Links for 2022-05-20
What's up with the recent monkeypox cases? Very informative comment! https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kPQAAb7ayZpKYPzME/what-s-up-with-the-recent-monkeypox-cases?commentId=gJqJwdDHXpPjNMx7Q
Is Gato Really the Future of AI? https://youtu.be/wSQJZHfAg18
Forty to fifty percent of all animal species are actually parasites, including 300,000 different types of worms that parasitize vertebrates. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientists-fighting-for-parasite-conservation/
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/
America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement https://parrhesia.substack.com/p/america-in-2072-a-society-stratified?s=r
The Iron of Earth's Inner Core Could Be in a Strange 'Superionic' State, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-suggest-earth-s-core-could-be-in-a-superionic-state
Social cognition in insects https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00085-7
IBM’s Target: a 4,000-Qubit Processor by 2025 https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-quantum-computer
DeepMind’s New AI Learns Gaming From Humans! 🤖 https://youtu.be/CFT-2soU508
Self-driving microscopes discover shortcuts to new materials https://www.ornl.gov/news/self-driving-microscopes-discover-shortcuts-new-materials
"...…the common cold imposes considerable costs on the world. Imagine a new common cold, which you catch a few times a year, with some sliver of the population getting some form of Long Covid." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/the-new-covid-equilibrium.html
On infinite ethics:
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But note that anthropic reasoning, when taken to its logical conclusion, also suffers from absurd consequences: https://apointinblogspace.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/the-anthropic-principle-five-short-examples/
See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5iZTwGHv2tNfFmeDa/on-infinite-ethics