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by robg 3y ago
The adrenal cortex (i.e., fight-or-flight) is a good example where your brain-in-the-body reacts before your conscious awareness.
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by robg 3y ago
Counterpoint: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/11/portland-mayor-t... Local officials feel more pressure from the business community.
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by robg 3y ago
It’s really difficult to show that emotions exist independently of the autonomic nervous system. Sure you can just ask people, but the challenges of reliable ratings mean it’s still a legitimate question 100 years later. For instance, who c
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by robg 3y ago
Serious Eats here suggests staggering: - Ripe within 2-3 days - with a banana in a brown paper bag - Ripe within 3-5 days - just avocados in a brown paper bag - Ripe within a week - open air avocados
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by robg 3y ago
Brown paper bag, two not fully ripe bananas with every three avocados. Leave for two days.
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by robg 3y ago
Optimistic about ultrasound for sleep and aging applications, the waste clearance processes are just being understood. Turning brain areas off has also been shown to help different types of performance.
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by robg 3y ago
Kind of, the physiology of stress and fight or flight generally isn’t, even to pro athletes. But to that point, why do you think the lessons aren’t crossing over into academics?
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by robg 3y ago
From the physiology, the biggest are how sleep and stress affect learning, memory, and attention. Seems obvious but I’ve yet to find a school district that starts even there.
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by robg 3y ago
Gross is teaching kids about how their bodies work? I’m talking basics like the physiology of sleep and stress and how both affect learning, memory, and attention. Student athletes learn more about their bodies and performance than students
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by robg 3y ago
Questions for all the knowledge workers here (i.e., people who use their brains for their living) here: 1. When did you get your first course on neuroscience and how brains work best? 2. Did you ever learn in school a tool kit for keeping y
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by robg 3y ago
I’m working with our local school board, consists of over 200 schools in a wealthy county. Even as I got my PhD in Neuroscience 20 years ago, it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles.
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by robg 3y ago
All great points, it’s wild that this small non-profit board had so much power with so little at stake for themselves. That’s a typical feature of a non-profit board, but in this case the entity wasn’t a typical non-profit. To your points,
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by robg 3y ago
This seems the simplest explanation, and relevant to the post, cause for a lawsuit. Helen could be principled about the mission, but difficult to say Adam was, given what he stood to gain.
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PG Bot trained on all of pg’s essays(chat.openai.com)
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by robg 3y ago
Perhaps, but that feedback won’t be reflected in the poster itself, maybe the publication, if there is one.
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by robg 3y ago
Be careful with this article, it’s based on a poster at a scientific meeting, not a peer reviewed publication.
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by robg 3y ago
The timing of Dev Day and its impacts on Poe aren’t suspect to you? And you don’t think D’Angelo has a conflict of interest that impacts his board role at OpenAI?
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by robg 3y ago
You don’t think D’Angelo has a conflict of interest?
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by robg 3y ago
Being spun as deeply ideological seems about right - the 3 non-profit oriented board members seem like they were already open about their views in that direction, so just took one vote to flip - D’Angelo.
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by robg 3y ago
Looking more and more like the dev day nuking of D’Angelo’s Poe led to this outcome. I’m surprised that connection has escaped close scrutiny - it was a conflict of interest AND now Poe is viable again as intended. For a minor player in AI
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by robg 3y ago
And it quickly feels personal…
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by robg 3y ago
While he built a rocket company and global telecommunications satellite network both hardened unlike any other against rogue AIs… Duh, duh, dunnnnnnnne… Third act we find out Musk was the villain all along, X being the final solution for hi
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by robg 3y ago
What about: Intercontinental ballistic missiles launch from Alaska toward China. No one knows who ordered and controls the launch. Only one man can stop them in time: Elon Musk.
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by robg 3y ago
Remaining curious how D’Angelo has escaped scrutiny over his apparent conflict of interests and as the “independent” board member with a clear commercial board background.
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by robg 3y ago
If we’re trying to add things up: 6 previous board members. 3 seem ideological and aligned more to the non-profit aims. 2 seem more aligned to the commercial aims to support the non-profit. That leaves: 1 (D’Angelo) who seems like he would
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by robg 3y ago
And looks more and more like he had a conflict of interest with Poe which should have either put guardrails on his board role at OpenAI or led to his departure.
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by robg 3y ago
Has Adam’s role in this mess been reported? From the board makeup and Poe seems like he would have been aligned with Sam (investor in Quora) and Greg. Until he wasn’t…
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by robg 3y ago
You’re right in theory, but with the non-profit “structure” the employees are secondary to the aims of the non-profit, and specifically in an entity owned wholly by the non-profit. The board acted as a non-profit board, driven by ideals not
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by robg 3y ago
They own that in a subsidiary of the non-profit, not the controlling non-profit itself.
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by robg 3y ago
100%, for all the palace intrigue, this mismanagement / misalignment of the Board has been stewing for a while.

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