I always feel this argument misses a point. SkyNet may still be a long way off, but autonomous killer drones are here. That is a bad situation my dudes.
Every step on the journey towards SkyNet is worse than the preceding step. Let's not split hairs about which step we're on: it's getting worse, and we should stop that.
Using LLMs for weapons is a grave misunderstanding of what LLMs are actually good for. These are things that should NEVER be in charge of life or death decisions.
My point is that Anthropic are bullshit as "safety" and "gatekeeper" personalities because they're warning us of exactly the wrong things.
They'll ink deals with all sorts of nefarious parties and be involved in all sorts of dubious things while trumpeting their fake non-profit status and wringing their hands about imminent AGI and "alignment" of the created AIs.
The concern I have is not the alignment of the AIs. They're not capable of having one, no matter what role playing window dressing they put on it.
It's the alignment of Anthropic and the people who use their tools that is a concern. So far it seems f*cked.
> Every frontier tech company is convinced that the tech they are working towards is as humanity-useful as a cure for cancer, and yet as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
Amd they alone are responsible enough to govern it.
Slightly off-topic, but.... the website is grindingly slow on my Samsung Galaxy A16 with Firefox. To the point that typing is a chore. Can you slim it down? Potential customers will not want to see such a slow interface.
There may not be an official webview, but all (?) major distributions have libwebkit2gtk, which is used by Wails (Go) and Tauri (rust). So it's a de facto standard if not official.
As noted by others, the conclusions of the original article do not exactly match the Guardian or HN title. From the original: "cognitive enrichment was related to lower risk of [Alzheimer's Disease]".
> The more renewables we have, the more expensive the electricity is.
Correlation is not causation. Renewables bring costs down, but other factors affecting Europe and the UK are causing costs to rise, outpacing reductions.
> Stoker, a theatre manager with no medical background, somehow described the basic mechanism of heterochronic parabiosis
Just to pick a nit...
Stoker's story was inspired by "The Vampyre" by physician John Polidori, who doubtless knew whatever his contemporary medics knew about blood.
Polidori, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley told scary stories to each other by Lake Geneva in 1816, the "year without a summer". It couldn't get more gothic.
It is worthy of note that John Polidori's model for a vampire was, in fact, Lord Byron.
Lord Byron's death was a result of what the medical profession then thought that they knew about blood. Namely that blood-letting was a worthwhile medical treatment.
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