Links for 2022-11-14
Think AI will be creating Hollywood movies by 2026? @ArtirKel bets to those more optimistic than him about the pace of development in AI. — “The post is an exploration of LLMs and diffusion models for image generation, trying to set an upper bound of where I think things will go in 2026.” https://nintil.com/interesting-ai-models
Imaginary programming is a new programming paradigm based on language models https://github.com/semiosis/imaginary-programming-thesis/blob/master/thesis.org
Hentai-Diffusion [NSFW] https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeResearch/comments/y6yc17/new_ai_update_released_includes_image_testing_in/
“As the staircase ascended, the steps became smaller and smaller, the top of the staircase crushing up against the golden ratio. Neither the golden ratio nor the Fibonacci numbers has any apparent relationship to the problem of fitting a shape inside a ball. It was bizarre to find these numbers lurking within McDuff and Schlenk’s work.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-surprised-by-hidden-fibonacci-numbers-20221017/
China’s weapons acquisition cycle 5-6x faster than the United States — “We are going to lose” if we don’t change https://acquisitiontalk.com/2022/07/chinas-weapons-acquisition-cycle-5-6x-faster-than-the-united-states-we-are-going-to-lose-if-we-dont-change/
“Since moral revolutions have occurred in the past, it seems plausible to suppose that they will occur again in the future. What significance, if any, does this prospect have for our present normative outlook?” https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-normative-significance-of-future.html
Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE (for more like this see here: https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuitive-facts-in)
"Social media and psychological well-being", Hancock et al 2022 (meta-analysis: correlation is near-zero & shrinking over time) https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/technology/2022-hancock.pdf
Using Wi-FI to See through Walls https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/using-wi-fi-to-see-through-walls.html