Would the Ames test even make sense, given that bacteria don't have PCNA?
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
The beauty of nuclear weapons being possessed by both sides in a conflict is that it's in neither sides best interest to fire the first nuke. The West being aligned with Ukraine would prevent Ukraine from getting nuked in an extended conflict. That being said, there would have been no extended conflict for Ukraine without the West's assistance, they simply wouldn't exist without the international assistance, reducing…
> That being said, there would have been no extended conflict for Ukraine without the West's assistance, they simply wouldn't exist without the international assistance Don't underestimate Russia but don't overestimate them either: Russia lost against Afghanistan already back when they were a superpower and had Ukraine on their side. They will lose this time too even if they are even dumber this time and choose to wa…
The Kievan Rus is the mythical birthplace of the Russian people. Afghanistan on the other hand… has some nice mountains, I guess?
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> The effects are well understood. Are they all understood? Sure, it seems like a rational suggestion, and we know that if we add it to the atmosphere it should cool, but what other effects will it cause? How many times have we tried this trick where we introduce something new to an environment and it doesn't turn out like we'd like it to? Feels like we're hoping to apply a band-aid but not deal with the wound.
Cool, then what practical solution do you propose? Wait around while things get worse?
Well, that's not much of a rebuttal of concerns, and as I'm not in the field I don't have suggestions.
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Temperatures can be lowered by pumping SO2 into the stratosphere. The effects are well understood. The practical details should be figured out in a decade or so. The political side may be harder. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/su...
> The effects are well understood. Are they all understood? Sure, it seems like a rational suggestion, and we know that if we add it to the atmosphere it should cool, but what other effects will it cause? How many times have we tried this trick where we introduce something new to an environment and it doesn't turn out like we'd like it to? Feels like we're hoping to apply a band-aid but not deal with the wound.
First of all, the SO2 goes into the stratosphere, not the atmosphere.
We know a lot about it because volcanoes do this occasionally. Temperatures cool down for about 2 years, which is how long it takes for the S02 to break down.
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No, that's just noise generated by the Russians and Belarus and then picked up by the press to make it sound dramatic. This is par for the course for Russian disinfo.
Ok, I'll tell my family that they should lay off the drugs and are just seeing things.
What, specifically, is your family seeing?
So far there are some troops near the Polish border, and a possible helicopter incursion. There's not a lot that civilions could see unless they lived right on the border.
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Really? Putin seems to slowly change his mind, even as far as the aims of his "special military operation" are concerned. It looks like he is slowly realizing what he got himself into and his aim is to keep Ukraine unstable to prevent its association with the EU.
There have been some incidents on the Polish border recently that put the whole thing on a knife edge.
Business as usual. Lukashenko is bringing immigrants to the border with Poland and giving them tools to illegally cross the border, even though these poor people could do it legally a few dozens of kilometers away using a normal border crossing and asking for asylum etc. Poland accepted millions of refugees from Ukraine and a few hundred thousand from Asia and Africa.
So Putin's plan is just to create problems and confusion using Lukashenko as a proxy. These immigrants have been there for more than a year and he is still bringing new ones.
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#128Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.
Plus he pitched a no hitter for the Red Sox in 2002. What a well rounded guy.
Haha, had to check that one to be sure (two different people).
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Warning: rampant speculation. Why is Belarus performing provocations on the Polish border? Seems to me that Lukashenko is either doing it for himself, or for Putin. I can't see why he'd be doing it for himself. He might see Poland, flawed but still something of a democracy, as a threat to inspire those seeking democracy in Belarus. But it seems to me to be more likely that he's doing it for Putin. (This also might in…
Causing chaos on NATO's borders I think isn't meant to stir up a war with NATO but rather to project an image of strength domestically and within other regions that Russia dominates and to further stoke the fires of ethno-nationalism they feed off. Plus creating chaos in general seems part of the goal. Russia was losing (well, lost) hegemony in Ukraine post 2014, but damned if it's going to permit its success outside…
Well, in 2015 Turkey shot down a Russian fighter for crossing the border just a mile or two, everybody thought there will be WW III but nothing happened.
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What exactly is your definition of a AGI? Because we’re already passing the Turing test, and so I have to wonder if this isn’t just moving the goalposts.
ChatGPT (instruction tuned autoregressive language models) indeed already seems quite general (it's good at conversation Turing tests without faking it like ELIZA), even if the absolute intelligence is limited. Level of generality and intelligence is not the same. Something could be quite narrow but very intelligent (AlphaGo) or quite general but dumb overall (small kid, insect). Okay, ChatGPT is only text-to-text, b…
> I think one missing step is to fuse training and inference regime into one, just as in animals
It's not clear it is one. Sleep is training (replay from hippocampus). Wake is inference.