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NOTE: this is being cross-posted from my Substack, "More is Different" Vaccines can be distributed as a food. That’s the radical implication of the work of Chris Buck, a scientist at the National Cancer Institute. This December, Chris consumed a beer he brewed in his home kitchen using genetically modified...
This article by Dan Elton (moreisdifferent.blog) was published by Asimov Press. > “I think peer review is, like democracy, bad, but better than anything else." > > — Timothy Bates, University of Edinburgh I used to see peer review as primarily good — an important gatekeeping process, essential for protecting...
[This article was originally published on Dan Elton's blog, More is Different.] Cerebrolysin is an unregulated medical product made from enzymatically digested pig brain tissue. Hundreds of scientific papers claim that it boosts BDNF, stimulates neurogenesis, and can help treat numerous neural diseases. It is widely used by doctors around...
There has been a lot of hand-wringing about accelerating AI progress within the AI safety community since OpenAI's publication of their GPT-3 and Scaling Laws papers. OpenAI's clear explication of scaling provides a justification for researchers to invest more in compute and provides a clear path forward for improving AI...
Here I respond to a number of objections to the FDA making Paxlovid available right now that came up in the comments section on Scott's post "When will the FDA Approve Paxlovid?". I also saw many of these objections on Twitter too in addition to the usual "but what about...
I listened to a few Marvin Minsky lectures a few weeks ago. Now I'm trying to go back and find more information on two things he discussed in lecture 3: Cognitive Architectures, given Fall 2011. Sorry to offload this on people here but I have very little idea how to...
Why I like the Circuits approach In early 2020 I skimmed through the neural network explainability literature which was already quite massive at that time. I was left quite discouraged about the utility of the explanation techniques I saw. The level of rigor exhibited in the literature was very low...