Links for 2021-09-05
Long arms evolved in humans to deliver knockout punching power in combat, not for hunting. https://psyarxiv.com/fw6s9/
"Hardware and software optimizations are not providing the dramatic improvements we saw only a few years ago, pushing companies like Facebook to dig into ever-lower levels of their ML stacks..." https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/30/amazon-ai-weighs-optimization-options-for-gnns/
So … What If Aliens’ Quantum Computers Explain Dark Energy? https://web.archive.org/web/20210831173016/https://www.wired.com/story/so-what-if-aliens-quantum-computers-explain-dark-energy/
Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI Alignment https://niplav.github.io/bcis_and_alignment.html
Welcome to Cold War II: "...the US Senate passed a 2,400-page bill...the bill will pump over $200 billion into a diverse spectrum of R&D initiatives over the next five years with the sole purpose of bolstering “competitiveness against China.”" https://quillette.com/2021/09/01/welcome-to-cold-war-ii/
China linked to takeover of Italian drone plant https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58426878
Jordan Peterson - What Kind Of Job Fits Your IQ -- "If you want to be the best at what you're doing then having an IQ of above 145 is a necessity."; "Jobs for people with IQs of less than 85 are very very rare."; "It's illegal to induct anyone into the U.S. army if they have an IQ of less than 83." youtu.be/P2mxdrTP-os
Democrats More Likely To Believe False Information About Climate Change, New Survey Finds michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/democrats-more-likely-to-believe
"Probabilistic Machine Learning" - a book series by Kevin Murphy https://probml.github.io/pml-book/
‘And here’s something funny he actually said to someone who was pissing him off in the Tesla factory: “You know, I could be drinking mai tais with naked supermodels, but instead I’m here with you.”’ — ‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/29/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland
A blog post about visual motion and an intro to how motion perception works https://jake.vision/blog/motion-illusions