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I think the focus on building things is the wrong framing - that seems to be still there. But this AI wave is centered around automation, which has a different flavor to the previo…

how so? (i'm not too familiar)

nice stuff! how do you handle security concerns big pharma may have? wouldn't they just run their stuff on-prem?

I actually thought the opposite - that he seems to be seriously thinking about AGI from a broader intellectual standpoint than most ML researchers. With that said, I was a little c…

Yup, Dwarkesh needs to broaden his intellectual scope, and the Sutton interview completely exposed the echo chamber he's been inhabiting. There is no certainty in science, and I do…

this is a joke... to even call this a scientist is an insult.

But there is no way to know who is truly the 'best'. The people who position and market themselves to be viewed as the best are the only ones who even have a chance to be viewed as…

My practical interpretation of the EMH is more that easily accessible, public information is already priced in. But non-obvious insights may not be simply because the volume of peo…

brilliant

The answer stems from McCarthy’s deeply disparaging view of modern society, which he considered lost, divorced from nature, history and tradition and heading toward social collapse…

'Seeing' inside cells/tissues/organs/organisms is pretty much most modern biological research.

Was going to comment exactly this - funny that it's a literal car salesman.

One fundamental challenge to me is that if each training run because more and more expensive, the time it takes it to learn what works/doesn't work widens. Half a billion dollars f…

I don't think he got taken for a ride. Rather, he also wanted to believe that AlphaChip would be as revolutionary as it claimed to be and chose to ignore Chaterjee's reservations. …

"Topology is all that matters" --> bold statement, especially when you read the paper. The original authors were much more reserved in terms of their conclusions.

Exactly my thoughts, the AI shields all responsibility from the humans.

To call this memory seems like a stretch. By the logic of the article, every daughter cell has 'memory' of the parent cell because some proteins from the parent cell are present in…

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300153 tl;dr: metabolism is all you need. while potentially interesting work, very shortsighted and premature to say this is a "…

i'd wager that adding noise to the weights in a principled fashion would accomplish something similar to this.

if you just want count/location, super resolution techniques ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade2676 ) and proximity labeling ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sure, nothing fundamentally prevents us from repairing it from a physical standpoint. The practicality of it is the key question. While the machine analogy is partially useful, gen…

Most of his guests are quite intelligent. His style generally works well with people who have expertise in something or are just generally deep thinkers. He also picks interesting …

To add on to this, unbridled capitalism also leads to more goods and services affordable for the average consumer. This makes the idea of taking a lower paying job appealing becaus…