by orchaeus | Nov 25, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/repcog-intelligence/the-signal-83ed66b58d51We need to send a »kind of signal… that we have never yet imagined… because it has nothing to do with machines… A living signal. And not to the sky… but to the living world.
by orchaeus | Nov 23, 2017 | Shared Link
https://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think”My answer to “If not Bayesianism, then what?” is: all of human intellectual effort. Figuring out how things work, what’s true or false, what’s effective or useless, is “human...
by orchaeus | Nov 22, 2017 | Shared Link
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/autism-genetics/∞ So, too, Schizophrenia… and nearly every other disorder we … pursue as if ‘there is one cause’. It is not genes. Genes are infrequently ‘the’ cause of disorders like Autism....
by orchaeus | Nov 22, 2017 | Shared Link
https://www.quora.com/Are-my-likes-and-upvotes-or-anything-I-do-that-causes-unnecessary-data-to-be-stored-somewhere-harming-the-environment/answer/Darin-Stevenson?srid=uUQ8&share=1∞ What is the cost of the data we produce daily? And who or what pays this...
by orchaeus | Nov 20, 2017 | Shared Link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/an-alarming-number-of-sites-employ-privacy-invading-session-replay-scripts/”It’s not clear what meaningful recourses Internet users have for preventing the data collection. The researcher said that ad-blockers...
by orchaeus | Nov 16, 2017 | Shared Link
http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/13/1I consider Varela’s work both fascinating and important. A good introduction is The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological roots of Human Understanding.