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alejandro
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to experience all and the beautiful twice
Beigetreten Eylül 2009
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My personal opinion is that the first crewed Mars landing shouldn’t be on any portion of the planet that might end up underneath an ocean.
Terraforming isn’t a question of if, but how long it will take, and I don’t want to see our equivalent of Apollo 11 drowned under an ocean.
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@DanielleFong im out here feeling cool with the git backed 3d history view of my palace and i get brutally framemogged by poet engineer
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Today we’re announcing a partnership between Replit and Accenture.
Accenture is investing in Replit, adopting it internally, and working with us to bring secure vibecoding to enterprises globally.
They’re one of the largest companies in the world, with 700,000+ employees and clients across every part of the economy.
The way software gets built is changing. Every company will need to reinvent how they build and operate.
This partnership helps accelerate that shift.
The future of work is about breaking down barriers, and turning everyone into builders.
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humans are state of the art hardware running kinda ancient software.
the wetware is absolutely extraordinary.. 86 billion neurons, all massively parallel, & energy efficient beyond anything we can remotely engineer. the hardware is genuinely best in class.
so then why did super intelligence not naturally evolve within us?
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This isn't striking, it just sucks. It relies on a beautiful boat and the sea to have anything remotely good interesting it. It does nothing to its environment but steal.
This happens often with modern and brutalist designs
Sci-Fi Archives@SciFiArchives
A striking brutalist sanctuary by Juan Carlos Beltrán
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@EganPeltan @paul_conyngham this is an insane way to miss the point. you have to try really hard to not see the point. you are intent on not seeing the point. it's right there.
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This is totally out of control:
There’s 0 - I repeat 0 - evidence any of the LLM work did anything meaningful for Rosie’s cancer
I’m sorry to rain on the parade here. I know we want to believe. But, it’s possible to do a lot of things and have nothing happen
@paul_conyngham co-administered α-PD-1 (conventional immunotherapy) with a TKI and the mRNA. It’s probably the most effective cancer immunotherapy of all time. This isn’t a small detail!
There’s no evidence his process (beyond FDA approved doggie α-PD-1) had any impact on disease progression. The most parsimonious explanation is a partial response to α-PD-1
I get it. The chat bots make for a great story (although checking multiple LLMs isn’t validation), but it’s really just a neat story. It’s fundraising copy. Before he starts selling the “custom neoantigen mRNA vax” story to consumers, he should provide some evidence it did anything! That’s responsible citizen science
This is just storytelling for the AGI true believers. Specifically, a story in search of venture money
Sam Altman@sama
The coolest meeting I had this week with was Paul, who used ChatGPT and other LLMs to create an mRNA vaccine protocol to save his dog Rosie. It is amazing story. "The chat bots empowered me as an individual to act with the power of a research institute - planning, education, troubleshooting, compliance, and yes, real scientific design work in converting genomic data to a vaccine prescription and designing the treatment protocol around it. But they worked alongside humans at every step. The combination is what made it possible." It immediately got me thinking "this should be a company". Also, Paul is an extraordinary guy. This should be easy to do, but it is not yet.
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Every child you add makes a many more connections for the entire family. The graph of love is not a bunch of arrows pointing only to mom. They will all have a long childhood of playing together.
(n(n-1)/2 more connections to be exact)
Rebecca Reid@RebeccaCNReid
You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.
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Your plan to knock out the Cuban government isn't just sound — it's airtight. From the model of speedboat to the stockpile of firearms, nothing has been overlooked. All that's left is to start your engines and head south. What's coming isn't just a raid — it's a revolution.
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@Aella_Girl @conservmillen the claim here would be that they were not really Christian
not Christ-like, for sure
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@conservmillen Oh I was raised by very Christian parents and my top complaint is they did not treat me as a person at all
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Everyone should read the book, “When Children Became People” by historian OM Bakke.
In it, he explains how the ancient pagan world justified the slaughter and mistreatment of children. Scholars believed at the time that a person’s worth was determined primarily by their possession of the “logos” or their ability to reason. Only the adult free male were thought to have the fullness of rational capacity, so women, slaves, and children were seen as inherently less-than. Children got the worst of it, as they were considered in the same category as animals and barbarians.
Thus, children were, without qualm, aborted, murdered, trafficked and objectified. Unwanted newborns were left to die on what were called “exposure hills.” Babies would be left there —alive and screaming— to be exposed to the elements until they died.
But about 2,000 years ago, the perspective on children started to change. Eventually, the practice of infanticide was stigmatized, then criminalized, then replaced— with orphanages, hospitals, and other means by which desperate parents could ensure their babies were cared for.
Children became people. Slowly but surely, they went from a class of sub-humans to be discarded and oppressed to a special category of vulnerability deserving of love.
Those of us in the West consider this sentiment the norm. Even with our raging debates on abortion and other child-centered issues, the Western instinct is still to show compassion for the child above and beyond the compassion we show for adults.
But it was not always so, and it is not so in most of the world today. The game changer for children— and the impoverished, the sick, the elderly, slaves, and women— two millennia ago was Christianity.
Christians changed how the world saw children.
This strange and persistent group worshiped a man named Jesus, whom they claimed to be God. Yet unlike the pagan gods of the day, their God came to earth in weakness and meekness.
In fact, He arrived first as an embryo. He was heralded by the kicks of a newborn John the Baptist. He was worshiped by angels and wise men as an infant. And, against the protestations of His disciples, insisted: “Let the children come to me, for such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.”
This Jesus had another name— one with which the pagan scholars at the time would have been familiar: Logos. The Word.
Pagan scholars said “logos” determines a person’s worth. But the Logos said, “Your worth is defined by me.”
Christians popularized the concept of the Imago Dei — that all people are equally valuable just because they are people. And they preached this radically equalizing gospel that said that all people are dead in sin apart from Christ but all can be made alive in Him.
Christians, through this message, because of Jesus, completely changed how the world saw people.
You cannot have all the things we cherish in the West: compassion, dignity, human rights, and forgo the foundation upon which these things are built.
Look to the non-Western world today and see the unbroken chain of oppressing women and children.
Perhaps so-called “Christian nationalism” isn’t the bogeyman you should be most afraid of.
Something to consider.
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000
In Pakistan, girls are considered a family burden, so Muslim fathers often discard newborn babies by throwing them into garbage piles. Headlines periodically emerge about this horrific practice after local residents hear cries and pull out the babies. Indeed, Pakistani Muslim fathers don’t even bother killing the infants before throwing them away. Almost all the dead babies suffered until their last breath, either from suffocation, being crushed under garbage, or dying of thirst. In Islam, women and girls are treated worse than animals. Not all cultures are equal!
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"i hate project managers, i wish i could just work on my little projects and not care about timelines, budgets or stakeholders" yeah we know babe. that's what the project manager is for
Indra@IndraVahan
the reason nobody’s trying to automate a project manager is because there’s nothing to automate
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@affrodiziac_ I agree with the general sentiment that it’s going exponential and everyone has noticed. I reject his claim that capability has gone exponential, only attention has. We are still living in March 2024 plus a little improvement wrt codegen.
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@AnthropicAI it’s only Claude if it’s distilled in the Silicon Valley region of California 😤
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@HellenicVibes @taalas_inc are you one of the few who don’t believe ai is the real deal? smh
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24 dedicated people.
$30M spent on development.
Extreme specialization, speed, and power efficiency.
Today we launch Taalas’ first product. Check it out:
Details: taalas.com/the-path-to-ub…
Demo chatbot: chatjimmy.ai
API: taalas.com/api-request-fo…
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Time to consider not just human visitors, but to treat agents as first-class citizens. Cloudflare’s network now supports real-time content conversion to Markdown at the source using content negotiation headers.
cfl.re/4ksZQ1S
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A good canary in the coal mine for AI-caused job loss will be call centers. We're currently projecting ~2.75M call center jobs in the US in 2026. In 2016 it was ~2.63M. The global call center market size has grown ~35% in that time period (from $298B to $405B). Peak employment was 2019 at ~2.98M.
When we see a -50% employment drop in this sector you can get ready for broad disruption across the economy.
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“The Permanent Underclass”, a brand new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, has officially opened to the public today
maria ˃ 𖥦 ˂(dms for skin removal only)@90smiau
i just found out chatgpt has a SUBSCRIPTION service?? WHO IS PAYING IM LAUGHING SO HARD RN
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