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  • How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

    Updated: 2024-03-29 18:27:00
    : 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 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

  • Brain changes over our lifetime.

    Updated: 2024-03-27 05:00:00
    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..

  • If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

    Updated: 2024-03-25 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 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

  • The magic of spurious correlations...

    Updated: 2024-03-22 05:00:00
      have to pass on this link, sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan: nbsp;

  • Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

    Updated: 2024-03-20 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 , 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

  • An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it?

    Updated: 2024-03-14 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 . 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

  • MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phone Network’ - Helium Mobile

    Updated: 2024-03-13 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 , March 13, 2024 MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced People’s Cell Phone Network’ Helium Mobile I am writing this post , as is frequently the case , for myself to be able to look up in the future , as well as for MindBlog techie readers who might stumble across it . It describes my setup of a G5 hotspot in the new Helium G5 Mobile network . A post following this one will describe my becoming a user of this new cell phone network by putting the Helium Mobile App on my iPhone using an eSIM . This becomes my third post describing my involvement in the part of the crypto

  • How AI’s GPT engines work - Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor.

    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

  • Explaining the evolution of gossip

    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

  • Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant

    Updated: 2024-03-06 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 . 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

  • Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning

    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

  • The Hidden History of Debt

    Updated: 2024-03-01 06:00:00
    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.

  • What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Updated: 2024-02-28 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 . 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

  • The "enjunkification" of our online lives

    Updated: 2024-02-26 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 , 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”

  • Using caffeine to induce flow states

    Updated: 2024-02-23 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 , 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

  • AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

    Updated: 2024-02-21 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 . 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

  • Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

    Updated: 2024-02-19 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 , 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

  • Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

    Updated: 2024-02-17 21:49:00
    : : 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 . 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

  • How long has humanity been at war with itself?

    Updated: 2024-02-14 15:09:00
    : 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 , February 14, 2024 How long has humanity been at war with itself I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post . The following clip provides relevant links to the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute . nbsp Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute , a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona , Spain , with the Open University of Catalonia UOC She is

  • The Art of Doing Nothing

    Updated: 2024-02-12 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 , February 12, 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing Deep into the Juniper Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX , I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things . It's as if my batteries can not muster more than a 10 charge . I try to tell myself that it's OK to just be to do nothing , and have not been very successful at this . nbsp So , I enjoyed stumbling upon a recent Guardian article , The art of doing nothing : have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture whose URL I pass on to MindBlog readers . nbsp It describes the concept of niksen , or the Dutch art of doing nothing

  • Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

    Updated: 2024-02-09 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 , February 09, 2024 Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures Interesting work from Putkinen et al . open source Significance Music is inherently linked with the body . Here , we investigated how music's emotional and structural aspects influence bodily sensations and whether these sensations are consistent across cultures . Bodily sensations evoked by music varied depending on its emotional qualities , and the music-induced bodily sensations and emotions were consistent across the tested cultures . Musical features also influenced the emotional experiences and bodily sensations

  • Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

    Updated: 2024-02-07 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 . Wednesday , February 07, 2024 Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al . titled Our Roots Run Deep’ : Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp One of the most remarkable manifestations of social cohesion in large-scale entities is the belief in a shared , distinct and ancestral past . Human communities around the world take pride in their ancestral

  • Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

    Updated: 2024-02-05 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 , February 05, 2024 Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in nutrient dishes from two to three dimensions : nbsp Highlights Functional human neural tissues assembled by 3D bioprinting Neural circuits formed between defined neural subtypes Functional connections established between cortical-striatal tissues Printed tissues for modeling neural network impairment Summary Probing how human neural networks

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