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Letter to a PhD student
What's the point of intellectual work, if AGI is around the corner?
Observer Theory
Stephen Wolfram discusses building a general observer theory using discoveries from the Physics Project and NKS, including the ruliad. Read how the nature of observers is critical to determining the most fundamental laws we attribute to the universe.
"Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form" by Matt Segall
This is a ~57 min talk titled "Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form: Toward a New Formal Causality in the Life Sciences" by Matt Segall (footnotes2plato.co...
Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of ...
The ear does not do a Fourier transform
Sensory coding 2: electric boogaloo
Michael Levin: Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
This is an invited talk in BAMΞ's Mathematical Phenomenology Sprint.
Cf. https://bamxi.org/research-activities/mathematical-phenomenology-sprint/
Organizing In...
"From Experience to Math" by Chris Fields
This is a ~1 hour 30 minute talk + Q&A by Chris Fields (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/christopher-a-chris-fields-ph-d/) titled "From Experience to Math", given ...
The Nature of Consciousness, Federico Faggin
What are the nature of physical reality, and the nature of consciousness? These two questions have remained unanswered since the beginning of the human race. Sc...
Tennis Elbow 4 Beginner Guide - Gameplay Basics (Aiming, Shot Types, Serving & More)
Welcome to the 2nd Episode of our Tennis Elbow 4 New Player Guide mini-series!
In this video, I will show you HOW TO PLAY Tennis Elbow 4. We will dive deep in...
Why Do Interceptions Happen?
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Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: a diverse intelligence research program - Michael Levin
This is a ~46 minute talk given at a conference on consciousness, presenting my lab's data on cognition in body organs outside the brain and then some speculati...
"A Theoretical Computer Science Lens on Consciousness" by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, and Avrim Blum
This is a ~ 1 hour and 10 minute talk plus ~30 minutes Q&A discussion with the computational group in our Center, titled "A Theoretical Computer Science Lens on...
The ULTIMATE Deadlock Movement Guide – Master Every Trick (Beginner to Advanced)
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An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
In this essay, I provide some advice to up-and-coming researchers in machine learning (ML), based on my experience doing research and advising others.
Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
Defeating Dr. Evil with self-locating belief
Dr. Evil learns that a duplicate of Dr.
A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction
(Originally posted in December 2015: A dialogue between Ashley, a computer scientist who's never heard of Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference,…
Psychiatrist's Tip for Increasing Attention Span
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. K gives practical strategies for sustaining focus and combating algorithm-driven distractions, emphasizing behavioral routines ...
Normalization models of attention
Academic tutorial on computational models of visual attention with hands-on MATLAB code; directly relevant for researchers in computational neuroscience and AI.
A radical theory of consciousness | AI researcher Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach puts forward his radical theory of cyber animism.
Can the natural world be understood in terms of software agents?
Watch the full talk at https://...
Note taking at the Olympic level
Uploader: Struggling Grad Student
Duration: 1530s
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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author of The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality.
Read me Contra David, on ...
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11
Uploader: Lex Fridman
Duration: 4798s
Views: 137552
Kevin Ellis - Probabilistic Thinking in Language and Code - IPAM at UCLA
Recorded 07 November 2024. Kevin Ellis of Cornell University presents "Probabilistic Thinking in Language and Code" at IPAM's Naturalistic Approaches to Artific...
When the universe branches, what happens to me? with Stephen Wolfram
When the universe branches, we branch with it.
Those branches don’t remain forever apart. They come back together.
So we, as conscious observers, are rescued ...
Philip Clayton - How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
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Does ordinary stuff have mysterious properties? Tak...
A Universal Theory of Brain Function
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David Chalmers - Why is Emergence Significant?
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Emergence is how the world works differently at var...
Roger Penrose – Why Intelligence Is Not a Computational Process: Breakthrough Discuss 2025
Breakthrough Discuss is an annual academic conference focused on life in the Universe and novel ideas for space exploration. Breakthrough Discuss 2025: Life As ...
Dr. Joscha Bach: KI, Gehirn, Intelligenz, Bewußtsein, Turing | Eduard Heindl Energiegespräch #081
Dr. Dr. h.c. Joscha Bach (*1973 Weimar, DDR) Humboldt-Universität, Forschung am MIT und Harvard, Kognitionswissenschaftler, KI-Forscher und Philosoph. Bach ist...
Why Different Neuron Parts Learn Differently?
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John Von Neumann’s Game Theory: How Strategic Thinking Changed Business, Politics, and Global Power
Von Neumann’s Game Theory: How Strategic Thinking Changed Business, Politics, and Global Power
Welcome to History with BMResearch. In this video, we explore ho...
Karl Friston: The Physics of Sentience
Dr. Karl Friston, University College London, applies the free energy principle to set forth an account of life, or self-organization, in terms of active inferen...
Salon with Stephen Wolfram × Joscha Bach_What if we had bigger brains.
A CIMC Salon at the Internet Archive in San Francisco
Uploader: California Institute for Machine Consciousness
Duration: 10439s
Views: 10649
A Fundamental Unit Of Intelligence
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How much should you study
If this question bothers you, I believe you need to learn to work with your brain, not against it.
Uploader: Math-life balance
Duration: 191s
Views: 3152
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Please support...
The Assembly Hypothesis:Emergent Computation and Learning in a rigorous model of the Brain
Presents the Assembly Hypothesis—a rigorous mathematical model for emergent learning and computation in cortical neural assemblies.
Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | Lex Fridman Podcast #183
Wide-ranging conversation with Po-Shen Loh about competitive mathematics, combinatorics, and effective strategies for learning and teaching math.
1 - Introduction
Very simple approach for AI architectures with Symbols , learning devices, learnable properties, perception, brain, ANN, SNN...
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10. Introduction to Neuroscience I
Introductory Stanford lecture surveys brain anatomy, neuronal signaling, and pharmacology, setting foundations for understanding human cognition.
The book that Ramanujan used to teach himself mathematics
A look at the textbook that math genius Ramanujan read when he was 16, Synopsis of Pure Mathematics is a book by G. S. Carr. This video was sponsored by Brillia...
Tmux has forever changed the way I write code.
Before tmux, I spent most of my time working in graphical editors and interfaces, and found working in the terminal difficult to do.
After moving to tmux and l...
Learn Math On Your Own
In this video I talk about how to self-study mathematics. Do you have advice for people learning mathematics on their own? If so, please leave a comment below.
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Schedule
(See also the ESF lecture series webpage for information about the plenary meetings. It is more likely to be current.) Week 1: September 24-28. Reading: Education and Discipline (Russell); Meno (Pl…
Irreducible : Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature by Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a li
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience : Bennett, M. R., Hacker, P. M. S.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
On Beginner's Mind in Software Engineering
On a whim, I picked up a copy of the book The Creative Act: A Way of Being at First Light Books in Austin, Texas.
2013 Lewis meditation results
Multilevel modeling of effect of small group’s meditation on math errors
How I don't use LLMs
Manfred Mohr, Cubic Limit: P-197 (1977)I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs.This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference clas...
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference
Research on predictive processing models has focused largely on two specific algorithmic theories: Predictive Coding for perception and Active Inferen…
Preceden Timeline Maker: Create a Timeline in Minutes
Generate a timeline using AI or from scratch. Perfect for project plans, school assignments, fiction writing, legal matters, and much more.
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything
A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.
The Uses of Complacency
The optimal amount of self-satisfaction is not zero
Intelligence as efficient model building
Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.
Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some
self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns
to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively
simpler and more beautiful. Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more
non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising not in the
traditional sense of Boltzmann and Shannon but in the sense that it allows for
compression progress because its regularity was not yet known. This drive
maximizes interestingness, the first derivative of subjective beauty or
compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve. It motivates
exploring infants, pure mathematicians, composers, artists, dancers, comedians,
yourself, and (since 1990) artificial systems.
Bloom’s 3 Stages of Talent Development
First, fun and exciting playtime. Then, intense and strenuous skill development. Finally, developing one’s individual style while pushing the boundaries of the field.
By John Taylor Gatto
4) The differentiating function.
Lego Mindset vs. Woodworking Mindset
On Accepting Toil
The high-return activity of raising others’ aspirations
Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school. I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions. One of my favorite strategies was to take strong candidates who applied for Masters and also offer them […]
A note about "The Humane Representation of Thought"
A year and a half ago, on a plane, I wrote An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable".
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
Working memory - Wikipedia
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily. [1] It is important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behavior.
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
When you procrastinate, you're probably not procrastinating because of the pain of working. …
Depth-First Procrastination
When subgoals recur infinitely.
Omens of exceptional talent
Gaiseric…was a man of moderate height and lame in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was a man of deep thought and few words
I’m often asked about the signs of exceptional talent I’ve observed, probably because I spend too much running around talking to people & observing things, instead of doing anything useful.
Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, and Tyler Cowen are the three names that come to mind when thinking about this question. Of my writing, Intelligence killed …
An Introduction to Current Theories of Consciousness
(Crosspost from my blog) • • There are few academic lists of theories of consciousness (Doerig 2020) as well as some good blog post series about specific ideas (shout out to SelfAwarePatterns), but…
Being the (Pareto) Best in the World
John Wentworth argues that becoming one of the best in the world at *one* specific skill is hard, but it's not as hard to become the best in the worl…
My favorite books
Star means currently reading but already enjoying.
``You and Your Research''
At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr. Richard W.
Unpacking Intuition
Can intuition be taught? The way in which faces are recognized, the structure of natural classes, and the architecture of intuition may all be instances of the same process. The conjecture that intuition is a species of recognition memory implies ...
Conscious exotica
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
The Perfect Plan
Too often do we obsess over the perfect plan to chase our dreams, resulting in analysis paralysis. Instead of being stuck in this limbo, I've made the perfect plan for anyone to chase their dreams.
The Fast Track
In order to accelerate the development of prospective mathematical scientists, we have selected a series of textbooks one can study to reach expertise in mathematics and physics in the most efficient manner possible.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
The text discusses the misconception of quickly learning programming in a short time, emphasizing that true expertise takes about ten years of dedicated practice and learning. It highlights the importance of hands-on experience, interacting with other programmers, and working on various projects to become a skilled programmer. The text emphasizes that mastering programming requires practical application, learning from others, and continuous practice over time.
Class Warfare
The text discusses a woman's conversation about company politics and self-interest, highlighting a zero-sum mentality within organizations. It emphasizes the need to shift away from this mindset and focus on creating value instead. The author suggests that combating this mentality starts with internal change and encourages individuals to reject zero-sum thinking for long-term benefit.
You're Not Sick of Programming
Many people feel tired of programming and dream of quitting for a more fulfilling career, like farming or traveling. However, the real issue might be frustration with office politics, lack of product vision, and burnout rather than a true dislike of programming. Taking a break or addressing these underlying problems could help rediscover the creative potential of programming.
Copying Better: How To Acquire The Tacit Knowledge of Experts
The text discusses how to acquire expert intuition, known as tacit knowledge, through emulation and apprenticeship. Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) research helps extract and teach expert judgment using methods like Cognitive Task Analysis and the recognition-primed decision making model. Experts rely on implicit memory and pattern recognition to make rapid assessments and decisions, which can be challenging to verbalize.
Reflections on a decade of coding
The author reflects on 12 years of coding experience, sharing recent projects and personal growth insights. They highlight the importance of gradual improvements in habits and processes over innate talent. The author identifies areas of progress, like writing efficient code and managing emotions, while acknowledging gaps in experience in maintaining large codebases and teamwork.
þÿAn Infinitely Large Napkin
The text is titled "An Infinitely Large Napkin" by Evan Chen. The author's work can be found on readwise.io.
Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience
Viewing the brain as a complex computer of simple neurons is insufficient to explain consciousness and cognition. A new paradigm is needed that considers the brain as a scale-invariant hierarchy, with quantum and classical processes occurring in cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons. Evidence shows that microtubules regulate specific firings of axonal branches and modulate membrane and synaptic activities. This new paradigm suggests that information processing for cognitive and conscious brain functions occurs in microtubules and involves both top-down and bottom-up regulation within the brain hierarchy. The precise mechanisms of consciousness may be most likely to reveal themselves in Layer V cortical pyramidal neurons, which have a large collection of mixed polarity microtubule networks.
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller: Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright: 9781603580557: Amazon.com: Books
"Thinking in Systems" is a book that explores the concept of systems thinking, which involves analyzing the interconnectedness and dynamics of various systems. The book uses examples such as the human body, businesses, and societal systems to illustrate how stocks and flows contribute to achieving system goals. It also highlights the importance of aligning stated goals with actual outcomes and discusses the need for change in systems that are not functioning optimally. The book emphasizes the complexity of systems and the challenges of making meaningful improvements.
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