Links for 2022-08-31
“A moment that changed me: a maths puzzle taught me to use my brain – and helped me cope with losing my daughter” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/24/a-moment-that-changed-me-a-maths-puzzle-taught-me-to-use-my-brain-and-helped-me-cope-with-losing-my-daughter
Explaining who is doing what and why in technical AI alignment https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QBAjndPuFbhEXKcCr/my-understanding-of-what-everyone-in-technical-alignment-is
OpenAI: “Our current roadmap for aligning AI starts with systems that learn from human feedback, uses AI to help humans give better feedback, and eventually involves building AI that can help us do better alignment research” https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research/
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources. https://news.mit.edu/2022/aluminum-sulfur-battery-0824
The brain chemistry underlying mental exhaustion. https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2022/08/the-brain-chemistry-underlying-mental.html
The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00338-6
“Politicians, as usual, weaponize these absurdities. If they want to keep the schools closed, they just declare schools “unsafe.” If they want to open the schools, they just declare the schools “safe.” Either way, they pander to the emotionality of the masses - and avoid math. Almost nothing sounds worse than math. As the demagogues who rule us are well-aware.” https://betonit.substack.com/p/safe-sounds-good
Prompt engineering sounds more like fantasy than science fiction. The use of weird spells to summon spirits to do your bidding. Now Magnus Petersen has taken this black magic to a new level by using an evolutionary algorithm that evolves a random prompt population to become more aesthetic. The results are prompts that humans would have a hard time coming up with. Reality is stranger than fiction. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1564633854119477257.html