A microeulogy for Peter Sturrock, friend and colleague, to whom I owe a great deal. Peter passed away at 100, still active in his research and cheerful to the end. Thanks buddy, and godspeed.
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Yes, long funny story but the summary is that any effects seem due to the experimenter not the LLM (their excitement, desire for it to work, etc.) We canโt exclude ourselves from the system. Getting to terms with this is the next big challenge after basic acceptance of the phenomena.
I had a wonderful time speaking at @ions and @CITDConference this weekend. Thank you to the organizers who always do a great job with these events. I appreciate the fun conversations and new friends.
I think Orch OR is cool, so I found it interesting to read about this experiment. It's a computational model of a microtubule in which coherence persists longer than expected. That would seem at least useful if neurons are actually exchanging information in this way. https://t.co/0yAMF200s2
@JoeCal422@SkyFireNews True. The video clip kind of suggests that, but the context is that the scientists had already shared their summary of the evidence. This was me at the end just commenting on science controversies in general. I'm not part of any research team. But I think it deserves more eyes.
My Thoughts on the Tridactyl Nazca Mummies
1. I'm not involved with the research, nor am I affiliated with any of the investigative teams. I'm not a subject matter expert (plenty of those involved).
2. I saw the media reports in 2017 and 2023 about these. Everyone asked my opinion and I figured they were either conventionally explainable or it was too convoluted to really know.
3. Recently I had the opportunity to tag along with a film crew who were doing a story on these. Can't say no to good mystery.
4. I went to Mexico and then Peru for a few days. I saw the specimens first hand, and got to visit with some of the doctors involved in their analysis.
5. The preliminary CT and DNA results as well as the physicians involved made me think there's something to it. Some of these seem to be real anomalies. Studying anomalies is important because while often they are false alarms, they occasionally lead to important breakthroughs.
6. The Nazca mummies is a complicated story stretching back years, and I don't know all the details or the people involved. Long-form investigative journalism would be good here.
7. My conclusion is that we need more independent, third-party universities or institutes skilled in forensic methods to investigate and share their findings, whatever they may be. I shared a few words at the end of the press conference today calling for that. Hope it happens.
8. That's the extent of my involvement. If you have specific questions you should contact one of the research teams.
I have the only long-form interview with UFO Whistleblower Dave Grusch in the world. The conversation is dumbfounding and has endless implications for science, religion and humanity. FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/5oE9ZH2FCo. Thread of takeaways coming soon...
@dpouliot@EnigmaticDev Cool! PEAR had different โclassesโ of publications: peer-reviewed articles and technical reports. I think PlantREG (as it was called) was a technical report, but havenโt been able to find it. Probably didnโt make its way into an article due to lack of time for formal experiment.
Can plants affect the ordering of random numbers? Can they bend probability to favor their growth? Our take on the "plant intention" experiment from Close Encounters of the 5th Kind.
https://t.co/syUiZBnSOs
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