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etherified t1_jdwb72i wrote

Reply to comment by thejewdude22 in Scientists discover how cancer cells evade immune system by BousWakebo

Yeah, for example, it's been well known for years that one of the mechanisms used by evolving cancer cells is to express surface HLA-G, which suppresses or down-regulates the host immune response, giving cancer cells more of the time needed for their nefarious purposes.

(the same HLA-G class is also expressed on embryo cells, helping to suppress the mother's immune response so her body doesn't attack the gestating fetus as a foreign body.)

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GrandMasterPuba t1_jdwavl3 wrote

Reply to comment by izumi3682 in You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills - Yuval Harari on threats to humanity posed by AI by izumi3682

>Why don't you ask it a question your ownself?

I use it every single day through CoPilot. In fact, I wager I've used it exponentially more than you have. It's an impressive tool, there's no doubt.

But it is just a tool. It is not an AGI. It's a model. You're seeing Jesus in your toast.

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psilorder t1_jdwae8w wrote

Reply to comment by Kahoots113 in Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it: We ran the numbers. by filosoful

>Also if assuming a radius of 1 AU, there may not be sufficient building material in the Solar System to construct a Dyson shell. Anders Sandberg estimates that there is 1.82×10^26 kg of easily usable building material in the Solar System, enough for a 1 AU shell with a mass of 600 kg/m2—about 8–20 cm thick on average, depending on the density of the material. This includes the hard-to-access cores of the gas giants; the inner planets alone provide only 11.79×10^24 kg, enough for a 1 AU shell with a mass of just 42 kg/m2.
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> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

So they'd need to dismantle the planets to even get 8-20 cm thickness.

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izumi3682 OP t1_jdw8b8c wrote

Reply to comment by GrandMasterPuba in You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills - Yuval Harari on threats to humanity posed by AI by izumi3682

You dint ask me to demonstrate it could create "new knowledge. You asked me to prove that it dint just give me what I hoped to see. But I'll bet you that really, actually, genuinely, serious scientists will ask it questions properly specific that it will create new knowledge. And bear in mind that such a thing would be of such societal gravity that it would at least produce Nobel prizes or novel amazing technology or substances, but could at worst be existentially threatening to humanity.

In the meantime, you just keep pushing back them goalposts. I prophesy it is going leap over them in less than 3 years. Hold my feet to the fire in the year 2026. I'm gonna be right.

Also just because I couldnt resist, I went ahead and did this...

rephrase this in a manner that would be undestandable to a sixth grader and include the terms "lagrangian", planck scale, quantum gravity and string theory. Sent message. Sure! Here’s a simpler version that includes the terms you mentioned: Scientists study how everything works using four main ideas called forces. These forces are like special powers that make things move and stick together. One of these forces is called gravity, which is what makes things fall down and keeps us on the ground. Scientists have a special tool called a “Lagrangian” that helps them understand how these forces work and make predictions.

Scientists understand a lot about how gravity works when things are big, like planets and stars. But when things are very, very small, it’s harder to understand how gravity works. There’s a size called the “Planck scale” where gravity starts to act differently and scientists don’t understand it as well. That’s why scientists are trying to learn more about something called quantum gravity, which is a way to explain how gravity works when things are super tiny.

One idea that scientists have come up with to help explain quantum gravity is called string theory. String theory is like a story that says everything in the universe is made up of tiny strings, kind of like pieces of spaghetti. These strings wiggle and move in different ways to make up all the things we see around us. Scientists hope that by studying string theory, they can learn more about how gravity works when things are very small.

Is there anything else you would like to know?

What do you think the impact of this is gonna be on human education in say, the US? Cuz I'm in the US. Why don't you ask it a question your ownself?

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13thOyster t1_jdw7krz wrote

Reply to People aged 16-29 in low-skilled jobs are 49% more likely to be surveilled at work. by PuzzBat9019

(Sarcasm, naturally...)

Well, of course! They are poor, after all. Everybody knows that poor people are morally inferior... otherwise, they wouldn't be poor. Poverty is God's punishment for moral inferiority. I mean, look a Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein... monuments to moral rectitude! You've got to keep your eye on the poor... That's why the police exist...to protect the property of the rich (and the rich themselves, of course) from the poor. Corporations are just helping the poor stay in their lane and be honest (against their natural impulses).

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speedywilfork t1_jdw6ptz wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in Microsoft Suggests OpenAI and GPT-4 are early signs of AGI. by Malachiian

so if an AI can't recognize a "drive through" it is the "drive throughs" fault? not to mention a human would investigate. it would ask someone "where do i buy tickets?" someone would say "over there", they would point to the guy at the chair and the human would immediately understand. an AI would have zero comprehension of "over there"

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