Codex: breakthroughs, doxxing, gravity, lasers
Learn the best science breakthroughs of 2023, 1,000,000x stronger lasers, why doxxing is bad, and more.
Dear Aspiring Polymaths,
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and touched grass!
Let’s dive right into the Codex today. We have lots of important stuff cooking for the platform coming your way, and soon. Stay tuned :)
December 4th, 2023 Learn Arena Codex
An interesting examination of why Effective Altruism is particularly offensive as an ethical framework to most people. The answer is not what you think, this article is a defense of EA.
A thread of the most important scientific breakthroughs of 2023. This is the best link of the day, by far. https://twitter.com/g_leech_/status/1731263549182206291
A great analysis of doxxing, anonymity on the internet, and effective accelerationism.
We are one step closer to space fairing vessels which create their own artificial gravity. https://www.xcdsystem.com/asgsr/program/n8xGsH7/index.cfm?pgid=2932&printmode=1&sid=27622&abid=102362
Earth was hit by a gamma ray burst last year. All it takes is one of these to be closer than 2 billion light years away, as this one was, and for it be aimed right at us and all life on earth will be obliterated like putting a golf ball in the exhaust of a fighter jet engine. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/gamma-ray-burst-charged-earths-ionosphere-from-2-billion-light-years-away/
Preliminary results that we might have found a way to make lasers one MILLION times more powerful, paving the way for some really weird stuff like turning energy into matter. https://interestingengineering.com/science/scientist-lasers-by-a-million-times
Deepmind AI created a weather forecasting AI that is far more accurate than anyother system—it outperformed all other weather forecasts “on more than 99% of weather variables in 90% of test regions.” https://www.space.com/google-deepmind-ai-weather-forecasts-artificial-intelligence
Absolutely fantastic beginner’s guide to all things airplanes—how do they work, where did they come from, how do we make them go faster? https://contrary.com/foundations-and-frontiers/aviation
This website lets you pick a time and place on earth and see what kind of dinosaurs lived there at that time. Super cool! Made me feel like a little kid again. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#750
You should believe you are better than you are. It will become a self-fulfilling prophesy, enabling you to do and be yet more. Free life improvement here!
