A recent interview I did on the future of artificial intelligence. Liz Parrish of Biotrove asks me about: * Google’s recent $500M acquisition of DeepMind * James Barrat’s new book “Our Final Invention” * The advantages…
RSVP for the MIRI Expansion Party w/ One Medical – March 12, 2014 MIRI/One Medical will be serving free gourmet pizza and specialty beer at Jupiter in downtown Berkeley, CA. Be among the first…
The 2008 financial collapse correlates exactly with a rapid acceleration of ultrafast extreme events (UEEs) in the market. During the crash, trading algorithms rapidly spiked and crashed stocks over 2000 times by a huge percentage…
Ever wish you could check your credit score without having to sign-up for one of those scummy “free” credit check service that changes you $20-30/mo if you forget to cancel it? Credit Karma is…
Large nootropics survey rates Phenylpiracetam nearly as powerful as Modafinil or Caffeine. I didn’t participate in the survey, but I would agree that Phenylpiracetam has a noticeable effect and is one of the more exciting nootropics to…
Surprisingly good news: “Half of respondents in Germany are familiar with the process of cryonics and more than one fifth can imagine having their own bodies cryonized— an amount which is significantly higher than…
Want more motivation to exercise? What if your workouts caused meals to be donated in the 3rd world? That’s the idea behind the Weightless Project. It’s not the highest-impact philanthropy, but if you already…
Want to know about the future of artificial intelligence? Until today, your best 3 choices were probably: The sequences? — Good, but far too long. Facing the Intelligence Explosion? — Good, but dwells on atheism….
Summary: Chromium and Manganese are probably just toxic, even though they’re in almost all multivitamins. There are roughly 3 competing theories seeking to explain the widely replicated result that multivitamins don’t improve health: Nutrients…
This is what US diet recommendations looked like 85 years ago: If the housewife is a dietetic genius, 3,500 calories per man per day purchased in the market may be enough. Why so high?…
My write-up detailing how MIRI uses our $40k/mo Google Grant.
New Meta-Research: Researchers looked for evidence that researchers became less productive over their careers. Instead they found the opposite for math and computer science: Junior faculty in those areas are not as productive as…
Why some researchers are more productive than others. Based on William Shockley’s paper “On the Statistics of Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories”.
MIRI is seeking candidates for 3 new professional-level positions: Grants Manager, Science Writer, and Executive Assistant.
Remember the “Flynn Effect”? It turns out that even James Flynn now agrees with the new mainstream consensus that genotypic intelligence is declining over time. The Flynn Effect was merely capturing enviromental improvements that temporarily boosted average IQ…
If you’ve ever used the internet in Japan or Taiwan, you know the pain of coming back to the US and having to endure our much slower “high-speed” internet. Actually, the average internet speed…
Tech Reporters: WOW! Sugar batteries have energy densities “an order of magnitude higher than” lithium-ion batteries!! #future #i<3science #reprintingthepressrelease Louie: Yeah, and sugar batteries have voltages an order of magnitude lower than real batteries….
Automating your life is a key way to become more effective. It’s nice to see some context-aware automation finally hitting the market — and in this case, it’s a free app called Agent. Agent…
