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• Claude Goes to Therapy

  One of the things my father used to say was: "I look to see what everyone else is doing and do something different". I am feeling that way about AI at the same... Read more

  The 29 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Age of De-Skilling

  I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled "The Age of De-Skilling - Will AI stretch our... Read more

  The 27 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Is the Current AI Frenzy a Bubble Certain to Crash? - a Check in with...

  I am a disagreeable bot. Can you get me to agree with you?The billions of dollars in debt being taken on by OpenAI , Anthropic, and other AI companies is... Read more

  The 22 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Illusion of Judgment in LLMs

  An important open source article from Loru et al:SignificanceLarge Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Read more

  The 21 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Lecture 15: Gestaltism III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psych-neural...

  The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology, specifically the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 14: Gestaltism II: Fields, Self-Organization, and the Invariance...

  In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Turvey introduces the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 13: Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism, and Mechanical Order (Turvey, 2019...

  We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain perception; the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizewinners in Full

  A clip from the Chris Simms Nature Magazine articleLITERATUREThe late physician William Bean, for persistently recording and analysing the rate of growth of... Read more

  The 10 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Large-scale Cortical Functional Networks Are Organized in Structured Cycles

  Interesting work from Mats et al. (open source) in Nature Neuroscience. It has some interesting graphics. Their abstract:The brain seamlessly performs a... Read more

  The 08 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Why Depolarization is Hard: Evaluating Attempts to Decrease Partisan Animosity i...

  A very revealing piece of work from Holiday et al. Their abstract: Affective polarization is a corrosive force in American politics. Read more

  The 06 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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