What’s News For February 25th?
1. Sickle cell: ‘The revolutionary gene-editing treatment that gave me new life’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60348497.amp]
2. DeepMind trains agents to use keyboard and mouse commands with pixel and Document Object Model (DOM) observations to control computers, achieving state-of-the-art and human-level mean performance across all tasks on the MiniWob++ benchmark. https://syncedreview.com/…/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based…/
3. Crypto miners literally bought a coal power plant to exclusively mine crypto (it was going to be decommissioned) https://www.theguardian.com/…/bitcoin-miners-revive…
4. Essay on long-run religiosity and fertility trends: 1. Mormon TFR is failing fast 2. Israel is a huge outlier 3. Ultraorthodox TFR has stayed high 4. Amish have a real population pyramid https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/…/retrospective-on…
5. Lectures by Olle Häggström on AI risk and long-term AI safety, part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJRlx_BeDk and part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aly5VpNi_k0
6. Added some new questions to my collection https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/i-have-questions
7. Reward hacking! Regulatory capture! Goodhart’s Law! And other terrible things https://ar5iv.org/abs/2202.05716
8. Neural networks can process multiple instances simultaneously as a single mixed input, similar to how radio channels can share bandwidth to carry multiple signals. https://ar5iv.org/abs/2202.09318
9. Explanatory Learning: Beyond Empiricism in Neural Networks https://ar5iv.org/abs/2201.10222
