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Could At-Home Brain Stimulation Reduce Psychiatry's Reliance on SSRIs?(nytimes.com)
2 points by raindeer2 5mo ago|0 comments
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FDA approves at-home tDCS as first non-drug standalone treatment for depression(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by raindeer2 7mo ago|0 comments
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by raindeer2 11mo ago
The first bit is why it is called Stochastic gradient decent. You follow the gradient of a randomly chosen minibatch at each step. It basically makes you "vibrate" down along the gradient.
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by raindeer2 1y ago
Having a Scandinavian perspective on this, where birthrates also have fallen a lot recently, I don't think financial stability is the only factor. In my experience ppl here don't wait with having kids so long due to lack of money.
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by raindeer2 1y ago
Wonder if this perspective is compatible with Wolframs physics model based on hypergraphs? Gravity, in this framework, is an emergent property arising from the statistical behavior of the hypergraph's evolution, suggesting that gravity
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by raindeer2 2y ago
If you and I had the same exact input and outputs then why would we have different experiences? Seems very unlikely to me. A better way of thinking about qualia is like embeddings in a neural network. Every time you run the training from a
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by raindeer2 2y ago
The difference between traditional software and LLMs is the generality of their intelligence, and there are formal definitions of general intelligence such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI AIXI is a definition o
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Funnily Bezos has probably made more for Harris by stopping the endorsement then if he let it go through. No one would have cared about the endorsement, now this story is everywhere..
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Same here
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Check out brain stimulation such as flowneuroscience.com
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by raindeer2 2y ago
The reason that ppl give up now is not that it is worse now than before, but rather the opposite. Now you can do almost nothing productive and still survive. Before, you would simply starve to death.
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Compatibilists often argue that determinism and free will (and moral responsibility) are compatible since their view is that what constitutes freedom is not affected by whether or not determinism holds. Hence, in this case, the debate is no
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Yes, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is great! (and it is referenced in the paper) A quote from it: "Other compatibilists show less concern in rebutting the conclusion that the freedom to do otherwise is incompatible with deter
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Why?
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by raindeer2 2y ago
It cannot, even if ppl think that this is what Bell's theorem says. But the determinism must be quite strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Well there are many versions of compatibilism I guess, but just reading the Wikipedia article on compatibilism I don't think most compatibilists think freedom relies on whether or not causal determinism holds. Please tell me if i'
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Indeed. The problem is that the word "free" has different meanings when talking about free will and freedom in other contexts. What you talk about is value freedom, while ppl denying the existence of free will refer to "physc
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by raindeer2 2y ago
Yes, the strange thing with the debate is that ppl seem to think that there is a conflict between compatibilism and incompatiblism, which there isn't. They are just taking about different concepts. "By clearly defining what freedo
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by raindeer2 2y ago
You might find this paper interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435 The confusion about free will comes from a confusion about what "free" means. The everyday use of the word free has little to do with de
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by raindeer2 3y ago
> I could imagine that in reality all of that isn't needed. Whether the algorithm really feels something or not - it doesn't matter as long as the expression is realistic enough for humans to believe that it feels something. Th
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by raindeer2 3y ago
> Unless you really claim that modeling "pain" as some kind of variable in an algorithm can be equivalent to a biological being feeling pain? Yes, I do. I guess it all boils down to whether or not you think the hard problem of
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by raindeer2 3y ago
> In other words: "Pain isn't real"? Are you serious? Of course it is real. When I feel pain from an injury, the injury is very real, my pain sensor's signals are real and my brain's interpretation of those signa
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by raindeer2 3y ago
Check out How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, by L. Barrett. But I probably take it a bit further than that :) The system would believe it is experiencing pain. Its model of itself would use the pain concept to describe its
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by raindeer2 3y ago
Emotions are concepts our internal model has learned when trying to model itself. For a system to experience what we describe as pain, it needs to receive sensory input which it predicts signals that something is damaging its internal state
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by raindeer2 4y ago
Have you looked into non-pharmacological treatments like tDCS or rTMS? brain stimulation is safe and often as effective as drugs but without the side-effects. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30917990/
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by raindeer2 5y ago
The human machine is not programmed in the traditional sense, it's learned to a large extent. Guilt is a signal that some behavior should be changed/relearned/reprogrammed. The open question is why and how humans can "fe
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by raindeer2 5y ago
Sabine is great.
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by raindeer2 5y ago
>"as it is just part of a system no one has any control over" Define "control". A self-driving car is on some level in control over its driving. Otherwise it would not be self-driving. When discussing free will, ppl t
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by raindeer2 5y ago
"moral responsibility, essential no, it cannot exist again unless supernatural is involved for the same reasons outlined above, there is no "you" making a decision, just a process." This view is based on a misunderstandi
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by raindeer2 5y ago
How so? tDCS is considered very safe. Here is a good review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007190/

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