LSD produces a new type of ‘harmonic’ order in the brain, according to neuroimaging study: www.psypost.org/2018/02/lsd-produces-new-type-harmonic-order-brain-according-neuroimaging-study-50804
LSD produces a new type of ‘harmonic’ order in the brain, according to neuroimaging study: www.psypost.org/2018/02/lsd-produces-new-type-harmonic-order-brain-according-neuroimaging-study-50804
NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-finds-a-large-amount-of-water-in-an-exoplanets-atmosphere
Newest & Clearest photo of Pluto:
Kiyoshi Saitō (1907-1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Sait%C5%8D #Art
Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers: https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/ #ML
"People in the west are always getting ready to live."
- Chinese saying
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." - Karl Marx
Fly Eye
VQ-VAE - Neural Discrete Representation Learning
https://github.com/nakosung/VQ-VAE
Excerpts from "The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology"
- by Erich Fromm (1968): #Technology #Ethics #Book
A Yogic Model for Information Processing: https://medium.com/@vakibs/a-yogic-model-for-information-processing-51b4e828e7a8
Flora-Fauna-Human-Computer-Interaction
Autonomous computer systems (AI) are interesting & Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is important. Yet, in these times of climate change & anthropocene it is "Flora-Fauna-Human-Interaction" (FFHI) which is critical. #Ideas
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11569-007-0007-6
Abstract: Most known technology serves to ingeniously adapt the world to the physical and mental limitations of human beings. Humankind has acquired awesome power with its rather limited means. Nanotechnological capabilities further this power. On some accounts, however, nanotechnological research will contribute to a rather different kind of technological development, namely one that changes human beings so as to remove or reduce their physical and mental limitations.
The prospect of this technological development has inspired a fair amount of ethical debate. Here, proponents and opponents of such visions of human enhancement are criticized alike for engaging in speculative ethics. This critique exposes a general pattern that extends to other nano-, bio-, or neuroethical debates.
While it does not apply to all discussions of “enhancement technologies” it does apply to all ethical discourse that constructs and validates an incredible future which it only then proceeds to endorse or critique. This discourse violates conditions of intelligibility, squanders the scarce and valuable resource of ethical concern, and misleads by casting remote possibilities or philosophical thoughtexperiments as foresight about likely technical developments. In effect, it deflects consideration from the transformative technologies of the present.
A wise man once said nothing
The report was written by 26 authors from 14 institutions, spanning academia, civil society, and industry. The report builds on a 2 day workshop held in Oxford, UK, in February 2017. More information can be found in Appendix A of the report.
Site: https://maliciousaireport.com
Research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.07228.pdf
#ML #Ethics #Research
https://medium.com/what-to-build/on-the-dangers-of-mindful-and-well-being-based-design-81a165fd0597
Designers who work towards meaningful interactions and time well spent have tough questions to face: What is a good use of the users’ time? Why don’t users already interact meaningfully?”These are questions about human agency and dignity. Unless we tread carefully, we’ll be ensnared (or “hooked”) by a dangerous way of thinking.
My first blog ever, in 1999. Robidog.com (domain now owned by a "dog shit collection system" company). Here is a waybackmachine capture: https://web.archive.org/web/*/robidog.com
"AI and HCI: Two Fields Divided by a Common Focus" (2009):
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e22b/e3642660d6a779e477124cae7cbfdfa5b0a5.pdf
Although AI and HCI explore computing and intelligent behavior and the fields have seen some crossover, until recently there was not very much. This article outlines a history of the fields that identifies some of the forces that kept the fields at arm’s length.
AI was generally marked by a very ambitious, long-term vision requiring expensive systems, although the term was rarely envisioned as being as long as it proved to be, whereas HCI focused more on innovation and improvement of widely used hardware within a short time scale. These differences led to different priorities, methods, and assessment approaches. A consequence was competition for resources, with HCI flourishing in AI winters and moving more slowly when AI was in favor. The situation today is much more promising, in part because of platform convergence: AI can be exploited on widely used systems.