Links for 2023-01-16
Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00056-7
“A new paper asked psychology students to rate which of 48 selected myths were true or false. Seniors in the capstone class got 50% right, introductory students got 41% right. ChatGPT got 85% right.” https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/who-believes-more-myths-about-humans
CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months https://gizmodo.com/cnet-chatgpt-ai-articles-publish-for-months-1849976921
Smart fraction theory vindicated: The gifted drive civilization, we ignore them at our peril https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/smart-fraction-theory-vindicated
"Natural selection... has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research suggests. And it seems to be acting in surprising ways on complex traits encoded by multiple genes, such as those tied to intelligence..." [published in 2021] https://www.livescience.com/natural-selection-human-genes
"Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes — Lessons From My Reporting: The sudden death of a teammate is what got me into journalism in the first place", David Epstein https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/sudden-cardiac-death-in-athletes
Individualistic attitudes in iterative Prisoners Dilemma undermine evolutionary fitness and may drive cooperative human players to extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.02.522489v1
You're Not One "You" - How Decision Theories Are Talking Past Each Other https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4gaGgGs5mEara9rea/you-re-not-one-you-how-decision-theories-are-talking-past
Do people ever really change? A massive new meta-analysis says no—at least when it comes to the differences between us. Despite some fluctuations in adolescence and early adulthood, personality differences among adults are remarkably stable over time. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-79844-001
“More attractive people are more likely to agree with evolutionary psychology (based). r = .31 is pretty large for a correlation between attractiveness and a belief.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254725#sec003
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-algorithm-closes-quantum-supremacy-window-20230109/
Time Is on Ukraine’s Side: “In almost every category of equipment, the Ukrainian army is significantly stronger today than it was in February, and it will keep getting stronger. About 20,000 Ukrainian personnel have now completed advanced training in NATO countries, according to a Ukrainian state news agency, and thousands more will do the same in 2023.” [The Atlantic] https://archive.ph/ZUEJi
Time Is on Russia’s Side: “With Russia switching its economy to a war footing, time could be on Moscow’s side. So far, neither the US nor Europe has made the adjustments, esp. in military production, that are necessary for sustaining Ukraine …for several years.” [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/fqmqs