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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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... One of the worst aspects of current politics is the bipartisan consensus that America kind of sucks. On the left you have the relentless negativity of woke politics. On the right you have the relentless negativity of Trumpism. ...
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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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... I think most Americans underestimate how much more dysfunctional our constitutional/political system could become. I think people mostly still think about the changes of the last 30 years in terms of the tone of political arguments getting nastier: annoying but ultimately not that important. ...
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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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... 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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... This, like the programmed emotion apparatus for social conformity, is a natural result of EDSC. There is evidence showing this phenomenon in modern days. ...
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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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... 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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... Isn't the source of the deep historical pessimism in the 20th century our lack of understanding regarding humans' tendency of violence against fellow humans? If this mystery is solved by EDSC, then can it turn into a foundation for a deep historical optimism? ...
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... [This theory](https://themind.net/references/qwoOUjrRSwaFZrY5G3vEEA), as pointed out by the paper, can have a great impact if widely understood by the general public > though their effect on human self-understanding and self-images, will eventually assist us in dealing with not only the traumas of ...
... conflicts between individuals and small groups but our bizarre international competitions and our stubbornness in seeking pleasures that threaten the long-term future of our planet as a human environment. ...
... More specifics of this theory [Dealing with social circumstances was the real challenge in human evolution](https://themind.net/references/gcEc3uCVR_ePqgoY_DPriA) [Why humans continue to live in groups](https://themind.net/references/GjY_8sBoS4CFHn23oOoz9g) Recent research on [Human large-scale cooperation ...
... [Other theories about human the evolution of human intelligence ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence) [Another Paper about EDSC](http://web.missouri.edu/~gearyd/Flinnetal2005.pdf) by Flinn, Geary and Ward, comprehensively presented supporting evidences for this theory. ...
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... From *Ideas* by Peter Watson Examples: * Sanskrit literature between AD 500 and 1200 under strict grammatic rules laid out in the 4th century BC by Panini * Bach's polyphonic music * Poetry in Tang and Song dynasties in China ...
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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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