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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 Monday , July 31, 2023 The visible gorilla . A staple of my lectures in the 1990s was showing the invisible gorilla’ video , in which viewers were asked to count the number of times that students with white shirts passed a basket ball . After the start of the game a student in a gorilla costume walks slowly through the group , pauses in the middle to wave and moves off screen to the left . Most viewers who are busy counting the ball passes don’t report seeing the gorilla . Here's the video : Wallish et al . now update this experiment on inattentional blindness in an article titled The visible gorilla : Unexpected fast—not physically
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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 Friday , July 28, 2023 Unnarratability The Tower of Babel redux where have all the common narratives gone I pass on some clips from Venkatesh Rao's recent Ribbonfarm Studio . posting Perspectives like his make me feel that one's most effective self preservation stance might be to assume that we are on the dawn of a new dark age , a period during which only power matters , and community , cooperation , and kindness are diminished a period like the early middle ages in Europe which did permit under the sheltered circumstances of the church a privileged few to a life of contemplation . Strongly Narratable Conditions The 1985-2015 period , arguably ,
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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 Wednesday , July 26, 2023 A MindBlog paragraph on non-dual awareness massaged by Bard and ChatGPT-4 This popst is using MindBlog to archive a further example example of the sort shown in Monday’s post of GPT bots editing a paragraph I wrote , this one being on non-dual awareness . nbsp The paragraph : The fact that there is no there there means it . Empty is empty . The ground state is just the mute body doing its thing . From its depths storylines rise and fall , bonbons to savor or ignore . The body can know that it has found a new ground state , and can be no longer willing to just play nice if the upstairs word salad is dinking around with or
Updated: 2023-07-25 00:00:52
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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 Monday , July 24, 2023 The evolution of transhuman forms a MindBlog paragraph edited by GPT implementations In this post I am documenting the final result of passing a paragraph I wrote on future human evolution through a number of different GPT generative pre-trained transformers This is to archive the results of this exercise for myself , and in case it might be of interest to a few MindBlog readers . The bots were prompted by a request to re-write or edit the paragraph to make it more accessible to a reader with a college education . The bottom line is that the edited versions with the most depth and coherence were obtained using Open AI’s
Updated: 2023-07-20 03:29:33
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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 Wednesday , July 19, 2023 Proxy Failure is an Inherent Risk in Goal-Oriented Systems I will pass on the title and abstract of another article to appear in Behavioral and Brain Science for which reviewers comments are being solicited . MindBlog readers can email me to request a PDF of the target article . nbsp Dead rats , dopamine , performance metrics , and peacock tails : proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal- oriented systems Authors : Yohan J . John , Leigh Caldwell , Dakota E . McCoy , and Oliver Braganza Abstract : When a measure becomes a target , it ceases to be a good measure . For example , when standardized test scores in education
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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 Monday , July 17, 2023 MindBlog's reading list . I've decided to pass on links to articles I have found worthwhile reading realizing that I am not going to have time to frame their ideas into longer posts because I'm speading more time now at my Steinway B's keyboard than at my computer's keyboard . If you encounter a paywall with any of the links , you might try entering the URL at https : archive.is An installment of Venkatesh Rao’s newsletter : The permaweird narrative Jaron Lanier There is no . A.I in The New Yorker Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed David Brooks in The New York Times commenting on Douglas Hofstadter's recent ideas .
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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 Friday , July 14, 2023 Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results Finkel does a summary of the first round of results of an adversarial colloboration' funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation in which both sides of the consciousness debate agreed on experiments to be conducted by theory-neutral” labs with no stake in the outcome . It pits integrated information theory IIT the sensory network hypothesis that proposes a posterior hot zone” as the site of consciousness , against the global neuronal workspace theory GNWT which likens networks of neurons in the front of the brain to a clipboard where sensory
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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 Wednesday , July 12, 2023 The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence I would recommend having a read through Evgeny Morozov's piece in the NYTimes as an antidote to Marc Adreessen's optimistic vision of AI that was the subject of MindBlog's June 23 post Here is a small clip from the article , followed by the titles describing different problem areas he sees : Discussions of A.G.I . are rife with such apocalyptic scenarios . Yet a nascent A.G.I . lobby of academics , investors and entrepreneurs counter that , once made safe , A.G.I . would be a boon to civilization . This is why , for all the hand-wringing , so many smart people in the tech industry
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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 Monday , July 10, 2023 Inheritance of social status stability in England from 1600 to 2022. From historical records Clarks demonstrates open source strong persistence of social status across family trees over 400 years , in spite of large increases in general levels of education and social mobility . Significance There is widespread belief across the social sciences in the ability of social interventions and social institutions to significantly influence rates of social mobility . In England , 1600 to 2022, we see considerable change in social institutions across time . Half the population was illiterate in 1,800, and not until 1,880 was compulsory
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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 Friday , July 07, 2023 A meta-analysis questions the cognitive benefits of physical activity . I give up . If anything was supposed to have been proven I would have thought it would be that exercise has a beneficial effect on brain health and cognition . Now Ciria et al . offer the following in Nature Human Biology : Extensive research links regular physical exercise to an overall enhancement of cognitive function across the lifespan . Here we assess the causal evidence supporting this relationship in the healthy population , using an umbrella review of meta-analyses limited to randomized controlled trials RCTs Despite most of the 24 reviewed
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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 Wednesday , July 05, 2023 Why music training slows cognitive aging A team of Chinese collaborators has reported experiments in the Oxford academic journal Cerebral Cortex titled Functional gradients in prefrontal regions and somatomotor networks reflect the effect of music training experience on cognitive aging which are stated to show that music training enhances the functional separation between regions across prefrontal and somatomotor networks , delaying deterioration in working memory performance and prefrontal suppression of prominant but irrelevant information . I'm passing on the abstract and a clip from the paper's conclusion , and can send
