{"id":6584,"date":"2019-05-21T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2019-05-21T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:41:12","slug":"recent-readings-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/recent-readings-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Readings, 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunsets on Mars are blue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/why-are-mars-sunsets-blue\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I too laugh. &#8221; \u2018Once we build a generally intelligent system, basically we will ask [OpenAI] to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.&#8217;\u201d When the crowd erupted with laughter Sam Altman himself offered that it sounds like an episode of \u201cSilicon Valley.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/18\/sam-altmans-leap-of-faith\/\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long written about extensions to classical evolution theory, or revolutions in evolution. The biggest challenge is\u00a0to describe how natural variations are created to be selected. There is a new good name for this view, called the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES), and a <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/science-in-flux-is-a-revolution-brewing-in-evolutionary-theory\">well-written introductory article<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The killer app for having the internet in your pocket was, well, having the internet in your pocket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0stopped\u00a0eating mammals 15 years ago. I find the Impossible burger&#8217;s vegetarian meat to be delicious, and with that old burger taste that I do miss. I did not know it was also GMO food, which I think is great. A good article on\u00a0the company behind the clean meat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/05\/19\/impossible-foods-burger-sausage-empire\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Human composting. I&#8217;m all for it once I&#8217;m dead. Now legal in Washington state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2019\/05\/16\/human-composting-washington?fbclid=IwAR29KBXR2MOc4kYJycNPAYm4qI1lzlrr57YKV5zy82vrxQ19o60o7olpZsA\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?&#8221; Long answer in this article. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-egyptian-statues-broken-noses\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Academic paper on the difficult proposition of introducing AI into the &#8220;kill chain,&#8221; meaning giving machines the ability to decide to kill, or in other words, weaponizing AI. No answers, just a framework to discuss it. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1905.03899.pdf\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunsets on Mars are blue. Link. I too laugh. &#8221; \u2018Once we build a generally intelligent system, basically we will ask [OpenAI] to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.&#8217;\u201d When the crowd erupted with laughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/recent-readings-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}