Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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Envisioning a world immune to global catastrophic biological risks
Growing a chicken in an open egg brings one closer to God
Researchers are scaling up solar-powered kelp farms
Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt
Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android
Researchers from Denmark and the US developed an AI model called Life2vec that can analyse data about people's lives from sources like health records and predict future events
A few years after The Diversity Myth came out, a Stanford physics professor, Bob Laughlin, got a Nobel Prize. And he began to suffer from the supreme delusion that, now that he had a Nobel Prize in physics, he also had academic freedom and could investigate anything he wanted. Now, there are a lot of controversial topics in science. You could have a heterodox view on stem-cell research, or you could be a skeptic of climate change or Darwinism. But Laughlin hit on a topic that was far more taboo than any of the above. He had the idea that most of the scientists were doing no work at all. They were actually stealing money from the government, just creating all these fraudulent grant applications. Laughlin had done a lot of work studying the physics of super-high temperatures (superconductivity and the like), and he once told me that, of the roughly fifty thousand papers written on the subject, maybe twenty-five of them were any good at all.
She expanded on this technique all the way back in 1973 to make chick-quail chimeras by grafting quail cells/tissues into a developing chick embryo and watching the development. Her work over the last 60 years has been some of the most influential research to the field of developmental biology and stem cells by being able to track the migration, proliferation, and differentiation of various cells during the development of tissues.
Will scaling work?
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerationsMy 2022 self (I don't know them) was very wrong about meditation, huge monitors, and... sleep.
Blueprint health protocol
Accretion theory of ideation: evaluation regimes for ideation stages
An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia
China is pressing women to have more babies. many are saying no.
How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop
Whenever I get to know someone who seems perfect, I end up disappointed. Whenever I get to know someone who I think is the worst of the worst, I'm pleasantly surprised. Angels and demons aren't real. via waitbutwhy
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