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Updated: 2024-04-10 05:00:00
: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , April 10, 2024 The world of decentralized everything . Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions I want to pass on again , to my future self , and possibly a few techie MindBlog readers a few links to the world of decentralized grass roots everything commerce , communications , finance , etc . nbsp trying to bypass the traditional powers and gate keepers in these areas by constructing distributed systems usually based on block chains and cryptocurrencies . nbsp I am trying to learn more about this , taking things in small steps to avoid overload headaches . One
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , April 08, 2024 New protocols for uncertain times . I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year : The Summer of Protocols . 8221 Some background for this project can be found in his essay In Search of Hardness Also , nbsp The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols essay by Rao et al . is an excellent presentation of what protocols are about . nbsp I strongly recommend that you read it if nothing else . nbsp Here is a description of the project : nbsp Over 18 weeks in Summer 2023, 33 researchers from diverse fields including architecture , law , game design ,
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , April 05, 2024 Our seduction by AI’s believable human voice . I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled The Lifelike Illusion of . A.I The article strikes home for me , for when a Chat Bot responds to one of my prompts using the pronoun I” I unconsciously attribute personhood to the machine , forgetting that this is a cheap trick used by programmers of large language model to increase the plausibility of responses . House starts off his article by describing the attachments people formed with the Furby , an animatronic toy resembling a small owl , and Pleo ,
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , April 03, 2024 Neurons help flush waste out of our brains during sleep More information summarized here on what is happening in our brains while we sleep is provided by Jiang-Xie et . al who show that active neurons can stimulate the clearance of their own metabolic waste by driving changes to ion gradients in the surrounding fluid and by promoting the pulsation of nearby blood vessels . nbsp Here is the Jiang-Xie et : al.abstract The accumulation of metabolic waste is a leading cause of numerous neurological disorders , yet we still have only limited knowledge of how the brain performs
Updated: 2024-04-01 05:00:00
: , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , April 01, 2024 When memories get complex , sleep comes to their rescue Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al . and a commentary on the work by Schechtman . Here is the Lutz . et al . : abstract Significance Real-life events usually consist of multiple elements such as a location , people , and objects that become associated during the event . Such associations can differ in their strength , and some elements may be associated only indirectly e.g . via a third element Here , we show that sleep compared with nocturnal wakefulness selectively strengthens associations between elements of
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , March 29, 2024 How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture 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 Culture You really should read the whole article . I've given up on trying to assemble clips of text that get across the whole message , and pass on these bits towards the end of the article : we find ourselves enacting a tragedy of the commons : short-term economic self-interest encourages using cheap A.I . content to maximize clicks and views , which in
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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 throughout our culture..
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , March 25, 2024 If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human . Fascinating observations by Jimenez et . al on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world . and in the same issue of PNAS note this study on the importance of the social presence of either human or virtual instructors in multimedia instructional videos . Significance Writer Kurt Vonnegut once said if you describe a landscape or a seascape , or a cityscape , always be sure to include a human figure somewhere in the scene . Why Because readers are human beings , mostly interested in other human
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have to pass on this link, sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan: nbsp;
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , March 20, 2024 Fundamentally changing the nature of war . 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 clips from this technology essay in The Wall Street Journal that makes some very plausible predictions about the future of armed conflicts between political : entities The future of warfare won’t be decided by weapons systems but by systems of weapons , and those systems will cost less . Many of them already exist , whether they’re the Shahed drones attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden or the
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , March 14, 2024 An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE tokens . The cash value of the MOBILE tokens earned since July 2022 is 7X the cost of the equipment needed to generate them . Now I want to put down further facts I want to document for my future self and MindBlog’s techie . readers Recently Helium has introduced Helium Mobile , a cell phone plan using using this new 5G infrastructure which costs 20 month much less
Updated: 2024-03-11 05:00:00
: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , March 11, 2024 How AI’s GPT engines work Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor . 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 opening an empty tab on your browser , then copy and paste in the URL that got you the paywall I tried to do my usual sampling of small chunks of text to give the message , but found that very difficult , and so I pass several early paragraphs and urge you to read the whole article . Lanier's metaphors give me a better sense of what is going on in a GPT engine , but I'm still largely mystified
Updated: 2024-03-08 06:00:00
: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , March 08, 2024 Explaining the evolution of gossip A fascinating open source article from Pan et . al Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations , gossip has been at the center of bonding human groups . Yet the evolution of gossip remains a puzzle . The current article argues that gossip evolves because its dissemination of individuals’ reputations induces individuals to cooperate with those who gossip . As a result , gossipers proliferate as well as sustain the reputation system and cooperation . Abstract Gossip , the exchange of personal information about absent third
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: , , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , March 06, 2024 Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable , generalizable , and behaviorally relevant Ryali et . al do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization , and underscore the crucial role of sex as a biological determinant in human brain organization and behavior . nbsp I pass on the significance and abstract statements . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp Significance Sex is an important biological factor that influences
Updated: 2024-03-04 06:00:00
: : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , March 04, 2024 Brains creating stories of selves : the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning We all create our experienced selves from autobiographical reasoning based on remembered events in stories from our lives . In the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience D'Argembeau et al . nbsp open source do an interesting fMRI study observing brain areas that are active during this process that are not recruited by more simple factual recall of the . events A few days before the scanning session , participants selected a set of memories that have been important in developing and
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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 Human Bridges project, which is part of the Independent Media Institute:Recent scientific findings and research in the study of human origins
and our biology, paleoanthropology, and primate research have reached a
key threshold: we are increasingly able to trace the outlines and fill
in the blanks of our evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago
to the present, and understand the social and cultural processes that
produced the world we live in now.
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 28, 2024 What Is a Society The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective 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 through . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article by emailing me . Abstract : I submit the need to establish a comparative study of societies , namely groups beyond a simple , immediate family that have the potential to endure for generations , whose constituent individuals recognize one another as members , and that maintain control over access to a
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 26, 2024 The enjunkification of our online lives I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times , that describe the increasing complexification or enjunkification of our online lives . The first is The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet by Millenial writer Max Reed . Here are some clips from the article . nbsp Something is changing about the internet , and I am not the only person to have noticed . Everywhere I turned online this year , someone was mourning : Amazon is making itself worse” as New York magazine moaned Google Search is a bloated and overmonetized”
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 23, 2024 Using caffeine to induce flow states I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews open access and show the Highlights and Abstract of the article below . nbsp One of the coauthors , Steven Kotler , who is executive director at the Flow Research Collective was mentioned in my previous 2019 Mind Blog post A Schism in Flow-land Flow Genome Project vs . Flow Research Collective . It was the last in a series of critical posts that started in 2017. While I agree from my personal experience that caffeine as well other common stimulants can induce more
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 21, 2024 AI makes our humanity matter more than ever . I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by Aneesh Raman a work force expert at LinkedIn , nbsp and Maria Flynn , president of Jobs for the Future For readers blocked by the NYTimes paywall , I paste in the conclusion of the : article Minouche Shafik , who is now the president of Columbia University , said : In the past , jobs were about muscles . Now they’re about brains , but in the future , they’ll be about the heart . 8221 The knowledge economy that we have lived in for decades emerged out of a goods
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 19, 2024 Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston , Andy Clark , and other prominent figures who study generative models of sentient behavior in living organisms . nbsp They suggest a future direction for AI development that is very similar to the vision described in the previous MindBlog post which described a recent article by Venkatesh Rao . Here are the highlights and abstract of the article . Highlights
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: : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , February 17, 2024 Gemini 1.5 : Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google . Here's the abstract describing a working memory system vastly greater than our own , that can hold 10 million tokens a token' is roughly 0.75 words In this report , we present the latest model of the Gemini family , Gemini 1.5 Pro , a highly compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context , including multiple long
