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.
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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 ( 7828 )
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Cognition is Rhythm
This is an extremely interesting video about perception, awareness, and consciousness, though I'll have to do a more than a little bit of reading to make use... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Distributed Neural Pathways Underlying Social Gaze
💯"highly distributed nature of social gaze variables emphasizes network-level interactions in prefrontal-amygdala pathways in guiding social... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
DALL•E in Ancient Japan
“Pre-modern Japanese scroll about cyborg brain and artificial consciousness” #Dalle pic.twitter.com/ds4RkTpiiN— hardmaru (@hardmaru) May 9, 2022There are more... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
All Settled Down on My Academia Page, Part 3
Back at the end of March I noticed that my view count on my Academica page was blowing up. As you can see from this snapshot I took on May 8, things are now bac... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Multi-region Interactions and Emergence in the Brain
What kind of brain 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Who’s Losing Sleep at the Prospect of AIs Going Rogue? As Far as I Can Tell,...
I rolled over to Astral Codex Ten the other day and posted the following query: Does anyone know current Japanese sentiment about the possibility of Rogue AI... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Beyond Interpretability: Developing a Language to Shape Our Relationships with AI
Abstract: AI arrived in our lives, making important decisions affecting us. How should we work with this new class of co-workers? Read more
Posted on 07 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How About “language Models That Can Simply Read and Memorize New Data at...
Very promising that this simple technique doesn't require pre-training from scratch and has great results up to 8B model-size. Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Virtual Reading, Phase 2: Cultural Analytics and the Brain [1 Billion...
I’ve said a bit about virtual reading here on the New Savanna. By that I mean that the ‘reading’ is being done by a computer system that is tracing the path of ... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: While Walking in Hoboken Theother Day [transformation]
Posted on 06 May 2022
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Investigating Entrainment of Spontaneous Activity of Brain and Body Physiology...
Our new paper:Systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning: a first evaluation investigating entrainment of spontaneous... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Artificial Minds, Day 3: Do I Still Believe It?
Two days ago I posted about the need for a Gestalt Switch: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Minds. I argued that intelligence is best conceived as a... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Frankie Morales
Posted on 05 May 2022
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Cohort Succession and Literary Change [ --> Macroanalysis]
It's out, open-access: "Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture"—by me, @kkiley, @ShangWenyi, and @vaiseys. This image gives you the general... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
You're Looking for Theory? I'll Give You Theory. [What Cultural Analytics Can...
Overheard near the water cooler on the Web Tubes: reading some great grad student papers which review existing studies in #DH and #culturalanalytics and they ar... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
TemporalWiki, Updating Language Models 'on the Fly'
How can we update LMs *whenever* we want on up-to-date knowledge with *minimal* cost? Furthermore, how can we evaluate if each update was successful or not? Read more
Posted on 04 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Predicting High-level Textual Phenomena from Low-level Feartures
One little detail here that idk if readers for NHB will grasp: the XYZ model is not actually implausible! People who haven't worked with text don't often realiz... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Oh! Those Crazy Kids! What’s It Like to Be a Pilot Whale? [With Apologies to...
Scott Alexander imagines Every Bay Area House Party, Astral Codex Ten, May 2022. Here's a passage pulled not-quite-at-random from the text: The discussion is... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
DeepMinds is into Relational Reasoning
And that interests me because I am to, and have been for years, nay, decades – see, for example, this post from yesterday: Gestalt Switch: From Artificial... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Let's Dance [Born to Groove]
Posted on 03 May 2022
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