That easy, yet you've made no money from rap?

You do realize this very same company announced a deal with Oracle to get these very computers into their cloud data centers to sell time on them to customers within 2027 (i.e. by next year), right? That certainly doesnâ(TM)t sound like more of the same news we have had, but the beginnings of the first ones available for public use outside of lab settingsâ¦.

UBI is like reparations from the robots and AI.

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

It is a vaccine in the traditional sense. It creates immunity to the cancer cells, the same way the covid vaccine created immunity to the covid virus.

Yes, they are calling it a neo-antigen therapy now, but this type of treatment used to be called vaccine for the prior two decades.

Duplicatability is a core tenet of science.

Flock can save lives. Strongly regulate its use and severely punish its abuse, don't destroy it. A large number of violent crimes can be solved with it. Right now in the USA only about 50% of murders get solved. Scotland has a 100% homicide solve rate. Scotland's cities and towns utilize broad CCTV networks in public squares, transport hubs, and high-traffic streets and they use live facial recognition. We don't need to be Scotland, but if we have total surveillance we would be able to solve well over 90% of US murders. We'd know who was, and wasn't there. We'd have the crime on camera in a lot of cases since most homicides happen on public streets. According to the FBI in 2013, roughly 4,000 to 6,000 homicides (40% of total) a year occur out in public spaces, streets, or commercial areas. We could trace back people to their vehicle and then track the vehicle to their home etc.

Scotland has a 100% homicide solve rate: https://www.reddit.com/r/today...

That means they solve every murder. If a person kills someone in Scotland, they're getting caught. Guaranteed.

Also, the UK in general has a low homicide rate, in spite of having millions of unvetted migrants, because they have a lot of cameras. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep...

And btw, if you excluded the Black-on-Black homicide rate from UK average stats .. the UK is the safest it has ever been in history (and btw it's the safest it's ever been for Blacks too .. but excluding the contribution of that shows how much safer it has gotten for every ethnic group).

Would there be ways to game the system? Maybe. Would there be criminal masterminds getting away with stuff? Probably. But it'd be rare. The homicide rate would be reduced by a lot. I mean, China has the lowest homicide rate in the world .. because they have total surveillance.

The steps are simple .. the costs listed below are without labor and capital investment:
1. Obtain the tumor vs. normal sequence at 100x high coverage ($800).
2. Run sequence obtained in step 1 through a neo-antigen selection program ($0? lol) https://github.com/openvax/neo...
3. Synthesize & purify the requisite RNA ($100) https://www.creative-biogene.c...
4. Load the RNA into LNPs using a microfluidics device (the one most people uses is called NanoAssemblr https://www.cytivalifesciences... ) ($100)
5. Purify it: https://www.cytivalifesciences... ... $200.

It's not expensive in terms of raw materials and frankly I don't see how it can't be automated and made dirt cheap.

Not every tumor has strong neo-antigen presentation and many use complex immune evasion strategies that may be hard to defeat, therefore treatment evasion is still possible. https://www.cell.com/cancer-ce... Also notice they aren't using it as a treatment during cancer. You have to be mostly cancer free for it to work -- and even then it's not 100%.

The issue is that it will always be tough to identify a cell as cancerous from the outside. To do it reliably, you have to do it from INSIDE the cell. Unfortunately getting things into cells is not trivial.

The path to a final cure (an agent that can be easily transported into every type of cell, determine if it's within a cancer cell, and destroy it) will be something like the following: https://www.nature.com/article... (explanatory article about it: https://www.nature.com/article... )

There are numerous problems to solve with the "final cure" path though. I can list about a bunch .. but the good news is that for each one, there are about 2 or 3 possible ways it can be solved -- I think. We're probably about a decade or two out (consider the papers on neo-antigen vaccines started coming out in the 1990s, first proof-of-concept in early 2000s, and a "holy smokes, this thing really works" paper around 2017 I think). And note the neo-antigen therapy is still not approved.

I think it is also more important to mention who ACTUALLY wiped the phone. Samuel wasn't the one who entered the code that wiped it, the customs/board patrol agent + FBI were the ones in possession of the phone and the ones who entered the code from everything I have read. If they had felt so confident in the fact there was evidence in there in the first place, the data would have been first cloned with a forensic data scientist and then that cloned data used to do any searches, keeping the original intact and exactly as taken so anything could hold up in a court of law...

He's got a valid point. For example, if you use wolfram alpha after you do a math problem to check the result you came up with you can actually learn MORE than just doing the problem yourself, and may even add to the time the work takes, as if your result is wrong, you'll spend extra time working out where you went wrong and fixing it. And ultimately learning more in the process.

OTOH - If you use wolfram alpha to DO the question for you, you will learn nothing at all.

But further to that, you can even use tools to save time and learn more.

The other day, my daughter and I chatted about docker build scripts while she was doing her homework (which used docker containers), and that conversation clarified a lot of details and subtleties. (I learned a few things in the course of that conversation myself.) Nothing we talked about wasn't in the documentation, strictly speaking, but the conversation was a more natural way to learn and address the specific details we were talking about, with examples, and use cases that we came up with on the flay to make sense of and highlight those specific nuances. She probably could have read and reread the docs and easily spent more time on it, while learning less.

Now, in this case, she was learning 'from me', but you could swap "Dad" out for an "LLM", and get the same benefit.

All that said, I don't think the AI systems we have right now are likely a good idea for homework. The temptation to use it self-destructively is just going to be too high for a large number of students. Probably the majority of them. But it definitely can be used to learn more, and even learn more faster in the hands of someone who uses it for that.

 

Oh yeah btw, ICE has been capturing illegal immigrants that way by the thousands. You don't think they could do that to other "undesirables" when they run out of illegals?

There's a lot wrong with your question.
Firstly, China's gun laws are among the strictest in the world. Private ownership of firearms is generally prohibited. You'll get better returns on matching China's homicide rates by matching their firearms laws than you will by catching up with them on surveillance.

Are you wiling to do that? I somehow doubt it. And to be a safe as china, you could do both -- give up your guns AND submit to a police surveillance state. What could go wrong?

China has done other things too - absolutely massive government investments in infrastructure and construction, creating jobs and reducing poverty in the process, uplifting people who would otherwise be more desperate and more likely to turn to crime etc.

And speaking of Crime, China is pretty busy with state executions too. And is quite adept at artificially making those numbers look smaller, frequently recording the execution of multiple people as a single execution. That may play a part in the lower homicide rate too.

Secondly, you imply the tradeoff is simple prudishness - we give up peoples lives for the ability to "go to a strip club secretly".
That's not that half of it, and you should know that. It's also the ability to go, for example, to a political party meeting secretly.

Do you really trust your government so much that you'd give them that power over you? That some fuckwit won't get into power and leverage this against the people? The best protection the civilian population has from government abuse is to resist giving them the tools to abuse you in the first place. The government doesn't need to know where every person is at all times, this will inevitably be used against you. The supposed 'safety' gains are not worth living in a police surveillance state.

No. I asked about surveillance, I didnâ(TM)t ask if we should have slave camps. The president of China wears socks, are you saying we shouldnâ(TM)t wear socks?