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Comment Re: Zoning permits to homeschool? (Score 1) 107

Having to ask permission to do normal things exemplifies everything that is wrong with California. If he were running a business of educating other children (i.e., charging money) then I can see having to get permits and registration. In this case, it is California encroaching on parent's rights. Zuck (and everyone else) ought to move and leave that nanny state hellhole.

Comment Translation (Score 0) 74

What he meant by "will win AI race" is as follows:

a. Automation of jobs resulting in decrease of living standards for the middle class.
b. Implementing systemic surveillance undermining citizen's rights to privacy, to dissent politically, and expose corporate wrongdoing.
c. Implementing 'social score' system that encompasses all aspects of individual activities that traditionally were off limits, finding further ways to penalize dissent.

Why would anyone want to win these stupdi prizes?

"[The Japanese people] are so crafty in their hearts that nobody can understand them. Whence it is said that they have three hearts: a false one in their mouths for all the world to see, another within their breasts only for their friends, and the third in the depths of their hearts, reserved for themselves alone and never manifested to anybody."

Unfortunately, this quote that describes medieval Japan will soon have to be applicable to everyone under AI yoke. Only, there won't be private conversations in the kitchen with your family, because microphones are everywhere in every device.

Comment Re:On par with the president (Score 0) 49

If Trump calls you a pedophile on national TV, even if it is true at least half the country will knee-jerk in defending you. If AI calls you a pedophile when your name is searched, you are screwed unless you are really well-connected and wealthy to take on Google/OpenAI/etc. In this way, AI has a lot more power over you than even the president.

Submission + - New Drug Kills Cancer 20,000x More Effectively With No Detectable Side Effects (scitechdaily.com) 2

fahrbot-bot writes: SciTechDaily is reporting that researchers at Northwestern University have redesigned the molecular structure of a well-known chemotherapy drug, greatly increasing its solubility, effectiveness, and safety.

For this study, the scientists created the drug entirely from scratch as a spherical nucleic acid (SNA), a nanoscale structure that incorporates the drug into DNA strands surrounding tiny spheres. This innovative design transforms a compound that normally dissolves poorly and works weakly into a highly potent, precisely targeted treatment that spares healthy cells from damage.

When tested in a small animal model of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive and hard-to-treat blood cancer, the SNA-based version showed remarkable results. It entered leukemia cells 12.5 times more efficiently, destroyed them up to 20,000 times more effectively, and slowed cancer progression by a factor of 59, all without causing noticeable side effects.

“In animal models, we demonstrated that we can stop tumors in their tracks,” said Northwestern’s Chad A. Mirkin, who led the study. “If this translates to human patients, it’s a really exciting advance. It would mean more effective chemotherapy, better response rates and fewer side effects. That’s always the goal with any sort of cancer treatment.”

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