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Listen to your body. The body keeps the score. Bodies play an important role in organic forms of intelligence. Maybe embodiment will bring AI closer to us, and make it safer in the process nytimes.com/2023/04/11/sci…

Covering new language decoding research from Alexander Huth, Jerry Tang, Shailee Jain and Amanda LeBel. Cool finding: Participants in fMRI scans were shown a silent video and the decoder could pull a synopsis of what was going on onscreen from their brain activity

nytimes.com/2023/05/19/sci…

Exciting new study linking thought decoders and spine stimulation, with impressive results: nytimes.com/2023/05/24/sci…

Large language models are great, but they're difficult to interpret and reliant on huge (often proprietary) datasets. The BabyLM Challenge flips the focus in NLP, from scaling laws to human cognition nytimes.com/2023/05/30/sci…

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exciting news: hit my first 180 ever yesterday morning. and they said my days as an athlete were done🎯youtube.com/watch?v=KHTBM3…

beautiful essay

Only the tip of the ratberg that lies below the surface.

Recently I was given a somewhat surreal tour of a "life-size" Noah's ark and young-earth creationist museum in Williamstown, KY. It was packed. With people, and with dinosaurs. One of the attraction's long time fans is Mike Johnson. A bit about it here: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Thomas Wolfe looks like Mark Corrigan

The experimental philosopher Stephen Stich is retiring from Rutgers, and I wanted to take a moment to celebrate his extraordinary legacy One amazing thing about Steve is the way he continued to produce innovative and important work right up to the moment of retirement

Oliver Whang (Oliver Whang) on the avian flu go.nybooks.com/3TZfqFL

Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

New in the London Review of Books, about Black coal miners in eastern Kentucky, and other things lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…