Bbenzon
Description
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
MY BLOGS
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7628 )
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ChatGPT Confabulates, an Example
That is to say, it makes stuff up, it hallucinates, as they say. It’s a well-known problem with large language models. I’ve not encountered it very much... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rick Rubin on Recording Johnny Cash
Ezra Klein, The Tao of Rick Rubin, NYTimes, Feb. 10, 2023. Ezra Klein: So you look back early in your career and you’re a producer of a really remarkable... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Krispy Kreme
Posted on 10 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions in England, 1530-1700
Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell, A Macroscope of English Print Culture, 1530-1700, Applied to the Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions,... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? [Andreessen Horowitz]
Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? https://t.co/KnNMAFfcZk #tech via @a16z— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds (@bbenzon) February 10, 2023... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jump and Kong Go to the Mall [rememberance of Holidays Past]
Posted on 09 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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What Are the 10–20 Year Prospects for AI?
First, while I do mean AI in general, most of my comments will be based on language technology (large language models, LLMs) because 1) that’s what I’ve been... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Show Me the Way to the SolidGoldMagikarp [Eureka!]
Posted on 09 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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ChatGPT Goes Wild! Is “SolidGoldMagikarp” the New “42”?
As the famous paper of record used to say on those TV commercials: “Enquiring minds want to know.” Indeed we do! So, I got up early this AM, as I do every AM – ... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The User Interface is About to Change, Forever. How? AI.
Everyone talking about the future of search, but I'm particularly excited about the future of the browser — Edge will now include an AI assistant that can help... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
AI Looks for ET [using Deep Learning to Identify Technosignatures of 820 Nearby...
Ma, P.X., Ng, C., Rizk, L. et al. A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars. Nat Astron (2023). https://doi.org/10. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sociomorphic View of Tech ("All Tech is Human") Lends Itself to Cultural...
. It can claim that changing the culture will result in diff tech outcomes because it believes that tech is foremost an extension of underlying cultural... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Robot Lawyer Was a Super Dumb Idea [Peter Thiel, Scourge of Lawyers,...
So, a 15 year old kid, Michael Browder, gets a parking ticket. So he wrote a bot to contest parking tickets and soon found himself lending it out to his friends... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Night Lights
Posted on 06 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Art and National Restoration: Denmark in the 19th Century, Japan in the 20th
Sebastian Smee, Scarred by defeat, they gave birth to a golden age of Danish art, The Washington Post, February 3, 2023. Early in the 19th century Denmark becam... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
To Greener Times
Posted on 06 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Howard Rheingold Reflects on Governance in 6 Online Communities He's Been a...
Howard Rheingold, Online governance: Six Case Studies, Feb 10, 2022. How should online communities be governed? I’m not concerned here with Facebook and... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Domestic Tranquility [be It Ever So Humble]
Posted on 06 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Mental Events Comprise Distributed Activity Across the Whole Brain
Better assumptions: (1) Mental events comprise distributed activity across the whole brain; (2) Brain behavior are linked by degenerate, many-to-one... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum - Justice for Animals
Cows dying in a barn fire, chimpanzees struggling to survive in a shrinking jungle, and whales stranding with kilos of plastic in their stomachs. Animals are... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
