Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2025

Welcome to the Polycene

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On reading articles like Tom Friedman’s recent piece in the NYTimes , I realize what a cozy small world this contented retired professor liv...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Claude Goes to Therapy

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One of the things my father used to say was: "I look to see what everyone else is doing and do something different". I am feeling ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The Age of De-Skilling

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I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled " The Age of De-Skilling...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

Platforms like X and TikTok are destroying our culture.

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 I pass on most of a recent Sam Harris piece : Charlie Kirk was a political prodigy on the Right and adored by a younger generation of Repub...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

AI is a Mass-Delusion Event - and - Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

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I want to recommend two articles whose titles are this post's title, the first by Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic and the second by Kyl...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

A brain-computer interface that reads inner thoughts.

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Inampudi does a description of work by Kunz et al. , who isolated signals from a brain implant so people with movement disorders could voic...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Polarization may be inherent in social media

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Science news reports on a fascinating recent study suggesting that just the basic functions of social media—posting, reposting, and follow...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI ‘The Illusion of Thinking’

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  I want to pass on this interesting piece by Christopher Mims in todays Wall Street Journal: A primary requirement for being a leader in ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Socially sensitive autonomous vehicles?

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Driving around in the Old West Austin neighborhood where I live I am increasingly spooked (the uncanny valley effect) at four-way stop signs...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why does AI hinder democratization?

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Here is the abstract from the open source article of Chu et al in PNAS:  This paper examines the relationship between democratization and t...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Carole Cadwalladr - This is what a digital coup looks like.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...
Monday, December 09, 2024

An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling

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Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary: Neural dynamics...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

The Future of Warfare

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Passing on an article from today's WSJ that I want to save, using MindBlog as my personal archive:   OpenAI Forges Tie-Up To Defense ...