Knock on wood, but I think Pelosi II is going to get absolutely hosed in an embarrassing fashion. Her mother had decades of incumbency advantage - whereas this lady will just be a symbol of political aristocracy in a moment when populism is the order of the day.

I wish this article mentioned that many of the patterns observed in psychedelic fMRI studies (e.g. increased Lempel-Ziv complexity, entropy etc) have also been observed in M/EEG studies. There's more going on in psychedelic science than just rsfMRI studies.

My take away from this whole discourse is that Democrats don't know what they want (or can't agree on what they want). Do they want Trump But Blue? Do they want Woke With Degrees? Do they want Neoliberal Clinton-esque?
In contrast, Republican know exactly what they want: Trump + liberal tears.

What does this mean for Hansen's "Acid test"? It seems like the post-El Nino cooling has been (at bets) moderate, and certainly not in the range he gives for past years (iirc the expected cooling would be something like 0.2-0.3C).

This is great work...but it's worth pointing out that most of the really interesting findings (increased LZC/higher entropy, etc) have also been found in M/EEG and in vitro neural cultures. So it's good to be skeptical of BOLD, but there's been solid replication going on for a while.

This citation policy is dumb as hell, but if *this* is really the straw that breaks Pinker et al's backs, I frankly have to question their integrity.
Apparently it's fine for rent-seeking publishers to make billions leeching on the work of others...but God forbid they get "woke"...

"Admirable?" Spring Nature has reaped billions in revenue by extracting and pocketing unpaid expert labor from scientists who are locked into a system that requires their participation to maintain their careers.

How strict is the >1 year of postdoc thing? I just wrapped up year 2 of my first postdoc (PhD in June 2023) but would love to apply...

It's been really blackpilling to see University admins falling over themselves to embrace AI, while their own faculty are universally saying that it's causing massive problems in the classroom.
A very stark example of admin/faculty disconnect.

I won't lie, if you had this as a surrealist survival horror game it would 100% be more interesting than anything these AI-boosters could create if the AI actually did what they wanted it to.
It's somehow...claustrophobic?

This seems genuinely more interesting than anything the AI-boosters would design if the AI actually did what they wanted it to.

I love this though. It's the closest I've ever come to seeing experiential dream-logic presented in media.

...are harder to keep "on the rails."
If someone says "I'm an independent researcher interested in managing fibromyalgia", I will be a lot more open to them than if they said: "I'm an independent researcher trying to understand psychedelics." Ime, the latter person probably isn't super rigorous.

I think a lot hinges on the nature of the question. Renegade Research is focused on problems of chronic illness, where 1) getting things right is very high stakes b/c people's health is at risk and 2) we all care deeply.

Other topics though (consciousness, psychedelics, pop-neuroscience)...

It's not hopeless though - I'm involved with an independent research org (Renegade Research) that is focused on scientific problems in clinical medicine, and we collaborate a lot with physicians and scientists in and out of academia.
So maybe you just need the right community?

I think part of the issue is that, to have serious high-level conversations kind of inherently requires some kind of gate-keeping to keep low-effort posts out.
Academia provides that (imo too much of it), but other forums have too little, and so get overrun by nuts.

Ime, the Left tends to use "do you already agree with me" as a gatekeeping filter, whereas the Right sees an opportunity for conversion. Maybe it's b/c so much of the American Right is evangelical/missionary in outlook.