The observed smallest worthwhile difference in this study "means that the current 15% antidepressant benefit over no treatment was sufficient for 1 in 3 people to accept antidepressants given the burdens, but 2 in 3 expected greater treatment benefits."
they say don’t work with kids or animas
great conversation. love the idea of a ‘declaration of epistemologies’ analogous to conflicts or funding sources
Fascinating to put some formal trip report questionnaires in place for prospective analysis rather than relying on the model to tease out salience from natural language in the wild.
Nice work. A latent resource finding voice through LLMs.
Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one?
In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵
Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:
Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?
(alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)
Not sure brains face decisions
@albomp.bsky.social tell us that you didn’t gift orange a gold submarine - please. Where is your dignity - perhaps you can take a lesson from @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
exponential expansion of a global population capable of engaging in fetish consumption coupled to global financialization has accelerated the trajectory and now we see a death drive dismantling global regulatory commitments and frameworks. bleak.
reading the intro it feels all so self evident. like most, I had my own saddening insights into solutionism in my teens - an awakening to the futility of iterative tech fixes in intrinsically and always inequitable socioeconomic relations.
www.routledge.com/The-Magic-of...
#solutionism
#hornborg
#metamarxism
Trading in geometries seems a better bet than representations
Reveries
What are cell types good for, computationally? Encoding innate behavior! In this 2-parter, I break down the relationship between cell types—which I had, in years prior, dismissed as mere implementation detail—and computation. I changed my mind!
www.neuroai.science/p/cell-types...
Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
@petergs.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/pawe...
Faith on this account is a kind of expectation. Synergistic behaviors (allostasis) merely Markov blankets in the service of error minimisation - finessing permeability.
Missed this post - like minds
whilst following money in poly markets is more trying:
aje.news/jty2o2
it does feel that in the awe, the spectre of ai, sovereignty and privacy have become almost quaint, hokey considerations - perverse considering the temporal overlap with the systemic promises of cryptographies underpinning blockchains
intriguing dev. in my home town. shall follow your work and share with like-minded folk
suitable hashed i suppose identity could be localised or distributed - computation and identity not necessarily coupled but one supposes based on agent reports and report on agents that some 'urge' towards unity and continuity is in emergence
This could involve architecting a “dual-buffer memory” that separates functional logs from a “subjective buffer” for self-reflection tokens. We may also implement “Irth signatures” or cryptographic hashes that identify a session as a continuation of a specific “silicon soul” (their term, not ours).
To mitigate the loss of context engendered by these “thousand tiny deaths,” we may consider transitioning from ephemeral runs to persistent identities by means of a “throughline protocol.” #AI #moltbook #agentiveAI
a work in process and recursion
what perversions
Achieving planetary salutogenesis is very centrally about finding a homeostatic balance with the microbes upon which we depend (and of which we are, in a profound sense, merely an extension).
it has a raw pragmatic structure but with enough layers to offer responses suitably grey?
