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by thelastquestion 2y ago
Let’s assume that world dominance is the root priority. Your statement implies that solving homelessness wouldn’t be in service of world domination. That might be true, but there’s clearly a minimum effort here: an entirely homeless and sta
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by thelastquestion 2y ago
I don't think this will happen in the near future, but "ever"? Almost certainly unless humanity stops working on AI systems for some reason. The current approaches to AI have poor reasoning ability. This could possibly be due
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by thelastquestion 2y ago
General infrastructure that benefits humanity in a goal agnostic way, e.g., related to energy or compute seems like a meaningful thing to get behind. This could be novel technology or logistics and efficiency improvements, but these are thi
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by thelastquestion 2y ago
For the crowd that tends to be frequenting places like HN, I still believe college to very much be worth it. There are many viable paths to almost any outcome, but college is a rare time where you are constantly surrounded by opportunity wi
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by thelastquestion 2y ago
Neuralink has previously discussed their implantations in monkeys, in which they claim implantations for > 1 year with increasing performance (e.g., in their deep dive on youtube [1]). That would seem to indicate that this wasn't se
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by thelastquestion 3y ago
The version of the device described on Neuralink’s website for the current trial only reads signals from the brain to control external software. So this is just for providing functionality and daily use to individuals with quadriplegia, not
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by thelastquestion 3y ago
You might be happy to hear that while it was low-key, Neuralink did have some presence at SfN and had a joint poster there with University College London.
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by thelastquestion 3y ago
They can always be reduced, but sometimes with an unacceptably large (e.g., non-polynomial) increase in time complexity. These are the complexity classes of Function P (FP) and Function NP (FNP), which are the function problem extensions of
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
As of right now, there is a lot more safety data in humans supporting the use of stents in vasculature, and because it is outside the brain (in the vessels), the blood-brain barrier is never broken. There also a lot of safety data regarding
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
Yes, they have IDE approval in the US for a clinical trial, after first conducting a trial in Australia.
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
There are a lot of factors going into an approval — a couple that may be relevant here: (i) Synchron had clinical (in human) results from Australia before submitting to the FDA. (ii) Synchron’s underlying mechanical device is a stent. A mil
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
Haha, for typical use with Synchron’s device they are using eye-tracking. The BCI-only mode is just for research purposes/baseline. It’s also just what’s in the paper, they may implement other UIs in practice.
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
My understanding from their original paper is that Synchron’s device (known as the stentrode since its electrodes are on a stent scaffold) decodes only a binary signal for this trial, that is “intent to move” or “no intent to move” in a per
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
I am fortunate enough to have had John as a professor. He truly cares about his teaching and his students. Each Friday, he would end the class with a life lesson/a question to think about over the weekend unrelated to the course conten
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
I just wanted to mention that I have been a big fan of TRX bands from https://www.trxtraining.com . (They seem to have a bunch of different products on there, but when I bought mine many years ago, they only made one thing. They
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by thelastquestion 4y ago
As someone who has been invited on several occasions into Bay Area EA groups, my experience has been that many of the people who are involved are more concerned with some grand concept of ethics and skipped over an interest and education in