Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pRkFkzwKZ2zfa3R6H/without-specific-countermeasures-the-easiest-path-to
Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses https://phys.org/news/2022-07-zombie-fungus-lures-healthy-male.html
“The biggest mismatch between theory and reality: the cosmological constant remains an unsurmountable problem. Quantum physics suggests that vacuum energy holds as much as 10^113 J/m^3. Physical observations suggest 10^-9 J/m^3.” (via @ToughSf) https://physicsworld.com/a/a-new-generation-takes-on-the-cosmological-constant/
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/202207/decisive-blow-the-serotonin-hypothesis-depression
What IS a Number? As Explained by a Mathematician https://youtu.be/dKtsjQtigag
A patient who had a prosthetic ear 3D printed from her own cells [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/Vtpdm
“The Mysteriously Low Death Toll of the Heat Waves in India and Pakistan” [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/LTEAW
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: “after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.” https://scitechdaily.com/the-frequency-illusion-why-youll-probably-hear-the-name-baader-meinhof-again-soon/
“High risk from technological progress does not itself justify state intervention in technological progress because states do not automatically, or in fact usually, internalize the relevant externalities that would lead them to actually decrease technological risk.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A4fMkKhBxio83NtBL/enlightenment-values-in-a-vulnerable-world
The Carbon programming language was announced today, which gives us an interesting opportunity: can GPT-3 learn a new programming language that it DEFINITELY hasn't had any exposure to?
And the answer is yes!!!!!!!
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Serotonin headlines misleading:
https://laulpogan.substack.com/p/begging-the-serotonin-hypothesis