I've been wondering for a while how likely it is for questions about dissociative identity disorder to one day rival the main culture war topics such as racism, sexism, trans identities etc This recent article seems to show that they have some potential, with a video of a apparently benign...
I came across this video by MIT CSAIL. Here is the article they are talking about: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adc8892 This team claims to have achieved driving tasks that previously required 10000 neurons, while using only 19, by using "liquid neural networks" inspired by worm neurology. They say this innovation brings massive improvements...
An intermediate step in the abstraction staircase I can't claim to have deep knowledge or understanding about the topic, but ecological dynamics seems like a really interesting and underrated approach, and nobody else has done it, so I'll do my best. If you've never heard of ecological psychology before, it...
I didn't know about that test! Pretty neat, and it seems better than the "color of the apple" one
To be clear I am not pushing back on the notion of aphantasia, although I'm not necessarily a fan
And I don't think I have aphantasia
My point was more about metaphors, and about the fact that much more of our communication relies on them than we realize
Sorry, I'm being very pedantic, but how are "picturing" and "mind's eye" not metaphorical? It's not like there's an actual picture or an actual eye anywhere, in fact that's the whole point
Thanks, this is interesting
I was wondering, do retinoids work as an acute treatment as well? I sometimes have annoying acne spots in various places, but I don't feel like preventatively slathering my whole body in the stuff
Of course! Thank you
As a fellow member of the regrettably small overlap between rationalists and adepts of ecological psychology, (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y4hN7SkTwnKPNCPx5/why-don-t-more-people-talk-about-ecological-psychology), I'm looking forward to seeing your next posts!
Those statist AI doomers never miss a chance to bring I, R, and S into everything...
More seriously, thanks for the history lesson!
I've been wondering for a while how likely it is for questions about dissociative identity disorder to one day rival the main culture war topics such as racism, sexism, trans identities etc
This recent article seems to show that they have some potential, with a video of a apparently benign conference being taken down after pressure from activists, but who knows how significant it is. I would like to create some Manifold markets to try to find out, but I can't figure out what precise question to ask.
Any ideas on how to quantify the level of hype and controversy surrounding a subject?
Thanks for your answer! Very interesting
I didn't know about the continuous nature of LNN; I would have thought that you needed different hardware (maybe an analog computer?) to treat continuous values.
Maybe it could work for generative networks for images or music, that seems less discrete than written language.
I came across this video by MIT CSAIL.
Here is the article they are talking about: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adc8892
This team claims to have achieved driving tasks that previously required 10000 neurons, while using only 19, by using "liquid neural networks" inspired by worm neurology.
They say this innovation brings massive improvements on performance, especially in embedded systems, but also in interpretability, since the reduced number of neurons makes the system much more human-readable. In particular, the attention of the system would be much more easily tracked; this would open the door to safety certifications for high-stakes applications.
Having tried driving and flying tasks in different conditions and environments, they also claim that their system is vastly better... (read more)
Je suis de Grenoble donc ça fait loin mais sympa de voir des rationalistes en France!
As I understand it, ecological psychology is more of a framework for the interpretation of existing results than a theory, but it does make predictions about coaching interventions, and yeah it seems like the results are pretty robust
Here is a compilation of studies comparing approaches favored by ecologically-minded coaches to more traditional training interventions: https://perceptionaction.com/comparative/
Could be biased of course, but it may be a good starting point
I can't claim to have deep knowledge or understanding about the topic, but ecological dynamics seems like a really interesting and underrated approach, and nobody else has done it, so I'll do my best.
If you've never heard of ecological psychology before, it is mostly interested in coaching, sports science, driving, what one might call more "system 1" stuff. I personally discovered it through Rob Gray's excellent Perception Action podcast and website, which are focused on these topics.
The term "ecological" comes from the idea that the behavior of an agent can be explained entirely through their environment (broadly speaking). More explicitly, ecological psychologists do their absolute best... (read 1816 more words →)
Your first point is a good one And your second point successfully annoyed me