• Managing the risks of AI in pragmatic ways.

    Updated: 2023-06-30 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 Friday , June 30, 2023 Managing the risks of AI in pragmatic ways . I want to pass on the final paragraphs of a recent commentary by Venkatesh Rao on the tragedy of the Titan submersible , which was a consequence of Stockton Rush , the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions , taking a number of design risks to reduce costs and increase profits . The bulk of Rao's piece deals with issues in the design of potentially dangerous new technologies , and the final paragraphs deal with managing the risks of artificial intelligence in pragmatic ways . AI risk , understood as something very similar to ordinary kinds of engineering risk such as the risk of

  • Mechanisms that link psychological stress to the exacerbation of gut inflammation.

    Updated: 2023-06-28 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 Wednesday , June 28, 2023 Mechanisms that link psychological stress to the exacerbation of gut inflammation . Schneider et . al describe one mechanism by which psychological stress deteriorates our health the enteric nervous system relays psychological stress to intestinal inflammation . Here is their abstract : Highlights Psychological stress leads to monocyte-mediated exacerbation of gut inflammation Chronic glucocorticoid signaling drives the effect of stress on IBD Stress induces inflammatory enteric glia that promote monocyte recruitment via CSF1 Stress provokes transcriptional immaturity in enteric neurons and dysmotility Summary Mental

  • New Research from the CWMH: Risk of Major Malformations in Infants with Prenatal Exposure to Benzodiazepines

    Updated: 2023-06-26 21:42:06
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  • The vagus nerve, heart rate variability, and subjective wellbeing - a MindBlog self experiment

    Updated: 2023-06-26 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 Monday , June 26, 2023 The vagus nerve , heart rate variability , and subjective wellbeing a MindBlog self experiment In this post I pass on to MindBlog readers a NYTimes article by Christina Caron that has been republished several time by the newspaper . It is a sane account of what the vagus nerve is and what it does . The vagus is the main nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system . Unlike the sympathetic nervous system , which is associated with arousal of the body and the fight or flight” response , the parasympathetic branch helps us rest , digest and calm down . Numerous experiments have shown that increased activity of the nerve

  • Weekly Roundup for June 23, 2023: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2023-06-25 21:10:41
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  • Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines

    Updated: 2023-06-21 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 Wednesday , June 21, 2023 Turing , von Neumann , and the computational architecture of biological machines I pass on the abstract of a PNAS perspective article by Hashim M . Al-Hashimi motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me In the mid-1930s , the English mathematician and logician Alan Turing invented an imaginary machine which could emulate the process of manipulating finite symbolic configurations by human computers . His machine launched the field of computer science and provided a foundation for the modern-day programmable computer . A decade later , building on Turing’s machine , the American–Hungarian mathematician John

  • The psychological illusion of "The Good Old Days"

    Updated: 2023-06-20 15:23:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Tuesday , June 20, 2023 The psychological illusion of The Good Old Days Mastroianni and Gilbert open access do a nice study illustrating that the the universal perception of our ongoing moral decline is a psychological illusion to which people all over the world and throughout history have been susceptible . Their abstract : Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining . In a series of studies using both archival and original data n 12,492,983 we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining , that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this

  • Can We Use Machine Learning to Predict Risk for Perinatal Depression?

    Updated: 2023-06-14 00:00:41
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  • How do we define spirituality and what it’s role is in our daily lives?

    Updated: 2023-06-10 15:39:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Saturday , June 10, 2023 How do we define spirituality and what it’s role is in our daily lives This post is primarily directed to Austin TX people who will be attending the Sunday 2 p.m . July 2 meeting of the Austin Rainbow Forum that is now in its 5th year . We will be discussing the topic of what spirituality means to each of us , and what its role in our lives is . Look below to see how the three major AI chatbots responded to my request for some guidance on how to moderate such a discussion . nbsp Also I'll pass on this youtube video titled What To Remember To Be Happy pointed to by Rainbow Forum discussant David Soileau . nbsp Question to the

  • A new place for consciousness in our understanding of the universe

    Updated: 2023-06-09 05:00:00
    I want to point MindBlog readers to an article by Thomas Lewton that I enjoyed reading. It describes how theorists are trying to make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time by reformulating physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world. Lewton cites a number of authors who contributed to a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies (Volume 28, Numbers 9-10, 2021)

  • Sleep Disturbance and Suicidal Ideation in Pregnant and Postpartum Women

    Updated: 2023-06-08 00:00:17
    Skip to content Search About Mission Statement Staff Our Publications Location Support Our Program Join Our Team Specialty Areas PMS PMDD Fertility Mental Health Psychiatric Disorders During Pregnancy Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders Breastfeeding Psychiatric Medications Menopausal Symptoms Blog Recent Posts Essential Reads Our Column at ObGyn News Subscribe to Our Newsletter Clinical Program Our Clinicians Make an Appointment Research Program MGH Postpartum Psychosis Project A Neurosteroid Intervention for Menopausal and Perimenopausal Depression UPWARD UPWARD(S Preventing Depressive Relapse in Pregnant Women National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric Medications STEPS for PPD Screening and Treatment Enhancement for Postpartum Depression in the MGB System MGHPDS Mobile App General

  • Negativity drives online news consumption

    Updated: 2023-06-07 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 Wednesday , June 07, 2023 Negativity drives online news consumption Why paying attention to the news can come close to being a receipe for clinic depression . An open source article from Robertson et . al Their : abstract Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions , hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption . Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories . Specifically , we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials N 22,743 Our dataset comprises 105,000 different variations of

  • A simple heuristic for distinguishing lie from truth

    Updated: 2023-06-05 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 Monday , June 05, 2023 A simple heuristic for distinguishing lie from truth Work by Verschuere et . al shows that a simple heuristic of only judging the level of detail in the message consistently allows people to discriminate lies from truths : Decades of research have shown that people are poor at detecting deception . Understandably , people struggle with integrating the many putative cues to deception into an accurate veracity judgement . Heuristics simplify difficult decisions by ignoring most of the information and relying instead only on the most diagnostic cues . Here we conducted nine studies in which people evaluated honest and deceptive

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