Miscellaneous Links #40

AI, Robotics, CogSci, Tech & More

AI

Giving Household Robots Common Sense

AI and the problem of knowledge collapse

Why Today’s AIs Still aren’t Very Intelligent (interview with Aliana Maren)

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit?

Miscellaneous Links #40
GenAI prompted by me

CogSci

A Revolution in Biology: how developmental biology might contain the secrets to life, intelligence, and immortality

The Story of Intelligence – Part One

Why consciousness may have evolved to benefit society rather than individuals

Tech

Software Kingdoms: On economic principles, free & open source software, and paywalls

The Rot-Com Bubble

Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers

Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion

Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine

1Day Sooner’s Comments on [California] SB-1308 and Effects on Germicidal UV Light Technology

Programmable Materials Help Heal Broken Bones

More

Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

The Scientific Virtues

The Three Virtues of a Programmer

Futel – Damage Report

Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever

Gabon’s Ancient Nuclear Reactor

CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction

Dermatology’s Horrendous War Against The Sun

What the Netflix website looked like in 2002

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