Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

Friday, June 30, 2023

Managing the risks of AI in pragmatic ways.

I want to pass on the final paragraphs of a recent commentary by Venkatesh Rao on the tragedy of the Titan submersible, which was a consequ...

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Mechanisms that link psychological stress to the exacerbation of gut inflammation.

Schneider et al. describe one mechanism by which psychological stress deteriorates our health - the enteric nervous system relays psycho...

Monday, June 26, 2023

The vagus nerve, heart rate variability, and subjective wellbeing - a MindBlog self experiment

In this post I pass on to MindBlog readers a NYTimes article by Christina Caron that has been republished several time by the newspaper. It...

Friday, June 23, 2023

Why AI Will Save The World

I want to pass on the following text of a Marc Adreeessen substack post . This is because my usual extracting of small clips of text to give...

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