OK, here are a few thoughts (not smoking but procrastinating):
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
There is a tradeoff between working memory and perception. The persistence of working memory context is inversely related to the requested update rate for perceptual content. This tradeoff may lead to multiple possible solutions and may be reflected in different cognitive styles.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
The purpose of meditation is to gain control over attention: the width, depth and intensity of our focus, and the degree of control over its object.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
There is a bug in the foundations of sociology that makes it sometimes intellectually permissible to characterize historical facts by their distance to a single unreflected moral matrix (usually today's prototype of the shared ideology of the observers). I blame Weber and Marx.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
I think that the correct order of producing thoughts aims at maximizing expected increase in the desired model qualities.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Social justice as a movement is not interested in maximizing justice per se, but in changing the social perception of what's just.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Marvin Minsky's friends were all very much unlike him, and his fiercest enemies appeared to be not very much unlike him.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Marvin Minsky loved surprising ideas from others and generated a bunch of his own. He must have been the ultimate friend to the misfits who loved the same. Enemies, I suppose, were those who were ideologically stuck in place or in boring agreement.
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Replying to @DKedmey @davidarredondo
Minsky ruthlessly shut down numerous projects that he did not agree with. The most famous you heard of was neural networks (for a decade), the most famous you did not hear of was cybernetics, and there were unknown ones, like an amazing synthesizer theory of the mind.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Interesting. I thought he lamented the abandonment of cybernetics and counted Norbert Weiner as a great thinker and friend.
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An Austrian science historian told me that he believed Minsky was the Lighthill of cybernetics and responsible for the anonymous Grand Review that shut down funding for cybernetics in the US, to gain more funding attention for AI.
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