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... In popular media, there is often a connection drawn between the advent of awareness in artificial agents and those same agents simultaneously achieving human or superhuman level intelligence. ...
... We find that all three theories specifically relate conscious function to some aspect of domain-general intelligence in humans. ...
... Given this apparent trend, we use the motivating example of mental time travel in humans to propose ways in which insights from each of the three theories may be combined into a unified model. ...
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... This might be the single most important chart for understanding the current inflation situation. For 25 years prior to 2020, the prices of durable goods like cars, washing machines, and couches fell every single year. ...
... As @DavidBeckworth has argued, there's no reason to think anything has fundamentally changed about the deflationary nature of durable goods industries. Once they've adjusted to this demand shock, we should start to see demand trending back down. ...
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... For teachers who don't understand Asian heritage languages, how to encourage children's multilingual development in the classroom? ...
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... Yet none of them experienced a crash anywhere near as large as ours. When I share this image people sometimes suggest I'm cherry picking, since other major economies don't look like the ones for the UK, Canada and France here. ...
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... This @JosephPolitano writeup is invaluable for understanding how this works. https://t.co/mmlaHCOVYW https://t.co/xtCyVhGzZl The use of OER to measure housing costs strikes a lot of people as goofy when they first hear about it. ...
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... But they may offer some evidence on whether a wage-price spiral is likely 5/ Other surveys, for example, of planned compensation also show no sign of a spiral; nor is there any indication of expectation-driven price or wage increases in the Fed's latest Beige Book 6/ https://t.co/wxyF4CUUab Again, ...
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... Thread… Here’s my basic understanding of the model: the economy has some industries that are capital intensive and others that are not. When the central bank makes interest rates artificially low, it makes capital investment cheap and skews the economy toward capital intensive sectors. ...
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... For most people, does a new understanding of human nature actually change our behaviors? E.g. We came to understand that evolution made us care more about our own children than our neighbors'. Will that understanding change our behavior? ...
... What if we come to understand that evolution made us prone to hate people from outside groups? What does history tell us about this? ...
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... The Christian belief of human souls and the original sins was one of the deciding factors of collective behavior in Christendom until the Enlightenment changed those beliefs with updated understanding. ...
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... We can understand it through biology, evolutionary theories, social science. Almost every aspects of human behavior can be explained with the internal logic discovered by these scientific studies. ...
... It's only when we truly understand the origin of these behaviors, then we can possibly make some choices in deciding the meaning of being human. ...
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... With a secular understanding of where the human species came from, humans became more accepting of human nature with religion fading further to the back seat. ...
... For example, sex was no longer deemed a sin, self pursuits of pleasure (without negatively affecting anyone else) are all natural and nothing immoral. ...
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... Human brains have no biological apparatus for logic thinking (or, more broadly speaking, system 2 thinking). This is in contrast with the fact that human language faculties are more likely supported by prewired circuitries. ...
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According to Peter Watson in his "ideas", The distinction between optimistic and pessimistic view of human nature was the origin of conservatism and liberalism, i.e. left and right. What will a unification of understanding of human nature mean for the political devide then?
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... Human perception is a controlled/controlling hallucination process in which the brain 1\. constantly generates hypotheses of the world around and 2\. makes predictions about incoming sensory signals based on these hypotheses 3\. correct hypotheses according to differences between observations \(actual ...
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... GitHub copilot is promising, but it's not human-level yet. It might be possible for Self-driving to use LLMs as foundations to build models that can predict the social behavior of humans on the street. ...
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