MethylatedXanthines

People don't concern me

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

It's probably a lot more cost-effective to spend money on trying to cure cancer than to spend money trying to make AGI and then have it try to cure cancer.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

If the ANT IPO raises your blood pressure and you want to tell others, you might say "See IPO, our HTN, eh?"

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

The problem with SV culture is that they expect 20-25 year olds to have a compelling vision of the future.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@SyntheticBeef I think part of the problem is that most commercial software dev doesn't involve "bringing ideas to life." So LLM coding both removes (possibly enjoyable) work and turns formerly active work into passive drudgery.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

you can just say things

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

I can't help but feel like there's no way in hell you could get away with this nowadays. If so, are we better off for it?

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

Stumbled upon this 1971 paper describing the Tanapox virus. It unexpectedly contains a report of a healthy person volunteering to be infected with a then-novel poxvirus.

https://t.co/jaXXoSA2Dj

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@josiezayner The only thing that can stop a bad guy with synthesized DNA is a good guy with synthesized DNA.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@AlexKsendzovsky @WonderStudiosX "biocompute is real, commercial" It might be, but it does not appear to be on offer from The Biological Computing Co. This is just software running on regular, silicon-based computers.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@SynBio1 Someone should design a pill for that

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

Interestingly ChatGPT does not seem to block protein design-related questions on principle.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@AnthropicAI Would love to participate in the Anthropic x Adaptyv competition, if only Claude would stop flagging my chats and refusing to continue.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@Complex It is said that art is a conversation. And the best conversations are held over a good meal.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

They should engineer a human that can consume arbitrary amounts of alcohol without consequences.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@KobeissiLetter Sometimes I wonder if our universe is a hell designed to punish Eliezer Yudkowsky specifically.

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@kesvelt To clarify, are you implying that a healthy 28yo would be unlikely to die of "naturally" acquired pneumonic plague (i.e. acquired from exposure to an animal reservoir)? Or do I misunderstand?

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

New geothermal amoeba just dropped, one that reproduces at 63 °C. Quick, mine it for enzymes! https://t.co/CNvSH74oms

[Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin]

@NikoMcCarty For many years, I would demo this topic to my microbiology students (based on @jo44atWID’s instructions).

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

Never too wet

[MethylatedXanthines @NthLair]

@ATinyGreenCell Not surprised to see S. marcescens is in there, wonder if it's the fun blood red ones or less fun, sometimes pathogenic colorless ones