RAB1138

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by RAB1138 5y ago
"You’ve got a hundred-million-dollar mission — why are you using software built in the ’90s to design and launch it?" - that got me. This is awesome
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by RAB1138 6y ago
This is stunning.
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by RAB1138 6y ago
The relationship between the Default Mode Network and a rich inner life seems like a reasonable enough connection, as does the relationship between DMN activity and loneliness. What would be fascinating to me is an exploration of causality.
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by RAB1138 6y ago
Can you provide more details about how you're running them model in-browser?
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Swatting Attacks Increase Security Concerns Across Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
4 points by RAB1138 7y ago|0 comments
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by RAB1138 9y ago
team@usedopamine.com ;)
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Bruh. Did you even look at the price on Space?
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by RAB1138 9y ago
What on the evil part? Or that we make the whole team read Skinner? It's a thin book.
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Thanks! We think so too! Also, you have a close sarcasm tag with no open sarcasm tag. Dude that's bad form.
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by RAB1138 9y ago
But I'll give you the TL;DR: Lightening rod: because now we're on HN. Humanitarian use: see below about 100 years ago vs. today. Quality of people: that's why Space is free. What's design's ethical imperative: also,
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by RAB1138 9y ago
(right, it was more an invitation for discourse!)
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Hi! Because we don't sell to apps that would hurt people. See manifesto on usedopamine.com/team/index.html. ~100 years ago, the most frequent causes of death in the US were pathogens for which we barely had a name. Pnemonia,
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Paul (author on that piece) is wonderful! Not so much remorseless, we were just shooting for contrarian and attention grabbing...And here we are....knee deep in front page of HN hate mail...
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Yes. See attached. https://youtu.be/Qsi08xvhaQ4?t=4m21s
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by RAB1138 9y ago
I tried to emoji fistbump you here, but HN won't let me.
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by RAB1138 9y ago
WE HAVE A FAX!!??!?!
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by RAB1138 9y ago
We love that one! Required reading. His work on why you, me, everyone on this thread, and every species that's part of the subphylum Vertebrata shaped the course of thinking from contemporary Machine Learning techniques like Q-Learning
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by RAB1138 9y ago
The men and women who write your software control the boundary conditions for your experiences there. They control what and how you can think, feel, and believe in that experience. When Twitter doubles the numbers of characters you can twee
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Contrarian, not evil, is more of the motto. You don't get anyone to listen if you just talk about an AI SaaS platform for long-term habit formation. It comes off as wonkish. Trust me, we tried ;)
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Happy to answer any questions you have! It's all of our job to be transparent about the new tablestakes of design, because that transparency builds exact dialogues like this! It would be more audacious if we didn't publicize w
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by RAB1138 9y ago
Hi! Founder (Brown) here. Appreciate the traffic! Also, would love to clear up mob misconceptions about: -Why did we pick lightening-rod branding? -Why was this the most humanitarian use of a neuroscience MS/PhD? -What quality of peopl
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by RAB1138 10y ago
Space works by giving you a set of new app icons to use instead of the normal ones. The process of creating new app icons from a webpage is very streamlined in Safari. As it turns out, most iPhone users who aren't the HN crowd use Sa
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by RAB1138 10y ago
Thanks! We're working on the chrome extension too.
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UX, Mind Control, and Being a Superhero (Medium)(medium.com)
2 points by RAB1138 10y ago|0 comments
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by RAB1138 10y ago
hey @gingerlime, I'm Ramsay, Founder @ Dopamine Thanks for the feedback! 1.) We're releasing our web sdks next week: A PHP version and a Python version, each with a JS frontend wrapper. If you email me at ramsay@usedopamine.com I
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A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (2007)(edge.org)
106 points by RAB1138 11y ago|5 comments
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by RAB1138 12y ago
I don't think we should have expected the temporary news of decreased hours to account for greater happiness, but rather that people filled their newly free time with pursuits that made them happy.
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by RAB1138 12y ago
Relevant: Eroom's law: http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v11/n3/fig_tab/nrd3681_F1.... So what do we do here? We're not just underfunding basic biology research, it's rolling down hil
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by RAB1138 12y ago
This feels like such a cop-out philosophy: just get used to it and don't bring it up in polite company. This reeks of cognitive dissonance.
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Show HN: Golgi: Google Maps for the brain and connectome(usegolgi.com)
6 points by RAB1138 12y ago|0 comments

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