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Seeing as everyone else is doing this: Types of language evolution papers.
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Michael Collins PhD
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Michael Collins PhD
@Homoloquax1
PhD in experimental evolutionary psychology. Cognitive Science, Psychology, Language, Evolution, Social Cognition, Cognitive Archaeology
Katılım Şubat 2016
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Still time to register for our first talk of the semester! Join us tomorrow at 1-2pm BST
Register here:
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series@LivUni_EvoAnth
Hello All, Join us next week on Thurs 3rd of October at 1-2pm for a talk from @PeterGardenfors! We hope to see you there! Check out the poster below and the zoom link to register is here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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@fcummins I literally made a fake podcast with this yesterday based on the pdf's I used in our visual gaze Masters project from 2015 - it was crazy. I'm kind of afraid to put my phd research in there...
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This is peak AI miracle/calamity. With Google's NotebookLM you can automatically generate a talk show/podcast discussing your own writing. It is utterly surreal. notebooklm.google
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New evidence that the hunter-gatherer peoples of central Africa have been a distinct genetic and cultural group for a long time, 120kya.
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias@padillaccc
A little piece on our @NatureHumBehav paper looking at the relationship between the structure of cultural and genetic diversity in Central Africa is now out in @natAfrica1 nature.com/articles/d4414… 😍 Thanks a lot @dannoOkoth for writing about it!
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@Abebab I don't know Abeba, @ChatGPTapp recently did a pretty good first draft of merging my existing CV with a job description. It can be pretty good at helping with all sorts of technical issues too. Like any tool it can be used for positive or negative purposes.
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the opportunities to create more wealth for the hyperwealthy sure are endless. and that about the only things AI is guaranteed to do
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
We can build a future where AI drives growth, creates wealth and attracts investment in the UK, strengthening our position on the world stage. standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
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It has been very funny to see people respond to my recent argument that some research practices logically follow from a philosophy of science.
Imagine how these people would feel if they read Popper, who wrote a whole book about the 'logic of scientific discovery'.
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Understanding understanding – could an A.I. cook meth? wiringthebrain.com/2019/02/unders… - in which I try to tease apart what makes Walter White's understanding "deeper" than Jesse Pinkman's...
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@JoeAtikian @WiringTheBrain I'm looking forward to seeing a theory of human evolution that doesn't use the concepts of species or sex. Most multicellular life is overrated anyhow.
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@Homoloquax1 @WiringTheBrain In the Origin of Species, Darwin smirked at the idea of species.
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The history of sex research: Is “sex” a useful category? cell.com/cell/fulltext/… - this is doing my head in...
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Hi everyone I'm marching the month for prostate cancer (Razzie is coming too)marchthemonth.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/tr…
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1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".
I think this statement is naive and a mistake.
Center for AI Safety@CAIS
We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI. Signatories include: - Three Turing Award winners - Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL - CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic - Many more safe.ai/statement-on-a…
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@ZeroStateReflex @KevinAFischer As experimental "success" is often measured by p values, suggesting experiments that have a greater chance of such a value is called p-hacking and is one of the types of problems in applying LLM's without a deep understanding of experimental design oneself.
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It's a pattern seeking short cut. If GPT "X" can analyze all the experimental data thus far it can suggest experiments to run that might have a high percentage of success.
I think the direction is to build the most sophisticated pattern recognizing agent possible that cuts through the noise.
Ultimately you're right though. It has to be tested in the real world.
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I have to say the quiet part out loud
No one who has done experimental science thinks GPT5 will cure cancer, discover drugs, or invent a supervirus
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@seymiotics @PsychScientists Doom us to a world full of mediocre copy-paste images, badly written clickbait articles and threats of nuclear annihilation? .... Hang on a minute ...
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I am loving the insane dunks on that original thread mainly because no AI could have come up with this
Smooth Dunk@SmoothDunk
Ever wonder what the rest of Vincent Van Gogh’s Twelve Sunflowers looks like?
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@WiringTheBrain Reductionism is still a major part of scientific thinking, and this is amplified in popular culture. So it's still a useful phrase, even just as a starting point for alternative ways of understanding complex systems.
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I move we retire the phrase: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts". Why would anyone think parts of a system could be "summed"?
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@Abebab Most population genetics research is on non-human species. Of the research that deal with humans, only a tiny proportion of research could be considered racist, mostly historical. E.g. some of the latest research here: nature.com/subjects/popul…
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if you're in a field with a bad reputation (like population genetics, which is almost all racist) but trying to do good critical work, you have to denounce bad "research" and not get upset when people trash it. that's how you differentiate your work form the status quo
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@CoachZachElder @PsychScientists The classic paper on the evolution of human physiology involved in throwing is here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… The paper itself is compact, but note there is another 50 pages of material in the supplementary notes if you really want to get into it.
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@PsychScientists What I said in the original tweet is my opinion, but admittedly is based on conjecture. I have yet to disprove my own theory. Can you point me in the direction of your research? I’d like to learn more
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This is apparently something physios say and as someone who’s actually done research in the evolution of throwing field I can only say that actually the human body is *mostly* meant to throw 😂
Zach Elder@CoachZachElder
“tHe HuMaN bOdY isNt mEaNt tO ThRoW” Yes, it is. In fact, throwing is in our blood. Human’s ability to throw is a huge part of what made us apex predators in the first place. We are among the only animals that can throw a projectile with any measure of accuracy.
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@animegirl12182 @owillis @jessesingal @nytimes There is indeed disagreement among experts and other stakeholders on causes and treatment of gender dysphoria, as this @bmj_latest investigation describes: bmj.com/content/380/bm…
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This neatly clarifies it. When they say things like "the Times is bigoted against trans people," what they mean -- or what Oliver means, at least -- is "I have minor qualms about how paragraphs I agree with are framed and worded"
This was the best example he could come up with.
Oliver Willis@owillis
@jessesingal reporting on a campaign to dehumanize people as merely "critics say" is for shit, but somehow i dont think itll shut you up. 🤷🏾♂️
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@mike10010100 @owillis @jessesingal @nytimes Sorry, I'm not going to engage with someone who throws abusive epithets at me. Blocked.
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@Homoloquax1 @owillis @jessesingal @nytimes So you think it would be beneficial for the public to always hear about the Nazis' thoughts on the Holocaust?
Nah, I'm not framing anyone as Nazis, I'm asking you to extend the logic of your own argument, dipshit.
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