THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

Or could life potentially spin-off from the bioweapon?

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You mean the bioweapon would itself create a new branch of life?

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they could, but youโ€™d need an extremely poinson resistant, artificial, adaptive immune system
if you used one of them to make all your antivenom though, eventually you could get one antivenom for every venom currently on earth(through stuff like broadly neutralizing antibodies(which are also useful against viruses)
though, you would also want to have a way of cloning them(like by taking a bone marrow and blood sample, and propagating the system from that)

ew. kill it with fire.

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Interesting. So this antivenom could cover the entire spectrum of toxins we see on Earth?

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not with one antibody, but yea

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If we for whatever reason artificially expanded the range of toxins to be covered, could the antivenom still keep up with that or would it eventually hit a barrier of just how much stuff it can cover as a single antivenom type?

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Scientists were able to detect Cancer DNA in previously obtained blood samples, possibly increasing early Cancer detection.

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The thing is if this method will actually be implemented in real life and not just โ€œexperimentsโ€โ€ฆ

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Is it just me or did it become impossible to reach regular rank?

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I have no idea if it was changed. Maybe you need to post more often? :person_shrugging:

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I think you need to post regularly for some time to become a regular. Like for a month perhaps?

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NIH in the U.S. is now limiting grant applications to scientists due to fear of excess AI-generated grant applications; one person submitted 40 AI-generated grants applications, which was a major reason for this policy change.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fearful-ai-generated-grant-proposals-nih-limits-scientists-six-applications-year

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What is the goal of the people submitting these ai applications exactly here?

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Trying to game the system to get as many applications approved by submitting a lot of them.

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I wonder if theyโ€™ll try to find ways around the checks or abandon this route of fraudโ€ฆ

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Considering it literally caused a policy change which enacted suffering on other people who submit grants, one would hope the person learned his/her/their lesson and does not try it again.

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That assumes there arenโ€™t others willing to go this wayโ€ฆ

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If there are, then that will make the grant funding system even more brokenโ€ฆ :person_facepalming:

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The same thing is happening in CVE/security bug reports. AI generated reports which no human has confirmed are actual bugs or pose actual security risks are flooding the system, I believe specifically in curl. The maintainers are mostly volunteers or otherwise overstretched and cannot spend their time testing every report if most of them are BS. Bug bounties rely on people only submitting things when the have an actual issue worth paying for the discovery of most of the time.

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Itโ€™s not impossible if you are a donator, which gives you permanent access to the category that shall not be named.

That point was actually brought in a video I recently posted from The Linux Experiment. Whatโ€™s worse is that the people who do this think they are actually helping. Pathetic!

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