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New comment by Purplehermann in "The Zizians and the rationalist death cult"

Purplehermann — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:42:01 +0000

Nope. Raising children to be moral and not kill people is good. Stopping people (including by force) from being murderers is good.

Restrict AI the way you would if it were human

New comment by Purplehermann in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

Purplehermann — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:12:06 +0000

"Your kids should take one for society" is an atrocious pitch.

"Your kids should be stuck with people who ruin their lives because criminals are" is also terrible.

The correct response is moving problem kids to problem schools, then to disciplinary schools, and if necessary to juvy.

Put people where they belong, with the people they belong with.

Otherwise the people stuck with the trash will leave (and maybe that's okay in the end)

New comment by Purplehermann in "Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions"

Purplehermann — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:52:30 +0000

Well no, the environment is probably easier to deal with than our bodies, and we get replaced gen by gen.

New comment by Purplehermann in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

Purplehermann — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:58:55 +0000

The brain is insanely energy efficient, this is not the same as intelligence efficient

New comment by Purplehermann in "Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says"

Purplehermann — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:44:45 +0000

What if an app allows landlords to easily coordinate on prices?

New comment by Purplehermann in "Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says"

Purplehermann — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:43:55 +0000

The higher the margins, the more wealthy people will want to build houses to rent them out.

At some number of vacant houses the algorithm changes

New comment by Purplehermann in "Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide"

Purplehermann — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:20:30 +0000

Giving notice is helpful

New comment by Purplehermann in "Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab"

Purplehermann — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:16:05 +0000

A less quackish way to say the same thing is that a scientific paradigm tells people along which lines to look for answers. Looking at areas the paradigm doesn't recommend are generally not worthwhile, but occasionally you get something important, which doesn't fit in the current paradigm but will eventually help form the new paradigm.

A good heuristic could be "seems like a solid scientist in general, but this niche where he was a top level researcher led him to a split with the main stream" vs "consistently takes anti-mainstream views and has no contributions within the paradigm "

New comment by Purplehermann in "Open source AI is the path forward"

Purplehermann — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:49:43 +0000

Well that's it then, we're gonna die

New comment by Purplehermann in "How do you find a good manager?"

Purplehermann — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:41:46 +0000

How could anything be positively predicted by gender? More seriously, selection effects should be much stronger than gender, age and ethnicity, and yet there should still be some correlation in one direction or another, wish there were power and confidence values given

Ask HN: What are the best ways to increase tech capability over time?

Purplehermann — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:53:03 +0000

How do you go about pushing the edge of a company or organization's abilities further - especially when the next jump is a big one and failure is expensive? How do you consolidate organizational capabilities so they don't disappear the minute a particular engineer moves on to his next job?

How do you raise the waterline of what your people are capable of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507943

Points: 1

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New comment by Purplehermann in "Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood"

Purplehermann — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:54:52 +0000

Link?

New comment by Purplehermann in "The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice"

Purplehermann — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:57:23 +0000

When things are just.. wrong, there's not much reason to be specific. Especially when gwern.net has multiple long-form blog posts discussing these topics

New comment by Purplehermann in "The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice"

Purplehermann — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:52:20 +0000

While the author's framing is wrong, aren't there genes that have positive dominant effects and negative recessive effects?

New comment by Purplehermann in "The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice"

Purplehermann — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:47:02 +0000

On the one hand yes, on the other I want to genetically engineer chickens to lay multiple purple eggs daily

New comment by Purplehermann in "The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice"

Purplehermann — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:45:24 +0000

Depends how cheap gene editing gets. If you can mass-produce adenoviruses that improve iq 15 points and health significantly, that's going to be way cheaper than nutrition, forget education and of course opportunity.

Of course, better genes means nutrition, education and opportunity go further