Links for 2022-11-21
“I'll probably have to say this a few times, but @robinhanson really answers a lot of cosmological questions with the Grabby Aliens model...we pretty much know that we are not alone! I'll walk through it below” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1594135475219877889.html (video: a gentle introduction to @robinhanson 's grabby aliens model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw | official website and paper: https://grabbyaliens.com/)
A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization https://treevis.net
“Quantum teleportation is the name of a problem: how can real-valued parameters encoding the state make their way to a remote location with only two bits of classical communication? Here is how - and more on the explanatory power of the Heisenberg picture.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLNiWLB_wsOg44ahbT61FTcyWMuizl7A5Z&v=FjL09wRfxWc
A "highly significant within-family correlation" between brain size and intelligence was found in two large samples. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289618301703
NASA put an astronaut on the ISS for 340 days (!), and intensively monitored both the astronaut and his identical twin brother (who remained on earth) https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8650
“A new study reveals that the brains of humans and non-human primates may be remarkably similar, despite the very distinct physical differences between them. And yet, the smallest changes may make big differences in developmental and psychiatric disorders.” https://scitechdaily.com/small-but-significant-differences-between-brains-of-primates-revealed-humans-apes-and-monkeys/
Eliezer Yudkowsky: “notice of valuable website: I've now been seriously using http://manifold.markets for like a couple of weeks and I would slay anybody who tried to stop me”
BLOOM: Hundreds of researchers make an open source GPT3 using a French supercomputer https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100
All the young men in a remote village in Papua injected their penis with cooking oil to enlarge it. Necrosis set in. https://longreads.com/2019/06/26/the-shames-of-men/
“It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia: US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.” https://cepa.org/article/its-costing-peanuts-for-the-us-to-defeat-russia/