Как интеллект влияет на жизнь

Как интеллект влияет на жизнь - изумительно интересная лекция [youtube]. Владимир Алипов излагает замечательно. совсем юный мальчик.

negative revelation

Terrifying vistas of reality - эссе о философии Лавкрафта, на мой вкус неплохое. я до сих пор соглашался с тем, что о нем сказал Edmund Wilson: "The only horror is the horror of bad taste and bad art.” но там даже на это возражают в комментариях, а вообще в эссе много всякого интересного, в частности о теории познания.

а я как раз слушаю сейчас Гейзенберга Физика и философия - старик Лавкрафт порадовался бы, послушав, как Гейзенберг барахтается, пытаясь на пальцах объяснить корпускулярно-волновой дуализм. не говоря уже про теорию струн и multiverse, на которую они опоздали.

negative revelation там 4 раза встречается.

см. также Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman - how very interesting. а вот еще The Posthumous Pornification of H. P. Lovecraft

и вот еще беседа слегка раздраженная о различиях между panpsychism и physicalism - типа как блеск и нищета куртизанок.

Beware The Tenured

Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry - еще одна позорная статья в SciAm. это один Dr Philip Goff пишет:

There may be a way forward. I argue that we can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we reject reductionism about consciousness. Most consciousness researchers employ a reductionist view of the universe, where physics is running the show. Thus insofar as there are some future possibilities left open by the arrangements of particles in our brains, they are settled by nothing more than the random chanciness implicit in quantum mechanics.

Some challenges have lately emerged to this reductionist paradigm. The neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell has argued that the free will of conscious organisms plays a role in determining what will happen in the brain, over and above what is settled by the laws of physics.

что это такое random chanciness? хотел сказать красиво? и что же это там over and above the laws of physics хочем знать этот Dr Goff в статье пропагандирует свою новую книжку Why? The Purpose of the Universe: In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism. а вот заголовки отзывов (one star) на его предыдущую книжку Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness:

- Beware The Tenured Bearing Junk Science

- Well written but so deeply flawed it’s “not even wrong”

- Bold assertion with no evidence

а вот наш герой борется с ретроградами:

Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – the integrated information theory – of being pseudoscience.

полно ссылок, можно всю жизнь читать. а вот Jerry Coyne подробно разъясняет почему панпсихизм - лженаука: Philip Goff returns with panpsychism: now claims that a non-goddy “conscious Universe” explains the “fine-tuning” of physical constants permitting life, там много забавных комментариев. вспоминается Лысенко и вейсманисты-морганисты...

живые системы

...даже живые системы не являются живыми (по всей вероятности) ниже молекулярного уровня. --Норберт Винер, Творец и робот

по всей вероятности, осторожно говорит Винер.

кислотные дожди и прочая хрень

First it was acid rain, then it was was the ozone layer disappearing, then it was global warming, then it was the ice caps are going to melt and now it’s climate change. And what’s the only thing that’s actually changed in that time? The amount of tax we pay to ‘combat’ this so called climate change. Mr Al Gore has made quite a lot of cash on the back of his fight against ‘climate change’. Obama told us that the sea will rise by 10ft because of ‘climate change’ when he was in office, yet he bought a waterfront property after he left office. Why would anyone do that if they knew sea levels were about to rise 10ft in the next decade? @backtolife_2023

в комментариях там немало интересного, в частности упоминается State of Fear by Michael Crichton, очень даже познавательная и увлекательная статья в Wiki. книгу читать не обязательно, достаточно статьи.

см. также Columnist Accuses Crichton of ‘Literary Hit-and-Run’ и вообще по crichton crowley много забавного

timeless world of contemplation

I knocked and entered, feeling as though I'd been transported into a timeless world of contemplation.
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I would position myself in front of Stephen, clearly in his field of vision, and probe his mind by firing questions.

Stephen’s eyes would light up brightly when my arguments resonated with his intuition.

это из предисловия к On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

стоит ли продолжать читать после такого начала?

In his book Cosmic Landscape an opinionated string theorist Leonard Susskind ... (who can be relied upon for wild bold speculation)...

дальше, однако, довольно интересно. вот, к примеру

Back then ... cosmologists acquired the dubious reputation of being "often in error but never in doubt."

In effect, in the 1950s, the big bang theory almost slipped from public view. Vocal in his opposition to Lemaître's theory, the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle had coined the term big bang as a derisory term, during a BBC radio interview in 1949, and painted it as "an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms." Hoyle missed no opportunity to portray big bang cosmology as pseudoscience that had been pursued in a concordist endeavor.

и дальше про Леметра и Большой взрыв.

в общем дочитал до мембран и вселенной как голограммы и бросил, конца и края этим выдумкам чистого разума не видно.

и заодно забавное почти по теме: Collider court case finally closed

interpretations of quantum physics

Physicists ruefully joke that though new interpretations of quantum physics arrive with astonishing regularity, none ever go away. For many, that joke is turning sour. ‘It is a bad sign’, theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg noted recently, ‘that those physicists today who are most comfortable with quantum mechanics do not agree with one another about what it all means.’ --The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann - pg 42 months.

‘He [von Neumann] was ill at ease with people who were self-made or came from modest backgrounds,’ says Ulam of von Neumann in Princeton. ‘He felt most comfortable with third- or fourth-generation wealthy Jews.’
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Even Oppenheimer’s landlady in Berkeley was a communist.

Soon after Hilbert issued his challenge, the intellectually dynamic but psychologically frail Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel would demonstrate that it is impossible to prove that mathematics is either complete or consistent. - pg 111

отрывок показательный

однако описание работы Гёделя на стр 113-114 - пожалуй лучшее из всего, что я читал. и еще на стр. 118 описание работ Чёрча и Тюринга.

This seems odd today, but von Neumann, Turing, Norbert Wiener and other thinkers who contributed to the foundations of the field that became known as ‘artificial intelligence’ did think about computers as ‘electronic brains’. Today using ‘brain’ or ‘neuron’ in the context of computers seems laughably naive. - pg 122

laughably naive my ass. дальше там описывается "архитектура фон Неймана" - как я и ожидал, довольно дурацкая история. зато про память на линиях задержки, которую вовсе не фон Нейман изобрел, интересно.

now it is our turn

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Is This a Real Science Textbook Introduction?

on human cloning

twitter poll Allow human cloning? - so far 37% say Yes, of course and 25% - No, absolutely not (including myself), 5 days left

i'm rather surprised so many people are for it. one guy says I'd rather improve on itreated embryo selection. Embryo selection in general. this is something i wouldn't mind i guess. not entirely sure... some arguments for cloning are clearly itiotic

Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring

Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring - это Scott Aaronson по поводу “Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor.”

For those who don’t care to read further, here is my 3-word review:

No. Just No.

а баба яга Max Tegmark против за, но ему там несколько человек популярно объясняют, что это все херня он не прав.

да, тот самый Max Tegmark

We Live in a Simulation

Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation

Yet there have been skeptics. Physicist Frank Wilczek has argued that there’s too much wasted complexity in our universe for it to be simulated. Building complexity requires energy and time. Why would a conscious, intelligent designer of realities waste so many resources into making our world more complex than it needs to be?

it's not complexity. it's called macaroni code, stupid.

отличная статья, в частности про скорость света как hardware artifact и про raison d’être of subjective experience:

The simplest explanation for the existence of an experience or qualia is that it exists for the purpose of being an experience.

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So here we are generating this product called consciousness that we apparently don’t have a use for, that is an experience and hence must serve as an experience. The only logical next step is to surmise that this product serves someone else.

см. также Вселенная нереальна. Доказано! [youtube]

quantum computing industry is a hype bubble

Oxford physicist unloads on quantum computing industry, says it's basically a hype bubble. - futurism.com

Despite billions of dollars being poured into quantum computing, Gourianov argues, the industry has yet to develop a single product that's actually capable of solving practical problems.

"The little revenue they generate mostly comes from consulting missions aimed at teaching other companies about 'how quantum computers will help their business,'" Gourianov wrote for the FT, "as opposed to genuinely harnessing any advantages that quantum computers have over classical computers."

The money, he argues, is coming from investors who typically don't have "any understanding of quantum physics," while "taking senior positions in companies and focusing solely on generating fanfare."

via / see also Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Science и просто для коллекции Quantum Winter Is Coming

и грянул гром

A double pendulum demonstrates chaos theory, tracing its unpredictable path

This is commonly referred to as "the butterfly effect,"

Chaos, but not random. If it was possible to set two double pendulums in motion with the exact initial conditions then resulting paths they take would match.

@gunsnrosesgirl3 / жж

кстати о фактах...

About 30 years ago there was much talk that Geologists ought only to observe & not theorise;6 & I well remember some one saying, that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit & count the pebbles & describe their colours. How odd it is that every one should not see that all observation must be for or against some view, if it is to be of any service. -- Charles Darwin to Henry Fawcett

quoted in Sceptic by Michael Shermer, и дальше он [Shermer] пишет:

If scientific observations are to be of any use, they must be tested against a theory, hypothesis or model. The facts never just speak for themselves. They must be interpreted through the colored lenses of ideas: percepts need concepts.

Ницше бы одобрил.

NICA

сверхпроводящий коллайдер протонов и тяжёлых ионов NICA

это в Дубне, Планируемое окончание строительства — 2022 год

Критическая точка ядерной материи [youtube]

злой путен не все украл еще, похоже

Ideology as Biology

Here he cited “common knowledge” of “negatively correlated personality and intellectual gifts” (i.e., the assumption that highly intelligent people are less pleasant and vice-versa). ... Wilson’s condescension in claiming that while natural selection could explain intelligence, intelligence doesn’t make one happy, reeks of the kind of temporizing paternalism invoked during the days of slavery and Jim Crow. -- Ideology as Biology

hit piece в чистом виде, особенно забавно, что эти ребята пишут demonstrators dumped a glass of water over Wilson’s head. это учитывая, что этот эпизод хорошо известен: protesters dumped a pitcher of ice water on Wilson’s head while he was speaking at a scientific meeting in 1978. [nyt, cbc.ca]

там упоминаются еще два блядских hit pieces про Э.О. Уилсона: The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson и “The Last Refuge of Scoundrels”

upd. 4/29/22: Was the Great Scientist E. O. Wilson a Racist? NO! - reply by @michaelshermer

из письма Дарвина

...есть такие — к ним отношусь и я, — кто будет всей душой приветствовать крестовый поход Севера против рабства, даже если он унесет миллионы жизней. В конечном счете миллионы ужасающих смертей с лихвой окупятся торжеством гуманности. Господи, как хотелось бы дожить до такого дня, когда с величайшим проклятьем на земле — рабством — будет покончено!» - из письма Дарвина Азе Грею, цитируется в Дарвин и Гексли, Уильям Ирвин

Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against Slavery. In the long run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. — Great God how I should like to see that greatest curse on Earth Slavery abolished. - Charles Darwin on Racism, Slavery, and Eugenics

жж

anatomical signs of criminality

A belief in anatomical signs of criminality can be detected in Egyptian writings 4,000 years old, in Homer's epics, in the Hippocratic and Galenic doctrines of ancient medicine, and in the Bible. Socrates was charged by a physiognomist with having a face that betrayed brutality. - @Biorealism

Whether crime was caused by biology or environment, Lombroso believed crime was often caused, it was not an expression of free & malicious intent...Lombroso and his school were allied with the reformatory movement...prisoners, whom they saw as victims of bad biology or society.

Crime & Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime by James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein

see also ломброзо / lombroso and Et tu, Cassius

а вот Tania Lombrozo, Department of Psychology, Prinston Uniersity - ain't it funny

Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

The Law of Very Large Numbers: Given a wide enough dataset, any pattern can be observed. A million to one odds happen 8 times a day in NYC (population 8 million). The world hasn't become crazier, we're just seeing more of everything.

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Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): It takes a lot more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it. Hence, the world is full of unrefuted bullshit.

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If you torture the data for long enough, it'll confess to anything.

and lots more there from @G_S_Bhogal

Bullshit Asymmetry Principle has the most likes (>5K), mine included.

Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores

Researchers downloading GWAS must agree: "In particular, I will not use these data to make comparisons across ancestral groups.]Such comparisons could animate biological conceptualizations of racial superiority." @TOOEdit

Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores - detailed explanation by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard