Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Monday, April 27, 2026

When Execution Gets Cheap, What Remains Scarce? - The last biological moat.

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I have enjoyed reading  a recent essay by Aneesh Sathe , which I recommend you read in full. I will pass on here the equally amazing job tha...
Friday, April 24, 2026

The Refusal to Dehumanize - Rewilding Creativity

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..  I find it impossible to keep up with the prolific output stream of Indy Johar on Substack, but two recent posts ( The Refusal to Dehuman...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Physiology of Agency in the Age of AI

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There is a question lurking beneath the current wave of enthusiasm about artificial intelligence that I think deserves more serious attentio...
Monday, April 13, 2026

The Default Mode Network as a Bidirectional Interface Between World and Mind

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I want to pass on the abstract of a PNAS contribution from Zhang et al. titled " Sender–receiver subdivisions of the default mode netwo...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind

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Reading through the article " A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay " is a rich experience. For readers with less pa...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

AI use can compromise our serendipity, creativity, autonomy, and sense of agency.

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I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and...
Monday, March 23, 2026

One terminal chats with another to start vibe coding a new dericbownds.net

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Writing MindBlog posts is on temporary hiatus because I have recently followed Claude's instructions to set up my Mac mini M3 to use Cla...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The nature of intelligence and selves.

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I want to pass on the result of my extracting what I felt to be crucial chunks of text from Chapters 5 through 9 of Agüera y Arcas’s "W...
Friday, March 13, 2026

A seismic shift in our understanding of intelligence

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I've just spent the last three days reading large chunks of the remarkable book "What is Intelligence" by Agüera y Arcas. It i...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

AI Makes Workloads Worse, Not Better

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An article in today's Wall Street Journal by Ray Smith conforms so completely to my own work experience over the past week (I'm curr...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

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(The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts.  I think ...

A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT synthesis

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This post continues from the previous one to show  ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper fo...

Will Deric’s Mind Blog be firing Deric soon? Is AI is doing his job better?

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The short answer to both questions is yes and no.   I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents...
Monday, February 23, 2026

The geometries of change and the value of being human

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I pass on and also archive for myself the following three ChatGPT 5.2 summaries of three recent Johar essays: Summary of The Geometries of ...