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See also Near/Far Thinking

Questions:

• If this system is paying large chunks of the population salary-level payments, who is putting trillions of dollars into this system to buy belief updates?
• Is this asymmetric? Is it more efficient at spreading truth than disinformation/propaganda?  How?
• What prevents folks from making user-agent bots that automate interaction with this system, pretending to be humans & extracting the cash, with revenue shared between the developers & users of the bots?
• Around here, participating in prediction markets is high-status, but in the broader cu

How to do it with your brain:

A specific mental movement that can be trained as a habit that I learned in the context of limiting in-flight work: Label non-sanctioned work "bullshit". Internally declare it emphatically and emotively: "That's bullshit!!" This simple, charged internal speech is accessible to both system 2 and system 1 and can flow between them in either direction.

This is an extremely local notion of "bullshit"! It is a judgement of the triple: (you, <work item>, this moment). It is not an overall j... (read more)

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Full version with labels. Also, data and methodology notes.

Life Ascending claims that the neurons out in front may act as a "'waveguide'" to funnel photons more efficiently to the light-sensitive bits.

This topic is treated in much more depth in Live Cells as Optical Fibers in the Vertebrate Retina, which I read as marveling at how the darn thing works at all.