Bryant Zadegan (more active on Threads)

Software security. Occasional film consultant. If it's about r/relationship_advice, please use Reddit modmail instead. /he/him/

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@kanzure @KennethHayworth @michaelandregg @FlyWireNews @srinituraga @neuromechfly @robinhanson @geochurch @KordingLab @anderssandberg In the 11 days since, seems @KennethHayworth explained well why he came out against this so publicly.

https://t.co/MheKJ4D11e

As an aside, if Ken told the startup not to attribute anything to him and yet they did anyway, they're inappropriately piggybacking on his reputation.

[Kenneth Hayworth @KennethHayworth]

My statement regarding the misleading EON Systems “fly upload” video:

The hundreds of researchers who make up the Drosophila neuroscience community are making good progress toward eventually understanding how the intelligent behaviors of a fruit fly are produced by computations in its neural circuits. Obtaining the structural connectome of the fly brain and ventral nerve cord was a significant milestone in that quest, as was obtaining an estimate of neurotransmitter types for each cell type. What is currently most lacking is a catalog of the precise electrophysiological and molecular dynamics of each neuron and synapse type. Dozens of on-going electrophysiological, genetic, and behavioral experiments are beginning to fill in those details. But completing that task will likely take many years, possibly decades, of more research. At the end of that long road, I have no doubt, there will be a detailed paper, published in a high-quality journal with full details and carefully peer-reviewed, which will at long last make the true statement “we’ve uploaded a fruit fly”. And that future paper will have a supplementary video much like the EON Systems one, showing a fly navigating a virtual environment. But, unlike the misleading EON Systems video, that future video will be real… all 100,000+ neurons displaying dynamics that reflect those that would occur in the real fly engaged in the same sensory-motor behaviors. That paper will represent the crowning achievement of a successful Drosophila neuroscience field.

What EON Systems’ misleading video and claim has done today is to try to steal that future victory and take its valor for their own, all in the hopes of raising some cash from naive investors who think they might get to human uploads soon, and all while riding a tide of hype they generated in the gullible public. The result has been a wave of secondary reporting that grossly mischaracterizes the current state of neuroscience progress, implying that it is much further along than it currently is.

As a member of the Drosophila research community, and as a long-term advocate of brain preservation for eventual mind uploading, I feel it is my responsibility to call out this reprehensible behavior. Neuroscience technology is progressing fast enough that we are now able to obtain structural connectomes of small organisms like the fruit fly. But neuroscience understanding is progressing much more slowly. True uploading, even for a fruit fly, is likely years to decades away. Even obtaining a mouse connectome seems likely to be a decade or more away. Human uploading is simply not on any reasonable research or investment timeline, unless such a timeline includes many decades of methodical basic neuroscience research. Of course, we can preserve human brains today using aldehyde fixatives as is done in all of today’s connectomics studies. But we will not be able to upload a human brain for many decades, perhaps centuries to come.

Please do not let today’s real scientific progress in connectomics and brain preservation be drowned out by misleading hype.

-Kenneth Hayworth

[Bryant Zadegan (more active on Threads) @eganist]

@paularambles I apologize, I tried to steer better outcomes here, but I was not successful.

https://t.co/BVpTYIDSKu

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@nicdunz @DailyNoud Only way I got it was by seeing all the usual vowels missed. And then the word occurred to me via a bottle of cologne. So yeah I don't blame him.

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@LiquidHbox The widening gasp with each hit

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@FredZhang0 Any chance you know the electricity costs for the processing alone?

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@wongmjane @Uber_Support Interestingly, this means there's a market for @lyft & @Waymo to grab. Doubt Uber will recognize the business risk, and I'm guessing the failure mode you encountered is pretty broad.

"Banned by Uber? Ride with Waymo — no ratings, no bias, just rides."

Or something like that.

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@MikeCishere @SamuelSoehnel @CheeseMarlo @AP4Liberty In fact, gas prices come down whenever there's a recession because discretionary demand (for both food, goods, and travel) craters.

In easy terms, people won't spend when they have no money, and because we need oil for basically everything, oil prices crash in recessions.

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@TradfiSchizo @wongmjane What fatigue exactly?

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@StvnTiller @RichardHanania They went into defending the country, and thus mostly (90%) back into the US economy since most of the packages were arms deals for Ukraine to buy American hardware.

https://t.co/i6btqpfIFI

It's probably why the US didn't have a recession after COVID through 2024.

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@PTrubey @NeolibCicero @RichardHanania This doesn't answer the question.

It also misses a history lesson: https://t.co/Z4DUtelnsf

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@ctblizzard @RuleCreatures @imbored4207 @MrBeast I had to dig this far in the chain to find the right answer.

This is probably why the vast majority of people have a hard time with lottery winnings.

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@BaronBoehm @Timcast It's also part of why doctors and the manufacturers advise a slower pace (e.g 2lbs a week), but our culture pushes for instant gratification in all forms.

There'll be lawsuits, and they'll be settled. It's rolled into the obscene cost of the drug here in the US.

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@BaronBoehm @Timcast It's unknown what the mechanism is but it could well have more to do with the rapid pace of weight loss rather than the drug itself

https://t.co/HnmiOvTUDZ

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@hume6296396 @elonmusk @DOGE @USTreasury It is, he just won't say it.

It's very much in keeping with "do now, apologize later."

[Bryant Zadegan (more active on Threads) @eganist]

@emperorinsand @elonmusk He wants X to be a bank, so it's not really a surprise.

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@Aella_Girl The window for that closed 3 months ago. You've now got a Congress and Court fully aligned with a White House that openly and transparently telegraphed their intentions to everyone all of last year.

The pendulum's already in full swing. So make 2028 count instead.

cc @Grimezsz

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@Patriotmom717 @rawsalerts What would the jet have done? It was on final approach. Fault is either with ATC or heli.

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@AnnieForTruth Did you one better, took a screenshot for when you delete it lol.

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@sama @PrimalRick How much of this do you reckon is an optimization challenge vs a pricing challenge?

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@MarioNawfal @elonmusk It looks like the community note got removed.