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'In Brunnermeier's telling, AI is so much better at processing information than humans that it will soon have the advantage of knowing with near certainty what central bankers will do even before those policymakers know it themselves, and can therefore devise trading and other strategies to circumvent those actions and turn a profit -- legally or otherwise.'

If folks think the capital markets are a crap shoot now, wait until they see the knock on emergent effects of bands of AI agents teaming up to rig them.

Re:Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @02:28PM (#45043203)
Note the collaboration with Indigenous communities regarding the use of ancestral remains for this research.
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the subject. I was unaware that this is one of the most mysterious topics in zoology.
The title is misleading, but a nice introduction to how we use convergent evolution to determine why a body part evolved.
Re:What LLMs Know About Their Users on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:29AM (#44378437)
The latter.
Fingers crossed that they can determine the mechanism behind non-locality.
Re: on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:30PM (#44323132)
I’m surprised that the stability of genomic structure at the linear level across species may not be as essential as thought.
Re: on Sunday June 01, 2025 @12:20PM (#44151968)
Amazing that these 'living fossils' survived in these small pockets of forest that are the only remnant of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. How many other endemic species are clinging on in tiny spots around the globe?
Latest Claude LLM writes passable drafts of product documentation, such as tutorials, so I expect similar impact for technical writers. In my tests, the code samples all worked on the first prompt. Verifying code samples is much faster than writing them, but that was my favorite part of the career.
Re: on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:30AM (#44051834)
I was unaware of the existence of purely self-pollinating plants.

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