Erik Rehn

CTO & Co-founder | Flow Neuroscience

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

The same is true for consciousness. People desperately cling to consciousness as something that makes humans unique.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Terence Tao proposes what he calls a "Copernican view of intelligence".

Instead of buying into the common, one-dimensional narrative that artificial intelligence will simply evolve from "subhuman" to "superhuman" and ultimately make humanity entirely redundant, Tao urges us to look at the bigger picture.

Much like the Copernican revolution proved the Earth is not the center of the universe, Tao suggests we need to realize that human intelligence isn't the only, or necessarily the highest, form of intellect. Historically, we have treated other forms of storing or creating knowledge—like animals, books, and computers—as secondary. However, we actually exist within a much richer universe of intelligence.

Both human intelligence and computer intelligence possess their own distinct strengths and weaknesses. The true potential lies not in viewing them as direct competitors, but rather in focusing on collaboration. By working together, humans and computers can achieve additional things that neither could accomplish on their own, requiring us to think in much wider terms than just what humans or computers can do alone.

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@JDHamkins This is especially tricky in brain stimulation trials, where the placebo (sham stimulation) is often a weaker form of the active stimulation. It is hard to be sure that the weaker stimulation doesn't also have an effect.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@dileeplearning Very exiting! Congratulations to you and Miguel

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@skdh If you are not mentioned in the Epstein files, you are a nobody...

[IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum]

FDA-approved tDCS devices are now a reality for depression treatment—find out how this could change mental health care. https://t.co/u27Ae0qQLC

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@francoisfleuret @Plinz Consciousness is an agent's self-model of being an agent with subjective experiences.

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@mhutter42 @realGeorgeHotz George was the one who first told me about the price, back in 2015 :)

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@dela3499 AIXI

[Flow Neuroscience @flowneurosci]

Today, we proudly announce that the Flow at-home brain-stimulation device has received FDA approval for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) as both a stand-alone and an adjunctive treatment.

https://t.co/nRVTN07vTz

@RobertKennedyJr @EricTopol @elonmusk

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@SchmidhuberAI @ylecun Any other example of failed credit assignment? https://t.co/zLZLnSsI2K

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@dileeplearning I'm working on a theory of consciousness (since we need one more.. ;) ), think you will like it!
Cons. is a belief in ourselves being agents with subjective experiences. illusionism except it's not an illusion but rather a pretty good model.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

Hinton is no longer afraid of superintelligence.

[Marcus Hutter @mhutter42]

Congratulations to Yoshua Bengio for being the first living person (afaict, and the 2nd person in history after Michel Foucault) to pass one-million citations on Google Scholar. Geoffrey Hinton will follow soon.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It's really remarkable just how well climate predictions from decades ago have held up.

Mainstream climate science has done a good job forecasting the future.

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@vkhosla He burned his chances at the price the moment he said he wanted to take over Greenland. The Norwegians would never accept that...

[Guan Wang @makingAGI]

🚀Introducing Hierarchical Reasoning Model🧠🤖

Inspired by brain's hierarchical processing, HRM delivers unprecedented reasoning power on complex tasks like ARC-AGI and expert-level Sudoku using just 1k examples, no pretraining or CoT!

Unlock next AI breakthrough with neuroscience. 🌟

📄Paper: https://t.co/Sxprojsv0c
💻Code: https://t.co/k15cUS2wlf

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@foxmdphd By comparing those who guessed they got active (image), potential differences in AEs should not matter since they all believed the same thing about their arm. The group difference is clear also when we look at those who were convinced they got active with high certainty.

[Erik Rehn @raindeer15]

@foxmdphd It's very hard to blind any treatment that has an effect because subjects will guess according to the effect they experience. But if you compare all those who believed they got active treatment there is a clear group difference based on what they actually got (active vs sham).