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logdap··on Colossal Biosciences Aims to ‘De-Extinct’ the Woolly Mammoth
Asian and African elephants are both commonly carriers for a virus (different strains of EEHV) which is very deadly to elephant calves of the other species. They used to be housed together more often before zoologists figured this out.
logdap··on Colossal Biosciences Aims to ‘De-Extinct’ the Woolly Mammoth
That seems like it would get really awkward fast. We'd probably have to give them full human rights (particularly if they successfully learned our language and demanded rights), but they might not be able to adapt to a homo sapien society. Also whoever funded their recreation wouldn't be able to keep them as property, but would probably try to.

Mammoths are easier in this regard since we already have a framework for how to treat elephants.

logdap··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
> Kind; class; sort; type; ; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.

> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Yes, only sometimes used to indicate disapproval, but such ambiguity does not work to your favor here. It is better to remove that ambiguity.

logdap··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
> intelligences is what allows one to understand phrases and then construct meaning from it. e.g. the paper is yellow

That doesn't clarify anything, you've ever only shuffled the confusion around, moved it to 'understand' and 'meaning'. What does it mean to understand yellow? An LLM or another person could tell you things like "Yellow? Why, that's the color of lemons" or give you a dictionary definition, but does that demonstrate 'understanding', whatever that is?

It's all a philosophical quagmire, made all the worse because for some people its a matter of faith that human minds are fundamentally different from anything soulless machines can possibly do. But these aren't important questions anyway for the same reason. Whether or not the machine 'understands' what it means for paper to be yellow, it can still perform tasks that relate to the yellowness of paper. You could ask an LLM to write a coherent poem about yellow paper and it easily can. Whether or not it 'understands' has no real relevance to practical engineering matters.

logdap··on Elizabeth Holmes, left to her own devices
> just covering failures and fake it till you make it without discernment or introspection (doing it in a field where you really need to stop faking it sooner)

In a word: scamming.

Even her voice is fake.

logdap··on Spain asks US to clean up site of 1966 nuclear accident
Several pounds of Pu-239? Yeah the US should definitely reclaim that.
logdap··on Dell tells workers to wear pants at least 3 days a week
The word 'pants' doesn't appear in the article, nor does the word 'dress' for that matter. I think the headline is bullshit. I really doubt they are requiring pants. It would be a senseless invitation for lawsuits.
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