This is a critique of the following paper, which was recently promoted on The University of British Columbia website and is currently being propagated on Twitter. Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, Francesco Marino General relativity treats spacetime as dynamical and exhibits its breakdown at singularities. This … Continue reading The Decisive Simplification: Why the Algorithmic Model Prevails
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Michael Levin: Anatomical Decision-Making By Cellular Collectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9rLlFgcm0 Bookmarking. h/t Hacker news.
Typical & Atypical Aesthetic Taste
"Aesthetic experience seems both regular and idiosyncratic. On one hand, there are powerful regularities in what we tend to find attractive versus unattractive (e.g., beaches versus mud puddles). On the other hand, our tastes also vary dramatically from person to person: what one of us finds beautiful, another might find distasteful. What is the nature … Continue reading Typical & Atypical Aesthetic Taste
People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
"In the current digital age, people are constantly connected to online information. The present research provides evidence that on-demand access to external information, enabled by the internet and search engines like Google, blurs the boundaries between internal and external knowledge, causing people to believe they could—or did—remember what they actually just found. Using Google to … Continue reading People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
Troll Taxonomies
"The internet doesn’t turn people into assholes so much as it acts as a massive megaphone for existing ones, according to work by researchers at Aarhus University.-Tom McCay, "Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds." Gizmodo. August 27, 2021. I think there is a troll gravity online, where the megaphones of a … Continue reading Troll Taxonomies
Ganzflicker Experience
"A visual flicker is known to induce "Ganzfeld imagery" (Allefeld et al., 2011; Sumich et al., 2018), a type of visual pseudo-hallucination. The continuous flicker facilitates visual imagery, but does not induce any permanent changes in the brain and does not elicit actual hallucinations. I am interested to learn about the association between any illusions … Continue reading Ganzflicker Experience
Highlights of Kevin Kelly’s Unsolicited Advice
"* Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more...* The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you. To be interesting, be interested...* To make something good, just do it. To make something great, … Continue reading Highlights of Kevin Kelly’s Unsolicited Advice
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
"The purpose of this article on COVID-19 is to aggregate existing research, bring together the relevant data and allow readers to make sense of the published data and early research on the coronavirus outbreak."https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus When you get tired of listening to people that don't know what they are talking about blather on about epidemics, cures … Continue reading Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
The Plain Person's Guide to Plain Text Social Science is written for graduate students in the social sciences, but useful for any writer. For people not doing sophisticated data analysis, the key suggestions are to use a text editor like Emacs for writing, Markdown for formatting, git—such as on GitLabs—for version control, and a translator … Continue reading The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
Raccoon 22’s Cognition
"To evaluate the universal effectiveness of the Aesop’s Fable paradigm, we applied this paradigm to a previously untested taxon, the raccoon (Procyon lotor). We first trained captive raccoons to drop stones into a tube of water to retrieve a floating food reward. Next, we presented successful raccoons with objects that differed in the amount of … Continue reading Raccoon 22’s Cognition
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