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15 giorni fadiscuss

These dewormers treat the condition after the individual was already infected. I don't think they prevent the disease. Additionally, taking Albendazole without anti-inflammatory meds can be fatal in case of an active infection. Reason is that if the cysts start dying the brain, the toxins released might cause swelling which can lead to neurological damage or death.

16 giorni fadiscuss

AFAIK there is no prophylactic for pork tapeworms. I'd love to be proven wrong.

2 mesi fadiscuss

What kind of apps are you writing where GC spikes matter?

4 mesi fadiscuss

I wasn't trying to link the two. Just pointed out that there seems to be a lot of unknowns on the map.

4 mesi fadiscuss

> It's what having such senses feels like from the inside; the first-person view.

The hard problem is that there is such a feeling at all.

4 mesi fadiscuss

Isn't there a magical moment needed still when a single qubit "touches" the rest of the universe?

4 mesi fadiscuss

I'd say we are confused about both the lowest (quantum) and highest level (consciousness) phenomena of the known Universe. Quite humbling.

5 mesi fadiscuss

Would you be similarly pedantic if a high-schooler did the same?

5 mesi fadiscuss

OK, but don't you see where this is going? The trajectory that we're on?

5 mesi fadiscuss

How so?

5 mesi fadiscuss

> Because remember, Apple doesn't usually invent new products. It takes proven ones and then makes its own much nicer version.

Funny seeing this repeated again in response to Siri which is just... not very good.

5 mesi fadiscuss

The other day I heard ChatGBD.

6 mesi fadiscuss

There will always be a way out if you are dedicated enough. They "just" want to make it unviable for most of the population.

6 mesi fadiscuss

Couple years ago you could have made the same argument about talking computers and here we are.

6 mesi fadiscuss

If you own AGI, human workers are worse than zero. They become an active threat that can kill you.

6 mesi fadiscuss

I don't think this is true at all. There are multiple sources talking about how the mutation rate is context-dependent.

7 mesi fadiscuss

I think you are psychoanalyzing me a little bit too much. Am I allowed to say that I'm an atheist and I don't believe in intelligent design, or are you going to explain to me that I'm confused about my own beliefs?

7 mesi fadiscuss

I have little patience for intelligent-design and the likes, if that's what you are getting at.

All I'm saying is that blind enumeration of mutations seems combinatorially infeasible due to the vastness of the search space. It is already known that mutation bias exists, so what I'm saying shouldn't be that controversial.

7 mesi fadiscuss

> It's not just planet-scale, it's universe-scale. Lots of planets conduct the experiment, ours just happens to have resulted in intelligence.

My argument doesn't depend on the existence of an intelligent species on the planet. The problem already arises when there are multiple species on ONE planet. If you calculate the pure combinatorial distance between the DNA of 2 species, you must find that you can't just brute force your way from one to the other before the heat-death of the universe. This is why mutation bias exists: not all mutations are equally likely, evolution favours some kinds over others.

7 mesi fadiscuss

Let's take human DNA as an example. It contains 3.2B GTCA base pairs. This gives rise to 4^3.2B possible combos. It's just not possible to navigate this space blindly. There is not enough atoms in the universe to do that. It is known that there is bias in what mutations are favoured.