Links for 2022-11-06
Letters Of Last Resort Are Post-Apocalyptic Orders for UK Vanguard Sub Crews — “The Prime Minister writes hand-penned orders to Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine captains explaining what to do following a sneak nuclear attack that wipes out the United Kingdom government.” https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7300/letters-of-last-resort-are-post-apocalyptic-orders-for-uk-vanguard-sub-crews
9 writers use Google LaMDA to write a story https://wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com/
"The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It’s going to get weird" [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/gccLj
SpaceX Is Now Building a Raptor Engine a Day, NASA Says https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/
A study of rural & migrant Chinese children found that the avg Raven's IQ was only 88.95 and that IQ was a better predictor of math achievement than all other studied environmental and demographic variables. (via @Russwarne) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.04.005
“…a new paper that is putting the longterm into longtermism. It is about doing good for the environment a billion years hence.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1586113561184841728.html
Humans Are 8% Virus—How Ancient Viral DNA in Our Genome Plays a Role in Disease and Development https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/28/humans-are-8-virus-how-ancient-viral-dna-in-our-genome-plays-a-role-in-disease-and-development/
Progress to Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/10/progress-to-rechargeable-magnesium-batteries.html
Scientists Engineered Super Bacteria That Are Alien to All Life on Earth https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/01/scientists-engineered-super-bacteria-that-are-alien-to-all-life-on-earth/