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by Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

A spectrum of academic researchers, activists, policy makers, artists, and writers with critical perspectives on AI and technology. No Xrisk posts are included. Managed (but not moderated) by @eryk.bsky.social. Reply to the pinned post here if you’d like to be added. BlueskyFeedCreator.com

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Rhea Myers @rheamyers.bsky.social · about 2 hours ago
Welp the in-head drum machine is back.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · about 2 hours ago
But, yeah, if what falls on our sensory surfaces is "information" that's a really strong claim — it's good for scientists to say what model, formalisms, theories they use, but it's slightly different to see it outside a direct quote as if "information" is a neutral word like "thing" or a phenomenon.

It's always interesting to see journalists reflect the information theory metaphor on topics like this where it slips into scientific model... > crows and primates are processing the same information
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · about 2 hours ago
For decades we hear women have smaller brains therefore we're stupid (yes, look up the great term for this "neurosexism") — but now it's "crows have a small brain therefore they are smart"? We're winning and have a murder on our side, I guess. Cool.
Nieder says he wants to explore questions that this work raises: What would happen with crows in a more complex decision-making model? How can we learn about the confidence of the crows while they are making their choices? And the “very big question I’m not sure if we can answer in my career is: How are bird brains so terribly fast?”8 It may be because bird brains are so small, Nieder says, and the shorter neuronal wires might hurry things along. Compared with primates, corvids have two to three times as many neurons in the same volume of tissue, a factor that could also contribute. Birds also have higher steady body temperatures, which could speed up neuronal firing, ion channel opening and the flow of neurotransmitters crossing the synaptic cleft. These are “some hypotheses, but this is an entirely wide-open research question,” Nieder says.

Crows have brains “in the fast lane,” according to Andreas Nieder, who showed in a new study that they make perceptual decisions twice as fast as primates. #neuroskyence By @sarahthau.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/cro...

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Rhea Myers @rheamyers.bsky.social · about 2 hours ago
I love computing machinery and its configuration sooooo much. ❤️
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Rhea Myers @rheamyers.bsky.social · about 3 hours ago
Showing how anti-LLM I am by writing an art project in Prolog. Connectionism shall not triumph this time! 🧐
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Rhea Myers @rheamyers.bsky.social · about 3 hours ago
I made art* with Claude on my phone while lying on a temporary bed in the hall of the psych ward**. Call this deconstructed AI psychosis. 🧐 * - Not illustrations. ** - I had a deadline.
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