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Good idea. Then you could place another lighter-weight model in front of THAT, to figure out which model to use in order to find out which model to use.

It,'s LLMs, all the way down.


> A lot goes on and it consumes a ton of resources.

But why should this be taken a sign of a brain microbiome? I fail to see the connection you're implying.


Pure intuition, nothing more. I think we're just beginning to understand the microbiome and the brain does so much, has so many ports, and requires so many resources, that I think there are probably hundreds or thousands of heretofore unknown critters it relies on.


Isn't the phrase "self destruct" just meant to be a popular term of referring to apoptosis or programmed cell death in general?


> and you're not gonna get this law passed somewhere like China

That's exactly what embargos are for.


Or at least proper regulation. If you want to import X to the US then it must comply with Y


Yes, but we should also be honest about the fact that this protectionism will have a cost. In the case of farm equipment, it means that everyone who buys food will be paying more to subsidize the protected industry.

I'm not making a judgment on whether it's worth it or not, I think that depends on a lot of details, but when people throw out tariffs they are rarely honest about the fact that it's a tax that flows downstream to the end user. In some cases multiple ways, like farmers who pay higher cost for equipment due to tariffs, so production of their soybeans (or whatever) are higher, so then they needs USDA subsidies to make them price competitive for export, so there's multiple layers of taxation there to make it work.


What if a third party gains access to your social media account(s) and starts posting fake content from there?


My view on deepfakes:

I was thinking about deepfakes and how to protect from them and my conclusion is; there is no way you can protect from them from the practical point of view but from the legal point of view, governments can make laws where everything shared by somebody else that involves you is presumed fake unless there is substantial circumstantial evidence that says otherwise e.g. witnesses, legitimate metadata etc. etc.

Even before LLMs and GenAI, Photoshop became a synonym for messing around and faking photos so there is nothing new here but now there is more powerful "faking" software available to the masses.

Before computers and digital mass media sharing some compromising photo or tape could've been assumed authentic but now in the era of computers and software there is no way you can tell that something is authentic for sure.

>What if a third party gains access to your social media account(s) and starts posting fake content from there?

You can cause chaos and bad press in the short-term but when the original owner of the account restores ownership of the account everything falls apart. Like the commenter below said it happens all the time and it doesn't have any real impact on anything whatsoever.


It happens all the time. They usually post spam and scam.


> Can you give a historic example of a human creating "truly novel ideas" that is not the product of mixing and matching existing ideas?

The invention of PCR comes to mind:

> During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, Hofmann said Mullis had told him that LSD had "helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis


https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-o... would argue that it was exactly mixing and matching at play here, but that the component parts wouldn't necessarily have been called to mind without the hallucination.



While we're at it, let's also add a "rickrolled counter" for people who open the link and close it in less than 10 seconda. That should incentivize people to be a little more cautious, and perhaps avoid clicking on links without first doublechecking the URL.


This is basically the academic version of that.


Bring on the new post and more details, this stuff is interesting.


It's still my favourite genre for techno party cosplay.

What other alternative genres are out there?


Many. Fantasy, 1920s explorers, egyptian, we've had everything :)


How about referencing (with links) a bunch of concrete relevant studies from psychopharmacology then, to back up your claims?


This is a casual message board; there's no requirement to put that kind of effort into a post here.

You can also do the legwork yourself.


>You can also do the legwork yourself.

The person who makes the claim must justify it, not the readers.


Was the claim I was responding to justified anyhow, though?

It's literally one query to https://scholar.google.com or any other search engine of choice, should I link to search results? Okay, so append ?q=[substance name] at the end of the URL. I don't mean to come off as rude, though. But it's really simple to do so, and it won't really serve any purpose to link to particular studies, either, as this could in turn add a potentially huge selection bias.

By the way, for more "obscure" in terms of scientific interest compounds see: beberine, theanine (aka l-theanine), vinpocetine. Particularly the last one. Same. These ones don't even have any synthetic counterparts which will share same or similar mechanism of action (there are other synthetic compounds targeting the same receptors, but they still represent very unique combinations of targets and also often have unique pharmacodynamics in relation to these targets).


>My uninformed opinion is that anything which hasn't been distilled into a single compound won't be called medicine by the medical industry.

So are you going to insist on the same for the original claim made here, too, or is this an isolated demand for rigor?


This is not a scholarly journal. Get a life if you think casual conversation works that way.


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