Links for 2022-11-13
The Magic of the Gilbreath Principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_2ai4N9BY
Which values are stable under ontology shifts? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cuig4qe8m2aqBCJtZ/which-values-are-stable-under-ontology-shifts
“We show that DNNs are becoming progressively *less* aligned with human perception as their ImageNet accuracy increases.” https://serre-lab.github.io/Harmonization/
Imaginary numbers are real: “...remarkably, properties of that light depend not only on the details of the wave functions of particles inside the material, but in particular on the imaginary parts of those wave functions…the outcome of the game was impossible to predict accurately by any version of quantum physics that renounced complex numbers. Not only did physicists infer that imaginary numbers can indeed show up in experiments, but that, even more strikingly, they had to be considered in order for experiments in the quantum realm to be understood correctly at all.” https://aeon.co/essays/how-imaginary-numbers-describe-the-fundamental-shape-of-nature
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pezm/scientists-increasingly-cant-explain-how-ai-works
“Could Sholz's Star have triggered an extinction event that will hit us (literally) in 2 million years? It passed within 52,000 AU of the Sun, which would be enough to disturb the orbits of large number of comets in the Oort cloud.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1588958994374479872.html
The Great Oxygenation Event of 2.4 to 2.05 billion years ago likely wiped out 99.5% of all life, making it one of the worst extinction events ever. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900325116
Another intriguing Enceladus result: a new model suggests that the moon’s subsurface ocean is likely to be rich in phosphorus, one of the key ingredients of life on Earth. https://scitechdaily.com/key-building-block-for-life-likely-discovered-on-one-of-saturns-moons/
"Repeat COVID-19 Infections: Significantly Increased Risk of Organ Failure and Death...Overall, people with COVID-19 reinfections were twice as likely to die and three times more likely to be hospitalized than those with no reinfection, according to the research findings. In addition, people with repeat infections were 3½ times more likely to develop lung problems, three times more likely to suffer heart conditions, and 1.6 times more likely to experience brain conditions than patients who had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus once." https://scitechdaily.com/repeat-covid-19-infections-significantly-increased-risk-of-organ-failure-and-death/
USA under 16 vs El Salvador under 16.
In a very important way, Idiocracy is actually superior to our world. Unlike our world, Idiocracy is a meritocracy ruled by rational people who know about their shortcomings. Remember that President Camacho realized that he was not smart enough and picked the most intelligent person in the world, as determined by an IQ test, to fix the nation's problems.