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[Published 11-09-2014 — https://www.psychologyinaction.org/2014-11-09-obscurantism-lame-explanations-to-the-lame-questions/] “Indeed, the quantum theory implies that consciousness must exist, and that the content of the mind is the ultimate reality.” Your intuition can fail you on what is genius and what is asinine. Good thinking strives, almost as its prime directive, to clarify. It doesn’t mean a discussion you have with…
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[2015-09-03; Published in https://www.psychologyinaction.org/2015-09-03-bewonderment-awe-and-other-stupefying-things/] “The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth.…
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[4/4/2016; https://www.psychologyinaction.org/2016-04-04-batman-vs-superman-the-one-where-i-tie-in-trump-and-sanders-for-maximum-clickbait/] Many saw Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice this last week (420+ million box office), a story about Bruce Wayne, a single man backed by wealth, angry determination and personal fortitude, taking on Superman, a very non-figurative manifestation of limitless power. It’s a story about a man so brilliantly competent, so grimly prepared, so unrelentingly…
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[April 20, 2020] Bread lines. Mandated curfews. The lack of services due to the deliberate shutdown of the efficiencies of capitalism. And, my favorite, the socially-enforced spurious practices of wearing cloth masks. You know what? I’m going to reverse the order of that list. Medical masks, particularly high quality ones, work by two principles. (1)…
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[Originally published here: https://www.psychologyinaction.org/2016-04-26-the-case-for-reality ; Dissecting the arguments of this particular brand of panpsychism.] Omar Claflin April 26, 2016 This morning, I read an article on consciousness and physics “The Case Against Reality” in The Atlantic. The beginning of the article is understandable and not totally at odds with intuition: That our senses aren’t completely accurate; that the world…
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[~2012; I’ll post the rest when I find it] My first day, not sure where to wait, I found myself in a slow holding pattern in a maze of hallways laid out in square patterns all leading back to lounge areas that seemed deliberately designed to not be used. Paintings on the wall of over-suited,…
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[Reposted from 2019 in response to Google Deepmind team releasing a comprehensive AI for Starcraft 2] 2/12/2019 The Event: DeepMind (Google’s AI team run by Demis Hassabis) tested some artificial agents against two high-level professional Starcraft 2 players this week and essentially won all the matches. Me: I watched most of the matches, and read…
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This post is not intended as a comprehensive overview of ‘agentic AI’ but just as a description of an agentic AI content creation project I recently was brought in to lead. Potentially, this captures abstractions/methods of thinking useful to those who don’t spend much time using these tools but find themselves having to work with…
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This is a post intended to cover some of the more advanced analyses techniques from a project ~5 years ago (2020-2021) which enabled greater-than-state-of-the-art accuracy with single-trial, non-invasive, non-visual-paradigm signal capture. Motivation: I was attempting to build a non-invasive learning-assistant peripheral that could capture real-time brain signals (non-laboratory paradigm). There were a large number of…
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This is intended to be a post on the process and workflow of establishing a recent AI project within a company environment, based on my experience. Book Scoring Briefly, the company I work at has one of the world’s largest grade-level book scorer (second to Lexile), and seemed like a potential opportunity to upgrade the…
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