ask your favorite AI LLM: "You have a 5 gallon bucket and a 2 gallon bucket. How do you measure 7 gallons?" #ai

Interesting new method for gene editing described:

New Scientist

'Bridge editing' could be even better at altering DNA than CRISPR

The CRISPR gene-editing technique has revolutionised biology, but now an even more powerful system called bridge editing could let us completely re...

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07552-4

an important step in bitcoin adaption #bitcoin

The inmates are running the asylum...Jared Bernstein is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers.

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Question to all the macro economists and freedom minded people out there: Order 6102 is for many reasons an important topic for bitcoin. Most recently I read this article about the legal aspects leading up to it:

Bitcoin Magazine

National Emergency: Executive Order 6102 And The Heist Of The Century

A comprehensive history of the events leading up to the historic Executive Order 6102 under FDR that led to widespread gold confiscation in the Uni...

I feel I conceptually understand both the rational and the criticism around Order 6102. What I don't understand and cannot find a lot of information about is if there were alternative solutions discussed back then to fix the problem that go beyond "let it blow up and it'll fix itself ". because even if this is a workable solution, it is not an "electable" solution. what would have been alternative ways to tackle the problem back then that did not lead to confiscation? Were any of these alternatives tried out successfully in other nations in history? I think the best way to avoid a similar future for bitcoin in the U.S. would be to present and lobby for those alternative solutions right now so that when shit hits the fan in terms of US debt and waning influence of the dollar (which it will), the alternative solutions have widespread support in congress. #bitcoin #order6102 @LynAlden @preston @Odell @saifedean

#bitcoin #meme

Really interesting new paper exploring how GTP-generated sentences can drive brain region specific responses in humans reading those sentences. Could be a first glimpse into better understanding how LLMs-AI models "interact" with human language as perceived by the brain (in simplified terms). It's with restricted access on Nature but the preprint can be downloaded under https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.16.537080v1 #science #neuroscience #neurology #AI #LLM

Just a reminder to always keep a level of scepticism when reading about scientific breakthroughs in the main press. Unfortunately, the main press loves to run with these kind of initial scientific reports/breakthroughs but when the science community then corrects itself, as it so often does as part of the regular scientific process, these retractions and correcting articles pretty much never make it into the everyday press. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2

Ok,so I have just learned about BIP85 and its use case for "child seeds". This seems to me like a really convenient way, even without multisig, to provide/generate multiple wallets for friends or relatives that don't have much bitcoin knowledge and alleviate the fear of losing their seed. Am I missing any disadvantages here? (I never hear BIP85 discussed as a strategy for long term storage or distribution within a defined number of peers when this question is discussed ( #Bitcoin #asknostr

New study shows another possible reason why&how sleep is important for a well functioning brain. Baseline assumption is not new but the group has identified the neurons responsible for this phenomenon.

GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Alzheimer’s-Linked Neuronal Waste Expelled in Coordinated Waves during Sleep

Mouse study found that during sleep neurons act as “miniature pumps,” and that synchronized neural activity powers fluid flow and removal of de...

#neurology #science #sleep

#memes

An interesting short article about two conflicting theories about consciousness:

Consciousness: why a leading theory has been branded ‘pseudoscience’ - Durham University

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8 "On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes" bring back tails, damit!

Hello World! Not my first post but just joined Nostr yesterday after reading a post from Derek Ross. New to social media, never used Twitter and still learning the nuts and bolts of how this all works. Hope I can contribute a little to grow the network in the future. #introductions

I went into neuroscience because I wanted to understand why we are the way we are. Especially if and how Intelligence and Consciousness are inter-related. With the recent rise of AI and whether or not at some point in the future machines would become conscious, I was reminded of Roger Penrose's theory of the mind,in particular that consciousness was not only a algorithmic function but that quantum superposition is a contributing factor. Could it happen that AI can become hyper-intelligent but will forever remain "non-conscious"? What would be the implications of such a new form of intelligence? An interesting review about this: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2022.869935/full: "Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience"