Join us, if you will, at the MIT Consciousness Club on Thursday April 16 at 12pm (EDT)
"Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain"
Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL)
Zoom link:
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
I suspect humans learn furiously during childhood but neuroplasticity drops in 20s.
youtu.be/he3_0R03JQE?...
beautiful
A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If my net worth is above 5M$, option 1 else option 2. This question measures my wealth, risk appetite and intelligence. I could use 100k$ to start a company and make 10M$.
My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source.
It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2...
Companion blog post:
blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast...
#ProcGen #vfx #GameDev
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Hmm ok, well not to throw a spanner in, but I'd bet pause comes into the overton window this year, even if it's not possible. Dario and Demis literally just said it at Davos.
I have a diagram I'll share with you that demonstrates why...
I'm starting a Substack newsletter, WHERE MACHINES THINK (just imagine scare quotes around the word think, to maintain appropriate skepticism). The welcome post is here: wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.
This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."
That you try to capture a conscious state for its own sake, because you think that matters. The true artist in my view is somebody who captures conscious states and that's the only reason why they eat. So you eat to make art. And another person makes art to eat.
And the arts is slightly different. It's a mutation that is arguably not completely adaptive. It's one where people fall in love with the loss function. Where you think that your mental representation is the intrinsically important thing.
And when the contribution is negative then the superorganism kills it in order to be fitter in the competition against other superorganisms. And it's totally brutal. I don't like fascism because it's going to kill a lot of minds I like.
Fascism is a mode of organization of society in which the individual is a cell in the superorganism and the value of the individual is exactly the contribution to the superorganism.
And in a way we are yeast. Everything we do, all the complexity that we create, all the structures we build, is to erect some surfaces on which to out compete other kinds of yeast. And if you realize this you can try to get behind this and I think the solution to this is fascism.
The thing that is able to digest anything and turn it into structure to sustain and perpetuate itself, for long as the local puddle of negentropy is available.
Evolution is about getting eaten by monsters. Don't go into the desert and perish there, because it's going to be a waste. If you're lucky the monsters that eat you are your own children. And eventually the search for evolution will, if evolution reaches its global optimum, it will be the perfect ..
The arts are the cuckoo child of life. Because the meaning of life is to eat. You know, life is evolution and evolution is about eating. It's pretty gross if you think about it.
“I find that most people serve practical needs. They have an understanding of the difference between meaning and relevance. And at some level my mind is more interested in meaning than in relevance. That is similar to the mind of an artist. The arts are not life. They are not serving life.
Hey, thanks for the Alfred snippets. I don't know if it is our fault. We did not choose these incentive structures.
omg. I just set it up a few days ago. Also what about my neovim config?
Our recent presentation from the Impact Scholars Program at @neuromatch.bsky.social - Neuromatch Academy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_z...
Statistical and deep learning models acted as “sensors” for task demand and WM activity, predicting how much WM is involved in emotion and language domains.
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🚨 New Preprint!!
LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵
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Temu imports more than 10000 tons of fast fashion every day.
