Amiran
@aaimnr.bsky.social
Balance requires nuance.
Hoping for more than an exact mirror image of X.
Hoping for more than an exact mirror image of X.
That sentence is indeed striking. Feels like going from one extreme to another.
December 29, 2024 at 9:09 PM
That sentence is indeed striking. Feels like going from one extreme to another.
BTW the mental model at work when we think that we can run out of ideas is similarly flawed to that of Trump's when he insists that we have limited energy in our lives and hence we should limit our physical activity.
edition.cnn.com/2019/02/08/p...
edition.cnn.com/2019/02/08/p...
It’s time to revisit Donald Trump’s ‘battery’ theory of life force | CNN Politics
When Donald Trump heads to Walter Reed’s medical hospital Friday afternoon for his annual physical, he will bring with him a very interesting – and still undercovered – theory of exercise and energy.
edition.cnn.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
BTW the mental model at work when we think that we can run out of ideas is similarly flawed to that of Trump's when he insists that we have limited energy in our lives and hence we should limit our physical activity.
edition.cnn.com/2019/02/08/p...
edition.cnn.com/2019/02/08/p...
What you're saying doesn't follow at all from the preceding discussion. The argument was about where the learning happens.
Still, unknowingly perhaps, your exaggerated claim is still true. Take phantom pain - it's not caused by invisible arms, is it?
More on that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvR...
Still, unknowingly perhaps, your exaggerated claim is still true. Take phantom pain - it's not caused by invisible arms, is it?
More on that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvR...
Predictive processing as a theory to understand pain | Mick Thacker | TEDxKingstonUponThames
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 29, 2024 at 12:42 PM
What you're saying doesn't follow at all from the preceding discussion. The argument was about where the learning happens.
Still, unknowingly perhaps, your exaggerated claim is still true. Take phantom pain - it's not caused by invisible arms, is it?
More on that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvR...
Still, unknowingly perhaps, your exaggerated claim is still true. Take phantom pain - it's not caused by invisible arms, is it?
More on that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvR...
For what? Well, the benefit is clear. We give away to them everything humanity has ever created so that they can start selling it back to us for the rest of our lives. What’s not to like?
December 29, 2024 at 11:42 AM
For what? Well, the benefit is clear. We give away to them everything humanity has ever created so that they can start selling it back to us for the rest of our lives. What’s not to like?
Seems like the control group indeed wasn’t chilled, so not really a placebo. Not sure whether it’s the same study though, as the one below is not that conclusive.
academic.oup.com/fampra/artic...
academic.oup.com/fampra/artic...
Acute cooling of the feet and the onset of common cold symptoms
Abstract. Background. There is a common folklore that chilling of the body surface causes the development of common cold symptoms, but previous clinical re
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December 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Seems like the control group indeed wasn’t chilled, so not really a placebo. Not sure whether it’s the same study though, as the one below is not that conclusive.
academic.oup.com/fampra/artic...
academic.oup.com/fampra/artic...
Nope, noticing that “muscles have memory” is neither counterintuitive nor true and hence is the opposite of examples that @hankgreen.bsky.social et al. gave is my original contribution to this conversation.
Still, I appreciate our archetypical social media disagreement, it’s pointless, but cute.
Still, I appreciate our archetypical social media disagreement, it’s pointless, but cute.
December 29, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Nope, noticing that “muscles have memory” is neither counterintuitive nor true and hence is the opposite of examples that @hankgreen.bsky.social et al. gave is my original contribution to this conversation.
Still, I appreciate our archetypical social media disagreement, it’s pointless, but cute.
Still, I appreciate our archetypical social media disagreement, it’s pointless, but cute.
Not pedantic, because some people literally believe that “body remembers” which is not the case. The original question was precisely about pieces of knowledge that counter popular intuitions, so “muscles have no memory, it’s all in the brain” would be a better fit here.
December 29, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Not pedantic, because some people literally believe that “body remembers” which is not the case. The original question was precisely about pieces of knowledge that counter popular intuitions, so “muscles have no memory, it’s all in the brain” would be a better fit here.
Regardless, much more accurate statement would be “muscles don’t have any memory”. Because they obviously don’t.
December 29, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Regardless, much more accurate statement would be “muscles don’t have any memory”. Because they obviously don’t.
Perhaps they placeboed external virus exposure?
December 29, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Perhaps they placeboed external virus exposure?
Here’s a good and accessible video on the topic: youtu.be/A1Ghrd7NBtk and this one goes more deeply into epistemological consequences: youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI?...
How the brain shapes reality - with Andy Clark
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
youtu.be
December 29, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Here’s a good and accessible video on the topic: youtu.be/A1Ghrd7NBtk and this one goes more deeply into epistemological consequences: youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI?...
I majored in Philosophy, so likely didn’t miss the fun.
December 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
I majored in Philosophy, so likely didn’t miss the fun.
Oh sure, I guess the whole idea is about how you can prioritise one or another, but still the sheer number of information / connections is on the side of feedback rather than feedforward.
So it’s about “hallucinations” being more responsive and malleable vs overly rigid, but still - hallucinations.
So it’s about “hallucinations” being more responsive and malleable vs overly rigid, but still - hallucinations.
December 29, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Oh sure, I guess the whole idea is about how you can prioritise one or another, but still the sheer number of information / connections is on the side of feedback rather than feedforward.
So it’s about “hallucinations” being more responsive and malleable vs overly rigid, but still - hallucinations.
So it’s about “hallucinations” being more responsive and malleable vs overly rigid, but still - hallucinations.
Btw would also love to know more on how it’s contested and about your research.
It’s an amazingly consequential field that has a potential of impacting our self understanding big time.
It’s an amazingly consequential field that has a potential of impacting our self understanding big time.
December 29, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Btw would also love to know more on how it’s contested and about your research.
It’s an amazingly consequential field that has a potential of impacting our self understanding big time.
It’s an amazingly consequential field that has a potential of impacting our self understanding big time.
Didn’t come across as dickish at all!
Checking my sources and I stand corrected, it’s more about nr of connections than information weighting.
Source is pretty high level, Shamil Chandaria mentioned it a couple of times, eg here, at 17 mins youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI .
Checking my sources and I stand corrected, it’s more about nr of connections than information weighting.
Source is pretty high level, Shamil Chandaria mentioned it a couple of times, eg here, at 17 mins youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI .
Bayesian Brain and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
YouTube video by Shamil Chandaria
youtu.be
December 29, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Didn’t come across as dickish at all!
Checking my sources and I stand corrected, it’s more about nr of connections than information weighting.
Source is pretty high level, Shamil Chandaria mentioned it a couple of times, eg here, at 17 mins youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI .
Checking my sources and I stand corrected, it’s more about nr of connections than information weighting.
Source is pretty high level, Shamil Chandaria mentioned it a couple of times, eg here, at 17 mins youtu.be/kw5Q5h8s6FI .
Humans did not coexist with dinosaurs.
TBH this factoid doesn’t explain anything, but still true.
TBH this factoid doesn’t explain anything, but still true.
December 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Humans did not coexist with dinosaurs.
TBH this factoid doesn’t explain anything, but still true.
TBH this factoid doesn’t explain anything, but still true.
Desire is the root cause of all suffering.
December 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Desire is the root cause of all suffering.
We don’t perceive what comes from the senses. We exclusively perceive hallucinations generated from predictions and then adjust them based on the prediction errors, which are the only data actually coming from the senses.
Top-down information flow in the brain is 10x higher than the bottom-up.
Top-down information flow in the brain is 10x higher than the bottom-up.
December 28, 2024 at 9:14 PM
We don’t perceive what comes from the senses. We exclusively perceive hallucinations generated from predictions and then adjust them based on the prediction errors, which are the only data actually coming from the senses.
Top-down information flow in the brain is 10x higher than the bottom-up.
Top-down information flow in the brain is 10x higher than the bottom-up.
Seems like woke right are having their Stalinist moment. This is the exact pattern of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_...
Pavlik Morozov - Wikipedia
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December 27, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Seems like woke right are having their Stalinist moment. This is the exact pattern of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_...
This argument has been made fortunately by some in ML academia circles, see eg youtu.be/gzaIrD3jki8 for examples of GPT4 dumbness and how it can only reason about things it has already seen in training, without truly generalising.
Josh Tenenbaum: Scaling AI the Human Way: Building Machines That Understand the World
YouTube video by Santa Fe Institute
youtu.be
December 21, 2024 at 6:31 PM
This argument has been made fortunately by some in ML academia circles, see eg youtu.be/gzaIrD3jki8 for examples of GPT4 dumbness and how it can only reason about things it has already seen in training, without truly generalising.
Well, I didn’t want to troll anyone here, but was still blocked by the OP… seems like lot of people here block everything that counters their narrative, no matter how respectful.
December 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Well, I didn’t want to troll anyone here, but was still blocked by the OP… seems like lot of people here block everything that counters their narrative, no matter how respectful.
Have you seen all these posts on Bluesky contrasting Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny?
December 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Have you seen all these posts on Bluesky contrasting Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny?