Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
I really wasn’t sure if InfoWars as satire was something we needed, other than as a way to help the Sandy Hook families. But this is pure art, and I respect the work
Ben CollinsTikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
I’ve been pondering this for a while. What constitutes an error, outside of a lab defined operant conditioning set up? How does anything in the brain know something is wrong?
Reza ShadmehrIf an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Just the dumbest, most grasping at straws people
Al Jazeera EnglishThe 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.
AI is a pointless, garbage technology that only causes harm. Time to regulate it
Maggie Harrison DupréNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
I wonder if anyone studying human echolocation varies acoustically interesting things about the surfaces to probe the limits
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄Humans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Abolish the Home Office
The GuardianHome Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
This feels incorrect but I can’t back that up 100% 🤔
Berna Devezeri see a particular grievance regularly on here: "a paper I reviewed came back to me at a diff journal. the authors didn't address my concerns at all." seriously what are you doing accepting to review the same paper? let people breathe & have another chance. let them decide what's worth addressing.
Halfway through. I love Murderbot so much ❤️
Andrew D WilsonLook the important thing is that I have the new Murderbot book in my possession 🥰
I mean it’s only a book, Michael, how many could a person sensibly write in a week? 10?
Hetan ShahAnyway don’t worry you’ll be protected from AI generated slop as Amazon limits the number of titles authors can create to 10 BOOKS PER FORMAT PER WEEK
Didn’t all the water company execs just get bonuses?
FarrukhBBC News, "Both terminals at Gatwick airport have run out of water" "It means toilets there can't be flushed and hand washing facilities aren't working"
Very cool story about a very cool device I had never heard of! I love mechanical computing devices
Dan FalkWhile imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Austrian engineer Curt Herzstark -- born #OTD in 1902 -- invented a pocket computer which would not be surpassed for decades, as I wrote a while back for @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/science/2021... #science #history #histsci