MachineMachine /stream - search for brain https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… | by Molly Wright Steenson | Medium]]> https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:40 -0800 https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb
<![CDATA[The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

Clickbait Title: I spent three months living in the metaverse and now I'm starving

The metaverse salespeople have a weird fixation with Animal Crossing, in specific. The number of times we saw New Horizons specifically cited as an example of the metaverse was bizarre, like it was their first time experiencing a multiplayer game that wasn't CoD and it melted their brains.

Written by Dan Olson and Nathan Landel

Produced and performed by Dan Olson

Nathan Twitter: https://twitter.com/choice_au Dan Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman

Crowdfunding: https://www.patreon.com/foldablehuman

00:00:00 Chapter 1 - Welcome to Decentraland 00:05:31 Chapter 2 - The Metaverse 00:21:35 Chapter 3 - The Dead Mall of the Future 01:06:27 Chapter 4 - Clap your Hands or Tinkerbell Dies 01:22:02 Chapter 5 - A Child’s Vision of Governance 01:38:05 Chapter 6 - A Magic Circle

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Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:57:26 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
<![CDATA[Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think - Big Think]]> https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rational/

You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate decorative nests and they have brains the size of almonds.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:37 -0700 https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rational/
<![CDATA[Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think - Big Think]]> https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rational/

You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate decorative nests and they have brains the size of almonds.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:37 -0700 https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rational/
<![CDATA[I gave my microwave a soul with AI and it tried to kill me]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1G5b_2PYj0

Share this so it isn't my last episode. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/SrDAqQzQ

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Thanks for the wild ride, friends. This one was a joy (and hell) to make. Make sure you follow me closely on social media - got some big announcements to make this week!

I really appreciate you all, specially those of you who dig deep into the description to find hidden bits like this :)

This channel never really blew up the way I thought it would but it brought me close with some of the most passionate people I've ever seen and I'll always be eternally grateful.

Love ya,

Swooty McBooty

Special thanks to: Austin Beaulier (for helping me get the epic smooth shots in the memories sequence) Cix Liv (for all his expert insight as Dimitri) Max Noir (for dealing with all the bs of making this video for almost a year lmao) Stephen Hodgson (for helping out hugely with GPT-3 code)

Chapters!

00:00 - Teaser 00:38 - Introduction 02:35 - Jeff Bezos' Tale 04:22 - The Brain Transplant 05:07 - GIANT METAL DEATH MACHINES 06:00 - Okay Let Me Explain GPT-3 For Real Now lol 07:10 - Writing Fake Memories 09:30 - PLOT TWIST! An Old Friend 11:20 - Ad-Break 12:24 - The Conversation Begins 13:36 - Microwave Gets Personal 14:45 - Microwave Politics 15:43 - Oh God He Likes Hitler 16:18 - Dramatic Question Montage 19:34 - Unintended Consequences 20:19 - Microwave PTSD Montage 21:12 - The Murder Attempt 23:04 - Lucas Moves Far Away... 23:33 - ... To Uganda LOL 24:22 - Haunted By Nightmares 24:53 - Talking to an Expert 26:34 - Is Magnetron Fake? 27:06 - The Final Conversation 30:12 - Goodbye, Magnetron 31:34 - Is it over? 32:15 - Outro / Sad Announcements 34:20 - Goodbyes & Reminiscing

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Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:00:11 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1G5b_2PYj0
<![CDATA[If NFTs Were Honest | Honest Ads (Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CloneX Parody)]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_v4bb2e4k

What if NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CloneX, and other such stupid crap were actually honest about what they were?

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SOURCES: https://www.cracked.com/article_31914_nfts-are-so-so-dumb.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artists-opensea-rarible-marble-cards-fraud-art https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nft-fraud-qinni-art https://www.wired.com/story/nfts-hot-effect-earth-climate/ https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/tech-design/article/3123302/would-you-pay-us590000-meme-nyan-cat-just-sold-six https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/24/nft_users/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/irs-is-probing-the-dark-web-to-look-for-cryptocurrency-nft-tax-evasion.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgzed/what-the-hell-is-right-clicker-mentality https://kotaku.com/nft-buyers-scammed-as-creator-bails-who-could-possibly-1847806528 https://hyperallergic.com/702309/artists-say-plagiarized-nfts-are-plaguing-their-community/ https://news.bitcoin.com/nft-criticism-heightens-skeptic-calls-tech-a-house-of-cards-claims-nfts-will-be-broken-in-a-decade/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447690/link-rot-research-new-york-times-domain-hijacking https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/interpol-david-lynch-nft-collaboration-1248376/ https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/how-brands-are-using-nfts-continually-updated-list/2376086 https://www.theverge.com/22683766/nft-scams-theft-social-engineering-opensea-community-recovery https://kotaku.com/nft-buyers-scammed-as-creator-bails-who-could-possibly-1847806528

Roger Horton: Jack Hunter Artist: Darnell Eaton Writer: Mark Hill Director: Jordan Breeding Art Director/Assistant Director: Andy Newman Director of Photography: Dave Brown Editor: Jordan Breeding Sound: Mike Schoen Key Production Assistant: Jose Brown Set Production Assistant/Art: James Satterfield Teleprompter: Hillary Shea

Mark's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehil Mark's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087SDX4L5 Jordan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_J_Breeding Jordan’s Writing Portfolio: https://thejordanbreedingblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/portfolio/ Dave’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deforestbrown/

00:00 - If NFTs Were Honest 05:18 - Darnell Is Going To Be Famous

NFT #Crypto #NFTExplained

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Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:00:33 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_v4bb2e4k
<![CDATA[Inside the world of foley artists: ‘Watermelons are brilliant for the sound of brains hitting the floor’ | Movies | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/12/inside-the-world-of-foley-artists-watermelons-are-brilliant-for-the-sound-of-brains-hitting-the-floor

Monday morning in the small Essex town of Coggeshall, and in an unassuming building that used to be a laundry, a man named Barnaby is trying to sound like a horse. Trying and succeeding, uncannily. Not neighing or whinnying, just making the sound of the hooves on the ground.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:11 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/12/inside-the-world-of-foley-artists-watermelons-are-brilliant-for-the-sound-of-brains-hitting-the-floor
<![CDATA[Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to be alive? | Science and nature books | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/21/lifes-edge-by-carl-zimmer-review-what-does-it-mean-to-be-alive

At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:51:33 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/21/lifes-edge-by-carl-zimmer-review-what-does-it-mean-to-be-alive
<![CDATA[THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt]]> https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/

‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’Homme’, has pushed into its minutest developments.

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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:55:05 -0700 https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/
<![CDATA[Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20 May 2021]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips

Try​ to imagine what it is like to be a fungus. Not a mushroom, pushing up through damp soil overnight or delicately forcing itself out through the bark of a rotting log: that would be like imagining the grape rather than the vine.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:07 -0700 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips
<![CDATA[Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science]]> https://www.livescience.com/human-neanderthal-minibrains-created.html

Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how the organs have evolved over millennia.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:54 -0700 https://www.livescience.com/human-neanderthal-minibrains-created.html
<![CDATA[Why “the Mind Is Just a Computation” Is a Fatally Flawed Idea | Mind Matters]]> https://mindmatters.ai/2021/03/why-the-mind-is-just-a-computation-is-a-fatally-flawed-idea/

The computational theory of mind (CTM) is the theory that the mind is a computation (calculation) done by the brain. That is, the mind works by rule-based manipulation of symbols, which is what a computer does — computation. Thus our mental states are computational states.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:17 -0700 https://mindmatters.ai/2021/03/why-the-mind-is-just-a-computation-is-a-fatally-flawed-idea/
<![CDATA[Breath of the Wild Offers True Catharsis for My ADHD Brain - Paste]]> https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/breath-of-the-wild-and-adhd/

If you’ve spent a significant amount of time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’ve probably experienced your fair share of “squirrel” moments in the game: Like a dog distracted by a squirrel, you’ll notice something shiny on the horizon that takes your attention away from the

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Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:13:24 -0700 https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/breath-of-the-wild-and-adhd/
<![CDATA[Scientists have created mini brains containing Neanderthal DNA - CNN]]> https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/world/brain-organoids-neanderthal-dna-scn-trnd/index.html

We now know that many of us are part Neanderthal, with our genes carrying traces of past encounters between our early ancestors and the Stone Age hominins that populated Europe until around 40,000 years ago.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:13:23 -0700 https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/world/brain-organoids-neanderthal-dna-scn-trnd/index.html
<![CDATA[The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today]]> https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/202002/the-coronavirus-is-much-worse-you-think

Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in a one-off scheme in which you had a 98 percent chance of losing it all? The coronavirus is a similar no-brainer.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:17:23 -0800 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/202002/the-coronavirus-is-much-worse-you-think
<![CDATA[Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures]]> https://logicmag.io/nature/hack-the-planet-tega-brain-on-leaks-glitches-and-preposterous-futures/

While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:36:21 -0800 https://logicmag.io/nature/hack-the-planet-tega-brain-on-leaks-glitches-and-preposterous-futures/
<![CDATA[Daniel Dennett interview]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/545241

Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

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Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:35:08 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/545241
<![CDATA[A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl]]> https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/

This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:13 -0700 https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/
<![CDATA[Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain]]> https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply

Ranjan here, and today I'm talking Taboola and Outbrain. Most of my work in media has been on subscriptions and branded content, so I've never played in the depths of ad-tech darkness. But, I spent seven years trading currency derivatives and am well versed in the art of arbitrage.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:11 -0700 https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply
<![CDATA[Mark Fisher, on RWM podcast, 2012]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/532946

Mark Fisher is a writer, teacher and theorist living in Suffolk, England. His k-punk blog has been a well respected resource for cultural analysis on the web since its launch in 2003. In 2009, he published his first book, 'Capitalist Realism', where he explores the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it. In it, Fisher analyses the role of the media, the education system, the link between Neoliberalism and brain chemistry, and what he calls business ontology 'in a world in which internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist.'

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Thu, 02 May 2019 09:45:00 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/532946