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How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail
Posted by n-tangled | Dec 24, 2016 | cognitive bias, rationality |
Cognitive bias article of the day: How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail A concise, timely look at how worldview-driven cognitive dissonance leads people to double down on their misbeliefs in the face of challenging evidence....
Read MoreNew gene editing method modifies non-dividing cells in brain
Posted by n-tangled | Dec 16, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Until now, gene editing has relied on cell division to propagate modifications made with techniques like CRISPR Cas9. Researchers at the Salk Institute have devised a new method that can modify the genes of non-dividing cells...
Read MoreExciting emerging energy technologies
Posted by n-tangled | Dec 4, 2016 | battery technology, chemistry, energy, energy production, energy storage, environment, existential risks, global climate change, global warming, government, nuclear energy, nuclear waste, pollution, renewable energy, research and development |
Two promising energy technologies received press coverage recently. The University of Bristol developed a process for capturing the radioactivity from nuclear wastes into diamonds, thereby stabilizing and reducing the risks...
Read MoreLiving in a ‘post-fact’ world
Posted by n-tangled | Dec 3, 2016 | cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, rationality, scientific approach, Uncategorized |
“Once the trained CNN [convolutional neural network] showed solid performance in the simulator, we loaded it onto DRIVE PX [vehicle control computer] and took it out for a road test in the car. The vehicle drove along paved and unpaved roads with and without lane markings, and handled a wide range of weather conditions. As more training data was gathered, performance continually improved. The car even flawlessly cruised the Garden State Parkway.”
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Do our models get in the way?
We’ve seen quite a few descriptions of an emerging paradigm known as the collaborative commons (CC). But a problem arises when we take another step by extrapolating from that data and then try to prescribe what we need to do in order to create a CC. I.e., we form a model of what the CC … Continue reading Do our models get in the way? →
40 year update on memes
From this piece: “There is not one, but at least four, hereditary systems recognized by biologists today. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb lay this out clearly in their 2006 book, Evolution in Four Dimensions, as they walk through the research literature on genetics, epigenetics, behavioral repertoires, and symbolic culture as four distinct pathways where traits … Continue reading 40 year update on memes →
The neuroscience of creativity
Since this came up in our book discussion or Range yesterday, something relevant from this article. It’s interesting how the salience network mediates between and integrates two normally one on, one off networks. And how it is the connections between networks that seems to do the trick akin to the book’s description of how those … Continue reading The neuroscience of creativity →
The root of the power law religion
New draft paper by me. Update: Published here. The abstract: A ‘power law’ refers specifically to a statistical relationship between quantities, such that a change in one quantity has a proportional change in another. One property of this law is scale invariance, otherwise known as ‘scale-free,’ meaning the same proportion repeats at every scale in … Continue reading The root of the power law religion →
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