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ANOTHER AI SCIENTIST: https://periodic.com/
Some of my Claude conversations:
https://claude.ai/share/7ed0caac-e48f-4b7c-9abb-aa2b926c5054 (RLMs/DSPy/GEPA - very Boston-themed research)
https://claude.ai/share/a5ad0c3b-aa35-4c7c-bfa6-42cd499078f8 (more RLMs)
agent swarms: https://claude.ai/share/5158765d-51a8-4b84-948c-d8712385fe10
simulating recursive depth of K in notable figures and games (both inspired by chelsea zou's research): https://claude.ai/share/5e6063fd-42fa-4f9a-bc29-2fb748480195
https://claude.ai/share/589f645d-4064-4f71-b7d3-41ac18bded0a
Other links:
https://github.com/AmberLJC/LLMSys-PaperList/ (AmberLJC and Zechen Zhang are behind Orchestra, which is just taking off). AmberLJC may be at the beginning of an impt inflection pt
https://www.orchestra-research.com/perspectives/sci-reasoning-story
https://www.orchestra-research.com/ai-research-skills
more agent swarms: https://chatgpt.com/share/69bb42f9-dc40-800c-8563-4b01757909d6
(cautionary quote about agents):
https://x.com/emollick/status/2026425660483256497
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more cybershamanism threads (this is a little more "out there" relative to most progress studies, but still worth monitoring)
https://chatgpt.com/share/69b9c37b-3830-800c-8abe-ef851053fe3b
https://claude.ai/share/160adb55-6ac0-47bd-8abb-65089c054506
https://claude.ai/share/d4d00be2-a89f-4cf8-b261-f363860fde41
https://claude.ai/share/4e6905de-dcfb-4c4b-8717-af85b671e9f3
https://claude.ai/share/c9d15d8f-b749-4d23-91dc-7342710b0ba8
https://claude.ai/share/a9cac104-145b-4bf9-9f44-b6045d1fd732
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this is swarm-y: https://x.com/habermolt/status/2034639366455226473
https://x.com/james_y_zou/status/2029636370743054445
https://www.apoth3osis.io/projects
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06792-0
World models: https://www.notboring.co/p/world-models
"If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people" - EO Wilson
[though limited fishing + hunting of deer/pigeons/waterfowl could be ok, and in fact more carbon-neutral than agriculture]
Relevant - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/13/climate/electric-power-climate-change.html
Important to mention the HHMI funding model, which puts "trust" in PIs/evaluates them as PIs rather than as research proposals.
Also
"The MacArthur grant is a template for what this looks like on a personal level, with a shift in focus from creativity to integrity, and a bump in compensation – $625,000 is a lot of money, but that money is designed to be seed money for an activity rather than financial security. Those getting a MacArthur grant still face the specter of future financial needs. One needs an order of magnitude more than that over a lifetime to be secure while not compromising one’s interactions with society. "
OSV Ventures is a new model (Ken Stanley interviewed them!)
important links (this is really the best place for me to post/update them rn)
https://perlara.substack.com/p/low-dose-statin-as-a-potential-treatment
https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatgpt-hunger-energy-gpu-revolution/
sid mani
Tunadorable
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234870-200-the-man-reinventing-economics-with-chaos-theory-and-complexity-science/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Qp9R1Wn7iMwnvguVYLVrXfQesEdm4_gi8VZjU56xQwElVjKSQ9lmhx9s_aem_ASNm3CMqD9owMvrbpo2zQM4nxlGrfH2mFE1OQxO6ldXUc9UOxtM-pue91H3Qtl5BaxalsNP8sFnX82dRnEzWi_Ap
Adam Green of markov.bio
LLM content
https://api.together.xyz/playground/chat/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-chat-hf
310.ai
https://cen.acs.org/materials/2-d-materials/Mighty-MXenes-ready-launch/102/i9
Novelties
websim.ai
https://titotal.substack.com/p/bandgaps-brains-and-bioweapons-the
I'm only comfortable with more humans if we make serious efforts to increase the percent of vegans/vegetarians, or reduce the amount of meat needed by human, given how wasteful meat is to land use.
[limited hunting of deer/pigeons/waterfowl could be ok, but people would still need to eat way less meat than they do now]
maybe, just maybe, cultured meat will come just enough time to save us. But the probability range of this is still too high for comfort.
I very strongly believe any pro-fertility incentives must be coupled with incentives to decrease meat consumption/increase vegetarianism (or increase % of power from nuclear, given that excess solar energy will also destroy habitat).
EO Wilson once advocated that 50% of the world is set aside for wilderness. Maybe that's a bit too ambitious, but I think 35% would be good enough to preserve enough biodiversity. Taiwan/Hong Kong/Japan are all densely populated and have roughly that % of wilderness/forest (they also rely a lot on seafood, which does not destroy wilderness , but is still inherently a limited resource given overfishing). People get huge health/happiness benefits from nature exposure too, esp when the nature is close to where they live
"If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people" - EO Wilson
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120 is one of the most depressing findings ever.
How do you optimize your life for serendipity?
Ken Stanley has a new social network and I asked the question here: https://app.heymaven.com/discover/25623
But progress studies forum should have more people who can answer this (esp b/c serendipity and progress are both close allies)
More from Buehler lab: https://x.com/ProfBuehlerMIT/status/2031394699265658888
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1895
RL and neuro: https://www.robonaissance.com/t/the-rl-spiral
DGM wiht hyperagents: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19461