Links for 2022-08-02
On black holes, holography, the Quantum Extended Church-Turing Thesis, fully homomorphic encryption, and brain uploading https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6599
“This post is about language model scaling laws, specifically the laws derived in the DeepMind paper that introduced Chinchilla…One important implication is that pure AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Conjecture, Cohere are likely to fall behind companies with access to large amounts of non-public-internet text data like Facebook, Google, Apple, perhaps Slack.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla-s-wild-implications
Curing Aging Dogs Will Fund Human Aging Cures https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/07/first-major-steps-to-cure-aging.html
A solar-powered Army drone has been flying for 40 days straight https://www.popsci.com/technology/army-zephyr-drone-sets-records/
A complex systems approach to aging biology https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00252-6
The quantum theory of time: a calculus for q-numbers https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2021.0970
“Their magnetic fields—the strongest we've observed—could melt you from 1,000 km away.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/behold-the-magnetar-natures-ultimate-superweapon/
An appropriate verbal probability lexicon for communicating surgical risks is unlikely to exist https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/prediction/2022-harris.pdf