“We must change our diet. The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding – the loss of biodiversity,” Sir David says in the film. “Half of fertile land on Earth is now farmland, 70 percent of birds are domestic, majority chickens. There’s little left for the world. We have completely destroyed it.

and yet

“I do eat cheese, I have to say, and I eat fish. But by and large I’ve become much more vegetarian over the past few years than I thought I would ever be.”

Sure he helps fund some decent shit. He’s rich, knighted, connected to aristocracy. He’s also a spineless twerp.

What’s false?

Erwin and Attenborough didn’t believe either of those things.

Attenborough is a massive hypocrit who wants the poors to go plant based but refuses to, and also thinks the world is overpopulated but wont use fewer resources.

Erwin’s job was literally harassing animals for entertainment until one finally got the better of him.

it’s a party based dark fantasy action rpg.

It’s also a stat heavy build forward game where you can make completely broken characters for post game.

It’s also a sprawling open world with relationship systems with benefits and dating.

It’s got a cool pseudo multiplayer where you send your porn to other players and if they like your porn you get gifts. Oh sorry, pawn.

you climb monsters which is cool.

It’s also a game where fire is bane to wolves.

I thought they was saying they didn’t mean llms will aid science not that llms wasn’t the topic. Ambiguous in reread.

AI isn’t well defined which is what I was highlighting with mentions of computer vision etc, that falls into AI and it isn’t really meaningfully different from other diagnostic tools. If people mean agi then they should say that, but it hasn’t even been established it’s likely possible let alone that we’re close.

There are already many other intelligences on the planet and not many are very useful outside of niches. Even if we make a general intelligence it’s entirely possible we won’t be able to surpass fish level let alone human for example. and even then it’s not clear that intelligence is the primary barrier in anything, which was what I was trying to point out in my science held back post.

There are so many ifs AGI is a Venus is cloudy -> dinosaurs discussion, you can project anything you like on it but it’s all just fantasy.

This seems like splitting hairs agi doesn’t exist so that can’t be what they mean. AI applies to everything from pathing algorithms for library robots to computer vision and none of those seem to apply.

The context of this post is LLMs and their applications

Fair enough, I used to be scientist (a very bad one that never amounted to anything) and my perspective has been that the major barriers to progress are:

• We’ve just got all the low hangingfruit
• Science education isn’t available to many people, perspectives are quite limited consequently.
• power structures are exploitative and ossified, driving away many people
• industry has too much influence, there isn’t much appetite to fund blue sky projects without obvious short term money earning applications
• patents slow progress
• publish or perish incentivises excessive volumes of publication, fraud, and splitting discoveries into multiple papers which increases burden on researchers to stay current
• nobody wants to pay scientists, bright people end up elsewhere

Is it? This seems like a big citation needed moment.

Have LLMs been used to make big strides? I know some trials are going on aiding doctors in diagnosis and stuff but computer vision algorithms have been doing that for ages (shit contrast dyes, pcr, and blood analysis also do that really) but they come with their own risks and we haven’t seen like widespread unknown illnesses being discovered or anything. Is the tech actually doing anything useful atm or is it all still hype?

We’ve had algorithms help find new drugs and stuff, or plot out synthetic routes for novel compounds; We can run DFT simulations to help determine if we should try make a material. These things have been helpful but not revolutionary, I’m not sure why LLMs would be? I actually worry they’ll hamper scientific progress by aiding fraud (unreproducible results are already a fucking massive problem) or extremely convincingly lying or omitting something if trying to use one to help in a literature review.

Why do you think LLMs will revolutionise science?

Umm penicillin? anaesthetic? the Haber process? the transistor? the microscope? steel?

I get it, the models are new and a bit exciting but GPT wont make it so you can survive surgery, or make rocks take the jobs of computers.

So super informed OP, tell me how they work. technically, not CEO press release speak. explain the theory.

Elden ring (had to stop playing on release due to arthritis, hands working better atm). It’s pretty good. I got up to volcano manor on release, doing liurnia atm so still on the easy/familiar stuff although finding a few things I didn’t get last time.

Dual Scythes are fun but garbage slow in pve so I might respect after the fight with empty nester. Trying a dragon communion build but there aren’t many dragons early game so mostly I just have no useful stats so far haha.

Palworld. It’s also pretty good.

Ok look advertising has clearly done a number on your brain because that is a fucking absurd amount of money to spend on a chair.

Like nothing in it is worth that much, you can get a very comfortable chair for 200 usd. You’re not getting 1000 usd extra value from this, just think about how much money that is and what materials this is actually made of.

Things marketed to business are absurdly overpriced because spending someone else’s money is easy, but you don’t need a chair adaptable to any body shape and capable of taking 500 kg of load. you know what body shape you are, and you probably aren’t that heavy. Features that sort of make sense in an office environment if you’re high on your own farts are completely unnecessary at home.

This is about status, hence why OP literally leads with a brag about how much money they can afford to light on fire in this post.

Hell medical evidence suggests you don’t even want too comfy of a chair because you should move around and engage your core muscles. Stuff like lumbar support is actively harmful to most people.

So get a nice chair sure but it’s a chair, you shouldn’t spend 12 weeks groceries on abs, mild steel, polyester, and maybe some polycarbonate. That’s stupid.

It could be skipped steps, a warped Z axis, lash in the axis. It doesn’t look like ringing to me.

If your steppers run too hot or against too much resistance that’d be the first thing I’d check. As well as give the axes a bit of a yank and ensure it’s all to the German spec.

Dude 1200 is too much to spend on a chair. I wouldn’t brag about it.

Like idk maybe it’s comfy or something but that’s bespoke carpentry throne money.

Yeah you need moisture for decay. Tiny fines might eventually go rancid in tiny pores and taste or smell a little bad but idk. She’ll be right.

Like it’s not like I clean the burrs that grind the beans much so if rotting was a problem I’d be dead already.

turnabout is fair play