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Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800
I analyze the adult age at death of 115,650 European nobles from 800 to 1800. Longevity began increasing long before 1800 and the Industrial Revolution, with marked increases around 1400 and again around 1650. Declines in violent deaths…
New Emergent Ventures winners, 25th cohort
Duncan McClements, 17, incoming at King’s College Cambridge, economics, general career and research support.
Jasmine Wang and team (Jasmine is a repeat winner), Trellis, AI and the book.
Sophia Brown, Berlin/Brooklyn, to study the State…
Are social media making us miserable?
Stuart Richie rebuts some of the recent studies:
And here’s the thing: when the authors of the “Facebook arrival” study raised their standards in this way, running a correction for multiple comparisons, all the results they found for…
Saturday assorted links
1. Note to self: do not play Bongcloud against Vladimir Kramnik.
2. You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
3. Pithy one-liners that will be popular with neoliberals?
4. “A funny state of affairs that isn’t getting enough attention…
What should I ask Kevin Kelly?
From Wikipedia:
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital…
Travel philosophies for the well-traveled
How should you choose your next trip? I can see a few general philosophies on the table:
1. Prioritize those countries and regions you haven’t visited yet. For me that might mean Montenegro, Lithuania, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. But…
How to make GPT worse at microeconomics
Somehow missed this the first time I looked, but GPT-4 got *significantly worse* at microeconomics after it was trained to tell you what you want to hear. pic.twitter.com/8tDtTwf1II
— Ben Levinstein (@ben_levinstein) March 22, 2023…
End Speed Limits on Aircraft
Fifty years ago today, on March 23, 1973, Alexander P. Butterfield, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, issued a rule that remains one of the most destructive acts of industrial vandalism in history.
“No person may…
Baby AGI is Here
The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence. This is demonstrated by its core mental capabilities (such as reasoning, creativity, and…
Friday assorted links
1. “ChatGPT for me.”
2. Early GPT-4 paper from Microsoft.
3. The new art of moviemaking (ho hum!).
4. “A scrip for my five-year-old to talk to GPT.”
5. “Interestingly, 9.4 percent of humans were more creative than the most creative GAI,…