Not psychology per se. Freudian psychology and the unstated assumptions that went with it.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 07:02:37 UTC
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(Interesting. Thinking…. I just don’t discuss the subconscious or Jung, but it’d be easy to do so. It’s just that the process and the products of the subconscious, even if we limit it to the reasonableness of Jung, is so ‘noisy’ with so much near randomness that the how and why isn’t as useful as the ‘what’ that we experience. But now you’ve put the idea in my head and I won’t be able to resist working on it… lol)
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 07:01:34 UTC
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Yes but behaviorally too. wolf puppies vs wolves. dogs vs wolves.
see domestication syndrome
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 06:49:05 UTC
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neoteny is the direction of all human evolution because it trades aggression persistence and impuslivity for patience, consideration, and agency.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 04:11:18 UTC
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Never happen. RU population collapse is a deterministic inescapable future. With tuberculosis, hiv, drugs, and alcohol that explain male mortality and you understand why.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-03 00:25:56 UTC
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hmmm…. uncertainty+amorality. WHy are people amoral but choose to act morally? costs of acting immorality. Why do we cooperate vs conflict? costs of conflict vs gains of opportunity. Who do conflict and amorality survive: evolution doesn’t know anything. It only discovers what do to by cooperating, and what not to do by conflicting, and we result in various equilibria in constant change.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 21:48:17 UTC
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You’re questioning these things but i’m not offering an opinion, I’m explaining the defacto mechanism by which the brain performs its functions. Now I can explaining with higher resolution at the cost of much more work on my part, because I understand it to the molecular level – at least where it matters.
There is a sort of interesting utility in the means by which GPT is creating tokens and vectors and using grammar that is rather elegant. But this remains a process of error reduction and probability of word choice improvement … not one of ‘understanding’.
LLMs don’t and can’t understand without a world model.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 21:28:43 UTC
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WHY DOES CONFLICT EXIST?
–“But very few humans, at least within a standard deviation in IQ, really have a problem with one another. The problem is groups and proximity of groups, because groups express, and must express, cumulative needs of their demographic distribution of neoteny, aggression, sex bias, and intelligence.”–
Why? Because we defend status more so than almost anything else of interest to us. Why? Self-Image(confidence(risk)) -> Status(Discount) -> Cooperation(Discount) > Opportunity(survival) -> Opportunity for Reproduction(persistence) And the only safe place for status for most is in groups where it’s possible to have some. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 21:13:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631402496332640258
Ok. I see. You’re just behind the science and tech.
The brain is pretty simple it turns out.
Its means of disambiguation categorization, episode creation, memory, and stack preservation is relatively simple.
And its means of recursion from episode and contents is pretty simple.
The only problem we have today is the hardware.
The energy cost, training, number of iterations of training, slow speed of training, and inability to adapt in real-time without new training is just the hardware problem that is just a few years away.
There is only one rule in the universe, one logic, and the brain is a result of it and it only does a few things, and falsification is produced by hierarchy of prediction via recursion.
Last summer’s paper was a bit lame but laid out the same case.
I’ve worked on this problem since the 80s and nothing has changed but the cost of hardware to do it the wrong way, and the reduction of chip design and production so that we can eventually do it the right way.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 19:09:48 UTC
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Agency relies on continous recursive adversarial competition between predictions (vast rich complex predictions) competing for the attention of the thalamus, which then releases those of sufficient amplitude to the frontal cortex for additional adversarial recursive competition for attention until we exhaust or discover opportunities for action. This process requires arbitrary categorization and is highly error prone, and by error alone this prevents hard determinism. It does not prevent soft determinism, in that most humans will approach some set of rationally explicable categories of decisions.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 15:04:24 UTC
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