it is ok.
melagonster commented on One universal antiviral to rule them all?   cuimc.columbia.edu/news/o... · Posted by u/breve
karolinepauls · 3 days ago
Phages don't devour bacteria, they get inside and hijack them, like viruses tend to do with cells.
melagonster · 2 days ago
Sometimes when phages get enough copies inside bacteria. The host will explode and release all phages inside it.
melagonster commented on Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space   livescience.com/space/spa... · Posted by u/Teever
rendaw · 2 days ago
Why do we need more efficient photosynthesis in plants? Is it for indoor cultivation?
melagonster · 2 days ago
Plants get more energy, so they generate more food.
melagonster commented on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification   commonsware.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/ingve
self_awareness · 2 days ago
I'm a nobody, but let me answer these questions in 60 seconds.

1: None, no anonymous accounts allowed. 2: None. Civil what?. 3: It's the Google's company policy, don't use our products if you don't agree to it. 4: If devs write apps for this nearly impossible to develop Mac AppStore ecosystem, I don't see even a slightest problem here. 5: Just change package IDs.

Thank you for listening, see you again next time.

melagonster · 2 days ago
Do you work for Google?
melagonster commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
noosphr · 3 days ago
We live in a world where the top chip makers are being shaken down by the US government to keep access to markets because embargoes and tariffs. And where software developers have to have a live feed of what every user is doing to Brussels or be arrested.

Too much capitalism isn't our problem.

melagonster · 3 days ago
Sounds like if US citizens hope for that, we can get it.
melagonster commented on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics   twitter.com/SebastienBube... · Posted by u/marcuschong
DennisP · 5 days ago
Maybe we should think of current AIs as not so much artificial intelligence, as collective intelligence. Which itself can be extremely valuable.
melagonster · 4 days ago
No, this is not permitted. Until today, the world agreed that the product always belongs to the creator or user of LLMs.
melagonster commented on Why LLMs can't really build software   zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
exe34 · 15 days ago
that's correct. those who believe only carbon can achieve intelligence.
melagonster · 15 days ago
Yes, Carbon do not give them human rights.
melagonster commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
onion2k · 17 days ago
Large enough repos don't fit on a single machine.

I don't believe any human can understand a problem if they need to fit the entire problem blem domain in their head, and the scope of a domain that doesn't fit on a computer. You have to break it down into a manageable amount of information to tackle it in chunks.

If a person can do that, so can an LLM prompted to do that by a person.

melagonster · 16 days ago
Sure, this is why AGI looks possible sometimes. But companies should not require their users to create AGI for them.
melagonster commented on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"   bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Kim_Bruning · 19 days ago
Agreed, it's not _biological_ intelligence. But that distinction feels like it risks backing into a kind of modern vitalism, doesn't it? The idea that there's some non-replicable 'spark' in the biology itself.
melagonster · 18 days ago
I worry about we do not even know how the brain or LLM works. And people directly declared that they are just same stuff.

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KarmaCake day289August 27, 2022View Original