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elliotec

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About elliotec

Writing software and studying consciousness.

My blog - https://elliotec.com My non-profit - https://consciousnesslibrary.org My consultancy - https://elliodelics.com

Contact: mike@consciousnesslibrary.org

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    They just said they work on Gemma at Deepmind. That stands to reason that as of time of writing, we should assume the answer is yes.

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    Comment #49250457

    Rails 8's default Active Job backend is solid_queue. It lives in the same single Postgres as everything else (including solid_cache). No Redis or anything to have to wrangle. Recur…

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    Comment #49247114

    Thanks! One minor note, it's got pretty much all accessible research on psychedelics, but it's not exactly specific to psychedelics. About half the corpus is research on meditation…

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    Comment #49247079

    Hey, thanks so much for the kind words and taking a look! Search observation: What you're noticing with search is the currently intended behavior, but you raise an interesting poin…

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    Comment #49237646

    Yeah I’ve used mainly Claude code and recently kimi with pi for dev. Honestly the vast majority of features and improvements happened in the last few months with AI enablement. The…

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    Comment #49237208

    It does not - yet. I explicitly chose to keep it academic for now, but I considered over and over if I want to pull in subjective experience or legal content and decided to focus o…

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    Comment #49237155

    Thanks for taking a look! Yeah, these programs are very new and pretty uncommon (for now). As for why I chose Rails - I just know Rails really well. I've been using it since 2012 o…

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    Comment #49237081

    Thank you! I couldn't agree more. Big questions to answer, and your framing is exactly why I went into this.

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    Comment #49236056

    I've been building https://consciousnesslibrary.org , an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupe…

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    Comment #49235579

    I built an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupes them, organizes by relevance, and synthesize…

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    Comment #49218923

    You're not helping though. If you want that to be different, focus on different things rather than bringing attention to what you're complaining about.

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    Comment #49162248

    Could also play around with the multiplier logic, and do more cookieclicker-esque type gamification. Is it open source? I'd be down to play around with it on a branch i can push up…

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    Comment #49160829

    It's fun! Cool way for new projects to compete to get a backlink, assuming the hall of fame persists forever. Maybe more pomp and circumstance for crossing some number milestones. …

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    Comment #49150971

    Better you holding the bag than me. Unfortunately all of us will be holding parts of it.

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    Comment #49113401

    If that ends up being true, they should be very surprised. We're looking at ~$725B combined hyperscaler capex in 2026 (on a path to $1.08T by 2028) against roughly $25B of AI servi…

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    Comment #49101732

    The comment I made above the reply you're responding to was at 9 votes then a few seconds after that reply was made, it dropped to 4. Suspicious indeed, I've never seen that type o…

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    Comment #49101656

    The sources say over 40% of incremental demand will need to be met with gas and coal over the next 4 years, which have 30-40 year book lives. So we're locking in that much more non…

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    Comment #49093192

    I'm mostly talking about incredibly environmentally destructive data centers and energy use on the current trajectory. Not even thinking about water problems, the gas and coal requ…

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    Comment #49093025

    I'm cautiously optimistic that this is the beginning of a much needed correction toward sobriety with regards to AI investment. The macro effects of all the money going into AI are…

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    Comment #49089867

    Indeed, the core of this misalignment is that we have a foundational difference of opinion on that. The only caveat I'd push is not that I believe that "individuals are mostly fine…

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    Comment #49079849

    It should not be an easy choice to trust the latter. Sure, "literal terrorists" exist, but guess what? State terrorism (and state-sponsored terrorism) in the form of massacres, gen…