Links for 2022-10-20
A game changer for neuroscience: MRI with millisecond precision. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4340
Is GitHub Copilot in legal trouble? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GYQijiGa7Bb9ADzvD/is-github-copilot-in-legal-trouble
“Nanotechnology sometimes sounds as much like science fiction as artificial intelligence once did. But the problems holding it back seem solvable, and some of the answers may lie inside our own bodies.” https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/nanotechnologys-spring/
The vast majority of plastic in oceans comes from low- and middle-income countries. Exported plastic from rich countries is a tiny fraction. https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade
Do markets make us less moral? This fascinating study from Greenland suggests not. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueac069
Intelligence and creativity not only strongly correlate (0.63) but share a similar neural basis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119355/
Blacks in the US report higher self-esteem than whites, not the lower self-esteem posited by stereotype threat. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12002695/
Who supports biotech eugenics? It's not old conservative White people https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/who-supports-biotech-eugenics
“Considering the vast acclaim that would be bestowed upon any researcher who did falsify this most feared and loathed of all scientific hypotheses, it’s curious that most pundits assume it has already been utterly disproven…but they just can’t quite remember the name of the guy who did it.” https://www.takimag.com/article/a-matter-of-tone/
Times Higher Education’s newest rankings of universities across the globe show a continuation in the decline of American dominance while China continues to surge [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.ph/5Xwm8
Against Anthropic Shadow https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A47EWTS6oBKLqxBpw/against-anthropic-shadow
NATO official 2014: "Russia has been using... a campaign of disinformation on many issues, including energy.... Russia could try to obstruct possible projects on shale gas exploration in Europe in order to maintain Europe’s reliance on Russian gas." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking
% of youth unable to answer the easiest level of question in PISA tests:
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