I think the usage of solved is silly. Things get automated, they basically never get ‘solved’.
Will all these things get automation? Yeah sure. But the idea that they will be perfect automated solutions applicable in all cases is just marketing, it’s not reality.
Just to point out re: navier stokes - what was being proven was not a solver or approximations for it, but showing specific circumstances under which it actually returns incorrect (or numerically unusable) answers. Which had been suspected but wasn't known for certain
that just furthers my point, i was vaguely aware that it wasn't a full proof, but I'm not a mathathician, and that detail just re-enforces my point we are proving against human made axiom (certainty of numbers) which are almost certainly not fully correct, if what you are saying is accurate its less of a proof of navier-stokes and more of a proof that our base axioma are not able the model the output of a real physical process and are therefore incomplete or wrong.
also realized i posted this under the wrong story since the OP/story is mostly about human politics.
The whole ‘NPC’ thing is so juvenile and solipsistic. Believing other people have less mental agency than you doesn’t make you cool and edgy, it makes you come off as an idiot that needs to grow up
(Note I’m not directing this at the author necessarily, just people who do actually engage with this concept as if it is serious/real)
The thing is, what I’m asking about is not unrelated. It is the inverse situation - which curiously nobody seems to care about.
And I say ‘curiously’ with some sarcasm, because it is very obvious why the focus is always disproportionately on needing to justify minimum wages for the poor, normally with ridiculous economic value arguments, but not extreme wages for anyone else - which is apparently fine and has zero negative consequences
It's pretty simple - it doesn't bother me if a company decides to pay a worker a lot of money. They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me.
However, the government mandating a certain wage has a tremendous effect on me.
> They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me.
> However, the government mandating a certain wage has a tremendous effect on me.
"the government mandating a certain wage" is the definition of minimum wage in this thread. If you are not a minimum wage worker and would not become a minimum wage worker after an increase in the minimum wage, why and how does that have an effect on you, and why would an increase in an executive's salary (multiple orders of magnitude more than minimum wage, and annually increasing in orders-of-magnitude higher dollar amounts than minimum wages do) not have a similar or greater effect on you?
Assuming he's doing this well, and he implies he is, they're doing the content - stories, characters, graphics, level design. He says Fable isn't good at that stuff - his human games designers presumably are.
My experience has been that it has a major advantage, in that freeze + offline actually work properly. You can collect the dependencies you need once, put them in version control and never ever talk to remote registry again
I guess that’s more of a problem if you use all-encompassing frameworks, but normally the things I’m using are very small components where the CVEs either don’t exist or are inconsequential/unexploitable for the programs I’m building
Updating every dependency for every kind of CVE is a brute force method for people and organisations that don’t understand the attack surface of the programs they’re producing
Who is doing what you’re describing? The reason I can confidently freeze and offline stuff is because I’m not taking in whole frameworks, I’m selecting things carefully, and generally do end up reading at least most of the source
And what ‘monitoring’ are you going to be doing besides things like CVEs?
> How it is made should be irrelevant in the process.
No? If you are employed (or requested in this case I guess) to offer your expert opinion, the expert they want to hear from is you, not someone else you farm your work out to - whether that’s an LLM or another person
Interesting piece. Seems to be that the expert cannot falsify things but his opinion is an opinion. So there is no good/bad in that.
Not sure how it legally works, I think in the legal system at least in the US it is quite common that experts are hired and giving opinions based on who hires them?
And then the other party can cross examine? Not enough knowledge on that but it’s interesting if legal people could chime in on how it works.
I hope those expert “opinions” are not taken as facts?
How is this any different from any job? Or at least any knowledge worker job like an engineer or some sort? They hired you, so presumably they want you to do the work or solve the problem, not farm it out to another person or an LLM.
Does it matter how it was created? Whether you had a subordinate create it, or an employee, or a contractor, googled it, cited a study, or some other method. You as the expert look at the conclusion and either agree with it or disagree.
I think if people looked at LLM as just tools or interns, which you should always check or question their conclusions, then they'd 1) not believe everything LLMs tell you and 2) they would get better responses after critiquing the LLM response.
The problem with this stuff is (as the article mentions) is that it’s going to take a while to figure out whether any benefit is just temporary.
I would guess that there are a lot of variables to eliminate too - eg is it possible that just having a surgery and recovering from anaesthesia can yield some of these benefits in some circumstances? Given that we don’t really understand how most inhaled anaesthetics fully work
I've witnessed dementia patients take a fall, and then be dramatically more confused the next couple days. I've also seen them get some kind of social exposure, sunshine, exercise, etc. and present better for several days afterwards. Measuring "how well is the mind working" isn't like reading a digital meter.
Firstly it’s not curing anything, it’s yielding some improvement. But secondly: what surgeries are performed on people with Alzheimer’s disease, let alone ones where cognitive improvement is even going to be monitored or noticed afterwards? (and even if it were noticed: periods of lucidity are not rare. It would probably be ignored)
It would indicate that there is a circulatory issue in general that causes this. If so, there may be other blockages as well, at various other lymph nodes that connect to the brain, which would explain why it works better for some and not others. If you have multiple blockages this may only offer partial relief. As for what causes the blockages, my suspicion would be microplastics.
It seems like you're arguing with this guy for the sake of argument. If anesthetics "yielded some improvement" in Alzheimer's temporarily then any surgery would get the same effect and we would already know about it. And what is the second point you are trying to make here - that zero surgeries are ever performed annually on Alzheimer's patients for any reason? And of the ones that are, the family wouldn't notice the dramatic cognitive improvement shown in this article, but they noticed it here?
I was not trying to say anaesthetics are actually the cure, it’s an example of the kind of elimination that has to be done to prove something is actually effective.
Look up how double blind tests are done on things that involve surgeries (eg implants)
> And of the ones that are, the family wouldn't notice the dramatic cognitive improvement shown in this article, but they noticed it here?
Because they’re primed to look for that improvement because they’re told that is the expected outcome
Does it matter if it's just temporary? If it works, it is the smoking gun of what alzheimers is and why it happens. If it is not a permanent fix, the next question is what is happening in the body that is causing these blockages. It also means that microplastics may be a leading cause.
Most likely the build up of those beta amyloid is faster than what the brain can clear by itself. The drainage likely just reduced the amyloid significant enough for the brain to recover. This is likely more of physics explanation than biological. It is similar cleaning the wound by itself has spectacular effect for recovery than you leave it cluttered with dirt and pus.
If you have the money for the surgery, an extra year of cognition is huge. Short-term quality of life improvements are totally worth it if you can afford it.
(Disclaimer: the non-paywalled part of the article did not mention side-effects or complications of the treatment so I don’t know what they are.)
Even if it is temporary, so what? Can't you just repeat it? And wouldn't clearing these drainage channels be harmless (modulo risks of any surgery) even if the theory didn't pan out? If I had early-stage Alzheimer's I'd go to the ends of the Earth and do everything I could to slow it down.
Repeat it? It's not removing a tumor. It's adding a path between lymph nodes and blood vessels. You can't just repeat that. After the surgery that path exists. It's a permanent functional change.
Will all these things get automation? Yeah sure. But the idea that they will be perfect automated solutions applicable in all cases is just marketing, it’s not reality.
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