The work of Monica Gagliano might interest you. Plant intelligence, communication systems etc.
I think we look at the plant and forget about the underground half "just roots for getting water" right... But there's evidence for communication, resource sharing and altruistic behavior.
What makes survival matter to the animal rather than it just being a fact about its behavior?
Plants survival depends on outcomes too.
Built in mattering only feels explanatory because we are smuggling in the experience we're trying to explain.
Matter to whom. I think this smuggles in a homunculus.
Consciousness begins when a prior state is used to interpret a new state - is where I work from.
I want to be clear about what just happened here. He responded to a concern about patient dismissal with five technical challenges- to establish that I'm not qualified to question his authority - this is exactly what medical gaslighting looks like.
He works with distributions every day. He knows that a diagnostic cutoff is a line drawn through a spectrum, not a discovery of a natural boundary. Applying that categorical thinking to dismiss patient experience is a choice he's making, not a scientific necessity, and one too often seen in medicine
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What's frustrating about Marc's position specifically is that he's a sophisticated enough immunologist to know that biological variation is continuous.
What's frustrating about Marc's position specifically is that he's a sophisticated enough immunologist to know that biological variation is continuous. He works with distributions, knows that a diagnostic cutoff is a line drawn through a spectrum, not a discovery of a natural boundary.
The people in these threads describing symptoms aren't asking to be diagnosed. They're asking not to be dismissed.
Meanwhile, the systemic inflammation seen in LC cohorts involves bystander T cell activation (Phetsouphanh, Nat. Immunol. 2022) not just antigen-specific exhaustion which means the mechanism doesn't respect your clean boundary.
The diagnostic category 'Long COVID' was constructed post-hoc by the same institutions now invoking it to draw a hard line. Patients who don't meet the threshold aren't necessarily fine, they're below a threshold that was drawn somewhat arbitrarily.
3/ increasing susceptibility to secondary and opportunistic infections.
2: We know that hyper induction of pro inflamatory cytokines can contribute to systemic damage.
Studies indicate that covid induces senescence of immune cells needed to respond to other pathogens, and thus the accelerated senescence and T cell exhaustion can lead to systemic immunosuppression
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
T cells expressing exhaustion markers PD-1, TIM-3, TOX for up to 12 months post infection is documented. Long covid patients exhibit sustained activation of IL-6 and JAK-STAT pathways 180+days post infection.
If the immune system 'continues as it should,' we wouldn't see the persistence of T-cell exhaustion and pro-inflammatory cytokines months after 'clearance.' The textbook definition of 'real' suppression is a way to gaslight patients whose experience doesn't fit your narrow acute-infection model.
It’s fascinating that you’ve redefined 'understanding nuance' as 'ignoring the last four years of clinical data.' Labeling this 'modulation' instead of 'suppression' is a semantic distinction that offers zero comfort to the millions suffering from post-viral immune dysregulation. (1/2)
I don't put the brand of coffee I drink in commit messages either. What they are doing in this example is reasonable-protecting proprietary data which doesn't belong in a commit message anyway. The work is attributed to the user committing the work, who is already bound by the repo rules.
What is the problem with prompting a coding assistant to not include internal codenames and versions in commit messages when the user type is an anthropic internal user who may be working with unreleased versions of Claude and Claude code?
I fail to see how this is lying by any definition.
SYS "Wimp_InitialiseMeetup"
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The issue is that if the Dems had done it they wouldn't feel like it was being done *for them* but Trump has spun this yarn that everything he's doing is for his base, and they continue to believe every last word of it.
People are idiots.
Well this didn't take as long as I expected.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Love it. Thank you. This has been on my to do list for a while and is the motivation for me to automate the pool.
I think you haven't determined the causal direction here. It's perhaps equally likely that candidates who gravitate toward long planning phases are the same people who tend to over engineer, with or without AI.
Happy to try this challenge and send you the transcript and code for another data point
They absolutely knew it would affect the Strait of Hormuz - In Feb they invoked the defense production act to manufacture fertilizer in the US. It's no coincidence that Iran supplies 50% of the world's Urea, and the middle east supplies large quantities of phosphorus and sulphur.
100% knew it.
They absolutely knew it would affect the Strait of Hormuz - In Feb they invoked the defense production act to manufacture fertilizer in the US. It's no coincidence that Iran supplies 50% of the world's Urea, and the middle east supplies large quantities of phosphorus and sulphur.
100% knew it.
"Transmission" like it's a cold war spy with a short wave radio.
This sudden one hour time shift twice a year is quite jarring.
What if we spread the time change out over the whole year - it would be unnoticeable.
Coordination sounds difficult but we can use a celestial object kike the sun to know when it's time to get up every day instead...
Yes. Plan mode is a great tool - if you give it the information it needs to do its job. If you take the time to give it concrete functional and non functional requirements, best practices, examples of your desired style and coding patterns it's great.
People seem to want a mind reader though.
Tested Qwen 3.5 122B on a C# project today. Not complex. It kept putting python style comments and methods in the code.
Uninstalled.
GPT-OSS is still far superior.
You have to write a plan to use plan mode effectively...
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The Nazi soldiers tried hard and were just following orders too. Look where it got them 😀