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New comment by jayGlow in "U.S. science is in chaos"

jayGlow — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:01:41 +0000

Does he not meet the criteria of a famous professor?

New comment by jayGlow in "U.S. science is in chaos"

jayGlow — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:09:54 +0000

James Watson the guy who discovered DNA was stripped of honorary titles based on comments related to race and IQ. there was a lot of discussion about that recently when he died.

New comment by jayGlow in "Running local models is good now"

jayGlow — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:49:21 +0000

what are you using for memory with your local models? is there a specific harness you would recommend for local agents?

New comment by jayGlow in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

jayGlow — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:50:01 +0000

there has been a lot of pushback about building new data centers basically anywhere on earth might as well build them in space.

New comment by jayGlow in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

jayGlow — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:22:42 +0000

why are those ai chemistry books any different than the anarchist cookbook which can also be bought on Amazon? actually now that I think about it a faulty chemistry book might be less dangerous than a book that teachers readers how to make explosives.

New comment by jayGlow in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

jayGlow — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:52:54 +0000

an organisms behavior outside of reproduction certainly can have an impact on natural selection. the vast majority of ants cannot reproduce by your logic their behavior shouldn't have any impact on natural selection. if a non-reproducing members behavior impacts those who can reproduce it will have an impact on natural selection.

New comment by jayGlow in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

jayGlow — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:09:13 +0000

I don't think most people would want dozens of task specific robots in their house it would be far more economic to have a single general purpose robot that can use pre existing tools and methods.

New comment by jayGlow in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

jayGlow — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:42:25 +0000

how can you prove that a human is appreciating and enjoying music instead of just generating sentences that imply they do?

New comment by jayGlow in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

jayGlow — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:43:19 +0000

or because they're trying to attract talent?

New comment by jayGlow in "Claude Opus 4.8"

jayGlow — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:18 +0000

agent teams can help with that, the main agent acts as an orchestrator and spawns sub agents to do the actual tasks it generally keeps the main context from overflowing.

New comment by jayGlow in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

jayGlow — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:16:59 +0000

I thought we wanted robots to take over the boring and back breaking jobs?

New comment by jayGlow in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

jayGlow — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:25:14 +0000

it looks like they have been used at least once to help develop a vaccine. they're not as significant as writing but they do seem to have their uses.

https://theconversation.com/a-man-used-ai-to-help-make-a-can...

New comment by jayGlow in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

jayGlow — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:18:38 +0000

I'm fairly certain LLMs have been used to solve some novel problems already.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/04/17/ai-solv...

New comment by jayGlow in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

jayGlow — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:16:32 +0000

chips limiting what kind of software can be run sounds absolutely awful and would be a huge overstep in government power. once I buy a piece of hardware I should be able to run whatever I want on it.

New comment by jayGlow in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

jayGlow — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:14:27 +0000

personally yes, that kind of choice should belong to the individual not the government. besides that though the laws are nonsensical why is a seatbelt required in a car not not in a bus, why are motorcycles even allowed at all?

New comment by jayGlow in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

jayGlow — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:22:55 +0000

we could bring back the 3d file browser and render it in the terminal now.

https://youtu.be/dFUlAQZB9Ng?si=3fE-vE8xF5rSVhRR

New comment by jayGlow in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

jayGlow — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:55 +0000

sailors also reported seeing kraken as well, they were eventually proven right with the giant squid.

New comment by jayGlow in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

jayGlow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:15:11 +0000

I believe cocaine is schedule 2 due to it having some limited medical uses.

New comment by jayGlow in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

jayGlow — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:47:33 +0000

if I'm not mistaken some human populations have neanderthal DNA which indicates that humans had reproduced with them and created fertile offspring. outside of that example there are a ton of species that can produce viable offspring like dogs, wolves and coyotes.

New comment by jayGlow in "Chuck Norris has died"

jayGlow — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:16:02 +0000

it's possible to disagree with someone politically and still acknowledge their positive aspects.