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- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
it also requires zero effort on their part
- Comment on What if a billionaire wants to help you? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 weeks ago:
not an immunologist; i don’t want to undersell this to you: immunology is fantastically complex subject with many redundancies, feedback loops, and frustrating number of moving parts, many of which are still unknown in sufficient detail. that said, if you want any chance for it to go: first you’d have to figure out what exactly mealses virus does, then you’d have to find a disease that can be cured or treated by obliterating whatever mealses virus is obliterating, and then if there’s any match (big if) it’ll probably still won’t work just with wild type virus and require significant modifications. and even then, that effect as is known in mealses today is not very reliable and lasts only months to years
maybe in the course of figuring the first one there will show up an option to modify mealses virus in some significant way that might allow it to target something else, and maybe target other kind of disease, because in no way it’d be a blanket cure for all immune diseases ever. maybe someone made an observational study already that tracked how prevalence of some immune diseases changes after mealses infection, but many of these are rare diseases and it’d be massively hard endeavor
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 2 weeks ago:
I think it would be comparable to situation where all mRNA is suddenly unusable, ie protein synthesis can’t run at all. This would be something like ricin or diphteria toxin poisoning, but instead of being limited to gastrointestinal lining it’s spread all over. I’d guess hours to days before anything visible starts happening (symptoms only start to appear when deficit in new protein synthesis becomes noticeable; all protein already made continues to work for sone time)
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 weeks ago:
it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 weeks ago:
because it’s cheap, easy, compact, well understood, and makes numbers look good. number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called). alternative is dissipating heat from radiators, but this makes this number like 3. evaporative cooling makes this number closer to 1.2
- Comment on Antidepressant of the masses 3 weeks ago:
is TRPV3 even involved in any way because last time i’ve checked some of best evidence points in direction of TrkB
- Comment on Worldbuilding 4 weeks ago:
with wood, the problem was with lignin which is tightly crosslinked, meaning that it’s insoluble and organism willing to eat it has to secrete some enzymes to break it down in smaller bits that can be absorbed
depending on plastic, this first step might be easier or even happening on its own. there are already bacteria that feed on nylon but nylon starting materials are easier to digest for them
- Comment on It’s the little things 5 weeks ago:
you can have liquids with low surface tension that don’t evaporate immediately (water + soap)
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
helical antennas work fine too and look goofy as hell
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
i’ve used the same (800ml can) and this one works well
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
wait i thought for some reason that pringles can sized waveguide would have cutoff frequency above 2.4ghz. nevermind, there’s something better because bigger aperture can get you more directivity like this lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html i made two out of cookie tins and it works over 500m at least
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 1 month ago:
about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won’t fuck up the job real fast
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 1 month ago:
if someone is so bad at a subject that chatgpt offers actual help, then maybe that person shouldn’t write an article on that subject in the first place. the only language chatgpt speaks is bland nonconfrontational corporate sludge, i’m not sure how it helps
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 1 month ago:
in one of these preprints there were traces of prompt used for writing paper itself too
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 1 month ago:
maybe it’s to get through llm pre-screening and allow the paper to be seen by human eyeballs
- Comment on call of the void 1 month ago:
nah, what happened is that they were non-psychotic before contact with chatbot and weren’t even usually considered at risk. chatbot trained on entire internet will also ingest all schizo content, the timecubes and dr bronner shampoo labels of the world. learned to respond in the same style, when a human starts talking conspirational nonsense it’ll throw more in. some people trust these lying idiot boxes; net result is somebody caught in seamless infobubble containing only one person and increasing amounts of spiritualist, conspirational or whatever the person prefers content. this sounds awfully like qanon made for audience of one, and by now it’s known that the original was able to maul seemingly normal people pretty badly
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
this is about exactly what you can expect from a man whose approach to science is take a phenomenon -> think about it really, really hard -> just know how it works and have an answer (without checking if it’s correct or not, he already thinks he figured it out and won’t change opinion ever even in the face of contrary evidence)
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
that ai cult also doubles as a get smart quick scheme
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
you’re right, he couldn’t be high scholl dropout because he never attended high school. he went to normal schools before that allegedly, but 8 grade broke him
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
yeah all while being a high school dropout
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 2 months ago:
if it’s permanently installed high power device, it only makes sense to wire it directly, like it’s done with ovens, and EV charger draws even more power. why there’s even plug on the way there? it’s not gonna be moved anyway. and while we’re at, why you people don’t have three phase circuits for big loads like this? standard euro five wire three phase 32A circuit (or plug) gets you 22kW, that plug tops off at 9kW
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
iirc L-aminoacids and D-sugars, that is these observed in nature, are very slightly more stable than the opposite because of weak interaction
probably it’s just down to a specific piece of quartz or soot that got lucky and chiral amplification gets you from there
also it’s not physics, or more precisely it’s a very physicy subbranch of chemistry, and it’s done by chemists because physicists suck at doing chemistry for some reason (i’ve seen it firsthand)
- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 2 months ago:
sounds suspiciously like something a rabbit would say
- Comment on Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit 3 months ago:
at least this operation won’t leave behind any e-waste, since it all will burn down when orbit maintaining engines inevitably fail
- Comment on Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit 3 months ago:
“People are planning 10 gigawatt data centers,” Schmidt said. "Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is. Many people think that the energy demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation
I reasoned that the former Google executive might have bought Relativity Space as a means to support the development of data centers in space.
absolutely not peak of bubble type bullshit, please give microsoft-sized theranos more money, nothing weird or stupid is happening there
last time i’ve seen someone wanting to put compute in orbit it was cryptobros trying to avoid everyone’s jurisdiction, presumably to do some financial crimes there. turns out you can get away with this on earth, so it’s unnecessary
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 4 months ago:
- Comment on meow >:) 4 months ago:
that’s how you know he didn’t succeed yet
