Bbenzon
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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 ( 7356 )
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3 Manifestations of America’s Vulture of Violence, a Speculation
We’ve just witnessed another horrible mass shooting and we’re in Memorial Day weekend. I’m thinking about America’s pact with violence, something I’ve been... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why the So-called Hard Problem of Consciousness is Nonsense
I'd been thinking of writing a post on the subject – and maybe I will. But now I want to post bits of a post written by Keith Frankish. His 2nd and 3rd... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Hoboken Along the River
Posted on 27 May 2022
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PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Cultural Evolution in Deep Learning, Some Notes, 2
A couple of days ago (5.24.22) I blogged about this article: Artem Kaznatcheev, Konrad Paul Kording, Nothing makes sense in deep learning, except in the light o... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yann LeCun Says, the Way Forward...
Contrary to claims that I somehow "dismiss" the idea reasoning in DL systems, I've long listed 3 main challenges to AI in my talks of the last several years, on... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
His Way
Posted on 26 May 2022
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Symbols, Holograms, and Diagrams
I am currently revising and updating some work I did over a decade ago. The new document is tentatively titled: Relational Nets Over Attractors, A Primer: Part... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rectilinear Madness
Posted on 25 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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"Let's Think Step-by-step" is All You Need
Large Language Models are Zero-Shot ReasonersSimply adding “Let’s think step by step” before each answer increases the accuracy on MultiArith from 17.7% to 78.7... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yellow Irises
Posted on 24 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Cultural Evolution in Deep Learning, Some Notes
Artem Kaznatcheev, Konrad Paul Kording, Nothing makes sense in deep learning, except in the light of evolution, arXiv:2205.10320 This is an interesting and... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sparkychan, Gojochan, the Metaverse, and Community on the Web @3QD
My latest 3QD piece is now up: How me, 2 young girls, their father, and our imaginary friends discovered the Metaverse and thereby saved the world, a True... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
WALL•E, AGI, and Consumerism [Media Notes 74]
Perhaps we should read Pixar’s WALL•E as an allegory about the devolution of humankind in the face of increasingly more successful artificial... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Trees Along the Shore, and Some Guys
Posted on 23 May 2022
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The Cultural Evolution of Deep Learning
Due to #NeurIPS2022 deadline few days ago, you've probably been seeing many new preprint pushing the SOTA in Deep Learning. @KordingLab I think that... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Need is All You Need: Homeostatic Neural Networks Adapt to Concept Shift
The beginning of a tweet stream: "The only constant in life is change" -Heraclitus, on distribution shiftWhy does the performance of real-world ML systems tend... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Yesterday's Morning Walk Around
Posted on 22 May 2022
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Ramble: Lazy Fridays, Peter Gärdenfors, RNA Primer, Arithmetic, About These...
It’s 87˚ in Hoboken today, and I’m feeling lazy. Went out this morning and took 150+ photos. It was a foggy morning, which always makes for some interestin... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Exterior Shots of the Malibu Diner
August 23, 2010 November 16, 2010 – 30th Anniversary September 7, 2014 June 14, 2015 August 5, 2020 – Outdoor eating in the days of Covid Read more
Posted on 20 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Revelations About Kim Kardashian's Butt
Blair Sobol, No holds Barred: Butts, Boobs, and Billions, New York Social Diary, May 19, 2022. At the same time, Kim Kardashian finally admitted that the... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
