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 ( 7824 )
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5 Propositions About Art from a 7-year Old
I’m writing my book ‘Children are artists’ based on my PhD. This is one of my favourite quotes from a child, 7 years and full of wisdom. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 18 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friendship Between a [toy] Gorilla and a Frog
Posted on 12 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Chimps and Gorillas Can Be Friends
Interspecific interactions between sympatric apes https://t.co/B69OqvG4U6— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds (@bbenzon) October 12, 2022... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Cultural Evolution of Emotion
Nature reviews psychologyThe cultural evolution of emotionhttps://t.co/kiGsu673UV— CLaE (@leafs_s) October 8, 2022 The abstract of the linked article:... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tree Trunks and Greens
Posted on 08 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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AI-Doom – Just Who is a Cargo Cult?
I spotted this post on LessWrong two months ago, jam-mosig, Paper reading as a Cargo Cult. It was the presence of the word “cult” in the title that caught my... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Active Matter
"I consider the Organism, or natural Machine, a machine in which each part is a machine."- #Leibniz🦠 Energy → Work"Active matter *employs* control... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Linearly Mapping from Image to Text Space
abs: https://t.co/ZyItiCfj0l pic.twitter.com/tWfKeovBVc— AK (@_akhaliq) October 3, 2022 The paper's conclusion: In this paper, we test the extent to which the... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Smoothies and Crabcakes
Posted on 02 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Semantic Reconstruction of Continuous Language from Non-invasive Brain Recordings
it is generally thought that fMRI responses are too slow for language decoding. to overcome this low temporal resolution, we developed a bayesian decoder that... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Guide to AI Hype
AI journalism has a hype problem. To move past the cycle of reacting to each story, @sayashk and I analyzed over 50 pieces from 5 prominent outlets. Read more
Posted on 30 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
GPT-3 Based News Summaries
We collect human preference annotations for news summaries generated by current SOTA and zero-shot GPT-3 models. For multiple settings (generic + keyword) and... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why AI Won’t Revolutionize Drug Development
Jeffrey Funk - Gary N. Smith, No, AI probably won’t revolutionize drug development, Salon, September 24. The opening paragraphs: Drug development is expensive,... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Let’s Retire at 50 So While There's Still Time to Do Something Interesting with...
The NYTimes has another article that feeds my interest in changing attitudes toward work: Lisa Rabasa Roepe, Millennials Want to Retire at 50. How to Afford It... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Tech Trinity
"We’ve torn down the old gods and replaced them with an idolatry of innovators. And this religion is most deeply embedded in the culture of technology,"... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Row Houses, Graffiti Style
Posted on 25 September 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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AI Doom Cult at 3QD + TEDx Talk and Essay Contest
Two weeks ago I published another essay at 3 Quarks Daily: On the Cult of AI Doom It’s a decent essay, in particular I like the capsule history I sketch for... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Graffiti in Progress [Jersey City]
Posted on 09 September 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Duke Ellington Wrote a Suite for Queen Elizabeth II
0:00 Sunset and the Mocking Bird 3:51 Lightning Bugs and Frogs 6:45 Le Sucrier Velours 9:33 Northern Lights 13:11 The Single Petal of a Rose 17:19 Apes and a... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Prediction as a Way of Foreclosing the Future – And No Foreclosure is More...
I’ve just come across a recent article that sheds light on one of the signal features the contemporary AI culture, in particular, the subculture devoted to the... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
