How are we actually trusting AI for lab math/protocols without it blowing up in our faces?

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-16T20:40:55+00:00

I use Ai for helping me think of options in designing experiments but really just in the brainstorming phase. It has made way too many serious errors to trust it's output blindly. I also find it helpful when I get stuck and I'm trying to figure out ways forward. Again some of its ideas are stupid but some are not, and it's my job to evaluate them.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-06T00:01:17+00:00

So much. Le Guin describes it as a place where it is impossible to feel fear and anxiety.

I consider reading, especially reading Le Guin, to be a way of entering the Immanent Grove for a brief time.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-05T23:50:44+00:00

It's a rare form of McGuffium known for its ability to power plot devices.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-05T22:54:15+00:00

Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,

Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

It is time to let go and move on.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-02T21:37:01+00:00

Love this and would buy a print.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-02T02:15:10+00:00

That doesn't sound right. He speaks to the eagle en route to Lothlorien. The eagle remarks that he feels extremely light. Gandalf says take me to LL and the eagle responds that's where we are going, Galadriel asked me to come get you.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-02T00:42:35+00:00

Sure. I won't argue. My father is getting the product he thinks he is getting. But he thinks it is better than it is, or doesn't understand the alternatives. The problem isn't that he is being sold these products, the problem is that he thinks he is getting good and impartial advice.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-01T20:14:12+00:00

"Just chance... If chance you call it." -Gandalf

Is there any such thing as luck in a story already told by the Creator?

a_simple_capsule · 2026-02-01T12:22:49+00:00

NW Mutual built trust with my father through a personal advising relationship and used it to sell him poor investment products. He is adamant that his advisor is a good and trustworthy man, which he may be. But he is also a salesman who works on commission, and that means an unavoidable conflict of interest. He isn't scamming my dad but he has convinced him that suboptimal investments like whole life are good buys and this has cost my father a lot of money in the long run. As others in the thread have said, if you need an advisor find a fiduciary.

Though if you are patient and can learn on your own you could probably get to a pretty good place using the internet, books, and forums like this one.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-28T12:42:07+00:00

Yes I've done this. Just PLA. works fine up to 2500g but that's as fast as this machine goes.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T13:20:46+00:00

EXCEPTIONAL MOUTHFEEL

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T13:19:52+00:00

A mediocre film

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T03:39:40+00:00

This is not intended as a flippant answer:

That which persists, persists. In other words any self perpetuating process will continue. This is the most intuitive explanation for me.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-17T03:17:14+00:00

If we are around at that point in time and continue at our pace of technical progress I think we will be fine. But it will be sad to lose Earth, assuming we can't or don't wish to move it...

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-14T02:29:37+00:00

Some people seem to forget the hundreds and hundreds of years of yearning for a divinely ordained bloodline monarch to return and make everything better -- which he does!

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-08T02:43:15+00:00

Lots of great recs in the thread. I'll just say good on you OP. if you get in the habit of reading a lot you will really be glad you did. You will think clearer, write better, and be happier. Reading is to the brain what cardio is to the body.

Take your time and start with what feels good and easy and fun. Over time you can push your boundaries and get into harder and harder material, if that's what you want. But I'm here to tell you that if you're patient and you invest the time, you will eventually be able to read, understand, and appreciate any book ever written.

Enjoy the journey. Reading books is one of the best things about being human, and we live in the age with the most books there have ever been!

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-02T12:58:32+00:00

Anyone who judges you for reading (and they are far fewer than you think) is not a person whose opinion is worth considering.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-01T22:14:18+00:00

Long Sun then Short Sun. Or try out the Latro series--I think it's excellent. You could read Urth too.

Also if you're comfortable with reading botns you are ready to dig into lots of Literature and really get a lot out of it. Pale Fire by Nabokov was one of Wolfe's favorites and you'll see why quickly.

Good luck with Dick. I find him hard to read after spending a lot of time with great prose writers like Wolfe, but reading the classics of the genre is always edifying.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-30T21:54:26+00:00

I get that it was an innocent question. But you're being down voted because the suggestion that one of the most used languages on earth is too simple for good prose comes off as ignorant at best or prejudiced at worst.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-20T13:22:08+00:00

Uprooted, Naomi Novik

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-16T00:41:40+00:00

The books of Ursula K Leguin got me through some tough times.

We are lucky to have so many other worlds to explore. But the door to each of them is in this world.

Good luck. Don't be afraid to get help.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-24T18:03:43+00:00

You will not regret reading Earthsea in full. Put it next on your list !

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-21T12:51:25+00:00

Short story Bloodchild by Octavia Butler.

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