Links for 2022-06-17
A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNhMPAWcfBCASy8e6/a-central-ai-alignment-problem-capabilities-generalization
Open Problems in AI X-Risk https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5HtDzRAk7ePWsiL2L/open-problems-in-ai-x-risk-pais-5
Penn Engineers Create Chip That Can Process and Classify Nearly Two Billion Images per Second https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-create-chip-that-can-process-and-classify-nearly-two-billion-images-per-second/
Quantum physics exponentially improves some types of machine learning https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-machine-learning-google-computer
New Device Purifies Saltwater Over a 1000 Times Faster Than Standard Industrial Equipment https://scitechdaily.com/new-device-purifies-saltwater-over-a-1000-times-faster-than-standard-industrial-equipment/
New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function https://news.mit.edu/2022/crispr-based-map-ties-every-human-gene-to-its-function-0609
“More detail on a non-intuitive fact from the Space Resources Roundtable talk this week: to out-compete Earth-launched rocket fuel, the rocket fuel made from lunar or asteroids resources does *not* have to be cheaper. In fact, it can be a LOT more expensive than Earth-launched rocket fuel and still be competitive.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1535081462114193408.html
DoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/dowhy-evolves-to-independent-pywhy-model-to-help-causal-inference-grow/
“Does the infinite exist?...current data strongly points toward zero spatial curvature within our cosmic horizon... The universe may be spatially infinite...” https://bigthink.com/13-8/does-infinity-exist/
“Germany is not really with the Western alliance” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/06/not-really-with-the-western-alliance.html
How Germany Took Over Russia’s Vast Gas-Trading Empire: The German government is the trustee of a gigantic network of Russian-owned gas businesses Stretching from Huston to Singapore (& a hedge fund in London) originally staffed by Stasi officers and supplying gas to everyone from FC Chelsea to German factories. [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.ph/6bKEt