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by bitexploder 6mo ago
It is amusing that casino machines and games (like digital slot machines) are more tightly regulated than voting machines.
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Forcing short responses will hurt reasoning and chain of thought. There are some potential benefits but forcing response length and when it answers things ironically increases odds of hallucinations if it prioritizes getting the answer out.
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Agreed. It is itself a predictive model. But it works far, far, better than anything prior.
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
I used to like some of Pinker’s ideas, but yeah. This whole article is just unprincipled garbage in 2026. Neuroscience caught up. Advocating Trivers’ now is nonsense. Interestingly many thinkers of that same era (e.g Krishnamurti, Bohm) wer
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Trivers mapped the evolutionary algorithms, but modern network neuroscience maps the actual hardware running those algorithms right now. When Trivers talks about "self-deception for social advantage," he's describing a highly
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Yes? Right now it is relatively expensive to search video. As embedding tech like this advances and makes it even cheaper it just increases the ability to search and analyze every movement. “Locate speech patterns that indicate dissident ac
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
My partner is currently in an online college program for computer science. The platform and way they have structured it feels like actual computing hell. There is so much friction compared to what I know a more seamless learning experience
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Probably a similar problem to AI. Using AI for the sake of AI in an engineering workflow probably wastes time right now. Using technology in the classroom for the sake of using technology is probably similar. Is it really creating access, o
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
This narrative has some critical flaws. Google is not just search or Android and hasn’t been for a while.
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I don't think it is generally hopeless like that. I think some people will funnel in that direction. We are humans. Our consciousness is the original hacker. It took over the hippocampus and used a mostly spatial 3D storage system for
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Social media is a toxic stew of identity based narrative reinforcement. Custom tailored to your specific, and I mean really specific, narratives. Does your identity revolve around religion A, hobby B and C, political views D? The algorithm
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
It is very interesting when you explore the neurological mechanics of this. A narcissist is rigid thinking dialed up to 11. It is essential a special and pathological “skill” their brains have learned. They do not have to update their prior
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
The narratives and what can be identity evolve. The brain’s core function to defend identity never does.
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Common in gaming culture. Kind of a meme template. S tier is the best tier of something. People make tier lists of all sorts of things with that grading.
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It is a powerful neuron hormone. The mechanisms are different. It is still important to recognize the rather dramatic influence this has on the brain. That was what this article was about. This pathway can easily lead to depression and sign
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
See: vagal neurons and vagus nerve. Serotonin from gut directly impacts those. Your brain still directly interprets that signal from the vagus nerve and uses that to up and down regulate mood and arousal. Impact is still significant
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Serotonin from the gut affects vagal neurons. They carry that signal directly to the brain. That has a significant effect on up and down regulation of mood and arousal.
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What you experienced was the gut-brain axis failing under extreme metabolic stress in real time. 3-4x caloric demand and your enteric nervous system was under enormous strain dysregulation of serotonin production, inflammatory signaling flo
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
What is free will? In Friston’s predictive processing framework, free will isn’t a force that stands outside the brain and overrides it… it’s what the system calls the experience of higher level predictions outcompeting lower-level ones. Th
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
Most of the serotonin we produce comes from our gut.
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Or that we have them too…
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by bitexploder 6mo ago
How does this relate to chip based homomorphic encryption? Just curious.
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
Which indicates something unknown. Code quality evaluations in training. Do you know if there is any sort of code quality evaluation for the training data? I think the argument is a little reductive without knowing the actual details of the
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
No just me, fully human intelligence. I just didn't sense any purposeful negative association. I thought of the article as a metaphor to convey a cautionary tale about AI hype.
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
But at some level, you can "just be" with the other organism. Eat some food. Make some dopamine. Hang out. I feed my dog. I exercise my dog. I exercise myself. I eat. We sit down together, I pet her. We both create oxytocin and pe
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
People could not imagine how the PC was going to be a dominant computing paradigm until it was. I think I would argue in the direction that "this seems less likely". But I have been in this game almost 30 years. Anything goes. Als
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
Anyone who dismisses your assertion is not very curious. What I am more interested in is what are its limits and can it perform novel reasoning. It probably needs efficient enough novel reasoning to update itself with new information to bec
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
They still have mammalian wet-ware. The dolphin has a relatively advanced neocortex which means they likely have some relatively advanced processing. They also have an interesting part of their brain that we don't have and it is likely
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The problem I see regarding LLMs is they are the extreme edge of what humans have created. They are trained on the outputs of intelligence and thought and its representation in language is this like parallel stream to intelligence that has
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by bitexploder 7mo ago
This is an important point. We know what our DMN is and how we use language as a basis for thought to create concepts and complex ideas. However language also bounds our thought. What about the Dolphin? It is a fundamental philosophical pro

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