Without specific training, large language models like GPT-3 have developed an emergent capacity to solve IQ-test-type analogy problems as well, or sometimes better than humans. (!) https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09196v1
gpt-4 prediction: it won’t be very useful https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/705192637617127424/gpt-4-prediction-it-wont-be-very-useful
“Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others' shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-females-average-males-theory-mind.html
We tend to assume that people who are born poor and get rich will be more sympathetic to the plight of the poor than will those who are born rich and stay rich. But it's the other way around. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506221098921
What AI Safety Materials Do ML Researchers Find Compelling? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gpk8dARHBi7Mkmzt9/what-ai-safety-materials-do-ml-researchers-find-compelling
Biologically plausible phosphene simulation for the differentiable optimization of visual cortical prostheses (neural interfaces deep learning and brain implants for the blind) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521749v1
If you find yourself in an emergency situation, it is better to do almost anything rather than nothing. If someone stops breathing for any reason, they have only minutes to live. They are dead by default unless someone intervenes https://jasoncrawford.org/first-aid
Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-20170523/
“Many cell lines that are widely used for biomedical research have been overgrown by other, more aggressive cells...Contaminated cell lines have been extensively used in research without knowledge of their true character. For example, most if not all research on the endothelium ECV-304 or the megakaryocyte DAMI cell lines has in reality been conducted on bladder carcinoma and erythroleukemia cells, respectively.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contaminated_cell_lines
“The word for good is similar in English (“good”) German (“gut”) and Faroese (“góðan”) But the word for bad is “bad” in English, “schlecht” in German, and “illur” in Faroese. In new research, we show that this is a broader pattern that we call “valence-dependent mutation”” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597283877168775168.html
“On Feb 24, there was only a platoon of paratroopers in Sumy city, they destroyed one column but then were ordered to move out, leaving Sumy residents to defend the city. The armed civilians managed for 6 weeks.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/02/how-sumy-residents-kept-russian-forces-out-of-their-city
What's weird about a lot of misogynists is that they try everything to become the biggest peacocks, always showing off their colorful feathers. They are trying to become the reification of the stereotypical female mind.
If you really hate women, you should be trying to break out of this treadmill of sexual selection. To prevent the psychology of the women you hate from shaping the minds and bodies of your descendants, you need to find and breed with women who are not neurotypical.
Being a testosterone junkie, boasting about your sports cars isn't a good strategy to free yourself from the power of the female mind.
1. There are 4 billion tons of uranium in seawater that can fuel a thousand 1,000-MW nuclear power plants for 100,000 years. This uranium is replenished continuously by steady-state chemical reactions between the water and rocks that contain uranium. Recent technological breakthroughs that enable the economic extraction of uranium from seawater, therefore, make nuclear power fully renewable.
A random scoop of dirt has more energy than an equivalent scoop of coal (crustal average: 2.8 ppm of uranium and ~6 ppm of thorium). Nuclear fuel will last us for 4 billion years.
2. The sun beneath our feet: Crustal thermal energy reserves are estimated to be at 15 million zetajoules. To put this in perspective, there is "23,800 times as much geothermal energy in Earth’s crust as there is chemical energy in fossil fuels everywhere on the planet". And even if you include the planet’s reserves of uranium, seawater uranium, lithium, thorium, there is still "41 times as much crustal thermal energy than energy in all those sources combined."
3. The sun radiates 384 yottawatts of power.
Sources:
1. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1515325071124045829.html
2. https://elidourado.com/blog/geothermal/
3. https://hereticalupdate.substack.com/p/is-earth-running-out-of-resources
4. How super-hot rocks miles under the earth’s surface could provide limitless clean energy https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/superhot-rock-geothermal-what-is-it-could-it-fight-climate-change.html
I used to get worked up by the evolutionary mismatch between female instinctual mating choices and the realities of modern society. Does height really matter in a world where income is primarly driven by intellegence and conscietiousness? Are muscles really that important in a world where physical aggression is limited to controlled contexts like sports?
But with recent advances in artificial intellegence and genomics, it's hard for me to care about the politics of "the sexual marketplace". Like if you take a step back and really think about it: the current process whereby humans reproduce--male-female courtship--is extremely archaic and soon to be obsolete. Once we have incubators for embryos and we can edit genomes, are male-female relationships really going to survive in the form they currently exist? In the future, if you want children, you can just, like, buy one. Heck, you can do that now! But in the future, it will be the norm.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future having children is a status symbol, similar to owning a large house.