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AI company leadership are telling everyone, and that's paraphrasing only lightly, that there's a chance AI will destroy humanity, and will probably cause mass unemployment, so we n…

Absolutely not. I've spent nearly every summer in the last 30 years in that region and it never was like this; it also wasn't that warm. Occasional fires, sure. But very clearly no…

People have not suddenly become deranged or simple minded. Two of the large recent fires in the Landes region, including the most recent, have started from poorly maintained, spont…

> Le sujet, c’est l’aridification du milieu. Pour revenir à cet incendie, ce n’est pas un problème de culture, mais de climat. A bit of a distinction without a difference. The clim…

The pine forest is the agriculture.

You're not wrong, but there are levels to understanding. For example, when studying maths or physics, it is very common to feel like you've understood everything, until you get to …

Somehow all the with/without cookbook design examples look vibe coded on both sides to me. I'm not enough of a designer to be able to point exactly at what makes it so, but Claude …

OK, but having read that section you'll see how > just writes off any improvement Is not what that section contains? There's a more nuanced point about capabilities improving in so…

Genuinely happy to hear you're successful here! But, why would you expect there to be no drawback to not knowing the local language when moving to a foreign country?

You are (as am I) in the 30% of Germans (40% in major cities) with a Migrationshintergrund . At that point, it barely makes sense to call that a minority, it's just normalcy. If yo…

Thanks for actually giving a great answer to this versus the other knee-jerk comments! I will definitely look into this more. I think it's important to note that the cost of bringi…

It's not black and white- in pharma there are notable sources for investment that are not private, e.g. for orphan diseases that would otherwise not see enough investment due to la…

Generics exist for drugs that usually someone did hold a patent for that has since expired and they're much less profitable than patented drugs. Not sure how that address the point…

No, only a small part of this is publicly funded.

You spend billions to get a drug from concept to approval - and then once you've invested all that money, someone else can just sell it too, free loading on all the studies you ran…

When searching Fastly it seems to match "fast".

I think one positive thing that might come of this is for AI to act as a sort of counterweight to the fragmentation of reality into different filter bubbles. It might be difficult …

I'm legit pretty excited about applying AI to accelerate biological and medical discovery. It's already happening right now, still in relatively mundane ways, but there's so much t…

Okay but if I understand correctly what you did, you measured the performance with automatically rewritten prompts on Fable vs. original on Opus? This might be where the difference…

While I can only peripherally relate to the specifics of your story, I think it beautifully illustrates how interesting and mind expanding it is to spend time in different cultural…

The things is, this is almost certainly what's happening. You can (could, maybe they 'fixed' it by now) get sota LLMs to reproduce entire novels near verbatim. The idea of giving i…

Unfortunately useless if you do anything related to biology. It doesn't try to flag dangerous queries, it just flags queries as biology-related wholesale. It's absurd. To see how f…