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The human mind is in a recession
- anjel 2y agohttps://archive.is/kYzG2 https://archive.is/kYzG2
- dysgenics9876 2y agoyes but the main reason doesn't appear in the article
- chkaloon 2y agoScreen time.
- giantg2 2y agoIt goes deeper than that. If you always have someone or something to bail you out, why do you need to develop independence?
- brookst 2y agoWelcome to HN, Mr. Thoreau
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago...whose mom showed up at Walden Pond every now and again to help with laundry and such.
- rexpop 2y agoAu contraire, if you haven't anyone or anything to bail you out, how can you justify the risk of innovating? Man is not an island.
- recursive 2y agoWhat risk? To whom would you justify it?
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoSpecifically when the screen contents are controlled by people who want you as addicted as possible and don't care if it's ruining your life.
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- rixed 2y agoNot so forbidden a topic that you can't site some sources, I hope.
- brickfaced 2y agoI'm not getting paid to do your homework for you
- imtringued 2y agoMonogamous societies were the most successful societies in human history, yet you claim that they should be inherently dysfunctional, because of dysgenics.
- brickfaced 2y agoTaboos on incest and cousin marriage are what actually made the difference there, along with harsh winters
- getnormality 2y agoIs there anything noteworthy in this article? It seems to be pure conventional wisdom. It could have been written by ChatGPT. Brain function is important to the economy? Not using your brain might make it less functional? No way, man. I'm spinning in my chair.
- csomar 2y ago> It could have been written by ChatGPT. Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony?
- nis0s 2y agoThe human mind needs help in the form augmentation of its capabilities and capacity, but I am not convinced invasive implants are the way for two reasons: 1) you’ll need brain surgery every time you decide to change hardware for any reason, which will suck if you’re immunocompromised for any reason, which can also happen naturally as you age; 2) invasive hardware will be hard to remove at will. I think there are different ways to augment human cognition without implants, and these less invasive methods need to be considered first. One simple and tractable method which may be easy to implement, but hard to perfect, is to create a mechanism for offloading tasks as a learned “thought process” to any number of autonomous agents called on demand. If the system relies on vocalization, then it’s not different from voice assistants, whereas if it relies on multi-step prompting, then it’s not reducing the cognitive load of the person using it. There are various nuances even for this relatively simple concept, but I think it’s one of the more doable research quests.
- pseudocomposer 2y agoSubtly designed subvocal sensors, paired with an earpiece providing LLM output, could potentially be pretty powerful as a wearable. Not as invasive as glasses-type implementations - no camera or screen needed at all, really. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
- nis0s 2y agoMaybe, but a wireless SVR would offer more flexibility and normal use. But a “thought process” could also be composed from a language of neurophysiology, like blood flow and hand/foot movements.
- nis0s 2y agoThe average human mind has a capacity of holding at best 7 facts together in working memory before reaching cognitive load limits. What’s amazing is that we’ve achieved as much as we have besides current limitations.
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- titanomachy 2y ago“ For all the talk of artificial intelligence, the most efficient computer on Earth remains the human brain. It can perform the same number of operations per second as the world’s supercomputers, but only requires power equivalent to a fridge lightbulb.” This is kind of like saying my cat can perform the same number of operations as a supercomputer, because he is full of neurons which do information processing. Sure, I guess. But the number of floating point operations I can do per second is a whole lot less than 1.
- halestock 2y agoI mean yeah, but floating point ops aren’t a great measure of intelligence?
- jhanschoo 2y agoI think that in a physical sense you can compare computation throughput unfairly against GPUs, by comparing 1 FLO against a minimum window of time in which a particular neuron spiking or not is significant, multiplied by the number of neurons.
- Davidzheng 2y agoI'm not sure there's a single metric in which you can argue a single human brain has more compute than 1e6 H100s
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- Animats 2y agoThere's also the concern that a bout of mild COVID costs about 3 IQ points.[1] The damage may be cumulative, but nobody seems to be following up on that, or tracking re-infection data, any more. What will this mean over 20 years? [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-i...
- xnx 2y agoGood opportunity to remember how fantastically amazing the human brain is: 86 billion neurons, each connected to thousands of other neurons, resulting in trillions of connections. Our most advanced research effort struggle to understand even a tiny scanned cube of it. The most complex structure we know of and we've all got one.
- bookofjoe 2y agohttps://archive.ph/lU7zs https://archive.ph/lU7zs