What’s News For January 31st? As always we search the planet for the most interesting news that has been overlooked by the mainstream media!
1. An RNA-based theory of natural universal computation https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0022519321004045…
2. Vitamin D protects against autoimmune diseases: Reduced autoimmune disease rate by 22 percent compared to placebo, according to new study https://news.harvard.edu/…/vitamin-d-reduced-rate-of…/
3. The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained https://steveblank.com/…/25/the-semiconductor-ecosystem/
4. Artificial Intelligence Can Analyze Eye Scans To Identify Patients at High Risk of Heart Attack https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-can…/
5. Why should the universe have been quantum-mechanical? Assuming classical physics wasn’t good enough for whatever reason, why this specific alternative? Why the complex-valued amplitudes? Why unitary transformations? Why the Born rule? Why the tensor product? https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6244
6. Joseph Carlsmith wrote a post about ethics in infinite worlds. He thinks the topic matters, in both theory and practice. In particular, he thinks infinities break lots of principles we like; and that they puncture the dream of a simple, bullet-biting utilitarianism. https://handsandcities.com/2022/01/30/on-infinite-ethics/
7. “Crime accounts for 3.2% of GDP. … in 2017 … the toll taken by 121 million crimes … but … [adding] quality of life & work days lost, the figure increased to … 10% of GDP … Violent crime accounted for 80% of the total.” https://thecrimereport.org/…/crime-costs-3-2-of-u-s…/
8. Ultra-Fast 3D Printer Works Like Reverse Scanner: “…the process utilizes a method called Tomographic Vat Photopolymerization to print all points of a 3D object concurrently, allowing objects to be generated almost instantly.” https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/nyhed…
