Links for 2022-09-07
“However bad you thought crime was, it's almost certainly worse: violent crime in the USA probably costs about 10% of GDP every year.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cPDptuFTiCLr8XXkL/cause-exploration-prizes-crime-reduction
Prompt Engineering for Humans: A brief list of magical formulas to actually write better https://etiennefd.substack.com/p/prompt-engineering-for-humans
"The Great Filter Button" (GPT-3 + DALL-E 2 story) https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button
Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/
Is America falling behind China in science? https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-war-economy-is-america-falling
Could Earth Have Once Harbored a Pre-Human Industrial Civilization? — "They also reviewed other “abrupt events” … visible in the geologic record, … Unsurprisingly, and perhaps slightly disappointingly, they were not indicative of an [early Earth] industrial civilization, either." https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a41021149/silurian-hypothesis-ancient-industrial-civilization/
Foreign degrees aren't worth the same in terms of intelligence. Skill deficits among foreign-educated immigrants: Evidence from the U.S. PIAAC https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273910
Most people's mental image of living sustainably is a fairy tale image of the opposite. https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-progress-an-environmentalist
Three German nuclear power plants are still online. Another three could be turned on again. Yet one will be turned off at the end of this year while two will only be kept running for a few more weeks as an emergency backup.
This decision was made during the worst energy crisis in decades and despite overwhelming public support for postponing the nuclear phaseout. Instead, the Green Party and organizations like Greenpeace want to continue to use dirty coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity. It's almost like these people have been installed by our enemies in order to destroy Germany.
I can't write what I really think about these politicians and activists without risking having the police show up at my door.