John Carmack (Keen Technologies): Research Directions @ Upper Bound 2025

How Synapses Learn! It’s More Interesting Than You Think

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Harvard, MIT: AI's Potemkin Understanding

very nice discussion of an intriguing paper covering some of the limits of the current llms.

James Gunn Throws Shade at Cavill’s Muscle Suit | Superman Suit Debate

Comment: They normally dont take these or put these on. Ive seen many materials replicated by tattoos. Id be surprised if they couldnt achieve any material look with muscles showing by using a spray paint like technique instead of fabric

Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

The problem is I don't think much can be done. Because I think there are likely beyond nuke superweapons similar to hypothetical hard nano that are easy to obtain for an asi. I also don't think an asi needs a large data center, that helps, but even one or a few entities qualitatively beyond Einstein as Einstein is beyond a monkey and with all the knowledge of humanity can likely obtain impossible to stop weapons. And I think this is attainable by even lone secret military labs, and such labs won't be stopped regardless of regulations or laws.

Comment on cool gundam ai music video from youtuber FantasyRemaster

 

Comment:  algorithms are getting faster and cheaper to run. But without copyright reform only small clips can likely be made even if it eventually becomes practical to remake the whole series. A full 1 for 1 full series remaster would likely need blessing of copyright owners. But currently the laws say ai gen is copyright free, which is also a problem on its own. We definitely need new laws to enable fair use and sharing of royalties while retaining some level of rights to those that modify and update content with ai tools

IS AGING PROGRAMMED? Aubrey de Grey vs. Yuri Deigin debate at Vitalist B...

comment: one thing is that parasites, diseases, germline mutations accumulate with age, fighting all of these is easiest by killing organism, that is in addition to increased evolvability. Also, the exceptions to the free radical theory of aging were explained away with the membrane pacemaker theory of aging, wherein membrane resilience determines rate of damage accumulation. Evolution determines membrane composition, during Calorie Restriction and similar interventions organism even alters membrane composition in a controlled manner increasing lifespan drastically.

In organisms like insects same genome different epigenetic regulation allows 10x--100x lifespan difference between queen and workers. But even here, it was believed queens of some species might be immortal, but for whatever reason it was found that sequential replacement with clones was easier for nature than actual immortality, the longest lasting queens last like 30 years ageless iirc, with extreme reproduction.