Links for 2023-08-15
AlphaStar Unplugged: Large-Scale Offline Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03526
“Interpreting the retinal code for natural scenes: develops explainable AI to derive a SOTA deep network model of the retina that not only successfully predicted responses to natural scenes, but also had hidden units that behaved like retinal interneurons, and also captured 8 different classes of foundational experiments in vision science including...” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627323004671
“Toward AGI — What is Missing? There are capabilities we want for AGI that seem to require exploration. Exploration of alternatives at inference time, or exploration to learn world models.” https://mark-riedl.medium.com/toward-agi-what-is-missing-c2f0d878471a [https://archive.is/1Fhqk]
“How to scale hyperparams (eg learning rate) as neural network gets wider? ... This required beautiful new math that’s just been completely written down...” https://twitter.com/TheGregYang/status/1689334350901555200
With NVIDIA AI playground, you can now experience NeVA, a multi-modal vision language model, directly from your browser. https://nvda.ws/459gTxw
Photo AI: It lets you train yourself as an AI character and then take life-like photos with it. https://photoai.com/
Embryo selection can become the norm https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/embryo-selection-can-become-the-norm
Sex differences in scientific productivity and impact are largely explained by the proportion of highly productive individuals: a whole-population study of researchers across six disciplines in Sweden https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371608569_Sex_differences_in_scientific_productivity_and_impact_are_largely_explained_by_the_proportion_of_highly_productive_individuals_a_whole-population_study_of_researchers_across_six_disciplines_in_Sweden
All Japan's STUPID Work Rules In 5 Minutes https://youtu.be/Lk6NqIPedm0
“A far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina’s open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprising showing for a politician who wants to adopt the U.S. dollar as Argentina’s official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/argentina-update-canine-mastiff-edition.html
Ukraine links:
“From the high ground, they raked a column of Ukrainian military armor below. An antitank rocket punched through Ilia Mykhalchuk’s vehicle, and the 36-year-old recalled quickly taking stock of his injuries. They were ghastly. Right arm: ribbons of shredded flesh. His left: pocked with shrapnel. Mykhalchuk stumbled from the burning wreckage, fell to the frozen ground and, using his fractured teeth for leverage, tightened a tourniquet onto each of his mangled arms. Moments later, his attackers drew near, shooting him through the legs. They moved closer. Death, Mykhalchuk believed, was imminent.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/13/wagner-prisoner-of-war/ [https://archive.is/1OjIh]
"They took 4 positions at the same time." Humvee landing. 59 OMPBr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHz9yluwxcs
Overstretched Russian forces may lack the mechanized reserve to thwart Ukraine establishing a bridgehead on the Dnipro River, report says https://news.yahoo.com/overstretched-russian-forces-may-lack-110912169.html
For normies, everything revolves around connotation and signaling. It's a heuristic that allows you to gain status in many social settings, but it breaks down completely when it comes to seeking truth and improving society.
First, normies do not interpret red and blue as just random colors in this context. The colors have implicit social meanings for them. The colors signal allegiance, and failing to signal allegiance can have bad consequences.
Furthermore, the phrasing signals that blue is altruistic: blue means *everyone* lives. Choosing red, on the other hand, is selfish: Red means choosing to live at the expense of people who chose blue.
The autistic answer, of course, is that everyone is free to select red and live. But that's failing to read the room. You're throwing all the evolutionary baggage out the window and selecting the optimal strategy. The normies will hate you for it.