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

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

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

I'll believe they're serious when they start living the lifestyles they claim we'll need to curve the trend. Tons of posts about Trump but none about the supposed environmentalists who are still living the same lifestyles of the average Trump supporter. Where is the low-hanging fruit? Why aren't these people changing their ways? Why ask those who oppose your agenda when your own "believers" can't be bothered?

If these people were serious we'd see EV adaption in the double digits and be able to walk into any restaurant and get a vegetarian meal without having to double guess what may or may not be used to create it. We're not seeing that. We're not going to see that because environmentalism is only an issue when it comes down to politics and not lifestyle in the minds of these people. They want to weaponize environmentalisms as a political tool, not as a practical guide for end-user consumption.

But, you know, fOlLoW tHe ScIeNcE!!!

Blah! Blah! Blah! Trump did something else moronic! Blah! Blah! Blah!

I've never met anybody or seen such a person on TV or anywhere else, who wanted to grow up and work in a call center. This is exactly where AI should make a positive impact. But we all know it won't happen. There's no indication that AI call centers bots are getting anywhere near intelligent or even particularly useful. We're still whacking away at the zero and screaming "I want to talk to a human".

We're not getting the whole story here. If he's up 80% for the year, he's still doing better than most of the commenters, me included. He's just riding a steeper roller coaster than most of us can stomach. Let's see where he's at in ten years and then judge. Granted, where he's at may include prison.

We don't need AI to find out about chemicals used in WW I. Unless you think Ai is just a good search engine.

Trust me. Ain't nobody gonna use AI to develop no stinkin' chemical weapons. Or, at least, any new ones. As far as I can tell, AI isn't doing too well at figuring out chemistry. And, speaking as a chemist, the data that one might use to train AI on chemistry and biology is already pretty highly corrupted on its own, thank you.

I'd still be using NT if I could. Every iteration is worse. Well, not quite. Vista was particularly bad. But the trend is very much a grinding enshitification.

These prediction markets are actually just insider trading markets. No one in his right mind would wander in if he didn't have insider knowledge. If you think of it that way, alls fair. Caveat emptor!

Wasn't this what Voice of America was all about, except that we held the high moral ground? Now that we've (the US under Trump) ceded the high moral ground, I guess it makes sense to get rid of it.

What if quantum computing never happens? What if BitCoin is actually worthless? What if AI eventually leads us to agents of average human intelligence? What happened to unified field theory? So much money chasing nebulous shit. All this complicated stuff that only a few actually understand, though many will gladly explain to you. As I grow old, I tire of this stuff.

Medicinal chemist here. This is such deep bullshit, I can't even figure out where to start.

I'm an older chemist. I'm seeing little to no advancement of what I do, medicinal chemistry, from AI. Translating chemistry from the literature into a real notion of how chemistry behaves isn't happening. I know, AlphaFold, right? No. AlphaFold was a beautiful application of AI, to solving a fairly bound problem using a very large, highly curated data set (the pdb). Most chemistry is a lot messier. I'll keep watching, but right now it seems that we're gonna have to keep chemists around, though we've largely decided that they will reside outside the US in the future.

I wrote something on Reddit once in an economics subreddit, questioning the value of BitCoin. I got the most severe flaming I've ever experienced. It got copied to the BitCoin subreddit where I got flamed even hotter.

So be ready to get flamed if you're not all in.

I'm an organic chemist. I've worked in drug discovery for 45 years. It's hard. Jeff Bezos ain't nowhere close to figuring it out. I don't know about the other parts, but I know for sure the drug discovery stuff is bullshit.