Experiment led by Med School professor allows animals to live 6-9 percent longer, lower biological age https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/blood-of-young-mice-extends-lives-of-old-mice/
Novo’s obesity drug Wegovy lowers cardiovascular risk by 20%, landmark trial finds https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/health/wegovy-obesity-drugs-heart-disease.html [https://archive.is/dLYkw]
On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-getting-contaminated-by-the-wrong-obesity-ideas
AI offers huge promise on breast cancer screening https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66382168
“An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks: It is quite comprehensive and contains a ton of details about a) threat models of how AI could go catastrophically wrong b) countermeasures we could implement.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001
Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-ceo-we-bet-the-farm-on-ai-and-no-one-knew-it/
Boston Dynamics Robot evolution. https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1689236377219608576
What is ontology? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZG94agRiYbHHcSSmp/what-is-ontology
US Army developing LASSO tank-killing drone for infantry https://www.militarytimes.com/unmanned/uas/2023/07/31/us-army-developing-lasso-tank-killing-drone-for-infantry/
The aliens could be signaling us now and we wouldn’t even “hear” it: X-ray or gamma-ray lasers for communication https://twitter.com/NukeSpaceCadet/status/1686907440414273536
Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-mcu-amd-asp-flaw-jailbreak
Google Pays Apple $15,000 For Hacking Chrome Security https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/08/03/google-pays-apple-15000-for-hacking-chrome-security/
“Analysis of 50 major Europe- and North America-based global non-profit organizations…showed that environmental and climate groups were the most likely to include Taiwan as part of China, or exclude it altogether, in maps and reports.” https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/06/why-are-the-worlds-climate-and-environment-ngos-trying-to-erase-taiwan-from-the-map/
It's like a radioactive tracer shot through global academia, briefly revealing a lower bound on how much garbage "research" is out there.
— gwern
Just want to say, keep up the good work. Your links are incredibly consistent and high quality, I've learned a lot following you.
If you're open to suggestions, I'm definitely curious about scientific replication, and any thoughts/links you have on Jungian reconciliation of science and religious traditions, or that reconciliation more broadly.
The "As an AI language model" in research papers stuff is epic