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*shrug* deeper into it than my knowledge goes. I thought chromosome selection was the result of a trigger during pregnancy? Some sort of chemical wash which is set up by a genetic factor? Its been a minute since I reviewed that area.

As for yy, 25% easily visible viability loss isn't the worst, you'd already be doing the thing in batches to get one that works, just makes the initial process more prolonged.

Clonelon wouldn't remember any password or account for anything, wouldnt know where to begin on business meetings to run his companies (which admittedly might be for the best), wouldn't remember any backroom deals blackmail or ongoing schemes, public appearance training, or any of the various rich and powerful people his enterprises rely on. 

Short of successfully selling "oh no he has total amnesia!", everything would crash in on him pretty quickly

That's the theory, yeah. They can push stem cells to become various tissues, though making them into viable tissues which function correctly outside a complete system is still a ways off (eg you can put stem cells that are being pushed into being liver cells into a liver with good results, but you can't just build a liver yet). 

Even if you force grow a clone (assuming you could figure out rapid aging), the clone doesn't have the same brain. He doesn't know musks banking passwords or the names and history of interactions with the rich and powerful. 

Yes? That would be why someone would go to the effort of spawning off him for nefarious purposes?

Major Ampullate Spidiron Protein 1 and 2 apparently.

Everyone has recessive genes, they just don't show up normally because they're recessive. You have to have two pairs of the recessive genes (mother and father), and they have to not be blocked by a latent dominant gene waiting in the wings. That only really happen in incest or vary rarely when the wrong two people have the same one. In this case, your genes match your genes perfectly (with a bit of genetic lottery shuffling), so Every recessive will match and express.

Also the fake looking usernames hammering a few months old post. 

Its weirdly cross aisle. The left hates it because corporate clone factory babies and every imaginable human rights abuse that could follow, the right hates it because mad science test tube babies in defiance of god and nature.

As it is, you can't take a test tube baby past the "small bundle of cells" level without getting the anti-abortion and anti-science crowd up in arms, and if you did and got it to term, the human rights activists would be screaming about organ farming (even if the tubeys were designed brain dead or something).

Altogether, a promising science but way too ethically murky and easily abused to ever go anywhere.

That he did it at all and it worked? Friggen wild. As a project though, it was pretty straight-forward in comparison. Took a well documented system (this one gene that produces this one enzyme), put it into another well documented system (this one proven gene treatment they use pretty often), miraculously didn't die or turn into a batman villain, and instead got great results.

In comparison, spider beer involved "and now we'll just hand code these DNA strands to do the thing I want, atgttgaac" for a few hundred lines freehand. I know from that video that he hosts a livestream where that's just a thing they do casually, and it blows my mind every time I think about it. Then he took that and casually ordered it like a pizza delivery with extra toppings (which is also absolutely wild that thats a thing you can just do), and then succeeded in making something completely new: yeast that makes spider silk. And even his stretch goal with the iron infusing system worked first shot.

I'm sad we haven't seen any updates on all that, I know he was talking to commercial producers about it and had to go hush hush

They've been trying to do the artificial womb thing for a long time, it's unlikely. You can get to a certain point, but after that there are a lot of bio-feedback loops which are hard if not impossible to replicate effectively. Also the moral police find the whole thing squicky, so any research gets highly politicized and shut down as well.

Shortage? No. But the adoption/foster system is deeply fucked, so "well just adopt" isn't the statement most people think it is.

For lesbians, they have to either adopt or have their partner impregnated by a surrogate, and while there are plenty of ways to work all that out, some still want to have their own DNA passed down. Personally, I'm not all that sentimental about my DNA, but some people are really into their kids being theirs. Gay guys have to do the extra step of finding someone to carry the baby to term, but otherwise have the same issue.

Alternatively, for the glory of Space King

For sure. Watching Thought Emporium just casually whip out the DNA for spider silk on a keyboard, add a few fun attachments like "ability to build using iron from this weird volcano snail", and send it away to a lab for like 100$ may be the wildest moments in my life.

Nothing, except expenditure for questionable results. Sure, you might be able to steal a cell off ol musky and create a baby to blackmail him for alimony, but the cost and effort involved in the process alone will probably be more than the alimony would be worth, muchless the legal battle that would definitely ensue. Then you have to actually raise the child.

Way easier to send in a honeypot and punch holes in the condom.

Its a good question! My guess is high recessive gene risk, like jumping through 3 layers of genetic incest in one shot.

Usually the loops come from a fundamental misunderstanding of the code they're writing. Some dependency doesn't exist but it thinks it exists, some convention was depreciated, doing it the way it wants creates a non-obvious security hole, or the entire line of thinking is flawed (either from the prompt of the training data).

LLMs don't do a good job refactoring around such holes, because the problem is that statistically, the answer they're giving should be correct, based on all the data they're trained on. So they can approach the same concept from a different vector, but the second that vector hits the same patch of probability space it spirals into the same path. Newer models have denser complexity, so sometimes they can jump tracks to a new vector, or the expanded context allows them to avoid the same path, but its not the kind of problem you can just fix without improving the density everywhere. Anything left sparse will still show the same behavior, and most of these errors are happening in the first place because the training is sparse in that area.

Which is to say, if the training doesn't explicitly cover an edge case in multiple different ways, the LLM can't think outside that box effectively. It can infer new approaches to the same data, but the chances of those being fully hallucinated are high, which means even if it can approach the problem creatively, the failure rate is high, which looks to the user that doesn't understand fundamentals as if it can't do it at all.

One of the offshoots from this same branch of technology is turning stem cells into viable sperm and ova. If you can get from skin to stem to sperm, the possibilities get pretty wild pretty fast. Especially if you can get female skin to stem to sperm, or male to stem to ova, l/g couples could have kids directly/surrogate with both their DNA.

Last I checked they could get the cells to differentiate correctly but couldn't get a viable result yet, something about structural precursors, but the scientists in charge were optimistic

The AI will continue to have the same blind spots which created the error in the first place. Sometimes you can navigate around the issue long enough for it to think in a different way, but for the most part you run into the "strawberry has 2 rs" loop. "You're right, I created that error, let me fix that!" *writes the exact same code pattern but more verbose*

My credit union changed card processors and site frontends last year. At the same time, they proudly added an AI assistant. I can't Prove that these two things are linked, but the new front-end doesn't connect to the credit cards properly (there's a transaction register but it's blank, forcing you to log into the separate credit card site), payments to the cards are slow (they even lost one for two weeks and didn't give me an explanation why it happened, just fixed it, when I went in), there's a rewards system that was broken for the first few months and still doesn't seem to actually put cashback into the account, etc etc etc.

Best guess? They hired a cheap developer who vibecoded the credit system and websites, and while all of the core bank functions are well tested and documented, so they work perfectly, a lot of little communication bits are slop and don't talk to each other properly. Because the dev doesn't know what they're doing (I assume they're great at Cobal or something, just not the front-end stuff), they can't fix the problems, and the bank considers the weird occasional problem too low priority to hire out for.

On the other hand, I ended up with 7% on that card, so at least they passed the value savings on to the customers.

There are lots of this sort of issue cropping up across the web. Facebook has a thousand weird little bugs which seem to get worse every day (like Reels getting stuck 2/3 of the way down and having to refresh to fix, and text boxes covering images which can't be tapped to hide). SAAS platforms which all look identical and boast all sorts of features at different price points, but once you're in are total vaporware or copies of the same base code. Apps which are just the website but in an app container, and yet somehow are completely broken compared to their website (looking at you Imgur).

People not knowing the fundamentals means they don't know what they don't know, so they don't know how to ask LLMs to fix those problems (assuming the LLM even knows how to fix it if it's pointed out)

For real, just having contact with extraplanatary life would be worth it, even if all we did was send handshake signals with 50 years lag.

If we could actually come up with a good packet send-receive, we could both info-dump everything to each other, probably fix some of each others weird tech issues, get some interesting cultural information about how life works without all the assumptions which come from our own planets history.

Oh, I mean firmware wise, you might be able to use the same technique to upgrade the gear360. If you look at the raw output file, you'll notice the edges are black because of the edges of the fisheye lens. The 5.7 trick takes in the sensor image, then cuts it apart and stores it in a way that fills in those black edges, using up the whole half sphere raw image on both sides. Then the software decodes the cut and rearranges everything.

Awesome! If you're interested in upgrading the camera, the next generation up increased the resolution by storing the image in a weird cubemap which maximized the use of the sensor to file storage, taking a 4k sensor up to 5.7k. Depending on what the sensors receiving live, you might be able to do the same to the gear360

That's a pretty common tactic in the US, and one of the major reasons the problems can never be addressed successfully. State A starts a new program to help the homeless, it starts really well, something like 70% success rate getting people on their feet and stabilized. Suddenly the incoming numbers jump, overwhelming and crashing the program. Turns out every state around them started handing their homeless a one way bus ticket to state A.

Now state A has higher density of high needs homeless (the 30% who weren't able to be stabilized), and more homelessness than before (because theyve absorbed it from all the neighboring states), and all the public goodwill and finances to address the problem is spent. 

Answer: after the first major release was horribly botched (a giant treasure trove of censored documents, bringing them under criticism for censoring them so much, but also poorly censored so that many of the redactions could be read anyway), instead of properly redacting the rest they decided to just bury the whole thing. 

It was a big campaign point, something to drum up the base around, but it turns out it would do overwhelmingly more damage to them to acknowledge it in any way. Releasing anything just increases the case against them, fighting releasing it makes them look guilty. Dropping it and pretending it never happened is an acceptable compromise to his supporters, and his detractors don't have the power or will to keep hammering on it. 

As a followup, it was passed by Congress that he had to release these, and his partial release doesn't fulfill that legal framework. Not releasing them is illegal, but because the supreme court ruled that if the president does something it's not illegal, there's no good way to force the issue at this time