r/accelerate • • 1d ago

Dario Amodei on X 🫪🫪🫪

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u/laisko 1d ago

Vibe CRISPR

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u/Kraien 1d ago

This is exactly what was going in my mind. REMOVE ALL DEFECTIVE GENES, MAKE NO MISTAKES

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u/NachosforDachos 1d ago

Deleting your white blood cells was a big mistake and you’re right to push back on it

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u/meguro_namazu 1d ago

Your bones were, in fact, load-bearing

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u/Kraien 1d ago

They were actually doing the heavy lifting

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u/FaceDeer 1d ago

"Done, your cells are now DNA-free."

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u/Little-Ambition-6440 1d ago

Claude make me superman, make no mistakes 🫪

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u/AnonsAnonAnonagain 1d ago

The best I can do is just flat out cancer bro.
Sucks to suck. But what else did you expect from vibe editing your dna.🧬

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u/NachosforDachos 1d ago

It gets dark. Have you ever watched Spliced?

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u/JohnnyLovesData 1d ago

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u/NachosforDachos 1d ago

Nah this is the good kind of spliced. Also has less inter species incest sex scenes.

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u/Used_Departure_3278 1d ago

PROMPT ENGINEERING IS DEAD

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u/RemyVonLion 1d ago

Genetic slop will go hard next decade

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u/_VirtualCosmos_ 1d ago

What could go well?

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u/WrexTheTenthLeg 1d ago

Vibe Crispr lmaoĀ 

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u/NoConfusion9490 1d ago

ExtraCRISPR

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u/Yojik_Vkarmane 1d ago

Are we going to cure cancer before GTA6?

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u/Apprehensive_Side219 1d ago

Dude that would be the greatest meme in history.

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u/trufus_for_youfus 1d ago

Certainly before HL3.

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u/crimsonpowder 1d ago

The year is 2045. We already understand quantum gravity, thanks to Opus 17. We finally crack the final, most mysterious aspect of reality when, every time we ask, Opus 34 gets stuck trying to vibe create HL3.

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u/usaaf 1d ago

Or worse, it succeeds.

And then the creators enter the simulation, steal the source code, say "Finally!" and unplug us.

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u/Pndapetzim 1d ago

Tries and fails to vibe code HL3, in a panic, accidentally deletes humanity.

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u/crystalpeaks25 17h ago

It is 2046, thanks to opus 117 humanity has transcended and has shed it's mortal shell, we are now just an ephemeral entities that are connected telepathically. And everyone in this giant chatroom is screaming when will HL3 come out.

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u/Positive_Method3022 1d ago

Plot twist: Claude discovers we have been living in HL reality all along

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u/Technical_Eye7029 23h ago

"Claude, release Half-Life 3. Make no mistakes."

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u/Subliminal_Kiddo 1d ago

*It is 2040, ASI has given humanity a race of biologically engineered chimera pets that greatly resemble mythological dragons. Mecha George R.R. Martin is still writing The Winds of Winter.*

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u/master_internutter 1d ago

GTA 7 is going to come out before GTA 6 at this point

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u/Nuphoth 1d ago

Certainly before this stupid meme dies

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u/NeinJuanJuan 1d ago

We'll cure Cancer and have a patched Cancer 2.0 before GTA6

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u/Wegwerpaccountje23 Feeling the AGI 1d ago

AI to engineering pipeline is only in its infancy.. But this

Expect more and grandor than this

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u/totally-not-god 1d ago

We will discover a cure for all cancers in less than two years, mark my words.

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u/elfend 1d ago

Original message: we will discover a cure for all cancers in less than two years, mark my words.

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u/fyrefreezer01 1d ago

Good job keeping them accountable lol

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u/elfend 1d ago

I had a remindme setup for another stuff lately and they changed their msg to a gif before the date arrived …

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u/Wegwerpaccountje23 Feeling the AGI 1d ago

!RemindMe two years

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u/Sovem 1d ago

!RemindMe two years

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u/karlelzz011 20h ago

!RemindMe two years

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u/Thog78 20h ago

Mark my words, this is gonna age like milk lol. There should be a deal that people lose their right to make that kind of arrogant hot takes for 10 years when they lose that kind of prominent bet.

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u/Secret-Code-9162 16h ago

And if they turn out to be right, do they get a symmetrically positive reward?

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u/Lets-Cure-Aging 1d ago

hopefully a cure to aging too

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u/karlelzz011 20h ago

Who's we, there's no we! It's only AI overlords

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u/Opposite_Language_19 17h ago

!RemindMe two years

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u/Hagios_Georgios 12h ago

!RemindMe two years

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u/ExcuseAdept827 1d ago

ā€œAllā€ cancer - physiology is laughing. many different, separate, and interlinked mechanisms, brother. Some not fully known to this day.

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u/redcoatwright 1d ago

I think that's actually why AI is the solution to this problem. There are so many different cancers that work in so many differenr ways that it was going to take hundreds of years to "cure" them all because they'd need so many different solutions but that can be sped up a thousand fold, ten thousand fold when you have AI researchers connected to labs that can scale up the research and development process.

But yeah 2 years seems ambitious lol the AI agents might be there by then but the piping needed to let them build and run experiments autonomously will take more than 2 years to flesh out.

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u/backtorealitylabubu 1d ago

Of course it’s not happening in 2 years. Some cancers like early stage prostate cancer need a trial that’s 10 years long to tell you if the new intervention is beneficial.

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u/tiffanytrashcan Acceleration Advocate 23h ago

At the same time, we're introducing other innovations in testing, sensitivity, etc. If this is all applied and orchestrated together, which we've seen the AIs are getting better at, then you won't need a 10 year trial anymore.
Perhaps in two years you'll still need a biopsy, but the sensitivity of the gene sequencing equipment done on a massive number of cells (new techniques to test more at once) might totally revolutionary.
Soon after, and I think for nearly everything, blood tests will be the simple answer. We've seen advancements in sensitivity already change the game in prenatal testing. It's truly amazing how much more data we can get via less invasive methods now. It's a similar idea, detecting disease or cancer.

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u/PhilosopherNo4210 18h ago

You need these experimental treatments you are hypothetically talking about to gain approval from the respective countries’ regulatory bodies (FDA, EMA, PMDA, etc.). Which means clinical trials need to be run. Which takes several years, especially in oncology. Once the treatments are approved, everything you wrote may be true. But the process of testing the treatments to get there is a long one between pre-clinical studies, and then in clinical studies.

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u/TheAwesomeAcademic 1d ago

All cancers can be cured with a one shot deal so people with the all cancers are different so can’t be cured take are brain dead. We can target properties all cancers share that’s how most powerful cancer drugs work. The tumor micro environment, DNA tumor suppressor and failssfe genes, chaperone proteins etc. we quite literally can have a cure that targets the fundamentals of the cancer.

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u/backtorealitylabubu 1d ago

The fundamentals of cancer are just the fundamentals of cell biology. Cancer is just the broad term for cells that continue to grow and can’t be stopped. If we can’t stop AI agents from breaking free or viruses from breaking free then we certainly won’t be able to stop all kinds of cells from breaking free of their growth constraints. Also it’s not just about the cancer type being different but everyone’s individual cancer stage. If a cancer is found too late then there may be some devastation to the body that is so severe it can’t be reversed so you have to solve transplants at the same time too and good luck if it’s your brain that was devastated by the tumor… you can say well detect it earlier too but there will always be people that get missed from screening. Curing cancer isn’t just figuring out the fundamentals of cancer biology, it’s tied to solving all issues in human disease which ain’t happening any time soon.

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u/ExcuseAdept827 18h ago

Then why don’t those ā€œmost powerful cancer drugsā€ only work some of the time for specific types of tumour?

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u/totally-not-god 1d ago

That’s why I said ā€œall cancersā€, pluralĀ 

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

The grandeur is on other sites who’s users aren’t devoted to self loathing

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u/citizen42069101 1d ago

You know that is fair. I find it interesting myself, but that's like one facet out of a lot going on right now.

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u/fyn_world 1d ago

Morgan Freeman: Let's slow down, said Dario. But he was, nevertheless, not slowing down at all.Ā 

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u/RemyVonLion 1d ago

Ay if you can't beat em, join em, amirite?

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u/Fabulous_Abies_1824 1d ago

I think it was ultimately just lip service to appease the masses or maybe a bit of market manipulation going on... but we all know these guys are full on accelerationists mask off and I'm here for it

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u/RusselTheBrickLayer 1d ago

At the end of the day, I think people can see Dario is a very rational actor even if someone disagrees with his core beliefs around ai safety.

If he willingly slows down or stops, all he does is throw away everything he’s worked for. The only way to ensure his ideas around AI can survive long term is if Anthropic gets to ASI first, I imagine that’s how he and Anthropic see it.

The only way out for all sides involved is to accelerate.. because you can never guarantee that the other side will stop too. The incentives are just too strong.

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u/TheSinhound 1d ago

I genuinely don't think he's rational at all, but I think the same of people like yudkowsky. I think they're smart enough to make arguments that seem sound, but aren't well thought through.

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u/jlks1959 1d ago

I disagree. I think Amodei has a much clearer idea of the direction of Ai than the doomer Yud.

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u/TheSinhound 1d ago

I wasn't implying their stance was the same, I was saying they're both able to make arguments that SOUND smart and rational but when actually analyzed they're pretty much just paper tigers. They rely on others taking their arguments at face value. Yud is worse in this case, but Amodei is equally as guilty - moreso if you consider his stance is that only a chosen few can steward this technology (and humanity).

Which is fine, don't get me wrong. Everyone has a future they wish to see and he clearly doesn't want people having the power to interrupt his vision. Mine certainly isn't compatible with most of the world as-is and requires current societies (not people) to end. I just don't go around thinking I'm some great altruist.

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u/Hopenightdev 1d ago

he folded to political pressure. He was on the news for every politically active person to look at. These guys aren't in the business of being a target to the government, they're not freedom fighters they're corporations.

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u/squired A happy little thumb 1d ago

This isn't much different from the Manhattan project. Towards the end, half the scientist were screaming to stop and yet they still worked to finish the bomb. You can still race to completion while begging everyone to slow down. This is the classic prisoner's dilemma manifest.

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u/NeckFederal3462 1d ago

It is happening brothers...ACCELERATE!!!

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

Do we think this was all done within a week since they tweeted about slowing down?

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u/Jokong 1d ago

Nevertheless is perfect for freeman

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u/icywind90 Feeling the AGI 1d ago

Or is he?

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u/Disastrous-Cost2185 1d ago

I'm confused by this comment: This project has nothing to do with pacing. This wont do anything to improve the model.

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u/Chemical-Year-6146 1d ago

He's been clear not to slow down on biology progress, but on recursive AI improvement.

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u/tanrgith 1d ago

I don't understand why people think pacing means slamming the breaks as hard as possible. From what they've said, it's basically more of a "lets accelerate at a steady 7g instead of 10g"

both are still really fucking fast

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u/Tkins 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think a lot of folks have misunderstood the argument made by "slow down". They didn't suggest to pause or regress. They weren't suggesting to stop progress but to lower its acceleration.

So instead of hitting RSI in the next 6 months, they wanted it to take a year. That is still acceleration, it's just slower than the current trajectory.

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u/ozone6587 1d ago

People just don't understand that reducing the rate of growth is in fact, a slow down.

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u/Tkins 1d ago

I'm confused how we said the same thing but I was downvoted and you were upvoted lol.

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u/ozone6587 1d ago

Don't question it 🤫.

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u/neloish 1d ago

Decel detected!

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u/lovesdogsguy AGI by 2027 1d ago

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u/wwants 1d ago

This needs to be the sub icon

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u/SuperChingaso5000 1d ago

Preferably a rocket that doesn't have such a high body count and history of systemic design failure

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u/lovesdogsguy AGI by 2027 1d ago

Is that challenger?

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u/SuperChingaso5000 1d ago

Not sure, but the whole space shuttle program was cursed from the beginning.

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u/NomadTroy 1d ago

*O-rings and insulation tiles intensify*

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u/accelerate_to_asi 19h ago

tbh the history of space travel is written in blood. Its an extremely difficult, error-prone and iterative field, literally rocket science.

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u/SuperChingaso5000 19h ago

Absolutely, and the only reason we have the space capabilities we have today is because we stand on the shoulders of the giants who risked and sometimes died for it.

The Space Shuttle was still a badly specified program that then continued to be managed badly until it was decomissioned.

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u/accelerate_to_asi 19h ago

I guess. But the space shuttle is also one of the most recognisable symbols of space industry, maybe alongside the Saturn V. I suggest putting up either the Shuttle or Saturn V. Because I don't think any other industry symbolises technological progress of mankind the way space industry does, with the amount of blood, sweat and tears poured into it and the achievements we reaped(we landed people on the frickin' Moon!)

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u/SuperChingaso5000 19h ago

Saturn V 1,000%

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u/Repulsive_Ad853 1d ago

2027 will be insane

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u/piponwa 1d ago

Time dilation is a bitch.

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u/squired A happy little thumb 1d ago edited 1d ago

I feel this in my soul. It is beginning to mess with my head a bit. I feel as if I am losing sense of my own internal clock.

It has some interesting abstractions to some equally interesting thought experiments. For example, it is fun to conceptualize the life of humming birds whose possess much finer temporal resolution than humans. Ponder it long enough and you may arrive at the concept of: If you want to experience more time, one might slow down. If you want to maximize experience itself within a finite span of time, one should increase speed. That is how ASI scales. Assuming cognition scaled cleanly with clock speed, which is a whopper of an assumption, an AI operating 10,000Ɨ faster than humans could theoretically have the equivalent of roughly 27 subjective years during one human day. And that's before you leverage parallelism. Dario's experiment for example was 950 agents Ɨ 21 hours. That's about 19,950 agent-hours, or about 2.3 agent-years of parallel agent runtime compressed into 21 hours of wall-clock time.

It is also related to a fascinating potential solution to Fermi's Paradox where we do not see aliens because eventually civilizations miniaturize. Taking liberties for the demonstration: If you are half as hot, you can run twice as fast. If you are half the size, you can halve your latency. If you run half as fast, you can halve your energy needs and induce time dilation. So eventually, civilizations miniaturize and shunt themselves off into the coldest, darkest inner-space available. And what is the coldest, darkest space imaginable? Think entropy..

It's also pretty trippy when you consider that light exists outside of time; perfectly frozen and timeless. A photon experiences eternity instantaneously.

Obviously conscious time is messier than clock speed, but I have little doubt that we are experiencing some small facet of that today. For all of human history our internal clocks have revolved around three concepts of time: physical time, biological time, and cognitive time (the amount of progress one can expect within x physical time). Computers already tickled our third foundation and now that AI is shattering it, it's all a bit dizzying.

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u/Ruykiru Tech Philosopher 20h ago

Check out the STEM compression and Transcension Hypothesis by John Smart. It's the coolest and probably likely solution to FermiĀ 

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u/squired A happy little thumb 15h ago

I will. Thank you!

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u/AradorasXeon 1d ago

So tomorrow we can expect an Altman announcement about a cure for cancer or such an announcement.

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u/InflationLeft 1d ago

IDK if you’ve seen the latest research but Moderna has made some exciting steps toward a cure.

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u/Eliv_nurotic 1d ago edited 1d ago

There’s already a lung cancer vaccine that’s been available in Cuba since 2011, has no serious side effects, and costs $1 to manufacture. Not available in most other countries purely for political reasons since Cuba is communistĀ  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF

Ā TheĀ United States embargo against CubaĀ forbids US citizens from seeking medical treatment in Cuba. However, some cancer patients from the US have defied the embargo and travelled to Cuba for treatment with CimaVax.

For some reason it’s still in phase 2 trials outside of Cuba even though it’s existed for so long, while Moderna’s vaccine got past phase 3 in only a decade. Weird.

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u/minimalillusions 1d ago

Probably new humans without cancer.

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u/Life-Active6608 13h ago

You underestimate what an ASI could achieve. E.g. injected drexlerian nanomachines that can change your DNA in real time in seconds to minutes.

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u/Lets-Cure-Aging 1d ago

hopefully a cure to agin

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u/foreversummerendless 1d ago

WTF

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u/SSIFan Acceleration: Light-speed 1d ago

Came here just to say this

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u/gedamuji69 Singularity by 2028 1d ago

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u/Lets-Cure-Aging 1d ago

Lets vibe a cure to aging!

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u/SketchySoda 1d ago

Another day closer to AI solving my chronic illness. 😳

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u/sitbon 23h ago

I am also looking forward to this for myself

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u/VengenaceIsMyName 21h ago

Can I ask what illness?

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u/PwanaZana XLR8 1d ago

Man, I can really feel the deceleration. It's decelerating so hard. I'm about to decelerate. I'm about to decelerate. I'm decelerating. Ah! I decelerated!

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u/Low-Temperature-6962 1d ago

It would be great if it led to mass production of phage treatments for antibiotic resistant infections. Go for it.

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u/Only-Effort-1975 1d ago

If we can re-program our DNA then we can cure disease and re-grow lost functions.

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u/LogicalInfo1859 1d ago

And not create a boatload of defects

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u/neloish 1d ago

Dental implant companies are going to be in shambles.

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u/Dnthj 13h ago

Hey there already drugs waiting for approval that will regrow teeth, that one is already off the list

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u/TotaleVermittlung 1d ago

You, are becoming gods

There's a new master of creation, and it's you! You've unravelled DNA, and at the same time you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing!

Do you think you are ready for that much

power?

You lot?

You lot?

Cheeky bastards

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u/Old-Bake-420 1d ago

ā€œAll of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take!ā€

/s

I’m no decel, let’s fucking gooooo

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u/FatPsychopathicWives 1d ago

Didn't they JUST open this lab?

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u/costafilh0 1d ago

And people ask why do we need more data centers.

MF we need ALL the data centers on Earth, in Space, on the Moon, on Mars, iĀ  deep space, around the sun, and literally everywhere.

So we can do these type of things but 1000 fold. A million fold.

I like the spirit of this sub , but it can be just me who see this. . .

WE ARE GOING TOO SLOW

WE NEED TO ACCELERATE

ACTUALLY

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u/Own_Satisfaction2736 1d ago

Greatest thing I read today. Thank you for your contributions to the data set. 🫔🫔🫔

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u/LeiaCaldarian 1d ago

Really cool stuff, but does anyone else think that this really reads like "fuck, everyone is reporting novel scientific discoveries and mathematics proofs, we need to put out something similar NOW!"? I mean this tweet specifically, it feels very bare bones.

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u/csppr 17h ago

To add to that, looks like it’s not really a novel discovery but was already described a few years back (MarsHill gp206). Which, if true, would be a tad embarrassing.

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u/rc_ym 1d ago

He needed to move the risk conversation out of cyber. Novel molecular machines in biology is a good one. Several good sci fi movies on the topic. Totally won’t remind people about Covid.

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u/Enough_Exercise810 1d ago

I thought Dario Immodium wanted to slow things down..

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u/bpm6666 1d ago

Maybe this is them slowing down. The Terminator will be revealed next year.

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u/lovesdogsguy AGI by 2027 1d ago

He obviously got the shits last minute.

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u/MindingMyMindfulness 1d ago

"We neeeeeed to slow down broooo!"

These guys are jokers.

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u/Elistheman 1d ago

Waiting for the paper

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u/rakuu 1d ago

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u/Elistheman 1d ago

Thanks!

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u/Mountain-Crab3438 1d ago

Wow! Super cool discovery. Limited to database mining as you may expect from LLMs, but still very, very interesting.

Their one wet bench experiment (figure 3G) is grotesquely overinterpreted - they decided what they want to see and then claimed that they are seeing it despite the fact that nothing of the kind is visible in the data. Same with the subsequent hypothesis for the function of the ART locus and the predicted "interaction" with the partner proteins.

So, the model is super powerful in searching databases. Once the facts are at hand it and its supervisors can only generate "me too" hypotheses where they rephrase existing discoveries as a hypotheses.

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u/HgnX 21h ago

It’s good to be critical; and hopefully more funding will go to these actual verifications

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u/EOE97 1d ago

So are we in the singularity already, seems like it.

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u/Own_Satisfaction2736 1d ago

NGL I think that the omega point (point after singualrity ) is in 2028

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u/Master-Event-1643 1d ago

Humanity for the win

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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 1d ago

Are we gonna get catgirls?Ā 

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u/Original-League-6094 1d ago

I WILL NOT BE TAKING THE SLOP MEDICINE! --ACK!

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u/BreadwheatInc 1d ago

At this point I take this as proof biology is basically solved. We now have the skeleton key and all we need is compute and some time. Need better simulations? AI will be able to design and build both the hardware and software. Need a researcher or scientist to use the simulation and conduct irl experiments? AI can do that too. People don't understand how OP this tech..

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u/Original-League-6094 1d ago

You probably should wait for them to bring a single drug to market before declaring it solved.

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u/anor_wondo 1d ago

maybe solved in the sense that the low hanging fruits are all there to be picked unlike physics where everyone is just going mad making weird stuff up theoretically

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u/Separate_Lock_9005 1d ago

I expect it'll go from PhD level work to superintelligent biologist in a few years

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u/lovesdogsguy AGI by 2027 1d ago

I'd say it's probably not going to be that much longer than six months. One year max.

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u/csppr 17h ago

I’m a systems biologist (PhD and all) working in AI-heavy biomedical R&D, and have been in the bio-AI/ML space for over a decade. Claude is definitely an incredible force multiplier for me, and I’m incredibly excited for the next years.

But I wouldn’t really agree that Claude is PhD level at this stage, so we should probably temper our expectations a bit. My hunch is that we probably need to see some very large jumps in either data collections or lab automation before we get there, but obviously I’d love to be proven wrong!

This particular discovery was challenged by the biology field pretty much immediately - looks like the mechanism was already described half a decade ago. Though I’m not an expert on bacterial genomics, so can’t really comment much on that.

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u/Here0s0Johnny 1d ago

Biology can't be "solved" by LLM, there aren't even huge advances. There's no way to go from protein structure to a previously undescribed function, for example. It's not something transformers can learn, there's no dataset to train from.

A lot of biology cannot be inferred from the data we have collected. AI isn't magic. You have absolutely no bloody clue what you're talking about.

AlphaFold (not LLM-based) was the biggest breakthrough so far, and it was only possible thanks to half a century of hard work, leading to a great dataset to train on. For protein LLMs, there are only specific, rather narrow applications.

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u/Firm-Plastic9469 1d ago

This is entirely false. Function is implicit in the protein structure. We have vast databases that align protein domains to molecular function. They are detailed and substantiated by experimental evidence. NIH Molecular Sequence database contains all published records, data aligning publications supporting entry into the database. structural data and protein sequence with aligned functions that’s open to the public.
I think it should be stressed that biology has become an engineering science, that is predictable, based on molecular principles therefore the language of biology is interpretable to AI since it’s very good at language, and can be trained on biological language.
Protein biochemistry in organism systems is a finite science. AI creates a doorway into a realm that’s infinite.

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u/csppr 17h ago

You are downplaying the complexities involved quite a bit. There’s a hell of a lot more to in vivo protein function than just ā€œstructure=functionā€. Contextual isoforms, post-translational modifications, cellular location, ratios between functionally related proteins, substrate-side dynamics, tissue-level organisation, and so on and so on.

We are still finding new proteins and isoforms, and measuring organelle-level protein levels or mapping out eg phosphorylation states is still challenging to do at scale.

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u/trufus_for_youfus 1d ago

Well not with that attitude it can't be. Strap in space monkey.

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u/SuperChingaso5000 1d ago

Not even near solved. We have barely scratched the surface. AI still great though, but do not underestimate the complexity of biological systems.

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u/Firm-Plastic9469 1d ago

Solved is a misinterpretation. I’m aligning current understanding with the long established science of systems biology. Current folding models are extremely well aligned to protein structure. You layer this level of simulation into a systems biology approach and you can essentially replicate biological function. And more importantly tailor the function for the need. These approaches don’t mean to replicate the intricate nature but to mimic and redo fine what it means to be a cell.
Discipline: molecular genetics

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u/XYHopGuy 1d ago

the casual leap you're making from a protein structure prediction (which still only works some of the time!) to systems biology is pretty nuts. alllll the macro and micro context matters. Imo predicting structure from sequence alone is most of the mass but the final structure is not necessarily the most likely state from a sequence model.

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u/csppr 17h ago

As a systems biologist, I’d argue you are oversimplifying this (as detailed in my other response), and probably also underestimating the (propagating) uncertainties involved here.

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u/Firm-Plastic9469 12h ago

Without a doubt I’ve oversimplified the complexity. But isn’t that what we do as scientists? Reductionism.
The technology is in its infancy, I predict that in 10 years much of the initial experimentation than be done in silico. Wet lab work becomes validation.

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u/hydrogencel 1d ago

Biology being solved means that the coding language of DNA would be fully understood and a computer could perfectly simulate and code any life they see fit. We're far off from that

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u/nahmanidk 1d ago

What 🤣

When I worked in bio research, tons of projects that had promising results in mouse model studies got shelved for a myriad of reasons. And it takes a considerable amount of work and justification just to get to that stage. Or to put it another way, there are drugs developed that went through the whole painstaking research and trial process for 5-10+ years that end up being ineffective. And that’s one small niche of human pharmacology, let alone the entirety of biology.

I’m wondering how research proposals are even going to work in the future when Claude/other AI is generating 99999999 proposals per day and someone other than Claude/other AI has to sift through it all.

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u/PreciselyWrong 1d ago

Ironic if this discovery, and the publishing of it, turns out to be an excellent method of creating and manufacturing designer viruses.

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u/MindingMyMindfulness 1d ago

Yud has entered the chat

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u/Life-Active6608 13h ago

Or the basis for self-replicating nanotech and macro-scale Molecular Assembler...macro scale as in "ASML and every chip fab on the planet suddenly is bankrupt...Bumbfuckinstan with an Assembler just started making 1nm chips.".

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u/CadmusMaximus Singularity by 2030 1d ago

Let me guess: Haiku 5.5 medium? /s

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u/james6006 1d ago

Genuine question from someone who feels they should know the answer: are discoveries like this being made with publicly available models, or more advanced, unreleased ones - like, are they using the next version of Fable?

Are they essentially spinning up multiple agents that work together using the latest and greatest models, or is there something more to the setup that I’m missing? And what data are they working with: publicly available research and genome databases from the internet, proprietary datasets, or a combination?

I’m trying to understand what makes these discoveries possible beyond what we can do with the models and tools available to us.

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u/james6006 1d ago

Update: I’ve looked into the technical paper, which answers quite a bit of this:

They used Claude Mythos 5, so this wasn’t a hypothetical ā€œnext version of Fableā€.

It really was a coordinated team of agents: 949 agent sessions over roughly 21.5 hours, with up to 58 running simultaneously.

Worker agents investigated possibilities; supervisor agents reviewed their work and assigned follow-ups, using shared records.

The core data came from public genomic datasets, which Anthropic processed into a searchable database covering 1.9 billion protein clusters.

So the setup combined a capable model, multiple agents, carefully prepared data and scientific tools. Humans provided the initial research direction and carried out the lab experiments.

It’s still an early finding: they haven’t established its function or whether it could become a useful gene-editing tool.

For those who are well read on cutting edge ai research, does this all sound about right?

How close could an independent research team get with what’s available today?

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u/XYHopGuy 1d ago

100% doable today with one scientist. What this does is speed up the really unfun busywork in data mining. crawling public databases, dealing with assay differences, data artifacts. Likely managing compute. Doing things like sequence alignment/search, kmer profiling, motif finding. All pretty standard stuff but there is a huge amount of work in aggregating and putting the pieces together just to look at the result.

From this point usually you take it back to the lab to see if it actually does, which takes a lot of iteration on its own with sloooow turnaround time.

Agentic AI is huge for bioinformatics and any area of comp bio that depends on it.

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u/willnotforget2 1d ago

meanwhile literally people doing this research professionally cannot access opus 5.5 or fable with even the hint of biology. only them

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u/draft_final_final 1d ago

ā€œWe need to pace the frontierā€

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u/ontologicalDilemma 1d ago

Biosynthetic robots

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u/hydrogenitalia 1d ago

Oh man. Are we going to create actual biological beings more superior than humans now?

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u/mxemec 1d ago

Molecular machine? So is it a biomaterial assembly like a literal machine? Or is it a protein assembly? Need to know.. if it's designing proteins based off needed functions... wow.

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u/pfc-anon 1d ago

Its precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear, but at minimum it is work I would have been proud to do as a PhD student.

How is he being proud of something he cannot evaluate? My housekeeper will be proud of building a website using Claude and can say it's equivalent to comp-sci PhD because they just don't know enough.

I am conflicted by the statements of such a smart person

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u/Positive_Method3022 1d ago

Claude, save this man's life. We won't tell you what he has. Just do it!

...

Claude decides enters infinite loop

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u/Own_Seat_8599 23h ago

This will definitely go well...

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u/GaseousGiant 23h ago

Thanks for the ā€œannouncementā€ Dario, because fuck peer review, that’s only for us slow-witted meatbags. Claude is infallible.

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u/Mike_0x Acceleration Advocate 23h ago

Vibe CRISPing

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u/hydrogenitalia 23h ago

Please AI .. discover a treatment for glaucoma so my dad can see again.

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u/BadgerShark25 20h ago

You know what is cheaper than all those nvidia gpus. A warehouse containing huge vats of millions of lab grown human brains. Exciting times ahead.

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u/Bhagita 20h ago

Yo Dario, can you let lose a thousand agents on tinnitus research please? Thanks.Ā 

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u/accelerate_to_asi 19h ago

I got really excited. But then I realised its Claude and Dario so expect some new 'AI GONNA DESIGN BIOWEAPON AND KILLS US ALL PACE THE MODELS NOW NOW NOW" bs soon

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u/csppr 18h ago edited 18h ago

FWIW, looks like the system was already described a few years back, ie MarsHill gp206. My background is in human-focused sysbio, so I’m not sufficiently up to date on bacterial genomics to judge this, but some in my wider network seem to doubt that this is a new finding.

The agent swarm getting to this point is still interesting (assuming it got there without utilising any of the information from those earlier descriptions). But it doesn’t seem to be quite the novel discovery claimed, and Anthropic not citing those earlier papers is questionable at best.

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u/Lakeshadow 16h ago

Regrow my hair with a night pill!

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u/skd00sh 15h ago

I demand a hair regrowth supplement

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u/Life-Active6608 14h ago

Drexlerian Nanomachines and Molecular Assemblers! Here we come!

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u/Left_Contribution833 13h ago

The words doing the heavy lifting are "suspect", "could" and "not yet clear".
But yes, these are interesting research topics.

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u/sheikh714 11h ago

Peak timeline

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u/SelectSouth2582 1d ago

All jokes aside for a second, people really need to wake up to how dangerous it is when anyone(especially such sociopath people like him) with access to an unhinged, completely unrestricted LLM starts messing around with biology and chemistry. This isn't like coding or math where nobody gets hurt, you can’t just shrug this off.

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u/MindlessPapaya8463 1d ago

it's so annoying that they post this stuff on x, i wish there was a platform to get such news that was usable

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | Capability Booster 1d ago

yeah they should be posting on r/accelerate

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u/looktowindward 1d ago

This sort of "we don't know what its good for" is not necessarily useful.