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... The authors here show that readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups. This is consistent with the theory of Cultural Group Selection as an explanation for the rise of human large-scale cooperation. ...
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... Not all bad ideas come from the right 5/ ...
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... Then the idea that 1999 and 2006 were driven by unsustainable bubbles, as opposed to just being healthy economic booms, prevented people from recognizing how far the US economy was below potential from 2010 to 2015. ...
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... I have no idea. https://t.co/kFojw7CxsT This chart debunks the widely-held belief that housing construction was out of control in 2005. Housing production was actually pretty normal! ...
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... This [Twitter conversation](https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status/1495128028443074561?t=E66IfwHivO5BIu3qT1dEyg&s=19) showed how difficult to actually having a group discussion on an expansive topic. I believe that the mind net can organize such interaction of ideas much better. ...
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... Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. ...
... Ideas are bouncing in all directions. In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...
... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...
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... Narrative organization of ideas such as books, lectures, and talks, is excellent for the owner of those ideas to convey them to an audience. But it's not effective in enabling multidirectional exchanges of ideas in which ideas come from and go to multiple participants. ...
... We do not write each other books or give each other lectures when we need to exchange ideas. Instead, we have conversations, correspondences, tweets, comments, etc. In them, we forego structure/organization to enable smaller bits of ideas and thoughts to go freely in any direction. ...
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... More specifically, a network of ideas, thoughts, propositions, observations, things that live in our minds. Imagine we can connect things in our minds with things in other people's minds. ...
... As explained by the book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation", being able to make connections between ideas in different minds has been critical for human innovations. ...
... To date, such connections are made through reading publications, which are very formal, linearly structured, and unilateral, or through conversations, which are casual, divergent, and rarely structured. ...
... Imagine if we have a medium that is specifically designed to facilitate connections between ideas in different minds. This medium is structured but allows easy divergence, multilateral and asynchronous. ...
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... As long as social groups still compete against each other, the political structure of those groups has to serve the function of competition. The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). ...
... Will it morph into something different when social group competition completely disappears? I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? ...
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... ChatGPT is exactly what it claims to be: GPT3.5 tuned for conversations. There are no new capabilities that can provide new viable products than what GPT 3 already does (mainly CoPilot). ...
... That being said, the chat bot format did provide a great way for a wider community to explore potential use cases with LLM hence directions for future development (#GPT4?). It's probably the original intention of the release, but the community got carried away. ...
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... The brain uses a mental language to represent and organize complex ideas and concepts. This mental language is thought to be distinct from natural languages like English or Spanish, and it is believed to be the medium through which we think and process information. ...
... According to the LOTH, the structure and content of this mental language are shaped by the structure and content of the natural languages that we learn, but it is not identical to any one natural language. ...
... Instead, it is thought to be a universal language that is used by all humans to represent and process complex ideas. Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ ...
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