Euros generally understand that taxes aren't purely for what they themselves want to be done.

>ChatGPT, prompted by an amateur, solves an Erdős problem.

There, fixed that for you.

>I am David Schneider-Joseph, an engineer formerly with SpaceX and Google, now working in AI safety. Alzheimer’s isn’t my field

If anyone wants to know who wrote the article linked before wasting time reading it, there you go.

Many in this thread, who have evidently spent very little time studying the topic, have confidently concluded the experts are wrong.

I, also a non-expert, spent six months studying what the experts are doing, concluded that they actually seem to know what they’re talking about, and shared my understanding of that with other non-experts.

If you’re going to dismiss me for saying the experts are right, since I’m not an expert, then shouldn’t you dismiss those who spent far less time than I to learn about the subject, who are saying the experts are wrong?

DSJ! I remember you from about 2001, when you had made the chatbot VIAL. I can vouch for you being a smartypants 25 years ago, don't know about now.

Ha! You must be using a different username than I knew you by then. Hit me up on one of the many platforms we’re probably both on if you like, would be good to reconnect.

For you, simply listing the author of the post is enough to discard it. Not everyone is that well informed, so it would be helpful for you to add another sentence explaining why this author has no credibility with you.

By this logic, we wouldn't have some of the breakthroughs made throughout history. Outsiders have made some pretty interesting leaps (later honed by experts). Expertise is great, but it can exist outside of formal education, and it isn't the only metric.

Might this be a doctor vs. physician assistant situation?

The people who know the most are probably busy and (not to be rude) are not necessarily the strongest educators.

Maybe my standard is too low here or I have a different need than you, would make a different accuracy-accessibility tradeoff…

there is even easier way to estimate the chances of time wasting - it is a "rationalist" website, an "effective altruism"-like version of rationality.

wrt. original post - quickly googled, and that for example https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-are-Amyloid-Plaques... - pretty short and seems to be clear that amyloids do have some correlation while may or may be not the cause.

"Amyloid plaques form one of the two defining features of Alzheimer’s disease, the other being neurofibrillary tangles"

Interesting that the latter is inside the neurons while the former is outside - speaking of complexity. The article also describes that activating microglia back helps with amyloid plaques while this

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33010092/#:~:text=The%20stud...

"The neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and amyloid-ß plaques (AP) that comprise Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology are associated with neurodegeneration and microglial activation. "

Human body reminds a large monolith codebase - fixing one thing breaks some other :). Claude Code, Human Body CRISPR edition, can't come soon enough...

>there is even easier way to estimate the chances of time wasting - it is a "rationalist" website, an "effective altruism"-like version of rationality.

Is that supposed to be an endorsement or a dismissal? The ostensible goals of "rationality" seem like good things, so it sounds like an endorsement, but in the wake of the FTX/SBF fallout they got a bad rap.

there is a big difference between a theory/idea and espousing the theory/idea as an ideology.

Huge codebase with years of fixes, features and hacks added on top and nothing ever refactored.

It’s a miracle it works at all

It is worse. The code changes are mostly random, only surviving the tests of fitness nature is applying (on various levels though; immediately catastrophic changes on level of cell biology are sorted out). And at least the high-level tests are also random and unreliable.

So basically it's a codebase mostly composed of bugs, and the features mysteriously work because they're based on bugs that happen to be mitigated by other bugs. :)

A billion years of kludges.

>I rely on them constantly for maths (linear algebra, multivariable calc, stat)

That's one way to waste a ton of tuition money to just have a clanker do your learning for you.

Unless you're teaching it, in which case I hope your salary is cut by whatever percentage your clanker reduces your workload.

Perhaps learning how to get AI to solve your problems is the most important lesson to learn now? The rest seems like the current equivalent of learning cursive.

No, learning math is still a valuable skill. You still learned how addition worked growing up even though calculators existed, right? You learned to read even though screen readers exist?

None of this makes any sense. I'm not in school and I'm not a teacher. It's just a random attempted drive-by dunk that faceplanted.

People greatly overestimate the number of Vietnam vets who were drafted.

For others' sake, I double-checked: 2.59 million served, of which 648,500 were draftees. Right at 25%

Is there a study of soldiers who enlisted but only because their draft number was low? There were substantial benefits to enlisting, because you could choose your branch of service.

Should break that down by people who had enlisted before hostilities began. Material difference enlisting during peace time vs when there is an active theater of war.

It would be more interesting to see those numbers broken down by frontline service. What percentage of the guys actually dying in the jungle were drafted?

17,725 draftees died, just over 30% of all American combat deaths in the war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_draft

It isn't the number that were drafted that matters. It is the number who were enrolled who might have been drafted that matters.

A relative of mine who was of draft age during the Vietnam war, deliberately enlisted in the US army because he thought that this would reduce his chances of being sent to fight in Vietnam And it worked, he spent his time overseas in the military in Japan in a non-combat role. I'm sure many males of draft age made similar choices.

For maybe people, even one would be too many.

HN guidelines say "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic for HN

Go to a juggling club and you'll find that a Venn diagram of juggler, nerd & technology has a lot of overlap.

For real? I am a juggling nerd, but didn't know that was a thing. I gotta go find my people now.

Why autism?

lol. Thank you for the laugh.

I’m there will you. I always laugh about how autism and SSRIs are not for discussion here. It’s too on the nose.

tfw le AI guy has LLM psychosis. We're cooked

FYI the phrase is "lo and behold"

Thank you for the heads up.

I love how NanoClaw looks, but I simply can't bring myself to give Israeli software like this access to any of my systems.

Israeli? What do you mean? Where did you find that NanoClaw is israeli?

Gavriel Cohen, its creator, is one of the many human shields for the IDF^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H people cowering in bomb shelters in Tel Aviv.

that sucks, i think of all the AI bots this one is the most promising

Thanks for the reverse KYC

Yeah dumbasses regularly post nonsense on Elon's X™

I'm pretty sure that is not exclusive to X.