This in response to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died as a result of Trump and Musk’s attack on USAID is clear evidence of the exact same kind of brain poisoning that produces, eg, JK Rowling. Winning an argument with the strangers in your phone becomes more important than human life
Probably more of a trial balloon of an experiment: something faceless, low OpEx, much less wannabe artsy than the blog
Toying around with the idea of a podcast/edutainment youtube channel
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The Return of the Queen
Preprints would serve this purpose but they risk getting flooded and both infrastructure and curation becomes a problem
“Never trust a panpsychist” is a motto that has served me well
If you like, you can set it to download papers from scihub automatically with some finagling: www.reddit.com/r/scihub/s/y...
And research rabbit for discovering who cited what as a literature evolved: www.researchrabbit.ai
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About 0.024 per vehicle, or 1 per 41 vehicles, or 70 per 3k vehicles.
How many human remote assistants do you imagine each waymo taxi needs?
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William James complained that psychophysics meant business and not chivalry. Psychophysics has interventions more robust--replicable and reliable-- than medicine. A century or so later, Consciousness science should learn to mean business and not chivalry.
Classic case of NYTitis. Defund the editorial board.
The romanticism seems to hint at the last since any mix of the first two might be handwaved away as deflationary
Pragmatically, there seem to be 3 ways it can go; there exists a difference of degrees between automatic and deliberate processes (signal strength, persistence etc.), there exists a difference of kinds (a unique structure or mechanism present in one case), or there exists a mysterious prime mover.
The preprint does more justice than the thread to the current state of affairs but this strange framing of deflation when it comes to explanations seems to be a bit motivated by romanticism to me.
Fun prompt with a silly conclusion. "It's because consciousness is taboo" as a line feels overdone lately.
Wrote a blog post on where the training signals for the brain come from. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Why should the members of the free press not face public critique, sanction, and ridicule for deception, duplicity, and assholery? Is it because they are your friends?
Nilay Patel, Unethical or Just in Love With the Spectacle
Gabby Del Valle, Crushing on Stancil or just bad at her job?
Association is All You Need
Association is All You Need
Pavlov would have been shocked and stoked by this study!
It meticulously shows that what matters most for cue-reward learning is the duration between rewards: the longer this duration, the fewer the number of trials needed for behavioral and DA learning
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Why is Linton brown and not Heathcliff
Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read.
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