What’s News For March 12th? As always we search the planet for the news that MSM has missed or ignored for you.
1. Summary of why expecting transformative AI this century seems very plausible: “You can run the bio anchors analysis in a lot of different ways, but they all point to transformative AI this century; As do the expert surveys, as does Metaculus; The most naive extrapolations of economic growth trends imply singularity (or at least “new growth mode”) this century;” https://marginalrevolution.com/…/holden-karnofsky…
2. “I project 70-years worth of trends in compute usage in Machine Learning forwards in time. If trends continue even briefly (relative to how long they’ve been around), models will be trained with incredible amounts of compute (~1e30 FLOPs by end of the decade).” https://www.alignmentforum.org/…/projecting-compute…
3. Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses the Aging Process in Mice https://www.sciencealert.com/making-cells-revert-to-a…
4. The Genocide the U.S. Can’t Remember, But Bangladesh Can’t Forget https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/genocide-us-cant…/
5. This swashbuckling $3 billion company is single-handedly trying to fix the supply-chain crisis https://www.fastcompany.com/…/flexport-fixing-supply…
6. “For centuries our world has been steadily more bureaucratic. Yet we are failing to imagine the future changes that trend implies. So here I briefly imagine what if we had more formal procedures and rules re public conversation.” https://overcomingbias.com/…/unblinding-admin-futures.html
7. Senior Minister Janil Puthucheary describes quantum crypto in the Parliament of Singapore https://vimeo.com/685764777/8a4d5acfce
8. Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrunk IQ Scores of Half of Americans – 824 Million IQ Points Stolen https://scitechdaily.com/lead-exposure-in-last-century…/
9. Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound. A method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities. https://news.mit.edu/…/solid-state-batteries-interface…
10. “Albert Stevens was a house painter who was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. On May 14, 1945, he was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or consent” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
11. ‘Children of Men’ is really happening. Why Russia can’t afford to spare its young soldiers anymore. https://edwest.substack.com/…/children-of-men-is-really…
12. “Russia’s economic blackout could change the world, including the beginning of the end of clean energy complacency in the west and the North Koreafication of Russia” https://www.theatlantic.com/…/russia-economic…/627004/
