Links for 2023-12-29
“AGI will be made of heterogeneous components, Transformer and Selective SSM blocks will be among them” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Btom6dX5swTuteKce/agi-will-be-made-of-heterogeneous-components-transformer-and
Synaptic transistor models higher-level thinking mimics human intelligence https://interestingengineering.com/science/synaptic-transistor-models-higher-level-thinking-mimics-human-intelligence
“I believe games (and simulation in general) will provide the next trillion high-quality tokens to train our foundation models. What's cool is that these tokens are actively selected by the agent itself through exploration. It can choose to experiment with things that maximally reduce its internal uncertainties - kind of like how human curiosity works.” https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1740422792695382067
AI Robot Outmaneuvers Humans in Maze Run Breakthrough https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-19/ai-masters-simple-physical-game-in-breakthrough-researchers-say [https://archive.is/0EsCD]
Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming https://spectrum.ieee.org/homomorphic-encryption
Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium? https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335
The Economics of Time Travel https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/the-economics-of-time-travel
“…fungi are an underestimated threat and that our actions are causing an increase in invasive and deadly fungal epidemics. We explore what is at stake, why this is happening now, and what we can do to prevent future outbreaks.” https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/12/11/yanss-275-could-a-fungus-that-takes-over-the-minds-of-living-creatures-really-cause-a-deadly-pandemic-in-humans-like-in-the-last-of-us/
Largest ever public opinion poll on nuclear energy: https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/public-attitudes-toward-clean-energy-nuclear
20 countries, 20,122 respondents, 55 questions: over a million data points.
P.S. The worthlessness of most ordinary people's opinions can be seen in the fact that they believe nuclear power is a high emitter of greenhouse gases.
Political links:
“Great Britain wielded her geopolitical & naval might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery - at a time when this evil was the global norm. A thread on how under the White Ensign, slavery was globally challenged for the first time.” https://twitter.com/AndreasKoureas_/status/1740019405994467667
The case for race realism https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-case-for-race-realism
14 Brigade and 30th Brigade of Ukraine destroying Russian column. Synkivka, Kharkiv region. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1740446935218016270
The Karpatska Sich 49th Separate Infantry Batallion fighting in the forests of Kreminna. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1740487488664387902
“Over recent months, Russian mechanized forces have mounted a disastrous push across open ground north of Vodyane. Mapped out the (recent) Russian losses, with at least 27 vehicles across two fields north of the town destroyed by accurate Ukrainian ATGM and artillery fire.” https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1740208580173918214
Dmitry Medvedev says Kyiv is an occupied Russian city. https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1740296677108371590