A good day for amusing/great domain names. @arcalinea has the amazing http://possibility.space (!) And @andy_matuschak's http://insight.porn has just gone live (not at all NSFW).https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1174789824554815488 …
Definitely genetics/evolution. What I’ve read about Friston seems like forcing a few facts to fit a theory and ignoring anything that doesn’t… is there a source you would recommend that I might find more persuasive?
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@slatestarcodex has written about it a bunch and I think it definitely fits as a "unified theory that people try to apply to everything" Overview: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy/ … Psychedelics (trigger warning, Bayesianism): https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/10/ssc-journal-club-relaxed-beliefs-under-psychedelics-and-the-anarchic-brain/ … Depression: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/ … -
Thanks, yes, I mostly only know it from the
@slatestarcodex write-ups. It appears to be Kalman filters, and when that doesn’t fit, epicycles of Kalman filters on Kalman filters. Kalman filters are an instance if what I call “rationalist pit-traps”... - 2 more replies
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