Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Brain changes over our lifetime.

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This video from The Economist is one of the best I have seen for a popular audience. Hopefully the basic facts presented are slowly seeping ...
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Monday, March 25, 2024

If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

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Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al.   on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of P...
Friday, March 22, 2024

The magic of spurious correlations...

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 I have to pass on this link , sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan:  
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Physics of Non-duality

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 I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site : The physics of nonduality In thi...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it?

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This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phone Network’ - Helium Mobile

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I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers wh...
Monday, March 11, 2024

How AI’s GPT engines work - Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor.

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Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled " How to Picture A.I. " (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try openi...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant

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Ryali et al. do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization, and underscore...
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Monday, March 04, 2024

Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning

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We all create our experienced selves from autobiographical reasoning based on remembered events in stories from our lives. In the journal So...
Friday, March 01, 2024

The Hidden History of Debt

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I pass on this link from the latest Human Bridges newsletter, and would encourage readers to subscribe to and support the Observatory's...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The "enjunkification" of our online lives

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I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times, that describe the increasing "complexification" or "enjunk...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Using caffeine to induce flow states

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I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the art...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

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I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by  Aneesh Raman , a work force expert at LinkedIn,  and Maria Flynn, preside...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

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I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google. Here's the abstract describing a "working memory" system vas...
Friday, February 16, 2024

An agent-based vision for scaling modern AI - Why current efforts are misguided.

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I pass on my edited clips from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent newsletter - substantially shortening its length and inserting a few definitions...