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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 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
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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 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
