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> If progress is as fast as LLMs Is this the new "x technology is a year away" ?

Could you provide examples of healthcare executives held personally liable for harm resulting from reckless decision-making? I have never heard of such a thing happening in healthc…

Pharmaceuticals are heavily regulated, the "we vibecoded a therapeutic and released it without testing" hypothetical has no basis in reality

Would Doom give a sociopath instructions on how to commit a mass shooting if asked? I don't remember that part of the game

Only through the first two paragraphs but a little turned off by the "everybody else is wrong, we are right and it's this one specific thing" attitude when it the topic is understa…

The cheminformatics I do (mostly drug discovery/biophysics) definitely requires bonds!

I'd be really interested to know of anybody making money with those topics (and doesn't already have their own domain-specific practice for the problem)

This code is jibberish to me, but it appears the target is just parsing how many atoms are in a molecule string of some representation. That's cool, but to do just about anything u…

Much like the classic "our department in [big company] works a lot like a startup"

I'm a little surprised to see you dismiss type-checkers disagreeing with each other - there are more than a few cases of mypy and pyright disagreeing and brushing them aside as rar…

> as for the split in type checking tools, it is not as bad as you think I'm surprised you already know it's not as bad as I think - have you been able to use it? Working on a team…

Unfortunately that doesn't answer the question

thanks, I didn't know it was a thread because of the login wall

kinda mixed on this - why not just contribute to the community tool? - there's already a major split in Python type-checking tools, if there's a third that doesn't agree with eithe…

> Is that related to some legal/privacy issue? Possibly in some medical or social science fields, I don't know. I know there is not such an issue in chemistry and materials science…

> I wonder if there is any requirement for researchers to at least publish their data set for statistical analysis and further research. Not generally, though the tide is slowly tu…

I'm not claiming there are no overly stubborn PIs. But we should not be lazy and paint so a brush that we view the field as a monolith.

I think there is truth to the general principle you refer to, but I don't think it accurately describes what I saw skimming experts' comments in the linked thread. I'm an outsider …

Hopefully so, but there will probably always be a back-and-forth between frauds and journalists in the same way security is always a competition. At least the easy frauds are more …

Harboring skepticism of the work people did with a seemingly fraudulent researcher is a good idea. Dismissing everybody in a field whether or not their work is fraudulent is disres…

I'm not asking for people to turn off skepticism or blindly trust researchers. It's not disrespectful to be skeptical. What is disrespectful is not bothering to read what people ha…

> basically all images in scientific publications are not scrutinized for photoshop This was (mostly) true back then, but it is definitely not true today. People tempted to commit …

It's pretty disrespectful to signal (without evidence or elaboration) that researchers are not credible (or worse, broadly lying) in order to keep their research grants flowing. A …

> ... corporate american enabling this will not be seen positively. I don't think this is true in red states or for the minority views that determine what is and is not illegal in …

> There's no actual storage density information, is there? Nothing in KJ/m^3 units. Even if there was (to be honest, didn't read the journal article) this is something that can eas…