Links for 2023-09-06
Responses to apparent rationalist confusions about game / decision theory https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/895Qmhyud2PjDhte6/responses-to-apparent-rationalist-confusions-about-game
Machine learning tool simplifies one of the most widely used reactions in the pharmaceutical industry https://phys.org/news/2023-09-machine-tool-widely-reactions-pharmaceutical.html
Small modular reactors are disrupting nuclear power’s future https://www.ft.com/content/0faade4f-d239-47ed-a041-f7a503fef500 [https://archive.ph/cIE0P]
A spherical shell-like structure 1 billion light-years in diameter named Ho’oleilana is discovered in the distribution of relatively nearby galaxies. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aceaf3
Norway can build a tunnel for lower cost than it takes Britain just to do the planning application for one https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1694990887439233239
An introduction to graph theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04512
What is the thermal Hall effect? https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-thermal-hall-effect.html
No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/still-no-evidence-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-children-in-canada/
Interview with Steve Sailer about human race differences https://youtu.be/hkL6G3xlCBo?si=a7JjvLaHG8w4Rp14
China is no longer set to eclipse the US as the world’s biggest economy soon, and it may never consistently pull ahead to claim the top spot, according to Bloomberg Economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/china-slowdown-means-it-may-never-overtake-us-economy-be-says [https://archive.ph/G2G0N]
The Sociologist’s fallacy: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2018/12/sociologists-fallacy-origins-of-the-term/
The usual tendency, found widely among sociologists and quite frequently among psychologists (particularly among those of strong environmentalist persuasion) is to assume sub silentio that there is a set of demographic-type variables, such as social class, domicile, education, and the like, that always operate as nuisance variables to obscure true relationships, and that function primarily as exclusively on the input side from the standpoint of causal analysis. This automatic assumption is often quite unjustified. Example: We study the relationship between some biological or social input variable, such as ethnic or religious background, upon a psychological output variable, such as IQ or achievement. We find that Protestants differ from Catholics or that Whites differ from Blacks. But we find further that the ethnic or religious groups differ in socio-economic class. We conclude, as an immediate inference and almost as a matter of course, that we have to ‘control’ for the socio-economic class variable, in order to find out what is the ‘true’ relationship between the ethnic or religious variable and the psychological output variable. But of course no such immediate inference is defensible, since on certain alternative hypotheses, such as a heavily genetic view of the determiners of social class, the result of such a ‘control’ is to bring about a spurious reduction of unknown magnitude in what is actually a valid difference (Meehl, 1970)
Ukraine links:
The AFU are slowly establishing positions on the opposite side of the "river" in Kam'yans'ke, Zaporizhzhia. https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1699065445704405487
“In Hungary, the new Russian textbook caused a media scandal because, in the leaked fragment, the 1956 events are painted by Medinsky, predictably, as a CIA-supported fascist coup.” https://telex.hu/english/2023/09/01/we-obtained-the-new-russian-history-textbook-it-really-says-that-fighters-of-former-fascist-units-were-behind-hungarys-1956-revolution
Cuba's Ministry of the Interior has uncovered a human trafficking network operating from Russia to recruit Cuban citizens living in the Russian Federation and even some living in Cuba into its Armed Forces for the war against Ukraine. https://cubaminrex.cu/en/statement-ministry-foreign-affairs
Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme — General Kyrylo Budanov, went further: “If you are asking about [creating a version of] Mossad…We don’t need to. It already exists.” https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/09/05/inside-ukraines-assassination-programme [https://archive.ph/BYe2D]
Highly likely a Russian Shahed crashed and exploded in Romania, likely after it was hit by Ukrainian AA. https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1699085764502364410
Congressman Don Bacon: “Joe Biden does only enough to ensure the Ukrainians can keep a gridlock” https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2023/09/congressman-don-bacon-interview-joe-biden-us-funding-ukraine
Twenty Years of Putin Playing the West in 3 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCCTf17ZiIs — The good old days when Russia could get away with destroying Grozny and annexing parts of Georgia while parts of Moldova were under military occupation by Russia. This has taught Putin that he has a free hand.
How Obama gave Russia a free pass on Ukraine https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/745829862137552900