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1/ Excellent @guardian #BigIdea piece on agency, 'free will', and the point of feeling that one could have done otherwise by @philipcball - you certainly won't regret your decision to read it 👇🏽 theguardian.com/books/2023/jan…
2/ It's a terrific distillation of a very sensible view on these thorny issues. So much to agree with, e.g.: "There is no such world in which “everything is the same except my decision”. The decision is not somehow superimposed on the rest of the world, but emerges from it."
3/ Also: "our volitional neural circuits are genuine causes of things that happen. We don’t change the future (a meaningless concept), but rather we are a part of what creates it." - to which new work in causal emergence may be relevant arxiv.org/abs/2111.06518
After 18 months of writing online, I have assembled a robust note-taking system, with a few simple techniques & tools:
• Readwise (notes syncing tool)
• Reader (read-later app)
• Roam (note-taking & connecting)
• Otter (voice transcription)
• MyMind (visuals & screenshots)
• Readwise (notes syncing tool)
• Reader (read-later app)
• Roam (note-taking & connecting)
• Otter (voice transcription)
• MyMind (visuals & screenshots)
My system is based on 3 principles:
• Low friction: easy to add notes, without worrying about structure
• Connection: methods like The Queue, #BigIdea, #Problem + #Takeaway to play and link new + old ideas
• Discovery: ways to surface forgotten and random highlights
• Low friction: easy to add notes, without worrying about structure
• Connection: methods like The Queue, #BigIdea, #Problem + #Takeaway to play and link new + old ideas
• Discovery: ways to surface forgotten and random highlights
In this post, I go into more detail on how I use each tool and how they interconnect:
charlottegrysolle.com/my-digital-not…
charlottegrysolle.com/my-digital-not…
Really enjoyed this opening panel on "AI, sentience, and hype" at #WSAI22 @WorldSummitAI - many 🙏🏽 to my fellow panelists (& brilliant host @Kantrowitz), and I'm so sad I can't be there IRL ...
I talk more about the prospects and pitfalls of 'machine consciousness' in my book Being You - A New Science of Consciousness, elaborating on the distinction between consciousness and intelligence & much more anilseth.com/being-you/
... and forgive me for a blatant plug - people at #WSAI22 @WorldSummitAI do please consider taking part in #ThePerceptionCensus to help us advance research into 'perceptual diversity' and discover more about your own powers of perception perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world
Just got to Davos. Ready to fill the leadership vacuum with big ideas. My focus will be on privilege and women. Only going to #womanels #methree. Also, my alligator-skin boots got snow on them, anyone have a blow drier or an FT I can use to dry them off?
Thread 1/n: Small ideas feel big when I'm in my Gulfstream, so here it goes: We have to innovate on innovation. The 7th industrial revolution disrupts AND displaces. Artificial intelligence and blockchain can only solve resurgent populism with #compassion.
2/n We elites are critical to making this debate glocalized. Thought leadership also involves thought stewardship. Communities form the core of our economies. Blue collar workers must be re-conceived as #newcollar workers. Code is key.
