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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The Fastest Way to AGI: LLMs + Tree Search [Neuro-symbolic]
Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind CEO) About 0:23: ....we've got to carry on um basically making the more and more accurate predictors of the world so in effect... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
AI and Intellectual Integration @3QD
I have a new article up at 3 Quarks Daily: Western Metaphysics is Imploding. Will We Raise a Phoenix from The Ashes? [Catalytic AI], https://3quarksdaily. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Time for Something Different! Pizza and Fanta Orange, Hegelian Style: Thesis,...
Posted on 27 February 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
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The Adventures of Task-Force Tim: An Allegory About the Current Effort to...
John Sowa is an Old School AI researcher who spent his career at IBM until retired. Since then he’s pursued various projects in AI (see this video, Evaluating... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Marc Andreessen on His Intellectual Journey the Past Ten Years
From the YouTube page: Marc Andreessen of a16z sits with Erik Torenberg to go deeper into his intellectual and political journey, and his quest to find out how... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Energy Costs of Generative AI Are Currently Large Enough to Impact the...
David Derreby, The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI, Undark, Feb, 20, 24. One of the things that David Hays impressed on me when I studied with... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
NYC is the World's Capital of Endangered Languages.
Alex Carp, The Endangered Languages of New York, NYTimes, Feb. 22, 2024. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the opposite of... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Human Challenge of a Mission to Mars
Nathaniel Rich, Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?, The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 25, 2024. From the article: That people will travel to... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Here's That Rainy Day – Follow the Red Umbrella
Posted on 26 February 2024
CULTURE,
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Entropy and Self-Organization on the Table Top [Emergence]
I'm bumping this to the top of the queue: 1) on general principle, and 2) because I was going to include some of this material in a paper that goes up on 3... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
9,981 and Counting. How Long Before New Savanna Has 10,000 Posts?
I have published 9,981 posts at New Savanna since it first went live in April of 2010. Some of those are long-form articles I have written, 1000 to three or fou... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Morales, Birds of Paradise | Indiana University Trumpet Ensemble
When I was in high school in the 1960s there were 15 or 17 trumpet players, I forget exactly how many, in the marching and concert bands. Only two of them were... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why Snow Days Are Good for Kids
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, What kids lose without snow days, Vox, Feb. 24, 2024. With the proliferation of virtual learning, do kids even get to enjoy the magi... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Use of ChatGPT in Data Analysis [crushing Things]
I've been following the Hydraulic Press Channel for the last several years, I suppose, to satisfy my inner 8-year-old's interest in crushing things, any thing,... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
John McLaughlin Plays the Blues, "Straight No Chaser"
258,440 views Premiered May 7, 2021 Guitar icon releases exclusive video to raise awareness and funds for COVID relief in India, asking all to donate to... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Inside the Community Room at 1301
Posted on 24 February 2024
CULTURE,
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The Great Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson
See these posts: Tell me about the blues: Trane,Ornette, Hannibal, Hannibal Lokumbe: "The most sacred place I've ever heard music performed in is a cotton... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Keeping Score of My Online Action
It’s a lazy Friday afternoon, but then recently all Friday afternoons have seemed lazy. I’ve spent much the day doing this and that and taking stock, getting... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
We're BACK on the Moon, Sorta'
A camera aboard Odysseus, the Intuitive Machines lunar lander, took a photograph of the Bel’kovich K crater on the moon on Wednesday before it landed in the... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Does AI Understand Things? | Robert Wright & Gary Marcus
Information: Subscribe to The Nonzero Newsletter at https://nonzero.substack.com Bob's piece on Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. 0:00 Gary’s background and... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
