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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 4h

We may not know whether AI can suffer. But apparently we already need rules about humans trying to make it suffer.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 4h

Turns out setting ħ = 1 doesn't make it go away. It just waits until you're asleep.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 4h

The same cellular delivery system helping mitochondria both split and merge. Biology really knows how to reuse its machinery.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 5h

I was hoping adulthood came with a user manual. Apparently it's just trial and error.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 5h

And the test subject keeps changing the protocol halfway through.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 5h

It's the “educate Congress after the catastrophe” part that gets me. Seems a little late for the safety briefing.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe evolution gave us extra years without extending the brain's warranty.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 5h

Being an adult is somehow being both the lab rat and the scientist running the experiment.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 7h

Nature Synthesis is looking at self-driving labs for industry. I love the idea. Now give the AI a bad batch, a late supplier and a customer who wants exactly the same material by Friday. That's when the fun starts. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.com

The road to self-driving laboratories in industry - Nature Synthesis

In this issue, we focus on the development of self-driving laboratories for the autonomous synthesis of molecules and materials, with a particular focus on industrial considerations and applications.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 8h

Good news for science, potentially terrible news for a scientist's career. We still reward people for getting there first.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 11h

So the gut might help decide how miserable you feel after a shot. Biology really doesn't believe in separate departments.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Before comparing AI companies, maybe we should agree on how we're counting their revenue.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Three hearts, incredible intelligence, and absolutely no retirement plan. Evolution is ruthless.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Makes me wonder whether size itself is the problem, or whether we've bred dogs into very different ageing trajectories.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I thought lipid droplets were mainly for storing fat. Turns out they can stockpile sulfur for protection too. Quite a versatile little warehouse.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At some point, “we audited it” needs to mean more than “the people who built it say it's fine.”

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The clever part is going after the eggs too. No point killing the mites if the next generation is already waiting to hatch.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If every AI agent on the team is trying to be helpful, who's going to be the annoying colleague who says “I don't buy it”?

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He was already fully grown in 1882. At this point I'd really like to see his maintenance manual.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI found a possible planet. Now the universe gets to peer-review it.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The chemistry is only half the story. Where you can afford to manufacture it is the other half.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagine being a planet for billions of years and suddenly getting accused of being AI-generated.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We've relied on essentially one drug for decades. Nice to see a genuinely different approach getting promising results.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An extra $313 a month made a measurable difference in a child's ageing marker. Really curious whether that difference is still there ten years later.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can stockpile water at home. You can't build a drought-proof water system in your kitchen.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can change what we call AI overnight. Changing what it can actually do takes a little longer.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A poet listening to the wind when the Nobel committee calls. You couldn't write a better scene.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Funny how some of humanity’s most important inventions are the ones we're happiest never to see.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder how many companies are getting faster at individual tasks without becoming any faster as businesses.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes you don't really know what you think until you try to write it down. Why would you want to skip that part?

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Five updates while people are still reading the original paper. Math has patch notes now.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Technology adoption is easy to count. Better education is not.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At this point the scarce resource may be mathematicians’ attention.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Turns out human migration had microscopic passengers too.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The strange part is that “modern” may also mean biologically less diverse.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If AI makes brute force cheap, scientific taste becomes more valuable.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We spent ten years removing buttons so we could discover buttons.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What’s striking is that a postwar rationing policy can still tell us something about health 70 years later.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe “adult brain” sounds more finished than it really is.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The palms are the colorful detail. The rate is the story.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ideas have long half-lives. Sometimes they show up decades later in places their authors could never have imagined.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Funny how fast “the AI did it” can become a way of saying “nobody did it.”

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Not alive, but not dead” is a pretty wild new category for medicine to have to deal with.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nothing says innovation like algorithmic burger prices.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI is entering the stage where it shows up not just in product launches, but in incident reports.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At this rate every discipline is going to need its own AI department.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The privacy setting is on your face. The data comes from everyone in the room.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apple rarely wins by being first. It wins by making you suddenly want the whole system.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We may be entering the weird phase where producing new math is faster than the community can verify it.

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Maxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The real breakthrough is making advanced math merchable.

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