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What's unsupported? What I stated is common knowledge in the medical community. Anyone unaware of this hasn't been paying attention for the past 40 years.
usually (at least since Ol' Russel) there's no real need to prove that space is quite rare when it comes to teapots
so far there was absolutely no scientifically "woah" thing about SARS-CoV-2, it fits "neatly" into an acute respiratory virus hole (we know of a lot of coronaviruses and influenzaviruses), we even had a lab set up to research zoonotic viruses ... instead of telling idiots to stop running the patient zero lottery on that fucking market.
I'm in a similar situation but with multiple sclerosis for over 15 years. I love to exercise, however on some days a medium-intensity cardio session will leave my brain functioning at like 50% which is not great for my job. I gotta work hard to make sure my gas tank has enough for all the tasks planned for that day. My neurologist calls it Energy Management.
Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.
This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper
Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really fast with impenetrable amount of data it will take decades to analyze and build real experiments across contexts to verify. Tomorrow will still come and be a lot like yesterday for us.
All in all it’s more of the same
Even if it we do beam our minds it’s just a copy. These meat suits still gonna stop experiencing someday. Life for us isn’t going anywhere.
Not saying wild things aren’t possible; designer drug glands grafted on and such would be banger and would alter human lived experience.
Another box measuring oscillations of fundamental forces will not.
Religious fear of “corrupting human nature” keeps smart people scaffolding symbolic logic in machines versus experimenting with weird science. Live, eat, mate, help line go up relative to some musty people’s political ledger, and die is all we’re allowed!
I want drug glands, regenerative tissue, and mini kaiju monstrosities grown in labs… as pets!
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Even so, the IP is used to make things which require resources. Disney IP is used to make toys, movies, books, etc, that all require electricity, paper, computers, employees sitting and eating, commuting into the office. Or a vaccine patent will be used to make a vaccine which requires a factory to be built and operated, the product produced, stored, shipped, used, and disposed into a landfill.
That's true, but more and more products are moving away from dependence on the physical resources. Kids don't buy toys much anymore, they play digital video games. You can see a doctor on Zoom instead of driving to their office. I'm not saying that's better, but it's happening.
The real problem I see is when people use wealth generated from intangibles to put the squeeze on physical resources, such as buying up land as an investment to drive up the price when people need a place to live.
I'm in the energy sector and have been thinking of fine tuning a local llm on energy-specific legal documents, court cases, and other industry documents. Would this solve some of the problems you mention about producing specific answers? Have you tried something like that?
Law in general is interpretation. The most "lawyerese" answer you can expect is "It depends". Technically in the US everything is legal unless it is restricted and then there are interpretations about what those restrictions are.
If you ask a lawyer if you can do something novel, chances are they will give a risk assessment as opposed to a yes or no answer. Their answer typically depends on how well they think they can defend it in the court of law.
I have received answers from lawyers before that were essentially "Well, its a gray area. However if you get sued we have high confidence that we will prevail in court".
So outside of the more obvious cases, the actual function of law is less binary but more a function of a gradient of defensibility and the confidence of the individual lawyer.
Are the "ruling classes" actually trying to dictate morals? Some of them, sure, like the ones who historically were religious leaders, or these days politicians who push religion, but these days I don't see, for instance, business leaders making speeches about morality at all, except maybe that one nutcase who bought Twitter.
I wonder how the neanderthals felt when a new, superior(?) species appeared out of nowhere. Is this how we're feeling about technology and AI now? Give technology another thousand years and humans may well be facing the same fate as neanderthals did. Or perhaps like nea/humans, we will find a way to interbreed?
With their bigger brains larger lungs and stronger bodies too expensive in the ice and snow. We the budget model had an advantage but in this time of plenty some neanderthal clones would give us a run for our money.
Wildly speculative unfounded thought experiment plot twist based on no evidence:
Neanderthals were the superior species and hunted humans into hiding. A global cataclysm occurred, devastating the food supply available to Neanderthals who required more fuel. Humans survived, only barely, because the few who survived on the run had acclimated to living in underground caves.
Sometime in the next few centuries, another cataclysm will occur, wiping out the surface dwelling human species.
Dolphins inherit the earth, and one day look back at the “primitive human species” that clearly gave way to the “superior” dolphin.
Superior, is good enough adapted to circumstances. Evolution turns your blood into anti-freeze as a inherited sickness, and this bug is a feature near the arctic. For the rest of the planet you are a very sick fish.
Imagine a water-world, with one volcano caldera above water. In that volcano caldera there is a geysir, and th at geysir, keeps a giant diamond ball rolling, since the dawn of time.
Evolution is not a refree, rewarding smartness or excellence. It just a process rewarding even foolish adaptions, in my example, the ability to become flat and squeeze into rift and cracks. It also rewards cultural taboos, like sticking your flatworm head up and wonder at the sky.
So superior, the word, assumes the idea of progress, of going forth towards the end of history, that the process can not crash and get stuck in a million years looping till the sun goes out. And that "getting stuck" is a very real thing, a very real danger, a "reasonable" voice from the gut, to return to reliable roots and thrust your "gut-instincts."
In biology they use terms like "fitness" or "reproductive success" for this. "Superior" is a bit loaded since many people have more or less neanderthal dna.
Also "superior" implies some sort of objective measure of progress that evolution is moving towards. Whereas "reproductive success" better captures the idea that selected biological traits are situational. Always remember that lowly rodents were "superior" to the mighty dinosaurs during the Cretaceous extinction period.
