• 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..

  • Research from the CWMH: Prenatal Exposure to Second Generation Antipsychotics and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preschool-Aged Children

    Updated: 2024-03-27 00:00:16
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  • Increasing Rates of Maternal Mortality: How Do Overdose Deaths Contribute?

    Updated: 2024-03-26 00:00:55
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  • 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;

  • Weekly Roundup for March 22, 2024: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2024-03-22 00:33:50
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  • Essential Reads: The Use of Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs During Pregnancy

    Updated: 2024-03-20 13:12:02
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  • 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

  • NAMI Ask the Expert: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Marlene Freeman and Dr. Ken Duckworth

    Updated: 2024-03-12 00:00:53
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  • 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

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