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by hexxiiiz 5y ago
Psychology has set itself back 50 years. After disavowing all of Freud's ideas, psychology has spent decades constructing a piecemeal web of unreproducible experiments only to conclude on a lot of ideas that Freud had already developed
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Although this seems compelling, there is also the role of 5HT2A receptors in weighting priors as Carhart-Harris and Friston discuss in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333911957_REBUS_and... While this primaril
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
While it is true that we should be having a discussion about what really constitutes disinformation in a way that treats the concept as more than just a political tactic, this article reads as though it is doing almost the same thing. The b
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
"But in order to make individuals susceptible to ideology, you must first ruin their relationship to themselves and others by making them sceptical and cynical, so that they can no longer rely upon their own judgment" As much as I
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Went down this road recently. I wrote some python code to handle some big archives of music, pdfs, and other media, normalizing the names of everything. I decided to try and correct the extensions to indicate the file type properly. This tu
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
We actually have a bit of a schematic diagram already. It is well known that both dopamine and serotonin are largely produced by clusters of neurons in specific fore/mid-brain regions that then project out into the rest of the brain. T
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
I am not aware of any work that has gotten a good timeseries of neuromodulator response. So much speculation is thrown around about how these hormones respond to real world experiences, but the evidence has been coarse grain from things lik
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
This is huge. So much of what we seem to know about these neuromodulation systems amounts to a number of "has to do with ..."s. Dopamine has to do with reward; serotonin has to do with happiness; etc... Knowing how these modulator
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Whether one assesses one or another proposed model as having promise is a matter of debate and not a means to credit or discredit anything. It does not seem as though there is any case here for the assertion that 'psychoanalysis has be
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
At the moment, there is no canonically useful model of the mind that is established in the consensus of those who study it. You are writing this as though psychoanalysis has been replaced by some better theory that explains more of the phen
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
The question is not whether Kandel proved anything, but merely whether psychoanalysis has been discredited. I am not making the case here that it is proven, verified, or completely substantiated in any particular way (here at least). That p
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Kandel's obvious expertise on the functioning of the brain puts him in precisely the right position to give an assessment of how realistic Freud's models in describing what happens in the brain. More specifically, his expertise on
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
On one hand, I think there is certainly a perspective in this doc that shows where critical views are needed around the consequences of certain business models coming from big tech. On the other hand, it seems to attribute a lot of the rece
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
The difference between Kandel and Feynman is that Kandel is a neuroscientist who understands psychoanalysis and Feynman clearly hadn't really read Freud's work, only expressing skepticism on the basis of his vague intuitions about
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
While I did not find this article particularly deep, psychoanalysis has hardly been discredited. The core of the theory has been infused into almost every psychological modality practiced today aside from CBT, and studies have shown its gen
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
I think (I might be wrong) the brain might be a good target because there is not much motion. To get fast readings from an MRI you probably need the stronger magnets. MRI works not by capturing spatial variation directly like a camera, but
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
As much as the pharma industry and medical practitioners were irresponsible in their contribution to opioid addiction, there is a dimension to this problem that does still does not get enough attention: that people may really be in pain. Ov
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
This may make sense for you in particular, but it a lot of people the signal provided by depression is distinct in its persistent alarm about something that isn't really in the present. Listening to the signal and stopping to take stoc
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Very much. The numbers politicians have thrown around have had floors from 100 million to a billion. If Graham is speaking to the interests of future 100 millionaires I think most of them should be far more concerned about the country they
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
UBI is not bad. But without a better housing infrastructure in cities, UBI will be mostly a voucher for landlords, who will disproportionately end up quickly receiving a large fraction of this cashflow. Affordable housing, education, and he
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
In all fairness, JSON itself continues to be as simple a format as it ever was. Having schemas is an important adjuct because it frees devs up from constantly translating specs into ad-hoc validation routines that all too often miss somethi
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
If you count the number of microstates for a given macrostate you get a hyper geometric number N!/(n_1!n_2!...) The log of this is the Boltzmann entropy. However, if you consider N to be very large or infinite, you can show using the S
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
In thermodynamics there are two other formulations of entropy: the Clausius one in terms of temperature and heat, and the Boltzmann one. The latter defines entropy as the log of the number of microstates a system could be in a particular ma
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Am I missing something here? A wave function is NOT a probability distribution! Wave functions have phase! The double slit experiment and bells paradox both clearly show that quantum effects can be created that cannot be explained in terms
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
I suppose more succinctly, claiming that dopamine causes addiction is like claiming that the cam shaft is what makes a car go. Addiction is a phenomena that involves what appears to be a lot of factors and components; dopamine appears to be
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by hexxiiiz 6y ago
Well geez. Unlike people, I happen to love contemporary architecture. I suppose that Christopher Alexander must feel sorry for me too. Maybe he could explain more clearly to my aesthetic sensibilities why his prosaic pattern language should
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by hexxiiiz 7y ago
I suppose depending on who you are and what you find convincing a lot of things could be included/excluded from this table: i.e. individualism, freedom, all schools of economics, behavioral psychology, rationality itself, all cultural
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by hexxiiiz 7y ago
Geez. Unless there is there is some mechanism posited, it is hard not to roll ones eyes at studies like this. How would, hypothetically, the THC, and other cannabinoids in canibus cause this to happen given their effect on the endocrine sys
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by hexxiiiz 7y ago
While a lot of what the author notes about the issues with security are reasonable complaints, it sounds like the real problem is that the author is burned out because of how all of these underlying issues are dumped onto him as his problem
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by hexxiiiz 7y ago
Not sure what Grahams views are on economics, but I have certainly read/heard business people trumpet heretical ideas with praise before, having specifically in mind those heresies that conform to their particular world view. Graham us

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