Links for 2022-10-04
"Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds", Sol et al 2022 https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/neuroscience/2022-sol.pdf
Associations between educational duration and outcomes appear predominantly to be the result of confounding or bias rather than a true causal effect of educational duration. https://psyarxiv.com/4uqyg/
What could a once-and-for-all solution to the alignment problem actually look like? https://aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-solution
Human Brain Project: “Here is my perspective on what truly happened inside this gigantic European research program” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576259835900796928.html
“Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the most fascinating has to do with its size.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-big-is-infinity-20220927/
Study confirms no cultural/racial bias in the factor structure that comprises the "theoretical underpinning" of IQ tests. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502203/
“This neural network architecture that was showcased at the @Tesla AI day is a perfect example of Deep Learning at its finest...Treating the job of figuring out valid "lanes" from images as language is brilliant. Combining CNNs, transformers, attention, pointer networks, etc., you essentially write a set of instructions to build up the graph by connecting the dots, start new lanes, set curvature, etc.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576551879039127555.html
“After decimating its own marine life, China is now vacuuming up the world's oceans, including biodiversity hotspots like the vicinity of the Galapagos islands.” [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/zQ0Fy
Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine — “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-putin-ukraine-war-david-petraeus
Musk mainly seems to be uninformed about how the war is going. Ukraine is winning. The Russian morale is deteriorating at a breakneck speed. Mobilization is and will be a complete failure.
There is no need to make a peace deal. If Russia wants to make peace it will have to withdraw unconditionally and be willing to pay reparations.
Then there is his absurd idea to let people vote on being part of Russia despite mass displacement and killings. Why would anyone agree to such a farce?