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- (ie. regrowing telomeres) -

Was there any progress at all so far?


We found telomerase and tried a bunch of things with it. We can reset the "clock", or DNA being DNA, at least one of the clocks in cells, at will.

Which mostly causes aggressive cancers.


Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer.

You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Immortality has quite a history to it!


Are you on the correct site/app?? :-P

Rule 34, bro.

- And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. -

Thats right in that sense - but in a sense of doom scrolling, it is for me: Very often Im clicking through dozends auf pages, fortunately I have to activly do a click to get to the next site, so this dampens a little bit :-D


There’s also an end to the feed. I forget the limit, but at one point I think I hit the maximum number of pages at like 50 (quality drops pretty dramatically, by like page 10 there was almost nothing interesting or notable).

Question that I do not understand:

How should a local-run Chinese Model "phone home" if someone runs it locally on the hardware? I think Im missing some understanding here?


I don't think they do at the moment, but they could be trained subtly add backdoors to code or make "phone home" api calls during dev time, triggering on certain conditions ("is user employee of xyz")

I think the fear is that it might insert some "phone home" routine into the source code that it generates.

Has anyone demonstrated that this type of attack is even possible? Also the moment anyone detects this attack it will nuke deepseek/other chinese AI labs reputation completely, it is the most high risk low reward attack ever.

Yes.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

In that paper, if it LLM was told it was 2023, then the code it generated was fine. If the prompt included the fact that it was 2024, then it intentionally wrote exploitable code.


> The only reason to do a dividend is because people like the feels of getting a cash payout.

Not really, when capital entities came up, the initial goal was to deliver return on invested capital,i.e. something "you get out of the business/back".

Or do you think back in 14th wenn Dutch East India Company was created, that you could by shares and sell them later to a higher bidder after the mission was accomplished? :-)


An for everyone starting fresh, I can HIGHLY recommend the SQL website:

"Use the Index, Luke"

https://use-the-index-luke.com/


I'll taket this bet!

you are right IN:

a) there is a lot of fun to do "outside there"

but you are MASSIVLY wrong in:

b) children are meaningful, they give you more than the consumption you can have - rent one month into brothel and you will see! ;-)

(source: father of twins, and nearly bankrupt regardless of my tech-job, nontheless my kids me more than our usual career-shit)


you are right IN:

a) there is a lot of fun to do "outside there"

but you are MASSIVLY wrong in:

b) children are meaningful, they give you more than the consumption you can have - rent one month into brothel and you will see! ;-)


ATM are taking a picture when withdrawing since decades :-)

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