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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From Today's Walk
Posted on 31 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Towers of Warsaw, a Triple Challenge for SOA LMMs
SOA means State of the Art, of course, and LMM means Large Language Model. The Towers of Warsaw, that’s a bit more obscure. To understand what it is we first... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ornamental Alliums for My Sister
Posted on 30 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Visionary Papers at the Edge of the Coming Diamond Age [Progress Studies]
Michael Nielsen has a very interesting essay about visionary papers, Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science. Here's his initial list: Alan... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Eureka! Have I Found It? How to Model the Mind, That Is. [Symbols and Nets]
Since roughly the last week in April, when I applied for an Emergent Ventures grant (which was quickly, but politely, turned down), I have been working hard on... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Which One Doesn't Belong? [figs]
Posted on 29 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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What is This “human Level Intelligence”? How is “intelligence” Operationalized i...
I know what the terms mean individually, and have some sense of what the phrase means. But, come to think of it, “level” seems to imply some linear scale, like... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Irises, Pink and Blue
Posted on 28 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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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
CULTURE,
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
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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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
