lokrian

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by lokrian 4mo ago
Is AI also superior to humans at black box challenges and attacking actual targets on the internet? That seems like a really important question.
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by lokrian 1y ago
A lot harder than just not burning it down in the first place.
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by lokrian 1y ago
The question I keep wondering about is why teach anything, or what exactly is worth teaching.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Please tell us what FDA approved medications Buffett has been on for the past 70 years that aren't available to the rest of us and have allowed him to cope with ice cream for breakfast every morning.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Some people seem to not just survive, but actually thrive on terrible, junk food diets, like the current president, or Warren Buffett (who eats ice cream and mcdonald's for breakfast and 2 liters of cherry coke every day, and is still
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by lokrian 1y ago
What happened to the 3d printed organs I was promised a decade ago?
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by lokrian 1y ago
Unions _can_ protect against this, but they have to do it via lobbying the government for protectionism, tariffs, restricting non-union competition etc.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Maybe it's a good time to ask for advice. Which IT job roles and companies are least vulnerable to offshoring? Defense contractors and the like?
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by lokrian 1y ago
A question - why hasn't Aubrey de Grey been more successful in getting some tech billionaire to fund his research agenda? He seems charismatic and smart, and had some promising ideas.
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by lokrian 1y ago
A better question might be can we afford NOT to have life extension? Advanced economies all over the world are filling up with sick, elderly people who form a massive drain on the economy, and it's going to get much worse. Developing m
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by lokrian 1y ago
This is just another way of saying there have been no big advances in clinical anti-ageing. And that's probably because little serious effort is going into it, compared with say, military spending.
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by lokrian 1y ago
People are still getting nerve damage from too much vitamin B6 in energy drinks and vitamin supplements, and that's a well known and widely taken vitamin. The idea that you can take experimental drugs your entire life at little risk is
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by lokrian 1y ago
Those businesses own all the social media, all the search engines, all the apps people discuss things on, and all the politicians.
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by lokrian 1y ago
While this is logical, the more diseases of old age we cure the longer and better the quality of life the elderly get, and treating amyloidosis is one small step towards that.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Or it will lead to demand for massive government job programs, huge tax increases to pay for, free enterprise being smothered, everything being run by government bureaucrats.
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by lokrian 1y ago
At least one clinical trial is underway for a drug that can remove the plaques: https://www.lifespan.io/news/cyclarity-launches-human-trial-... But yeah, we badly need more companies doing more research in this space.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Yes, trying to fight cardiovascular disease by getting rid of cholesterol is like trying to fight rust in your car by getting rid of the metal parts.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Hopefully gene therapy can fix this sort of problem.
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by lokrian 1y ago
Why not just rescan them every few months to see if it's still growing? After all, you wouldn't have to rescan the full body, just the section where the growth is.