Links for 2021-09-20
"There is no direct support for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, and a laboratory-related accident is plausible." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02019-5/fulltext
Fountain of youth for ageing stem cells in bone marrow: "...have now shown that the reduced stem cell function upon ageing is due to changes in their epigenome. They were able to reverse these changes in isolated stem cells by adding acetate." https://www.mpg.de/17468019/0910-balt-fountain-of-youth-for-ageing-stem-cells-in-bone-marrow-155436-x
Peter Attia Interviews - Matt Kaeberlein, PhD: Biology of aging, rapamycin & other interventions that target aging youtube.com/watch?v=_vsNw-OCciU
Futarchy: Robin Hanson on How Prediction Markets Can Take over the World richardhanania.substack.com/p/futarchy-robin-hanson-on-how-prediction
Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics: Mathematicians have expanded category theory into infinite dimensions, revealing new connections among mathematical concepts https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infinity-category-theory-offers-a-birds-eye-view-of-mathematics/
How factories were made safe https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DQKgYhEYP86PLW7tZ/how-factories-were-made-safe
Scorned wife raids ex-husband’s cryogenics lab stealing frozen brains of people who hoped to be brought back to life https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16105464/scorned-wife-raids-ex-husbands-lab/
The Insular Fertile Future — "...this does point to the plausibly winning strategy: subcultures that are both highly fertile and highly insular, keeping enough youth from wanting to defect from their subculture to join the dominant low fertility culture." https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/09/the-insular-fertile-future.html
“China's cyberspace watchdog, the CAC, just published a long (and unprecedented) set of draft regulations for recommendation algorithms. The short version: they will be tightly controlled.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431134515242496002.html