Links for 2021-10-13
Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green source https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/11/led-by-france-10-eu-countries-call-on-brussels-to-label-nuclear-energy-as-green-source
Nations Go Nuclear As Prices Spike & Renewables Fail michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/nations-go-nuclear-as-prices-spike
"In the UK, natural selection adds more than 100,000 myopia cases per generation." https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/8/6/nwaa175/5893295
We Were Right! Real Inner Misalignment: "Researchers ran real versions of the thought experiments in the 'Mesa-Optimisers' videos! What they found won't shock you (if you've been paying attention)" youtu.be/zkbPdEHEyEI
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science: “These findings suggest troubling implications…. If too many papers are published in short order, new ideas cannot be carefully considered against old, and processes of cumulative advantage cannot work to select valuable innovations.” https://www.pnas.org/content/118/41/e2021636118
People tend to come up with solutions that add features rather than subtract them, even when the latter would be better. This may help explain "a variety of costly modern trends, including overburdened schedules [and] increasing red tape in institutions." https://nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y
100 Years Of Existential Risk https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/kFRn77GkKdFvccAFf/100-years-of-existential-risk
Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/carl-shulman-common-sense-case-existential-risks/
Obsidian 'spirit mirror' used by Elizabeth I's adviser has Aztec origins https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/06/world/obsidian-mirror-aztecs-queen-elizabeth-i-scn/index.html
"the first model that achieves the elusive dual goals of 80%+ ImageNet top-1 accuracy while also fitting into a tweet" (see image below) https://openreview.net/forum?id=TVHS5Y4dNvM