{"id":7101,"date":"2023-01-06T23:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T07:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2023-01-06T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T07:26:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/01\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-384","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 384"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>     On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is vol\u00adume 384, which is 8!! (8 dou\u00adble fac\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal). <a href=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/DoubleFactorial.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/DoubleFactorial.html\">Dou\u00adble fac\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal<\/a> is a con\u00adcept I learned today. Instead of mul\u00adti\u00adply\u00ading 8 \u00b7 7 \u00b7 6 \u00b7 5 \u00b7 4 \u00b7 3 \u00b7 2 \u00b7 1 you instead skip down by twos, so 8 \u00b7 6 \u00b7 4 \u00b7 2 = 384.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=6823\" target=\"_blank\">My AI Safe\u00adty Lec\u00adture for UT Effec\u00adtive Altru\u00adism<\/a> (Scott Aaron\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIf you had asked any\u00adone in the 60s or 70s, they would have said, well clear\u00adly first robots will replace humans for man\u00adu\u00adal labor, and <em>then<\/em> they\u2019ll replace humans for intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal things like math and sci\u00adence, and <em>final\u00adly<\/em> they might reach the pin\u00adna\u00adcles of human cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty like art and poet\u00adry and music.The truth has turned out to be the exact oppo\u00adsite. I don\u2019t think any\u00adone pre\u00addict\u00aded that. GPT, I think, is already a pret\u00adty good poet. DALL\u2011E is already a pret\u00adty good artist. They\u2019re still strug\u00adgling with some high school and col\u00adlege-lev\u00adel math but they\u2019re get\u00adting there. It\u2019s easy to imag\u00adine that maybe in five years, peo\u00adple like me will be using these things as research assistants\u2014at the very least, to prove the lem\u00admas in our papers. That seems <em>extreme\u00adly<\/em> plau\u00adsi\u00adble.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/how-unorthodox-scholar-uses-technology-expose-biblical-forgeries-180981290\/\" target=\"_blank\">How an Unortho\u00addox Schol\u00adar Uses Tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy to Expose Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Forg\u00aderies<\/a> (Chanan Tigay, Smith\u00adson\u00adian Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cAfter\u00adward, the ama\u00adteur archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist, who would become an emi\u00adnent schol\u00adar and a mem\u00adber of the Insti\u00adtut de France, tried to nego\u00adti\u00adate with the Bedouin to acquire the stone, but his inter\u00adest, cou\u00adpled with offers from oth\u00ader inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal bid\u00adders, fur\u00adther irked the tribes\u00admen; they built a bon\u00adfire around the stone and repeat\u00aded\u00adly doused it with cold water until it broke apart. Then they scat\u00adtered the pieces.\u201d \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inter\u00adest\u00ading through\u00adout. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2212.14402\" target=\"_blank\">GPT Takes the Bar Exam<\/a> (Michael Bom\u00admar\u00adi\u00adto II &amp; Daniel Mar\u00adtin Katz, arX\u00adiv): \u201cFor best prompt and para\u00adme\u00adters, GPT\u20113.5 achieves a head\u00adline cor\u00adrect rate of 50.3% on a com\u00adplete NCBE MBE prac\u00adtice exam, sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly in excess of the 25% base\u00adline guess\u00ading rate, and per\u00adforms at a pass\u00ading rate for both Evi\u00addence and Torts. GPT\u20113.5\u2019s rank\u00ading of respons\u00ades is also high\u00adly-cor\u00adre\u00adlat\u00aded with cor\u00adrect\u00adness; its top two and top three choic\u00ades are cor\u00adrect 71% and 88% of the time, respec\u00adtive\u00adly, indi\u00adcat\u00ading very strong non-entail\u00adment per\u00adfor\u00admance. While our abil\u00adi\u00adty to inter\u00adpret these results is lim\u00adit\u00aded by nascent sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic under\u00adstand\u00ading of LLMs and the pro\u00adpri\u00adetary nature of GPT, we believe that these results strong\u00adly sug\u00adgest that an LLM will pass the MBE com\u00adpo\u00adnent of the Bar Exam in the near future.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Source code: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mjbommar\/gpt-takes-the-bar-exam\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/mjbommar\/gpt-takes-the-bar-exam<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of the authors (Katz) is a law prof at Illi\u00adnois Tech, and the oth\u00ader (Bom\u00admar\u00adi\u00adto) is a tech dude as well as an assis\u00adtant law prof (Michi\u00adgan State).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relat\u00aded: \u201cExtra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary new paper from Google on med\u00adi\u00adcine &amp; AI: When Google tuned a AI chat\u00adbot to answer com\u00admon med\u00adical ques\u00adtions, doc\u00adtors judged 92.6% of its answers right \u2026 com\u00adpared to 92.9% of answers giv\u00aden by oth\u00ader doc\u00adtors.\u201d Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emollick\/status\/1610261628607512576\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/emollick\/status\/1610261628607512576<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/12\/19\/palantir-algorithm-data-ukraine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">How the algo\u00adrithm tipped the bal\u00adance in Ukraine<\/a> (David Ignatius, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe pow\u00ader of advanced algo\u00adrith\u00admic war\u00adfare sys\u00adtems is now so great that it equates to hav\u00ading tac\u00adti\u00adcal nuclear weapons against an adver\u00adsary with only con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal ones,\u201d explains Alex Karp, chief exec\u00adu\u00adtive of Palan\u00adtir, in an email mes\u00adsage. \u201cThe gen\u00ader\u00adal pub\u00adlic tends to under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate this. Our adver\u00adsaries no longer do.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fol\u00adlow-up: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/12\/20\/ukraine-war-russia-tech-battlefield\/\" target=\"_blank\">A \u2018good\u2019 war gave the algo\u00adrithm its open\u00ading, but dan\u00adgers lurk<\/a> (David Ignatius, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cFor the Army and oth\u00ader ser\u00advices, the impe\u00adtus for this tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy push isn\u2019t just the Russ\u00adian inva\u00adsion of Ukraine, but the loom\u00ading chal\u00adlenge from Chi\u00adna \u2014 America\u2019s only real peer com\u00adpeti\u00adtor in tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/annals-of-inquiry\/the-conservative-who-wants-to-bring-down-the-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\">The Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Who Wants to Bring Down the Supreme Court<\/a> (Jean\u00adnie Suk Ger\u00adson, The New York\u00ader): \u201cOne of Mitchell\u2019s close friends from law school is a female lawyer who is mar\u00adried to a woman. She recent\u00adly told her teen-age daugh\u00adter that, if their fam\u00adi\u00adly ever need\u00aded some\u00adone to donate an organ, she knew they could call on him. \u2018But, at the same time, his views, the results of his views, and his pol\u00adi\u00adtics felt not nice, to put it mild\u00adly,\u2019 she said. \u2018I always assumed that, since Jonathan is such a good per\u00adson, that when he aged and knew more peo\u00adple, his views would evolve. I real\u00adly have trou\u00adble rec\u00adon\u00adcil\u00ading these two parts of him, giv\u00aden my pol\u00adi\u00adtics and my view of the world, because I just find him to be such a kind, lov\u00ading per\u00adson.\u2019 But Mitchell doesn\u2019t strike her as \u2018a true believ\u00ader who will mar\u00adshal his argu\u00adments to jus\u00adti\u00adfy the out\u00adcome,\u2019 she said. \u2018I think he actu\u00adal\u00adly believes these legal argu\u00adments.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/real-life-3\" target=\"_blank\">Math and Real Life<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LFE4wNg4kd4\" target=\"_blank\">Men\u2019s Bod\u00adies Are Way More Dis\u00adgust\u00ading Than Wom\u00aden\u2019s<\/a> (Dry Bar Com\u00ade\u00addy, YouTube): four min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZssPAUVLosc\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZssPAUVLosc\">Miran\u00adda Hart Can\u2019t Believe Jack White\u00adhal\u00adl\u2019s Cat Paint\u00ading Abil\u00adi\u00adty! <\/a> (Would I Like To You?, YouTube): five min\u00adutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/158058\/coronavirus-conservative-experts-scientific-counterrevolution\" target=\"_blank\">The Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus and the Right\u2019s Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Coun\u00adter\u00adrev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a> (Ari Schul\u00adman, The New Repub\u00adlic): \u201cThat so many views tut-tut\u00adted as the irra\u00adtional defi\u00adance of expert con\u00adsen\u00adsus actu\u00adal\u00adly became the expert con\u00adsen\u00adsus in the span of just a few weeks vivid\u00adly sug\u00adgests that we need to reex\u00adam\u00adine just how our cul\u00adture talks about exper\u00adtise. The prob\u00adlem is not main\u00adly that the experts were wrong\u2014that is to be expect\u00aded. It is, rather, that our lead insti\u00adtu\u00adtions and pub\u00adlic infor\u00adma\u00adtion out\u00adlets con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly treat\u00aded the assur\u00adances of experts as neu\u00adtral inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions of set\u00adtled sci\u00adence when they plain\u00adly were not.\u201d Inter\u00adest\u00ading through\u00adout and still rel\u00ade\u00advant. From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/07\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-259\" target=\"_blank\">vol\u00adume 259<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. This is vol\u00adume 384, which is 8!! (8 dou\u00adble fac\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal). Dou\u00adble fac\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal is a con\u00adcept I learned today. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/01\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-384\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 384\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"More AI stuff this week than I expected.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}