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HARMING OTHERS, version 1.1: microcontrollers In any competitive situation, whether it is animals working out a strategy for maximizing the odds of obtaining food or humans working out a strategy for maximizing the odds of check mating an opponent’s king, someone will walk away...

…u can talk. And I hadn't added to this list neuroscience--where Emily Dickinson has it nailed-- and maybe this would be the right poem for your group. Notice how many metaphors are operating simultaneously here The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly--and true-- But let a Splint...

…nding at least 2 more hours per day with his family. From 40 hours per week, he was down to 18 and producing four times the results. Was it from mountaintop retreats and secret kung fu training? Nope. Was it a new Japanese management secret or better software? Nein. I just asked...

and Mumolo, 1998). Spontaneous changes in the apparent syllabic sound made by regularly presented, word-like auditory stimuli emerge irregularly, the duration of perceived sameness demonstrating a power law distribution of “dwell” times (Tuller et al, 1998). The same kind of powe...

…he has a fascinating set of beliefs and projects around what may soon be understood as "consciousness hacking." He's on the board of Singularity University as one of the founders. (His father was a pioneer UCSF MD researcher of hallucinogens, I believe!) More to come in a day or...

Neil Ed Boyden, Ph. D. Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering New York Stem Cell Foundation...

scale. In fact, it used to be that the rich, reaching a certain point of philanthropy, merely hoped to help make the world a better place, now they want to change the world. Rockefeller and Carnegie were, as examples of social-engineering philanthropy, unique. They alone had such...

…es, observable at almost any temporal resolution that methods would allow. Early and representative studies comparing the fit of the data with hierarchical scaling functions versus a sum of a small number of Markovian exponentials included studies of a calcium activated potassi...

…~ESmallecety Ss 955 Oinnovative Berntson6 EE 29 a! Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds By the Chicago Social Brain Network FT Press Upper Saddle River, NJ HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021247

…us forces influence us in ways that are largely invisible to our senses. Gravity is an invisible force that holds us to the surface of the earth, and magnetism is an invisible force that we use in everyday life. The fact that gravity and magnetism are invisible to us does not pla...

References 347 Hut95. E. Hutchins. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, 1995. Hut 96. Edwin Hutchins. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, 1996. Hut05. Marcus Hutter. Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions based on Algorithmic Prob- ability. Springer, 2005. HZT+ 02....

… it will be, or how delicious we thought it was. It reveals a distortion in our capacity to anticipate — or forecast in the words of the American social psychologist Daniel Gilbert — how we will feel, and in particular, how much we will like the experience. This is a problem for...

…hical society. When we envy someone, we have detected a difference or inequity between our own condition and that of another. We want what someone else has, presumably because we like what they have. Wanting and liking are in harmony. Recognition of the inequity fuels competition...

dense physical world, and operate through that. But | understand Cathy saying it’ s only a mind-control thing.” From the gospel according to Cathy O' Brien: “When Bill and Bob Bennett together sexually assaulted my daughter Kelly and me at the Bohemian Grove in 1986, | had alrea...

…ur past through a reverse telescope, making it seem like contemporary events are a much larger part of our history than they are. Hominids have been estimated to have evolved about 7 million years ago, with our species having evolved only within approximately the last 1% of that...