[FRIAM] AI and the future of behavioural science.

2024-10-22 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
The London School of Economics posted a video of their event "AI and the future of behavioural science." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hojUoNbFM My thoughts: It’s a good discussion on how AI could be used in behavioural science. The speakers share different views, showing both the benefits and

Re: [FRIAM] On Evolutionary Atavism

2024-10-22 Thread glen
It seems to me a more reasonable selected-for functional unit would be brains' ability to focus. Whether one is finding generative rules for a high dimensional thing like "science", a Grand Unified Theory or encoding/embodying one's grievances into a mouthpiece like Trump, the common characteri

Re: [FRIAM] Illusion

2024-10-22 Thread Stephen Guerin
As a closed system (not isolated), I was curious why the plastic wrap wouln't return to flat after is convex expansion as it returned to initial room temperature. Is it related to the hysteresis in the asymetry of the boiling curve vs condensation?

Re: [FRIAM] On Evolutionary Atavism

2024-10-22 Thread glen
Do you mean bigger companies where the entire company is in Belarus? Or do you mean if a big company with headquarters elsewhere but a location in Belarus, the Belarusian employees don't dare to criticize the CEO who lives in another country? Or do you mean that, all over the earth, in bigger c

[FRIAM] Illusion

2024-10-22 Thread Nicholas Thompson
To produce the illusion: Take an ordinary water glass, put a little water in it, stretch some plastic wrap tightly over the glass and put it in the microwave for a few seconds. Leave it in the microwave for a minute to cool down .(Please don't do anything stupid and scald yourself.) Remove the