Links for 2022-10-21
“I tried to poke holes in this study, really hard, and I hate its findings. In the end, I had to accept there is an intriguing pattern in there, one, I can't kill.” Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1583165259799412737
GPT-3 can simulate people very, very well: “We suggest that language models with sufficient algorithmic fidelity thus constitute a novel and powerful tool to advance understanding of humans and society across a variety of disciplines.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neanderthals https://www.mpg.de/19178398/0906-mozg-modern-humans-generate-more-brain-neurons-than-neandertals-151300-x
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6
Human Brain Cells Transplanted Into Baby Rats’ Brains Grow and Form Connections [Wired] https://archive.ph/wip/FcG2W
YouTuber builds a computer in Minecraft that you can play Minecraft on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I
Telemedicine is Dying (because of government regulations) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/telemedicine-is-dying.html
A map of Covid data corruption -- and the Covid approach that worked! https://maximumtruth.substack.com/p/the-covid-fudge-factor
“Less than half the British public were able to correctly identify the definition of GDP from a list of options. It was common for people to confuse it with the value of exports or the pound.” https://archive.ph/xiOF7
Where does the Wikimedia Foundation spend its money? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579776106034757633.html
Here comes Japan. “Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials…” https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-rushes-rearm-with-eye-2027-chinas-taiwan-ambitions-2022-10-18/
Gantz, Netanyahu both reiterate Israel’s unwillingness to sell weapons to Ukraine https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-netanyahu-both-reiterate-israels-unwillingness-to-sell-weapons-to-ukraine/
If the United States really wants to hurt Russia and Iran, it needs to pull off another Reagan.
What Biden is doing is incredibly irrational and unethical. As long as oil and gas are needed, it is better to consume and sell your own rather than allow rogue regimes to get rich and finance their wars.