Links for 2022-04-21
New short fiction story by Eliezer Yudkowsky https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uyBeAN5jPEATMqKkX/lies-told-to-children-1 (also check out his previous one which happens to be one of my favorite short stories: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/lom9cb/kindness_to_kin/)
In three advances, scientists replicate—and in some cases improve on—the body’s own minimachines: Tiny labmade motors could one day suck pollutants from the air and harvest precious metals. https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-labmade-motors-could-one-day-suck-pollutants-air-and-harvest-precious-metals
Mechanical energy storage can be compact and very efficient. However, it usually suffers from low energy density. Carbon nanothreads can change that, with 1.76 MJ/kg already being achieved and 6.8 MJ/kg possible: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171126/
Neural Network In Glass Requires No Power, Recognizes Numbers https://opg.optica.org/prj/fulltext.cfm?uri=prj-7-8-823&id=415059
Printing Circuits on Nanomagnets Yields New Breed of AI: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers have developed an artificial spin glass made of nanomagnets that is configured to mimic a neural network, paving the way for artificial intelligence algorithms to be printed as physical hardware. https://spectrum.ieee.org/spin-glass-nanomagnet-ai
Low-Power Artificial Neural Network Perceptron Based on Monolayer MoS2 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c07065#
Optical neural network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_neural_network
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/11/29/researchers-shrink-camera-size-salt-grain
Very high rate of conspiracy belief among Gen Z and Millennials. Half of 18-24s say only whites can be successful in the United States, a third say Jews are secretly in control… https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-PCIS-005.pdf
U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
“…a player in the Counter-Strike online multiplayer game can detect a hidden opponent waiting in ambush, by analyzing how the 3D rendering done by the opponent’s computer induces faint but detectable signals into the opponent’s audio feed.” https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22summer_genkin.pdf
Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/wuhan-iab-can-delete-data/
Suppose that in the future machine learning becomes so powerful that it is possible to create a better version of yourself.
In other words, after being trained on all the data you generated up to that point, the model can generate outputs to new inputs that are not only perfectly aligned with your goals and beliefs but which you would consistently rate to be qualitatively better than the outputs you could have come up with yourself.
How would this make you feel?