Normies who only read what prestigious newspapers and journals highlight for them won't realize the importance of developments like GPT-3 before the nanobots start converting the hemoglobin in their arteries into computronium.
If you want to know about important or interesting developments and ideas before they go mainstream you need to be comfortable with noise in the form of crazy and wrong ideas and follow nonconformists cranks.
P.S. When it comes to artificial intelligence, always remember the following:
“Do not look at where we are. Look at where we will be two more papers down the line.”
— Károly Zsolnai-Fehér
But don’t get the wrong impression. It’s not just artificial intelligence, mind you: We now got 3D printed rocket companies. Biotechnology is showing enormous potential.
There are over 130 longevity biotechnology companies and over 50 anti-aging drugs in clinical trials in humans. We’ve got drugs that can reverse age-related mental decline within days in mice. And we also seem to be in the midst of a neurotech revolution.
Very few people seem to realize that we’re truly living in a world that would have been considered science fiction just 20 years ago and that revolutionary, transformative progress might be only a few papers away.
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When it comes to major Western countries like the United States and Germany, the left has decisively won the culture war and is now in control of most institutions. BUT it hasn't won the war against reality.
1. Left-wing economic policies such as Marxism have failed spectacularly each time they have been tried.
2. Eugenics actually works, as anyone breeding livestock or plants can certify. Indeed, countries like Germany still have eugenics laws against incest and Jews screen their babies for genetic diseases. In Iceland, most babies with Down syndrome are aborted.
"...it should be possible to harvest around 6 microwatts at around 180 meters (590 ft) from a 5G transmitter."
"An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors," phys.org/news/2020-10-p…
Scientists have observed a single-cell alga evolve in real time into a multicellular organism. The transition took around a year and was caused by the introduction of a predator into the environment. nature.com/articles/s4159…
The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge
“invented neurons, muscles & other specialised tissues, independently from the rest of the animal kingdom, using different starting materials" aeon.co/essays/what-th…
Whenever someone publicly "wastes" food for a purpose other than eating, someone else comes along and complains about it by citing "hunger in Africa".
What's your best steel man argument in support of this complaint?
For example, if I, living in Germany, was to take a bar of edible chocolate and just threw it in the garbage, how would this behavior negatively affect the food supply in poor countries like Yemen?
Some answers I got so far:
1. Wasting food will raise prices for globally traded food commodities, which will mean that those on lower incomes can afford to eat less.
Which is one of the reasons why blank slatism and IQ denialism are so widespread among academics despite universally available evidence to the contrary.