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I have used Nebula. Did a group buy of the kits with several friends to obfuscate shipping address. Signed up via a protonmail address, and accessed the site only through VPN. Then deleted my data after downloading all of it.

I believe it would be very difficult to tie my identity to my genome because of these steps.

Yep. Standard clickbait formula, stir up emotions, add no new information. So easy an AI could do it.

Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.

An article criticizing the US with a .cn domain. Chinese propaganda.

"Average % Revenue growth in pre-seed companies" is a very noisy metric.

Example:

Suppose you had one company doing $10 in sales a year, now it's doing $100 per year. 900% growth!

When you average 900% with the rest, it will skew the results wildly.

An AI model that can only repeat its training data would be no better than normal text search.

AI models are useful precisely because they can interpolate - make guesses that incorporate information from many examples.

And this interpolation is called "hallucination" only when it happens to be a wrong answer?

All these AIs are doing is sampling from some continuous space. Every answer is a "hallucination".

AIs are useful because many (most?) of those hallucinations happen to be useful.

Selling it as "free up the parents to do other things" is not going to fly. But enhancing the baby's experience or learning is fine.

An AI-powered rocker that plays soothing music till the baby sleeps would be great. People already use rockers, it's very accepted.

I would never have trusted a computer to be in charge of my infants. Even trusting another human adult is pretty tough already.

If you rented out that house, what would you charge? Would you charge 3k, and lose 2k / month?

That doesn't make sense; so how are landlords surviving in your market then?

No opinion on whether the US did it.

But Hersh's essay indicates there were last-minute changes to the detonation method. That adds risk, which could have manifested as failure of some detonations.

Apple hasn't cut employees so far. But nothing is stopping it from announcing layoffs tomorrow.