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haltist

451 karma · joined September 10, 2023

homeless techno-optimist and singularitarian. all I need is $80B to solve any problem with AI
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haltist··on AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
Fish stock will collapse in my lifetime.
haltist··on Ask HN: Whats with the black bar on top of the Hacker News orange?
Someone died.
haltist··on Do we need dei in tech?
What was their latest production you paid money to see?
haltist··on Few adults are interested in trying "lab-grown" meat
If you want lab grown meat then you should learn about "immortalization". Basically you are better off cutting back meat consumption and getting your protein from healthy plant sources because lab grown meat, although technically more ethical, is just as unsustainable as regular factory farmed meat.
haltist··on Do we need dei in tech?
If you are correct then DEI companies will be more profitable than those without because that's how capitalism works. Whatever makes the most money is the market winner. If being woke is more profitable then most companies will be woke.
haltist··on Mental side-effects of Covid Infection
> Background. Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 have been documented, including delusions, hallucinations, agitation, and disorganized behavior. Although the mechanisms for these symptoms remain unclear, there has been an increasing body of literature suggesting a correlation between COVID-19 infection and psychosis. Here, we illustrate the case of a 34-year-old female with no previous psychiatric history who contracted COVID-19 and subsequently developed severe symptoms of psychosis. After presenting to the emergency department with one month of worsening mood, auditory hallucinations, intrusive thoughts, and hyperreligiosity, she was admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit. The patient was treated with multiple antipsychotic medications and was discharged in stable condition with resolution of her auditory hallucinations; however, her delusions, hyperreligiosity, and negative psychotic symptoms persisted, resulting in a second inpatient psychiatric admission eight days after discharge, during which she again did not reach full remission. Objectives. With this information, we hope to increase awareness of COVID-induced psychosis and further discuss the relationship between COVID-19 infection and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Conclusions. Although there has been increasing research about the COVID-19 pandemic, there is much to be elucidated regarding the neuropsychiatric symptoms related to these infections. Similar to previous studies, our case describes a patient with no previous psychiatric history who developed severe psychotic symptoms after COVID-19 infection and was admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit. These symptoms resulting from infection can be severe or debilitating for the patient. Therefore, physicians should be aware of these potential neuropsychiatric sequelae when treating patients with active COVID-19 infections, and treatment with antipsychotics or acute inpatient psychiatric admission should be considered.
haltist··on Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
Someone should figure out why Iran wants to destroy America.
haltist··on Ask HN: How many times will this loop run on average?
The only random variable in that code is "Random(1, 100)" and its expected value is 50.
haltist··on Ask HN: Onboarded and overwhelmed by new code base
Welcome to the real world of software engineering. It only gets worse.
haltist··on Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Is a Visionary Slog
It's seven samurai in space with bits and pieces of warhammer nonsense. It's basically a movie for children.
haltist··on Ask HN: What are your 2024 resolutions?
Raising money for the panoptic computronium cathedral.
haltist··on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1B a year for doing nothing
Capitalism works and Steve Ballmer is the proof. I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to change the system seeing as how it works so well.
haltist··on Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
Who is supplying them? Where do they get the money to buy all the weapons?
haltist··on Update on "My CTO is wrong (or worse) and nobody is challenging him"
It would not have made any difference. Humans love hierarchy and it's obvious you are too far down the hierarchy to have made any difference.
haltist··on A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance
I will be suing these people for infringing my trademarks and patents.
haltist··on Will scaling work?
You are obviously a believer so you should know I know how to build AGI with a patented and trademarked architecture called "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. Tell all your friends about it. I only need $80B to achieve AGI.
haltist··on Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
This is the right way to think about it. You get half at the beginning and half at the end so overall you get an extra rotation.
haltist··on Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward
Money is a magical invention. Everyone agrees they don't have enough of it but somehow everyone also agrees only certain people should have more than enough.
haltist··on Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward
These problems will be solved with AGI because it will be able to talk to animals and convince them to stop being predators.
haltist··on Ask HN: How to square the circle of wanting to share ideas but not train AI?
It will be a technological utopia. You must be extremely confused to think that the "panoptic computornium cathedral"™ has anything to do with genocide. Anyway, you probably should stop posting, remember, AI is watching this forum at right now and the more you post the more you help the AI plagiarize your content.
haltist··on Ask HN: How can fake AI news get on Google News?
It can work longer than you realize. Most of the internet is SEO spam sponsored by ads from the google ad network.
haltist··on Incentivizing the Man on the Floor
That's not complex at all.
haltist··on Incentivizing the Man on the Floor
It can be done with a language model very easily.
haltist··on Ask HN: How can fake AI news get on Google News?
You've stumbled on what's known as "google eating itself" problem. This has been well known for a while now: https://www.gwei.org/index.php
haltist··on Incentivizing the Man on the Floor
Put cameras everywhere and then use AI to update prices. Problem solved.
haltist··on Ask HN: How to square the circle of wanting to share ideas but not train AI?
No luck necessary. It is inevitable.
haltist··on Eggs from men, sperm from women: stem cell science may change how we reproduce
Lots of GPUs and then magic happens. It's well known by now that AI has emergent properties even though it's just a bunch of floating point arithmetic so the plan is to scale up the emergence by monitoring everything 24/7 in the panoptic computroinum chathedral and letting gradient descent handle the rest. The limiting factor is the hardware (monitoring and learning), hence why I need $80B.

OpenAI is a chatbot company and they're worth $100B so my price is a bargain deal for accelerating AGI and the singularity.

haltist··on Eggs from men, sperm from women: stem cell science may change how we reproduce
Tell all your friends about the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. Its creation would accelerate all of these developments and others that no one can even imagine. All I need is $80B.
haltist··on Eggs from men, sperm from women: stem cell science may change how we reproduce
100%. The singularity is almost here and having people that can self-fertilize like flowers is just an added bonus.
haltist··on Eggs from men, sperm from women: stem cell science may change how we reproduce
Add some AI into the mix and the ubermensch will be here in no time. Imagine people who are their own mothers/fathers and selected in an optimal way by AI to advance the cause of humanity and their colonization of the stars. Truly marvelous developments.
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