Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/ [slatestarcodex.com]
2017-09-06 20:24
tags:
biology
book
ideas
life
It’s also your book if you want to learn about predictive processing at all, since as far as I know this is the only existing book-length treatment of the subject. And it’s comprehensive, scholarly, and very good at giving a good introduction to the theory and why it’s so important. So let’s be grateful for what we’ve got and take a look.
Top down ideas meet bottom up senses.
source: SSC
Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/26/conversation-deliberately-skirts-the-border-of-incomprehensibility/ [slatestarcodex.com]
2017-06-27 19:53
tags:
ideas
language
And I think part of the answer might be: ordinary conversations are hard to predict because they’re designed to be so. Conversation norms are anti-inductive. Like Douglas Adams’ conception of the universe, any time people start to understand them too well, they have to get replaced with something a little bit less comprehensible.
source: SSC
Book Review: The Hungry Brain
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-brain/ [slatestarcodex.com]
2017-04-25 21:23
tags:
biology
book
food
life
Science and theories and experiments, but in the end we don’t seem to know anything.
source: SSC
The Demiurge’s Older Brother
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/21/repost-the-demiurges-older-brother/ [slatestarcodex.com]
2017-03-22 21:35
tags:
ai
fiction
future
ideas
Kind of a strange story, but I guess I liked it.
source: SSC
Tuesday Shouldn't Change The Narrative
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/07/tuesday-shouldnt-change-the-narrative/ [slatestarcodex.com]
2016-11-07 18:24
tags:
essay
factcheck
hoipolloi
ideas
If it all comes down to a rainstorm in Philly, does that count as a political mandate from the people?
If there’s some Z that you will believe only if Trump wins but not if Hillary wins, then I suggest you seriously reconsider what thought process has led you to decide that you will flip your views on politics and society depending on whether or not there’s a rainstorm or a 2% polling error or whatever.