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New comment by smashspectacle in "LG Says We're Fake News [video]"

smashspectacle — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:22:13 +0000

YouTube encourages A/B testing of both titles and thumbnails, but it could be either.

New comment by smashspectacle in "How to build a virtual cell and biology scaling laws"

smashspectacle — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:11:28 +0000

Another set of hype babel to fool people not trained in the field. Yes, some people developed a tool that is really good at reproducing a tool we developed (language). There is no logical pathway that this follows into biology. To put this in terms relevant to mathematicians, logicians, and statisticians behind llms: language is a subset of biology, therefore biology contains orders more complexity. And all of that neglects the fact that without proposed mechanisms you are just reproducing the unexplained in silico, not that impressive, new, or useful in most contexts.

New comment by smashspectacle in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

smashspectacle — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:18:49 +0000

Lot of people trying to psychoanalyze why a statistical machine will include something in its training set with a nonzero probability... It includes this option because it will eventually include all options it is trained on if given enough time. Given all the historical, fictional, academic, and sensational content on the topic, it is not surprising it emerges so readily.