Links for 2022-08-14
What do actual researchers working for Google's DeepMind think about risks associated with artificial general intelligence? Some of them have now outlined their views in this post. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qJgz2YapqpFEDTLKn/deepmind-alignment-team-opinions-on-agi-ruin-arguments
Dead-bug biofilm creates powerful evaporation battery https://newatlas.com/energy/moisture-fuelled-dead-microbe-generator/
The consciousness of bees: Experiments indicate that bees have surprisingly rich inner worlds [The Washington Post] https://archive.ph/mv1p9
“The Uru or Uros are an indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia. They live on an approximate and still growing 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uru_people
Good explanation of the theory of marginal utility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value#Marginalism
Research into genes and ethnic differences: should we? https://wyclif.substack.com/p/research-into-genes-and-ethnic-differences
How much will the climate bill lower global temperatures? https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2022/08/climate-policy-numbers.html
What an infinite universe means for anthropic reasoning https://maximumprogress.substack.com/p/the-most-important-century-is-not
The views of Emil Kierkegaard. https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/will-the-real-emil-please-stand-up
Map of the Viking expansion https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d1odo5/i_couldnt_find_a_detailed_map_of_the_viking/