Links for 2022-07-11
Director agent learns practical, general, and interpretable hierarchical behaviors from raw pixels. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/deep-hierarchical-planning-from-pixels.html
Multisensory mental representation of objects in typical and Gifted Word Learner dogs https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01639-z
Magnetic Spins That “Freeze” When Heated https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01633-9
When will AI be capable of getting a perfect score on the Putnam Mathematical Competition? https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11671/when-will-ai-master-putnam-math/
Forest-Living East African Chimpanzees are Digging Wells for Cleaner Water http://www.sci-news.com/biology/well-digging-chimpanzees-10947.html
“Was Sirius once red? To sustain ‘red Sirius’ on Greco-Roman evidence, you’d have to ignore all the metaphorical flavour of rubor, which was really its primary meaning...” https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2022/07/sirius.html?m=1
“National IQ explains 64% of the national variation of people searching for “Big Boobs” instead of “Big Ass”. A correlation of 0.8, that’s quite big for the social sciences…” https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/intelligence-and-the-evolution-of
“The number of malaria cases in India has fallen by a staggering 86 per cent since 2015 and there has been a 79 per cent reduction in the number of deaths caused by the disease between 2015 and 2021.” https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-reports-86-fall-in-cases-since-2015-79-reduction-in-deaths-due-to-malaria/articleshow/92388310.cms
“All of this happened in China this week. A thread.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1545325206562082816.html
Always remember that we could have limited global warming to less than 0.5°C if other countries had followed the path of nuclear decarbonization as France. But environmentalists prevented this by means of global disinformation campaigns and lobbying.
We could still prevent the worst outcomes of climate change by turning to nuclear power. All we have to do is to remove regulations and invest in the research and development of next-generation nuclear reactors such as small modular reactors, molten salt reactors, and fast neutron reactors.
Anti-nuclear activists will bear the main responsibility should climate change turn out to be catastrophic.