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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Paul McCartney Let It Be Hollywood Bowl Jimmy Buffet Tribute 4-11-24 Live...
Listen closely to Sir Paul's voice as he sings. He's singing for a departed friend, Jimmy Buffet, and is skating at the edge of breaking down in tears. But he... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mist on the Hudson
Posted on 14 April 2024
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PHILOSOPHY,
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A Quick Note on Software, Civilization, and AI
Just around the corner at Strange Loop Canon Rohit Krishnan has an interesting “Ode to software.” Some bits: Total man hours invested Software is also incredibl... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Trees & Moss [North]
Posted on 13 April 2024
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The Intellectual Monoculture That Dominates Current AI Research
The 12 types of ML papers. (created by @natashajaques @maxhkw)#MachineLearning #ML #DataScience pic.twitter.com/ygZmekckER— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) April 13, Read more
Posted on 13 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
One Study Shows That Male Bonobos Engage in Violence More Often, Though Less...
Phie Jacobs, Bonobos, the ‘hippie chimps,’ might not be so mellow after all, Science, April, 12, 2024. Chimps (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) are... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tulips
Posted on 13 April 2024
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Dario Amodei on "AGI" and the Exponential Curve [Beware the Intellectual...
Ezra Klein, What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?NYTimes, Apr. 12, 2024. AGI Let's skip over a lot of stuff to get to AGI: EZRA KLEIN: You don’t love the... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids Play "Born to Be Wild"
Here's a post I did about them back in June of 2021. Back then Bellamy's role was simply to front the band by announcing the tunes, dancing around, and doing... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Age at Which Thinkers Make Pioneering Contributions to Science is Now...
What burden of knowledge, you ask?(You can explore the amazing Roche biochemical pathway charts here, with some annotations: https://t.co/CjfYyPVqut)... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
When OJ Went on Trial, the Symbolic Freight of Race-in-America Went on Trial wit...
Wesley Morris, O.J. Was an Earthquake. We’re Still Living With His Aftershocks. NYTimes, April 12, 2024. Are we still in Great American territory? I think so.... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Colored Lights at Three Levels of Esolution
Posted on 12 April 2024
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Some Notes on Excellence: Why O.J. Simpson Was Better at Football Than His “Drea...
Back in the mid-1990s a banker named Bill Berry created a website called Meanderings. It’s now off-line, but you can find it in the WayBackMachine. I worked... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: White Cherry Blossoms
Posted on 12 April 2024
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Messin' with the Eclipse [purple]
Posted on 11 April 2024
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ChatGPT Defines 10 Concrete Terms: Generically, for 5- and 11-year-olds, and...
The difference between concrete concepts, that is, concepts that can be understood entirely in sensorimotor terms, and abstract terms is an important one. Read more
Posted on 11 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Daffodils
Posted on 11 April 2024
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AI, Chess, and Language 3.2: Search! The Case of Language
In the previous post in this series I considered the issue of search in the context of chess: AI, Chess, and Language 3.1: Search! What enables us to entertain... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Up in the Sky [Hoboken Sun Trees]
Posted on 10 April 2024
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Angelo Briandi, Jazz Wannabe
Andrea Scrima has an interesting piece at 3 Quarks Daily: Italian Americans, Gender Trouble, and The Sopranos. From the second paragraph: In an attempt to... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
