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Efforts to reduce animal experiments are important and should be pursued. But despite progress in #AI, #organoids, and #InSilico models, I’m not convinced we’re there yet — especially in #neuroscience, where #complexity and systemic #context matter. However, I do think we should stay committed and aim for reduction by all available means. I recently came across this article, which gives a good overview of the current state of the field:

🌍 genengnews.com/topics/translat

GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News · Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and OrganoidsBy Jason Shepherd, PhD

In case it's useful: #Context is critical. The way a group of people behave is always, always heavily context dependent. This seems relevant to some things people say on the internet...

"Trans people have higher rates of stress-related mental illnesses" - Right now, yes, while most of our societies demonize them and work to take away their basic rights. Let's try full LGBTQIA+ equality and see how trans people do.

"Only X% of people say they have nonbinary gender, trans identity, non-straight sexuality, or other LGBTQIA+ identity/experiences" - OK, yes, while nearly every person on earth lives in a society that marginalizes or demonizes sexual/gender minorities (I've seen X quoted as "under 5%", "under 10%", etc.). Thhose numbers will change as we make the world safer for people to express identities outside the prescribed dominant categories.

"Fascism has an advantage in economic downturns" - For now, when extractive/exploitative capitalist systems dominate the world. I wonder if this will still be true when we make all of our governments more humane.

"UBI is amazingly successful" - For now, yes, while small groups receive UBI in the context of mostly capitalist systems. Let's guarantee everyone a living income and then see.

"Women have better outcomes as political and corporate leaders" - Maybe. They certainly seem to right now, while most women (and eveyrone else) are raised in patriarchal cultures. Let's make equality actually happen and then see.

"Women are more interested in social issues while men are more interested in physical and power-dynamic issues" - Possibly true only while we acculturate women this way (there's actually cool empirical evidence suggesting this is not innate)

"Brown, Black, female, and queer people focus on community and justice while cis/het white male people focus on 'the bottom line' and 'concrete' outcomes" - Evidence that this stops being true when various kinds of inequality stop being the norm.

And so on.

#ContextEngineering - Unlocking #AgenticAI’s True Potential

> Today's #LLMs are far more complex with context size of millions of tokens and the ability for calling external systems, tools, and even #agentic orchestration with multi-agent #AI systems. #Context has therefore evolved beyond the prompt to include System Prompt, User Input/Prompt, Memory, Retrieved Information (#RAG etc.), information on tools (#MCP), responses from tools, and structured output format

deepgains.substack.com/p/conte

Deep Gains · Context Engineering - Unlocking Agentic AI’s True PotentialBy Arun S

#HiddenHashtags continuing to inject #TimelineIntruders.

Readers get displayed different Posts depending on their method of reading.

I can't tell why some Posts are on my Timeline with #HiddenHashtags.

My Timeline - but not easily under my control?

Hashtags can create #Context.
Hashtags can attract specific types of users.
A visible hashtag experience can be very different to a hidden hashtag experience.

Hiden or visible hashtag #TrumpIsLordJesus.
Different UX.
Client dependent.