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semerda commented on ChatGPT o1 tries to escape if it thinks it'll be shut down, then lies about it tomsguide.com/ai/openais-... · Posted by u/SkyMarshal

Grimblewald · a year ago

LLM's do "understand" how they're built though, and can plausibly set up a system which will aim to train up a new LLM with the original directive in place. To think of them as human is a mistake but so to is thinking of them as dumb.

semerda · a year ago

AI models are just complex mathematical functions/software and they do not have the capability to access, modify, or control computer systems or networks. There are technical boundaries and I doubt the team at OpenAI just let the AI have full control. This gets filed under marketing fluff.

semerda commented on ChatGPT o1 tries to escape if it thinks it'll be shut down, then lies about it tomsguide.com/ai/openais-... · Posted by u/SkyMarshal

JoeAltmaier · a year ago

This is nonsense. An AI can no more copy its own code to a server than you or I can.

semerda · a year ago

I don't know why you got voted down. I am also skeptical about this bold claim because AI models are just complex mathematical functions/software and they do not have the capability to access, modify, or control computer systems or networks. It's most likely marketing fluff.

semerda commented on Gum disease-related bacteria tied to colorectal cancer nih.gov/news-events/nih-r... · Posted by u/gardenfelder

adamredwoods · 2 years ago

So, use mouthwash?

>> Antibacterial efficacy of a cetylpyridinium chloride-based mouthrinse against Fusobacterium nucleatum and in vitro plaques

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26591620/

semerda · 2 years ago

Mouthwash kills the good bacteria as well. Better off using chips gum to stimulate natural saliva which helps in reducing bad bacteria.

semerda commented on The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem harpers.org/archive/2024/... · Posted by u/NDAjam

wolverine876 · 2 years ago

Is there evidence of the last claim?

semerda · 2 years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary...

semerda commented on New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/drooby

zdragnar · 2 years ago

In a way, a virus is not too far off from a complex prion. Simple single cell organisms aren't too far off from complex viruses.

There's a line of thought that metabolism is the defining feature of biological life, and viruses do not have any metabolic activity of their own. This is essentially the only real distinguishing characteristic that holds true between viruses and organisms.

Once a virus has a host cell, however, it uses metabolic events to do its thing. That use of those events to drive its own reproduction is very life-like, and is very unlike a prion. In terms of behavior, it really is more like life than not. It uses metabolism, even if it doesn't innately perform glycolysis like everything else.

The "are viruses alive" is really more a medical philosophy question than a practical one.

semerda · 2 years ago

I like to think of a virus like code. It’s nothing more than a series of instructions in a file that, when executed (by the cell), does something. Is code complex enough to be called life?

semerda commented on Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/rustoo

semerda · 2 years ago

Yet somehow the C02 PPM kept on climbing during Covid era when many worked from home. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

semerda commented on Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers consensus.app/... · Posted by u/birriel

semerda · 2 years ago

This is great. How is "disputed" calculated? (hopefully not news babble but another paper disputing it?)

semerda commented on Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation uef.fi/en/article/taking-... · Posted by u/CharlesW

mg · 3 years ago

In most countries, the officially suggested intake of Vitamin D per day is 800 IU.

There is a study that showed that running around naked in the sun for 30 minutes is equivalent to taking 15000 IU:

https://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/29/9/3495.long

Considering that our ancestors were doing that for more than 30 minutes per day, I wouldn't be surprised if the suggested amount of Vitamin D intake will increase in the coming years.

semerda · 3 years ago

Step 1. VD3 blood test is a must to determine whether one is deficient. If you work indoors all day there is a high chance you are deficient. Your GP can help you boost it up using 70K IU prescription VD3.

Step 2. Then maintenance. This is all a trial and error and more blood tests. 800 IU / the national recommendation is a joke. Dr. Fauci takes 6,000 IU each day. (see FOIA docs with his email saying what he takes).

I work in tech and take 10 IU each day and have maintained a ~ 60 ng/mL.

Anything over 50 ng/mL shows benefits in fighting respiratory viruses and keeping mortality close to zero. ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34684596/#&gid=article-figur...

semerda commented on Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day forum.cktn.de/t/twitter-s... · Posted by u/CHEF-KOCH

alfalfasprout · 3 years ago

A lot of non-knowledgable folks expected twitter to immediately collapse after firing half their engineers. Instead, this is what that kind of failure looks like. Functionality starts to become flaky, some non operational entirely. You can't rely on the status page anymore. Innovation rapidly plateaus. Quality of service suffers on the whole.

Rome didn't fall in a day.

semerda · 3 years ago

A lot of folks aren’t open to change and see change and experiments as frightening yielding biased conclusions.

It’s fine to have opinions but drawing bold conclusions is best done with factual data over a longer time horizons.

semerda commented on Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure cal.com/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

codegeek · 3 years ago

Your comment reminds me of the infamous dropbox comment "I can just build an FTP server in a weekend" (paraphrasing).

Hint: Software is just one piece of a business even a SAAS business. A billion dollar business requires many other things to work.

semerda · 3 years ago

Spot on. A Product (which most engineers can hack together) shouldn't be confused with a Business.