Pain is a learning signal, not a measure of damage. Unlearn your pain @ https://nitter.gq/t.co/9qU3QYXGXh Prev: cog sci @MIT
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"Pain in the brain, or pain in the body?"
gave a talk at a pain conference making the case for an embodied cognition view of chronic pain.
several doctors/clinicians I respect said it shifted how they think about it. mission accomplished!
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Ever wonder if eventually cells could be trained out of disease states? We're on the path; first steps:
New #preprint - @WesleyPClawson
"Goal directed closed-loop training of network bursts in cortical cultures produces improved performance and error correction over days"
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
bone in our bodies is not dead. it is juicy flexible and intelligent
i had this image from anatomy textbooks that bone was just scaffolding for the body.
a living bone though is filled with yellow and red fluid making red and white blood cells storing fat etc.
i think a good analogy is the trunk of a tree. the dead skeleton is like carved away wood. if you slice a living tree though you will see sap oozing through the rings
bone can differ in structure so much that one person can use their index to break open a coconut and another can break bones just by standing up
in my experience deep healing basically requires transitioning to a new developmental stage
getting stuck at a transition (to evoke kegan) between stages was intertwined with my illness for instance
at a bodywork seminar this weekend and it’s four women over fifty and myself. last workshop was the same demographic
seems to be my kind of crowd
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Way past time:
“If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.”
In an exclusive open letter to the researchers he trained — and the ones who trained on his work — AI godfather @Yoshua_Bengio calls on AI company employees to consider their own involvement in the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence.
Read the letter in full, only on Transformer: transformernews.substack.com…
ALT Photograph of Yoshua Bengio. The headline reads: "Yoshua Bengio: 'If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies'"
they made gold from mercury!
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
children born without neocortex can be behaviorally ~indistinguishable from children w full neocortex. laughing smiling eating
Jasmine is a friend of mine and I saw firsthand her and Mikita’s integrity and dedication to OpenAI’s safety team.
disappointing to see this sudden ousting
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Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership.
I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
protestant ethic equates struggle with toughness with good. that only makes sense if you believe that you are either 'tough' or 'soft'.
gandalf, milarepa, siddhartha were both
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In 12 weeks, we built a research facility that is run entirely by AI.
AI designs, executes, and observes experiments end-to-end across biology, chemistry, and materials science.
We’re introducing SciUniverse: a benchmark that measures AI’s ability to do real-world scientific research.
if you take the anecdotes from sarno's book seriously, it is one of the most powerful levers we have for reducing suffering.
forgive the caps but WE LITERALLY HAVE A BOOK THAT RESOLVES NONSPECIFC CHRONIC PAIN. yes it may be somewhere between 3-20% of those who read it, but NO DRUGS EVEN PRETEND TO RESOLVE CHRONIC PAIN — almost all the medical studies are about PT/drugs/therapy for *pain management*, not *resolution*
it feels criminal that we do not have at least 100M looking more closely at what is going on here. (yes PRT studies are great we need 10x more esp on the mechanism)
nitter.gq/WillManidis/status/196…
unfortunately the state of science on migraines is abysmal. the distinctions between eg ‘migraine’, ‘tension headache’, and ‘exercise headache’ is not coherent
peter goadsby (who was at the workshop where the international classification was proposed) says in his presentation: “i don’t know anyone i respect who can put an evidence based sentence together on the subject of tension-type headaches” as he mocks the classification system
i'm running an experiment!
i want to better quantify change during pain reprocessing therapy.
if you have chronic pain and are interested in receiving treatment from an expert PRT practitioner at a discounted rate,
dm or email me at [email protected]
four slots open
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if you're capital looking for philanthropic stuff to fund… consider retroactively funding work that already happened that you loved. give those people no-strings funds to do more whimsical stuff (or do whatever they want) without requiring them to waste time on applications AND you build reputation for yourself as the serious funder to be connected to. (there are too many funders who say they're "interested" in funding xyz, but never actually do anything, so you could build a great reputation really quick)
there’s currently a lot of capital looking for ambitious, whimsical, interesting projects. the scarcer thing is often compelling ideas made legible, paired with people credible enough to pull them off
we need more bridges between weird creative people and capital. fundraising is never easy, but when those pieces click, capital can move surprisingly fast
