GradatimFerocitor

A self-critique. None shall be spared, not even I.
'Tis I, Zarathustra, let me spake and thus I will!
Physiology is the governing principle.
Black AF, immigrant

[Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson]

Starship is the most powerful rocket ever made. It’s designed to carry 100 people to Mars. It just received approvals and is scheduled to launch this Friday morning at 8am ET

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Post your Midjourney experiments that look nothing like the description. I'll go first:
"a horseshoe magnet tucked into bed sleeping, in the style of a fairy tale illustration" (I promise, there's a science reason why I wanted that).
But um, what the heck?! So many questions...

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@drmichaellevin Nov 15 must have been one of its preferred "day off".
It probably has seen and compared sapiens' productivity on normal working days vs preferred off days and decided "is what I must imitate!"🙃😄

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I'm often humbled when I get a glimpse of just how much I don't know about our world 😔

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

Trying to enjoy myself in Buenos Aires, and THIS guy shows up.

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@drmichaellevin I believe @davideagleman has done experiments in this matter by flinging subjects from eagle heights. Fuzzy on the details or its relevance to your query.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Of course it's hard to compare, across people, perceived rate of time flow (per unit time?!) but do psychologists/behavioral scientists study it in humans/animals - apparent time flow rate & how it impacts agents' decision-making? Is it different in meditators? Known disorders?

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

A short new perspective paper by @DrNRouleau and I:

https://t.co/J45JgtsTsB

"The Multiple Realizability of Sentience in Living Systems and Beyond"

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@sama Grok wishes 🙏 it has that problem🤣

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@Andromedasoup 🔥

[marsa.h @Marsagenesis]

"Abandon prescientific binary notions of natural kinds, (sentient vs mechanical, organism vs machine) that provide only terminological gatekeeping and suppress deep unification of concepts" 🔥

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Very cool talk by @AaronSchurger today in our group:
https://t.co/6civ70Rr80
"The time course of neural activity predictive of impending movement"

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@dsdigitalself @Andromedasoup Here's a whisper.
How much pain....physical, psychological, et al in spite of which art thou willing to withstand to seek the light at the end of the tunnel?
What are you willing to withstand just to see the sun rise the following morn?

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@dsdigitalself @Andromedasoup I believe it is a philosophical enquiry! Something to be left to percolate in the mind. Not seeking an answer but a whisper-that may or may not be related in the enquiry in the slightest.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Excited to share @GoogleDeepMind’s newest AI model GraphCast: the most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system in the world. GraphCast can also offer earlier warnings of extreme weather events, including the path of hurricanes. In @Science today https://t.co/iHhQeSH3js

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@bakChorMee99 @Liv_Boeree Or....or product of the same mindset that created Amazon.
Even his divorce is amicable enough not to be fodder for tabloids.

I am happy for the guy and his girl and his ex-wife and her spouse.🖖

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” — Frederick Douglass

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Terrible things are happening, but that doesn't mean everything happening is terrible. It's important to be aware of the positive developments, for an accurate understanding of the world & as an antidepressant. Not human-interest fluff but significant events & discoveries. @HumanProgress Weekly Roundup: https://t.co/X7D7iCNQ7z via @HumanProgress

[GradatimFerocitor @GFerocitor]

@StarTribune Mine can be desecrated!
As it is in life so it shall be in death!

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Some (most?) adults become "fixed in their ways" with advanced age. Is loss of mental flexibility: 1) an inevitable psychological consequence of a cognitive system working for decades, or 2) due to physical aging of the brain, & preventable w/ effective anti-aging therapeutics?