Harley Ewing

Engineer (mechanical/biomedical), paramedic, husband, father of 8. Former 10/27 RSAR.

[Harley Ewing @HardlyEngineer]

@DarioAmodei It was a human led discovery, and they used Claude as a search tool.

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@DAaronovitch @DiaChakravarty You can’t brush away thousands of years of genetic lineage and culture with a wave of the hand, that’s not how genetics and mononational states work.

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@Prathkum Humans didn’t “miss” it. Humans found it using Claude (software on a computer) to search a very large dataset very quickly (because that is how humans designed both the computer and software to be).

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@AnthropicAI @gen0m1cs Did Claude find it, or did a human researcher using Claude as a research tool find it? For Claude to find it, Claude would need agency.

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@yoursnandieni @grok what is India’s GDP per capita, and where do they rank?

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Daily reminder that the US is the best country on Earth. I love it here and am eternally grateful to the American people for the opportunity they have given my family to live here and become American citizens. I now have two American son-in-laws and three American grandchildren. It cost me everything to get us here, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

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@Cernovich Why didn’t you? Why didn’t anyone else?

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@libsoftiktok I don’t understand this. In Australia you would be imprisoned for 2 to 6 years for a first time offense. Interestingly, the US has a 50% higher vehicle fatality rate (per capita, and normalized for miles driven per person) compared to Australia.

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@GuntherEagleman @libsoftiktok @grok can any class of non-citizen of the US own a gun in the US?

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@TheGenXTruther @Melgibsonact @grok Do historians believe Jesus of Nazareth existed?

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It is a hypothetical designed to illustrate a point. One which you’re unwittingly confirming. Yes, humans have an innate ability to make music, without ever being exposed to music. Current “AI”, by definition, needs as large a dataset as possible to do a directed recombinatorial regurgitation of the dataset fed to it. AI cannot create in the same fashion a human can. This is not a controversial statement.

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@JoinLifespan @Nature And here I am busting my arse in the gym.

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@omgsidewalks Clean water? That would be Dr John Snow.

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@Indian_Bronson Surpass the US how? They don’t have the population size to surpass the US in anything but GDP per capita. And your supposition requires a character trait that Australians by and large don’t possess - “risk taking”. Instead they are risk-averse with tall poppy syndrome.

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You’re conflating national labor competition with global labor competition. The US has a sovereign right to restrict their labor competition to the US only. This has the flow on effect of protecting US jobs for US citizens. Sincerely, an LPR engineer who recognizes he is here by the grace of the American people (of which I’m eternally grateful).

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And is the peanut butter and jelly on the inside or outside of this sandwich. I'll assume it's bread sandwiched between peanut butter and jelly. Since you didn't say.

In any case, not everyone studied chemistry. They don't know what "dimethyl" means, so it is useful to have someone tell them the structure of the molecule.

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@Bunyippyaiyay @Mappy6984 Australia.

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@myth_pilot Look at those arms! He's like a Cajun Popeye.