Link Incubator, July, 2023
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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Seismic Waves of Gen Z Behavior: Three Generational Shifts Shaping Technology & Culture
Elon Musk's Neuralink gets FDA approval for study of brain implants in humans
Also, the launch of xAI contradicts Musk’s recent statements about pausing AI development to avoid "civilization destruction." Regardless, xAI has a roster of brilliant people, and we’ll be watching the development closely.
Asking: What are the most fundamental unanswered questions? + rebrands Twitter as X
Advanced humanoid robots can now draw cats
The cost of holding a meeting
Seismic Waves of Gen Z Behavior: Three Generational Shifts Shaping Technology & Culture
ChatGPT is going worse
Google's AI-backed note-taking tool, previously known as Project Tailwind, has been rebranded to NotebookLM and is launching to a select group of users in the US
The majority of vaporwave’s creators and consumers were too young to have experienced the time period and the nostalgia that vaporwave was meant to invoke (which it did, effectively).
Some initial rough notes on the interface paradigms of Vision Pro / visionOS
U.S. looks to restrict China’s access to cloud computing to protect advanced technology
- The manifesto criticizes traditional and old cultural values. It embraces concepts like speed, violence, technology and youth. Marinetti saw these as signs of progress and the new century.
Is it possible that, in the new millennium, the mathematical method is no longer fundamental to philosophy?
- According to Descartes, philosophy is a matter of discovering general truths by finding properties that are shared by disparate objects, in order to understand the features that they have in common. This requires comparing the degrees to which the properties occur. A property that admits degrees is, by definition, a magnitude.
Google intentionally limiting Bard AI's capabilities
Facing up to the Hard Problem of Consciousness as an Integrated Information Theorist
Write notes for yourself by default, disregarding audience
Why AI will save the world by Marc Andreessen + Contra Marc Andreessen on AI
Palantir AIP brings together the latest in large language models and cutting edge AI to activate data and models from the most highly sensitive environments.
From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, I worked as a molecular biologist for a national security contractor in a program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms (EBO). I will share with you a lot of information on this subject. Feel free to ask questions or ask for clarification.
Japan's METI to build new supercomputer to help develop AI at home.
What a peculiar pleasure it affords us to see any free animal looking after its own welfare unhindered, finding its food, or taking care of its young, or associating with others of its kind, and so on! This is exactly what ought to be and can be. Be it only a bird, I can look at it for some time with a feeling of pleasure; nay, a water-rat or a frog, and with still greater pleasure a hedgehog, a weazel, a roe, or a deer. The contemplation of animals delights us so much, principally because we see in them our own existence very much simplified.
- Arthur SchopenhauerThis new wave of LLM edu tutors are forgetting that they also need to automate knuckle-rapping
Intelligence is negatively related to uneven temper and anxiety.
Evolution of a minimal cell
Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen
Structural architecture and brain network efficiency link polygenic scores to intelligence
Spot levels up by Boston Dynamics
The majority of traditional Italian recipes were either created or formally established in the 1950s or even as late as the 1980s, and many of the conventions surrounding them were arbitrarily established.
Faster than normal: timeless ideas to break from normal
Stack Overflow enters the AI race.
Online gaming statistics 2023
Research paper reading made less daunting with condensed versions and explanations.
Why Romania is the next big European economy
Any idiot can now type "explain Einstein's general relativity and time dilation like I'm five years old" and then ask follow up questions, educating them far more than a teacher ever could. But few will, because even with the world's knowledge at their fingertips they don't want to become more educated and civilized. It took thousands of years of human creativity to make the first 100 million songs. But an AI bot matched that effort in a week.✚
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👾 some YouTube video essays
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