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notaurus commented on Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types   tokyoweekender.com/entert... · Posted by u/Geekette
thatguy0900 · 3 months ago
If it comes from an animal it's not vegan, pretty definitive line for them
notaurus · 3 months ago
Not really, this is still a point of debate among vegan communities. Many of us have no moral issue with food grown using animal-derived biotech, as this does not require animal agriculture at all
notaurus commented on Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational   frontiersin.org/journals/... · Posted by u/nativeit
notaurus · 4 months ago
1. Observations of genetic drift and biodiversity are consistent with our model of evolution at every scale. This model is the best fit to the data regardless of politics and media

2. Our ability to replicate something gives zero information on its origin. I’m not sure I understand the algorithm comment

3. Sure, GP simplified a bit too much there. Your comment is consistent with modern models of evolution. Each genome has a pool of random variations, which may or may not be expressed in an organism. Each organism is a test of those gene expressions. A genome changes over time when an organism passes this test (e.g. reproduces), increasing the expression of its genes across the population. This occurs in parallel for many possible variations.

Ah, I should have read the rest of your comment first, but I’ll leave this here anyway. I don’t think your explanation is valid— we are biologically and socially primed for religious ideology, but its use as a world model is very limited. We will eventually find answers to these questions, as the ratchet of scientific progress clicks along. Religion has never been useful in the same way

notaurus commented on Accountability Sinks   250bpm.substack.com/p/acc... · Posted by u/msustrik
pixl97 · 4 months ago
5 years from now

"ChatGPT has detected you are being hostile to bots. A drone has been dispatched to your location"

notaurus commented on The End of the Lab Rat?   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
skzv · a year ago
Thank you for all your sacrifices, the laboratory mouse! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou...

notaurus · a year ago
(Non-consensual sacrifices)
notaurus commented on Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]   med.stanford.edu/content/... · Posted by u/jbotz
FrustratedMonky · a year ago
Doing quick search, there is also interactions between Vasopressin and salt and blood pressure. Could ASD be helped by reducing salt? or increasing salt?

I'm not knowledgeable enough to untangle all of the studies where these terms are also used, which I guess is part of the problem this paper is pointing out, that the terminology/naming is confusing.

Is this saying if you have blood pressure problems you might also be at risk of ASD.

Or opposite, if you have ASD, you might have more risk of blood pressure problems.

"The name AVP refers to the hormone’s role in increasing vascular resistance and regulating blood pressure (via AVP receptor"

"Given the emerging evidence for central AVP signaling abnormalities in ASD, we would expect individuals with ASD, or a subgroup of them, to be at increased risk of AVP-related medical conditions and symptoms. "

notaurus · a year ago
The article is proposing the latter. Low AVP could contribute to symptoms of ASD. If this is true, they expect a positive correlation between ASD and other better-known issues caused by low AVP.
notaurus commented on Neumann Drive: A Pulsed Cathodic Arc Thruster for Spacecrafts   neumannspace.com/neumann-... · Posted by u/LastNevadan
notaurus · 2 years ago
Nice to see some Adelaide representation! I’ve had the pleasure of working with these guys— we have a Neumann thruster on one of our satellites. Very cool technology and great team.
notaurus commented on World's deepest, largest underground lab operational   chinadaily.com.cn/a/20231... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
notaurus · 2 years ago
Low effort AI answer
notaurus commented on UART Interrupt and Platform-Level Interrupt Controller   lupyuen.codeberg.page/art... · Posted by u/lupyuen
notaurus · 2 years ago
Did you mean to leave in the ChatGPT preamble?
notaurus commented on Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks   arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247... · Posted by u/mpweiher
usaar333 · 2 years ago
Note that the goal of ASI isn't to beat you per se, but the best humans.

GPT-4 is generally not competitive with domain specialists (outside areas where machines have already been competitive for some time). That of course doesn't mean it isn't valuable - but it becomes more for human augmentation than replacement.

notaurus · 2 years ago
This might be the case now but shouldn’t be a particularly useful distinction for very long— on the grand scale of intelligence, the difference between the smartest human and the average human is tiny.

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