Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Neuron–astrocyte networks might perform the core computations performed by AI transformer blocks

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Fascinating ideas from Kozachkov et al. Their text contains primers on Astrocyte biology and the transformers found in AI Generative Pre-tr...
Monday, August 28, 2023

A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity

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I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post, sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science. I'm reading throug...
Friday, August 25, 2023

The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science

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A curious open-sourse bit of hand waving and gibble-gabble about the metaverse. I pass on the first two paragraphs and links to its referen...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Why citizens vote away the democracies they claim to cherish.

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Here is an interesting bit of research from Braley et al. reported in Nature Human Behaviour. Their abstract: Around the world, citizens a...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Never-Ending Stories - a survival tactic for uncertain times

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I keep returning to clips of text that I abstracted from a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao . It gets more rich for me on each re-reading.  I l...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Born Rich

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I want to pass on a few slightly edited clips from an interesting essay in The Dispatch by conservative writer Kevin Williamson that a fr...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Human History gets a rewrite.

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I want to point to two articles I have enjoyed reading, both describing the recent book by Graeber and Wengrowa; “ The Dawn of Everything: A...
Friday, August 11, 2023

The immaturity of America's therapeutic culture

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I  recommend reading the most recent NYTimes David Brook's piece , and pass on here ChatGPT 4's response to my request to summarize ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

What is intelligence?

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I want to share a message sent by Clint Sprott to the Chaos and Complexity seminar group at the University of Wisconsin which he started man...
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Monday, August 07, 2023

America's legacy of poverty - The injustice of place.

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Having moved back into the house in which I grew up in Austin Texas, and watching the city inexorably move towards becoming a dystopian metr...
Friday, August 04, 2023

18-month old humans discriminate moral violations from disobedient or unexpected events

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Fascinating studies from Kassecker et al. (open source) have used multiple methods (eye-tracking, observations of expressive behaviors) to ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Work as war...and Pritzker's Formulae To Spot An Idiot

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Too fascinating pieces on how in the areas of politics and business our more recently evolved primate capabilities for empathy and compassio...
Monday, July 31, 2023

The visible gorilla.

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A staple of my lectures in the 1990s was showing the ‘invisible gorilla’ video, in which viewers were asked to count the number of times th...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Unnarratability -The Tower of Babel redux - where have all the common narratives gone?

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I pass on some clips from Venkatesh Rao's recent Ribbonfarm Studio posting. . Perspectives like his make me feel that one's most eff...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

A MindBlog paragraph on non-dual awareness massaged by Bard and ChatGPT-4

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This post is using MindBlog to archive a further example example of the sort shown in Monday’s post ...of GPT bots editing  a paragraph I wr...
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Monday, July 24, 2023

The evolution of transhuman forms - a MindBlog paragraph edited by GPT implementations

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In this post I am documenting the final result of passing a paragraph I wrote on future human evolution through a number of different GPT (g...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Proxy Failure is an Inherent Risk in Goal-Oriented Systems

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I will pass on the title and abstract of another article to appear in Behavioral and Brain Science for which reviewers comments are being so...
Monday, July 17, 2023

MindBlog's reading list.

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I've decided to pass on links to articles I have found worthwhile reading , realizing that I am not going to have time to frame their id...
Friday, July 14, 2023

‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results

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Finkel does a summary of the first round of results of an 'adversarial colloboration' funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundat...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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I would recommend having a read through Evgeny Morozov's piece in the NYTimes as an antidote to Marc Adreessen's optimistic vision ...