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Plants want to be eaten only by big animals that take them on long and random walks and then die far away from where they are picked up to fertilize the seed.

Fluid intelligence is higher when younger. Crystallised intelligence increases with age. Your comparative advantage changes.

Demis Hassabis says that half of all innovations that caused the recent AI boom came from DeepMind, which is London based.

Isn't Airbnb doing the same?

Continued reliance on outdated nuclear technology might not have the same crucial global technology spillovers as investments in other clean energy (including advanced nuclear). Si…

There's an amazing calibration training game where you can practice Fermis and see where you are orders of magnitude off: https://www.quantifiedintuitions.org/calibration

There's a good video by Robert Miles about that 'Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?' (youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw) Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint.…

I think evolution is not an undirected process in that sense because it's an optimization process, that optimizes to create more copies of itself. Superintelligence will likely use…

> Was any force ever able to get close to world domination? Evolution? 2.5bn years ago stromatolites changed the atmosphere from a CO2-rich to O2-rich through photosynthesis, becau…

From ""Rapid Clinical Evaluation of Anosmia - The Alcohol Sniff Test" ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-... ):"Standard 70% isopropyl alcohol preparatio…

I have an idea for creating an open-source zero marginal cost, digital thermometer to detect coronavirus. Can you help? Here's the idea: 1. Heart rate can be estimated via (webcam)…

Agreed - I believe the meta-analysis and the underlying studies are likely of poor quality. I think it might be worth for people here to reanalyze everything. The effect sizes seem…

You can definitely overdose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D

This is a more recent meta-analysis, but thanks it's helpful that you're linking to the discussion.