Tuesday, March 31, 2026

AI use can compromise our serendipity, creativity, autonomy, and sense of agency.

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I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and...
Monday, March 23, 2026

One terminal chats with another to start vibe coding a new dericbownds.net

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Writing MindBlog posts is on temporary hiatus because I have recently followed Claude's instructions to set up my Mac mini M3 to use Cla...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The polyvagal theory is dead - and HRV isn't a simple indicator of arousal

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I was recently struck by Baxter's Substack post (its title copied to be the title of this MindBlog post), which noted work critical of P...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The nature of intelligence and selves.

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I want to pass on the result of my extracting what I felt to be crucial chunks of text from Chapters 5 through 9 of Agüera y Arcas’s "W...
Friday, March 13, 2026

A seismic shift in our understanding of intelligence

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I've just spent the last three days reading large chunks of the remarkable book "What is Intelligence" by Agüera y Arcas. It i...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

AI Makes Workloads Worse, Not Better

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An article in today's Wall Street Journal by Ray Smith conforms so completely to my own work experience over the past week (I'm curr...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

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(The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts.  I think ...

A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT synthesis

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This post continues from the previous one to show  ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper fo...

Will Deric’s Mind Blog be firing Deric soon? Is AI is doing his job better?

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The short answer to both questions is yes and no.   I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents...
Monday, February 23, 2026

The geometries of change and the value of being human

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I pass on and also archive for myself the following three ChatGPT 5.2 summaries of three recent Johar essays: Summary of The Geometries of ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Changing our systems of governance

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I have found Johar's essay From Power Diagrams to Settlement-Construction: What we may be missing about the New Right to be worth sever...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

New Ferality - Seeking new ways of being wild in new nature

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This post is to archive this link to a recent Venkatesh Rao essay, and also pass on condensations of its main ideas done by Google Gemini a...