Yes, there are different cordyceps-like fungi for different species. The thing is, the neurochemistry of even fairly related insects is so different that the fungus would need to make too many adaptations simultaneously to be able to jump between species. It could infect a trillion fruit flies and never jump to dung fly.
>They stop fearing cats, and are thus at greatly enhanced risk of being eaten.
Recent studies have shown that it doesn’t reduce their fear of cats, it reduces their fear in general. Manipulating the mammalian brain, other than in broad strokes, is extremely difficult.
Luckily this zombie fungus is very precise in what species it targets, and a fungus specialized in fruit fly would find it borderline impossible to jump even to other kinds of flies.
It does not. Logical outcomes that use infinity as an intermediary are inherently not reliable. An example of this is the Ramanujan summation where 1+2+3+... results in -1/12, an outcome which is disputed among mathematicians due to the fact that we have not defined the concept of infinity properly.
Nah, full-on babelfish is simply not possible. The meaning of the beginning of a sentence can be modified retroactively by the end of the sentence. This means that the Babelfish must either be greatly delayed or awkwardly correct itself every once in a while.
> “Market can stay stupid longer than you can stay insolvent.” -> Yeah, that is called cope.
You had me at the start but lost me here. That’s not speculation, that’s a fact. Some big shorters of the 2008 crisis almost went broke waiting for the market to catch up.
A quick Google search implies that these haven’t been proper experiments. It seems as if the brain doesn’t necessarily learn to flip the image, but rather learns to somewhat process the stuff upside-down. A bit like learning to play video games with the controller after using only mouse and keyboard.
The real test as to whether the brain learns to flip the image would be if the goggle-user could read upside-down text after using the goggles for a few weeks, without having read text during that time.
>Eh there's a lot of propaganda from the US about China I wouldn't buy into it.
I feel these statements at least partly stem from contrarian origins. We have a huge supply of facts as to why China indeed is a fascist totalitarian state - look at what happened to Hong Kong as an example. Pooling these facts into ”US propaganda” is borderline intellectually dishonest.
>People in China are generally happy
In happiness, China ranked 82nd out of 146 countries in 2023.
I'm sorry, but I disagree with the analogy. If you can spitball the presentation, your time is likely spent better elsewhere than preparing for the presentation.
I’m Finnish and this is not my understanding. Finland has a specific policy that every time a new neighbourhood is constructed, a percentage of those houses are allocated for the municipal government, who then rent them for these less fortunate folk. This means that the problems aren’t concentrated but distributed. It’s part of the larger ideology of equality in Finland, which is that the extremes in both good and bad are softened.
OpenAI minmaxed LLM development, DeepMind minmaxed other avenues of research, such as game-playing AI development. LLMs proved themselves first. Ockham’s Razor suggests there’s nothing more to it.
Yeah, the ”post-truth era” is a weird catchphrase which has been going strong for the last 5 years or so at minimum, yet the described dystopia has never arrived and never has been on track to arrive.
I would guess that the sounds animals make are highly context-dependent in a multimodal fashion. We will likely be able to detect some correlations, but decoding larger vocabulary seems unlikely.
Well, Christianity is a big reason. It was so successful for so long in part because it aggressively repressed any ideologies which could have threatened its hegemony. Since the Church considered the ’scientific’ domain to be part of its curriculum, new science was generally a threat.
I disagree. When watching How I Met Your Mother, I am always astounded that it was filmed in 2005. Practically nothing has changed in daily lives since then.
The ones who claim little risk of ASI doom are either omniscient or fools. The best tool humanity has to predict the future with our feeble minds with some consistent performance is the wisdom of the crowds. Lately a huge portion of the folk working in contact with AI have warned about a significant impending risk regarding future AI research. Regardless of what your personal opinion happens to be, this is indicative of a significantly increased probability of ASI doom in the near future.
Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm)
This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.
Yes, but the parent comment used ChatGPT agreeing to their contrarian point as proof of the bot’s capacity for logic, whereas that was likely not what was happening there.
Meditation and exercise are not comparable. The latter is something our bodies were designed by our evolution to do. The former is something we ourselves developed in certain cultural environments. The actual difference in confidence of benefit between these two is enormous.
GPT-4 is not human level intelligence, nor is is above or below. It’s quite a different kind of intelligence not entirely comparable to humans. That’s probably why we’re moving the AGI goalpost; we visualize AGI as a robot human, but these machines may simply be founded on too different principles to ever receive that honor.