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In the long run, scientists who still subscribe to the basic emotion method are very likely helping to create the universality that they believe they are discovering.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
The problem here is that the myth of the lone genius is itself a myth. History (ancient and recent) is full of geniuses who came up with a revolutionary idea largely on their own—that’s why the archetype even exists in the first place (Aristotle, Newton, Darwin, Einstein to name the most obvious examples).
Roger's Bacon • The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius
Fadeke Adegbuyi: The command and deep understanding of a subject has been decoupled from credentialism. Experts can be born and brought up on the internet, bypassing post-secondary institutions and other centralized forms of education and knowledge dissemination….Additionally, the rate at which the internet allows for information to be generated an... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Yes, GPT-4 might be a stochastic parrot, but if so, perhaps the Biggest Question is to prove that humans are more than that.
Peter Lee • The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is “the gradual removal of prejudices.” The discovery that the earth revolves around the sun has gradually removed the prejudice that the earth is the center of the universe. The discovery of microbes is gradually removin
... See moreRichard Rhodes • Making of the Atomic Bomb
How will we apply the thousands of trillions of bytes of information derived from each brain scan? With this approach, we don’t have to copy every single connection. Although the information contained in a human brain would require thousands of trillions of bytes of information (on the order of 100 billion neurons times an average of 1,000 connecti... See more