On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines
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Aeon
The problem with prediction
Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think
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Forwarded from Pavel Durov
The "capitalism <-> socialism" opposition seems outdated. I prefer to think in terms of "centralization vs decentralization". Humans have evolved to perform best in small groups of less than 150 people. That's why wherever there's centralization and excessive hierarchy, there's inefficiency and underutilized human potential. Capitalist monopolies and socialist dictatorships are equally bad.
In a natural environment, every small community is able to produce an outstanding leader and an independent thinker. In today's world of trillion-dollar monopolies and bloated governments, the potential of hundreds of millions of people is suppressed by the limitations imposed by our artificial societal structures.
That is the reason why tens of thousands of people working at big corporations such as Facebook have failed to keep up with what our small team at Telegram has been implementing. That’s also the reason why countries like Russia fail to generate and retain global brands in their jurisdictions. Genuine creativity is rare in organizations and societies built on excessive hierarchies and lack of personal autonomy.
In a natural environment, every small community is able to produce an outstanding leader and an independent thinker. In today's world of trillion-dollar monopolies and bloated governments, the potential of hundreds of millions of people is suppressed by the limitations imposed by our artificial societal structures.
That is the reason why tens of thousands of people working at big corporations such as Facebook have failed to keep up with what our small team at Telegram has been implementing. That’s also the reason why countries like Russia fail to generate and retain global brands in their jurisdictions. Genuine creativity is rare in organizations and societies built on excessive hierarchies and lack of personal autonomy.
“Mastication is the first important step in breaking down food, so that it can be assimilated by the body.
Everything one eats should be digested in the mouth before it is digested in the stomach.
If you gulp down food, bypassing this vital step, it is literally dynamite when it reaches the stomach.
Protein foods such as meat, fish, and fowl require less mastication than complex starches.
It is just as well to chew them thoroughly anyway.
The more completely food is masticated, the more nourishing it will be.
This means that if you thoroughly chew your food, the amount you eat can be reduced, often by one half.
- Peter Kelder.
Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth.
Everything one eats should be digested in the mouth before it is digested in the stomach.
If you gulp down food, bypassing this vital step, it is literally dynamite when it reaches the stomach.
Protein foods such as meat, fish, and fowl require less mastication than complex starches.
It is just as well to chew them thoroughly anyway.
The more completely food is masticated, the more nourishing it will be.
This means that if you thoroughly chew your food, the amount you eat can be reduced, often by one half.
- Peter Kelder.
Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth.
Decreased GABA receptor in the cerebral cortex of epileptic rats: effect of Bacopa monnieri and Bacoside-A
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Decreased GABA receptor in the cerebral cortex of epileptic rats: effect of Bacopa monnieri and Bacoside-A
Gamma amino butyric acid (GABA), the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the cerebral cortex, maintains the inhibitory tones that counter balances neuronal excitation. When this balance is perturbed, seizures may ensue.In the present study, alterations…
Moshav
Moshav Hebrew plural moshavim lit settlement village is a type of Israeli town or settlement in particular a type of cooperative
in contrast to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size.
Workers produced crops and goods on their properties through individual and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselves.
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Moshav Hebrew plural moshavim lit settlement village is a type of Israeli town or settlement in particular a type of cooperative
in contrast to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size.
Workers produced crops and goods on their properties through individual and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselves.
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UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus
This is something that you could take after testing positive that could diminish your viral load immediately.”
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This is something that you could take after testing positive that could diminish your viral load immediately.”
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Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go. | UCSF Magazine
Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go.
A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.
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How And Why Bitcoin Could Become A New Reserve Currency
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Seeking Alpha
How And Why Bitcoin Could Become A New Reserve Currency
Amidst renewed calls for replacing the post-war Bretton Woods order, we take the opinion this has already occurred with the creation of bitcoin.
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
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Stack Overflow Blog
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.