Looking for people with DIY worldviews: let's think together.
Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease like COVID-19 spreads. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out.
aside: this is a perfect opportunity to plug @s_r_constantin’s great post about GPT: "humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences"
it was a great article! this in particular… 🔥
Oh yeah, I read that book, must’ve picked up some of it from there. I also remember a good @meaningness post on the topic:
great thread, very coherent, thanks for sharing! i appreciate that you kept checking in with the reader, “i promise i’m not crazy.” it’s the little touches ;)
In a recent Edge interview, Dan Dennett pitches the most fascinating new idea I've read in a long, long time: That our neurons are powerful computational building blocks in part because they've reverted to an older and slightly feral state.
(The whole thing is worth reading, in case you're curious.)
In a recent paper (and also a great TED talk), Amy Cuddy et al.
Refactoring The tagline for the excellent blog Ribbonfarm is "Experiments in refactored perception."
If you're interested, you should really go read the whole book.
Covid is now endemic, and the calculus for interventions like vaccines and masks is increasingly a matter of personal choice rather than public health 👇 Important thread
Along the same lines, I like this quote: "Surprise is the measure of a poor hypothesis."