Long-form interviewer & host of The Armen Show | 450+ episodes on human behavior, science, technology, culture, learning & ideas.
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I’ve hosted 465+ episodes of The Armen Show since 2017, including 250+ long-form interviews with scientists, authors, scholars, researchers, and other thinkers.
Conversations span human behavior, science, technology, culture, learning, decision-making, and ideas.
Guests have included Temple Grandin, David Sinclair, Nicholas Christakis, Steven Strogatz, James Nestor, Derek Sivers, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Robin Hanson, and many others.
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Very few posts you see online are just a person posting their thoughts without strategy or planning or some big picture methodology.
The speed of the changes happening right now is well-suited for those who were ready and looking forward to substantial changes on a rapid pace. It's like a nice refresh or welcoming scenario.
You don't have to be connected with all that is happening at all times. You can be connected with some small categories of activity or people for a period, and that is where you can bring some depth. The opportunities are different each day or time.
Long live the great opportunities along the way and trying your best to make use of them and expand on them. We are here to try. Going places, seeing people, creating writing or talks or thoughts or messages or art, finding out what is happening in society, being a pathway for someone else to get somewhere, and so on.
The hormonal scale of pregnancy is extraordinary.
Neuroscientist Susana Carmona explains that their calculations suggest the estrogen accumulated over nine months of pregnancy can be comparable to roughly 60 years of exposure outside pregnancy.
From our conversation on A Mother’s Brain, by @mitpress
We go upon the new moments, but they are not freshly new, because of the direct link to earlier. The idea of items being completely new is appealing for inspiration and motivation, but then the linkage is reminded of once more.
We've solved a lot of things. It's interesting to see how much has shifted. It's the same land but very different.
Some will want to have you situated in StupidVille but it's important that you stay on the ground in SmartLand. These are representations of similar to cities.
Also some of my writing would have LLMs exclaiming they are not part of its creation
"Another parallel is context-dependent activation. You do not use all of your knowledge equally at every moment. If you are discussing taxes, certain memories and concepts become more accessible; if you are playing tennis, a different set becomes relevant. Transformer attention and mixture-of-experts routing have a somewhat analogous property: the underlying system is large, but only particular pathways become strongly active for a given situation."
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14. The easiest way to be liked by people is to reinforce their identities. This is not difficult. People will often directly tell you what the characters they play are. Then you reinforce them, even if you don't buy their identities. Remember you're doing birdsong or dancing.
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8. If you are rejected socially, or ostracized from a group, it is almost certainly because of a social transgression. You will almost certainly not be informed of your social transgression. If you do receive a reason, it will probably be an invented moral transgression.
Doing things at an okay level is better than only planning them but at a superb level, because the planning not getting to the doing would negate the action potential in the planning.
Propping up too many things is unsustainable, which is why it is not a supported endeavor. If it had longevity to it, it would have a strong base behind it.