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...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Energetics and evolutionary fitness

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I pass on the first paragraph of a perspectives piece in PNAS by Vermeij et al. that gives their message more thoroughly than the paper...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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 From Reif et al. (open source) , systematic observations that confirm my own experience, Significance As AI tools become increasingly prev...
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,...
Friday, May 16, 2025

On replacing the American establishment - the ideological battle for the soul of Trump World.

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 I want to pass on the first few paragraphs from Chaffin and Elinson's  piece in the May 10 Wall Street Journal, which give a juicy summ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Our human consciousness is a 'Controlled Hallucination' and AI can never achieve it.

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I want to suggest that readers have a look at an engaging popular article by Darren Orf that summarizes the ideas of Anil Seth. Seth is a n...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

How ketamine breaks through anhedonia - reigniting desire

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When chronic depression has not been relieved by behavioral therapies such as meditation or cognitive therapy ketamine is sometimes found to...