How could armed citizens possibly resist oppression by a tyrannical state if it has tanks and an air force? Because it's very hard to win high-dimensional games. — “In regular 2d chess for instance, achieving checkmate generally requires attacking the opponent's king in 2 ways simultaneously. The king can't move. But in 3d, the king might be able to escape vertically, so you'd generally need three simultaneous attacks to achieve checkmate. Defending against checkmates gets easier, achieving checkmates gets harder…in the age of cyberwarfare, which is so highly asymmetric, a small team of state-sponsored hackers could use the NotPetya ransomware to bloodlessly bring huge multi-national corporations to their knees and cause billions of dollars of damage.” https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/how-to-not-lose-at-4d-chess
“For years, people have talked about extracting lithium at the Salton Sea. Now it's finally happening, along with the first new geothermal energy drilling in a decade.” https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-15/drilling-for-white-gold-is-happening-right-now-at-the-salton-sea
China took control of an Italian military drone maker without authorities knowing it, report says https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/china-reportedly-took-control-of-an-italian-military-drone-maker-quietly.html
Between-Group Mean Differences in Intelligence in the United States Are >0% Genetically Caused: Five Converging Lines of Evidence https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.4.0479
Why horror movies are obsessed with creepy kids, dolls and clowns? http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/film/216733-creepy-children-girls-dolls-clowns-horror-movies
An E. coli biocomputer solves a maze by sharing the work [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.md/Bp0sK
“Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare” https://restofworld.org/2021/singapores-tech-utopia-dream-is-turning-into-a-surveillance-state-nightmare/
Sam Altman interviews Tyler Cowen about AI soundcloud.com/sam-altman-543613753/tyleropenai
“Excellent talk by @balajis on The Pseudonymous Economy. High ratio of ideas per minute.” youtu.be/urtXRg9Nl3k
1/n Someone asked me to compile these data, but I'll share them here as well: top 10 unarmed (i.e., no lethal weapon found) white vs. black deaths at the hands of police in terms of ProQuest news article search results
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Altman at 17.14 asks a question about UFOs showing he takes the topic seriously.