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@cstross
I expect TESCREAL types to dismiss the ethical concerns. If we can improve the lives of trillions of hypothetical future humans, it would justify murdering and dissecting millions of actual contemporary humans.Please don't forget the LGBT in LGBTESCREAL
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@cstross
I expect TESCREAL types to dismiss the ethical concerns. If we can improve the lives of trillions of hypothetical future humans, it would justify murdering and dissecting millions of actual contemporary humans.@VATVSLPR @cstross Thouh for the genral good, shouldn’t we start by dissecting the most brilliant brains available now? No need to dissect the unwashed masses, but to make lives better for the hypothetical trillions, dissect all the billoinaire brains!
Sarcasm, obviously. I’m not advocating dissecting anyone. It’s just that for some reason TESCREAL types propose things which get them, and just them, money and power right now.
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@pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe @cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io
I'm not surprised by this at all
after getting asked to "please do the needful" by some indian clients at an old job on a bunch of emails I had to figure the origin of the phrase
Turns out it is a remament of old UK English that fell out of use elsewhere but still survives in Indian-English, as opposed to any sort of English as a second language grammatical "error", there were a bunch of other examples as well@rachel @cstross @mwl @pwassonchat "prepone" as an opposite of "postpone" is one of my favourite quirks of Indian English
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Sigh.
So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.
Pop-sci explainer here:
Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):
"The wiring is the computation".
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@cstross
This is a major milestone in understanding the operation; I am seriously impressed.But doesn’t some small part of your rmind, thinking back to the cockrroches they turned into robots go:
NEXT UP: Zombie Drosophila controlled by LLMs!!!
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@annehargreaves @rachel @cstross @mwl I'm French and to me it sounds like someone tried to translate "[veuillez] faire le nécessaire" too literally/word to word. Maybe that's where the old English got it from ?
@pwassonchat @rachel @cstross @mwl Could be!
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@cstross
Huh. Pity they don't talk about the compute required.@dymaxion Indeed. But I suspect as an academic project with no immediate avenues for commercial exploitation they probably didn't build any new data centres for it.
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@cstross
This is a major milestone in understanding the operation; I am seriously impressed.But doesn’t some small part of your rmind, thinking back to the cockrroches they turned into robots go:
NEXT UP: Zombie Drosophila controlled by LLMs!!!
@SpeakerToManagers No, it goes to DARPA, at Pete Hegseth's instruction, funding research into LLM-controlled murder hornets loaded with tetrodotoxin in their stingers and aimed at targets identified as being insufficiently Christian Nationalist.
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@pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe @cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io
I'm not surprised by this at all
after getting asked to "please do the needful" by some indian clients at an old job on a bunch of emails I had to figure the origin of the phrase
Turns out it is a remament of old UK English that fell out of use elsewhere but still survives in Indian-English, as opposed to any sort of English as a second language grammatical "error", there were a bunch of other examples as well@rachel @cstross @mwl @pwassonchat It's fun how lots of phrases in other English speaking places, and that we Brits sneer at as being "not proper English", turn out to be older than what we now use in the UK. Fall is older than Autumn, that kind of thing.
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@dymaxion Indeed. But I suspect as an academic project with no immediate avenues for commercial exploitation they probably didn't build any new data centres for it.
@cstross
Of course. But "we did this on a laptop" and "we did this on a 64-card H200 cluster" imply very different things about the work. -
@cstross
Of course. But "we did this on a laptop" and "we did this on a 64-card H200 cluster" imply very different things about the work. -
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@rachel @cstross @mwl @pwassonchat "prepone" as an opposite of "postpone" is one of my favourite quirks of Indian English
@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog @cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io @pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe I also saw people ask for "Updation and Deletion" of records and honestly yeah that works
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@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog @cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io @pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe I also saw people ask for "Updation and Deletion" of records and honestly yeah that works
@rachel @cstross @mwl @pwassonchat yes! I used to work on collaborative editing software in France, and heard "edition" quite often to describe the process of editing.
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@cstross @Antiqueight one please ☝️
@shovemedia @cstross @Antiqueight Back around 2008 people thought you could just saturate cells with trehalose to survive dessication (by preserving the internal structure), but tardigrades use it in conjunction with special proteins: https://research.ucdavis.edu/research-inspired-by-water-bears-leads-to-innovations-in-medicine-food-preservation-and-blood-storage/
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Sigh.
So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.
Pop-sci explainer here:
Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):
"The wiring is the computation".
/1
@cstross @mycotropic “The wiring is the computation”*really* reminds me of Louis and Bebe Barron’s sometimes single use, self-destroying music and sound effect circuits for the Forbidden Planet soundtrack…
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@jmcrookston Yes, but the simulation model <did> set up the colony on Mars. @cstross
@Illuminatus is it available to run a car company?
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Sigh.
So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.
Pop-sci explainer here:
Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):
"The wiring is the computation".
/1
Wouldn't it be wild to learn some millennia down the road that some advanced machine culture of long ago had reverse-engineered itself into biological 'machines' (from which we humans have evolved or to which we’re related) in order to survive in the cosmos by reducing its monstrous energy demand on the environment.
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Sure.
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My personal record is <4 minutes.
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@cstross "lifting the hot beaker of frothing swill to his clammy face, he gazed upon the swirling place where all the stars died"
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@chumblyface cat definitely agrees
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@chumblyface The cat definitely hates the stuffed frog though.
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@lkundrak The range of representable values for a signed integer type is −2^(N−1) to 2^(N−1)−1 (inclusive), where N is called the width of the type.
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I'm seeing a nice lady handing out a coffee with a jug in her other hand, and wearing a dress like she's taking a break between flamenco dances ... but the two are probably not incompatible.
On second glance she may be a little tentacular but that's fine by me obvs. and anyway it may just be the effect of all that dancing.
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@glipari merci!
