Boris

Ⓥ 🌱 | I tweet about theories of everything, consciousness, human mind, animal rights, art, AI & Web3

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[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

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[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Ever wonder what a nervous system would look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? Or, perhaps you wondered how #Xenobots would look and act, or what their transcriptome would be like, if they had nervous systems?

Well, here's the first step: https://t.co/MVtFw0RcQg
"Engineered Living Systems With Self-Organizing NeuralNetworks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression"

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[Boris @world__salad]

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[Vlad Vexler @VladVexler]

To oppose authoritarian populism, we need to understand that there are two kinds of nationalism, a benign one and a xenophobic one. Mocking the former fuels the latter.

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Joscha Bach says consciousness isn’t free.

Your body gives “compute credits” to the mind so it can solve the organism’s problems.

In that sense, we are enslaved by our bodies to serve evolution.

Suffering often means the parts of you that generate reward are misaligned with the parts that choose actions.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

emergent mind

[Matthew W. Johnson @Drug_Researcher]

Just published: our RCT shows psilocybin (magic mushrooms) dramatically beats nicotine patch for quitting smoking using the same psychotherapy! A single psilocybin session showed 6x greater odds of staying quit. Biologically verified. In @JAMANetworkOpen Thread 🧵 #Psychedelics #QuitSmoking

[Boris @world__salad]

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[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

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[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

America’s political landscape is more complicated than it used to be. Here’s my attempt to depict what I see as the seven broad camps today. Most people I know fall pretty cleanly into one of these circles (each of which has some common ground with the two adjacent circles).
Some additional points:

- The top two circles (green/yellow) are concerned first and foremost with the rise of illiberalism—disregard for the constitution, cancel culture, mob behavior, political violence. They see liberal vs illiberal as more critical right now than left vs right. In 2020, they agreed that wokeness was bad but today they’re divided on whether Trump or Harris/Biden are the lesser of two evils.

- For the middle two circles (blue/red), left vs right is the main thing. They’re not illiberal themselves but tend to focus on illiberalism from the other side while ignoring or condoning illiberalism from their own team. Both skew older and are the main consumers of traditional media, whether it be cable news or newspapers.

- The two lower circles (pink/orange) share a strong sense of grievance, place utmost importance on identity, tend to view identity groups (race, religion, sex, etc.) as monoliths, and are prone to believing conspiracy theories that fit with their worldview. Both skew younger, with woke skewing feminine and upper class and groyper skewing masculine and lower class. Both use revolutionary rhetoric, seeing the establishment as rotten to the core, and readily employ illiberal tactics under the belief that desperate times call for desperate measures.

Thoughts?

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

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[Boris @world__salad]

@SamaHoole There are dozens of plant milks that are much better than dairy (oat for example).

Almond milk, and growing almonds in California is just stupid by itself, and vegans are not the cause of this situation. Most of these almonds are consumed by non-vegans anyways.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

I've always been in between both political parties. Both the right and the left hate me. I'm a sex worker, but I've personally been the target of a bunch mass cancellation attempts by the left during the woke wars. I thought the BLM protests were kinda dumb (based on a factually incorrect premise), I think most people protesting Gaza are people who suspiciously seem to not care about other human rights violations, some worse and better documented.

It's one thing when dumb leftist mobs make false, easily disprovable claims. It's another thing when the current administration does it. I have WAY higher standards for the people in positions of physical force over us, the people who control the military.

The current administration appears to be hacking away at some of the things I thought everyone found sacred - our rights, our freedoms, and in some cases the process of democracy itself. I dismissed a lot of the early fears around this because they came from leftist factions who were hysterical about extremely stupid or false things, but I am increasingly horrified to find out that on this specific topic they unfortunately were right.

We've moved past this being a normal left vs right issue - this is now entering the kind of territory that both left and right should agree is too far. We need our battlegrounds fair, our use of force measures, our leaders trustworthy. Even if we disagree with them hugely there should be some level of integrity. For example I think Mamdani is economically insane and will destroy prosperity in NY if given the chance and my heart breaks for the city - but he still plays fair, and as far as I can tell hasn't behaved in unethical or dishonest ways.

I want the right to have a better leader, and I want the right to recognize they need a better leader, one that can fight illegal immigration and protect gun rights and keep taxes low and still, also, be a good person who takes the institution of government to be sacred. Otherwise the right will fail in the long term. This is not a winning strategy.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

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[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

.@TheOceanCleanup is now intercepting 2 to 5% of global plastic pollution.

I think we should be able to double again this year.