by orchaeus | Nov 16, 2018 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/repcog-intelligence/small-is-everywhen-f1a792f626cc”Suppose you invented the universe. Would you invent it so that the only way living minds on distant worlds could reach each other was through machines nearly none of them possessed and most...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2018 | Shared Link
https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/An amazingly important and relatively impenetrable idea… about the nature of organisms and minds… as viewed by a very peculiar and brilliant neuroscientist....
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2018 | Shared Link
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917Most of the really important ideas… are dangerous… not necessarily intrinsically… but because they often reveal the fragile, misguided...
by orchaeus | Nov 11, 2018 | Shared Link
∞ There are many forms of intelligence. Nearly all of them are absent or artifacted in modern human beings because our cultures are ripping the basis of human intelligence apart by forcing it to compete not against itself for excellence, but against monolithic...
by orchaeus | Oct 31, 2018 | Shared Link
https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/29/alzheimers-research-outsider-bucked-prevailing-theory/This topic deserves an in-depth essay, but, essentially, the Amyloid-plaque hypothesis, which has been the foundation of Alzheimer’s research since the 1990’s is...
by orchaeus | Oct 27, 2018 | Shared Link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/sorry-to-bother-you-white-voice-code-switchingCode-switching can indicate various situations in the speaker, including (but not limited to) sensitivity to linguistic context (and the common parlance or tone of...