Links for 2022-11-23
“Researchers have observed a wild chimpanzee showing an object to its mother simply for sharing's sake—social behavior previously thought to be unique to humans.” https://phys.org/news/2022-11-wild-chimpanzees-simply-attention.html
By Default, GPTs Think In Plain Sight: “GPTs’ next-token-prediction process roughly matches System 1 (aka human intuition) and is not easily accessible, but GPTs can also exhibit more complicated behavior through chains of thought, which roughly matches System 2 (aka human conscious thinking process).” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bwyKCQD7PFWKhELMr/by-default-gpts-think-in-plain-sight
LLMs may capture key components of human agency https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZXB3HbAuwJakwjPB6/llms-may-capture-key-components-of-human-agency
Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System: "content-addressing model for the Internet … Requesters would ask for the content explicitly, using a unique identifier, & the Internet would [forward] to an available peer that has a copy. … would require changes to the core Internet infrastructure" https://spectrum.ieee.org/peer-to-peer-network
Can we program a computer to emulate human emotions and consciousness? https://youtu.be/SUpddBfjL5M
Which Door Will The Ball Hit? | Joseph's Puzzle Machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnNdyCbwzn0
The morally disruptive future of reprogenetic enhancement technologies https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167779922002785
The true cause of high house prices is voter stupidity. Only about 30-40% of people understand that increasing supply reduces house prices. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4266459
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown
By 2065 two significant changes to the Israeli population(0-14) will take place. First, the Arab proportion of that population will shrink dramatically from ~25% to 15%. Second, Haredi will go from ~20% of the 0-14 population today to just under half of that population in Israel by 2065. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-kids-are-not-all-right-expert-warns-and-that-spells-danger-for-israel/
Selçuk Bayraktar in front of Turkey's latest drone, the Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma. It will receive an engine designed in Ukraine.
He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. "His master's degree research involved a successful demonstration of air–ground coordination of UAVs in formation flight alongside territorial robot teams. His second master's degree with his research in autonomous, aggressive maneuvering of unmanned helicopter systems."
Selçuk Bayraktar shows what a huge impact a single brilliant person can have. Like Qian Xuesen before him, who also studied in the United States and designed China's nuclear and missile programs, Bayraktar single-handedly dramatically increased his country's military might and influence.
Intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe. Jews, with their high average IQ, literally used it to create a superweapon in order to stop their vastly more numerous arch-enemies from wiping them out.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk_Bayraktar
3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen