Links for 2022-09-14
The scent of human males triggers the release of a hormone in mice’s brains that enabled the ketamine to work: “What it suggests is that every experiment that’s ever been done with male experimenters has happened with the mice in a different state than experiments that have been done with female experimenters.” https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sex-of-researcher-influences-ketamine-s-effects-in-mice-study-70468
“I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months” https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/i-won-my-three-year-ai-progress-bet
Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward — “Under the conditions we have identified, our conclusion is much stronger than that of any previous publication—an existential catastrophe is not just possible, but likely.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aaai.12064
“The National Environmental Policy Act has come under fire for actually making it harder to do pro-environment projects…Here's a thread of projects NEPA has delayed or killed, each one explicitly pro-environment (green energy, mass transit, env. rehabilitation/protection, etc).” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567155297826885637.html
A good summary showing that the evidence in favor of the lab-origin theory is still strong https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1566826229931524096.html
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-022-09812-3
Who's prejudiced? Who's a conspiracy theorist? Sampling bias in social science https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/whos-prejudiced-whos-a-conspiracy
Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01815-x
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!” https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2022/08/04/fiber-arts-mysterious-dodecahedrons-and-waiting-on-eureka/
Emotion without a Word: Shame and Guilt among Rarámuri Indians and Rural Javanese https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6653859_Emotion_without_a_Word_Shame_and_Guilt_among_Raramuri_Indians_and_Rural_Javanese