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Predictive Hermeneutics: MEGA THREAD What is predictive hermeneutics, you may ask? Luckily, @veryragged and I have written an entire paper explaining it: "Predictive Hermeneutics" (PsyArxiv) Predictive processing, a meta-theory from cognitive science and computational neuroscience, prop... | Cultural Capital |   W | 13 | 2021-07-16 03:06:54.067Z |
Annihilation Fridays I would like put forth the following tradition for review by the community: Every Friday (henceforth known as "Annihilation Fridays") we shall throw all desire and pressure to have good-faith arguments for positions we see no evidence for to the rubb... | Inexact Sciences |  B | 13 | 2021-02-12 22:12:34.183Z |
Songs of Siam Thailand, Laos; funk, jazz, psych, it all goes. View on YouTube Soundway's anthology is probably the best entrance point. View on YouTube This is collection of Thai Lao Morlam songs sung by two top singers Mr. Sathit Thornchan and Ms. Duan Penn. In '... | Pure Aurality | | 3 | 2021-02-12 18:21:31.853Z |
Deviance vs conformity From Szolnoki & Perc 2016 The most common assumption in evolutionary game theory is that players should adopt a strategy that warrants the highest payoff. However, recent studies indicate that the spatial selection for cooperation is enhanced if an a... | Superorganisms | | 0 | 2021-02-12 17:46:21.789Z |
music as non-neutral // hyperpop as the sound of atomization one of the holy prescripts of our age is that taste is beyond reproach, cannot be read into, is merely preference. this has mostly been good because it's kept us away from some of the dumber arguments and dick measuring contests of performative dista... | Pure Aurality | B | 8 | 2021-02-17 00:24:38.529Z |
Probability as a Mental Model is Bullshit This should eventually be a longer, more eloquent post so I can properly hide behind eloquence when making Bold Statements, but @suspendedreason is always telling me that I need to just write. Epistemic Status: distilled and filtered to the purest of... | Inexact Sciences | B | 8 | 2021-02-23 03:06:16.253Z |
Other Kinds of Inference cross posted on: https://crispychicken.cc/2021/02/09/other-kinds-of-inference/ In 1822 some people in what is now Germany were like: "Yo, isn't that an African arrow in that stork's neck?" Sure enough it was, and this lead to a lot of progress on the... | Inexact Sciences | | 0 | 2021-02-10 18:22:21.430Z |
Strategic Interaction Mega Thread Link to Are.na channel of resources and readings. | Strategic Interaction | | 1 | 2021-02-20 23:27:52.465Z |
Suspended Reason — TIS Outline Why are institutions so dysfunctional? Why can’t we have good things? The game-theoretic abstract (Moloch, who drives us into non-productive competition) is settled. What remains? A better grounding of defection as it unfolds in games Adversarial pla... | Inexact Sciences | | 0 | 2021-02-07 00:44:28.367Z |
"Where are we headed?": Manifestos, personal projects, outlines repository Recently, Natural Hazard kicked off a little informal manifesto-making w/r/t what topics we're interested, what we wanna write about & figure out together. Gonna use this space as a top-level index of individual posts... If you want to have yours up,... | Inexact Sciences | | 0 | 2021-02-06 16:40:16.941Z |
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Nomothetic vs Idiographic Wikipedia entry Nomothetic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to generalize, and is typical for the natural sciences. It describes the effort to derive laws that explain types or categories of objective phenomena, in general. Idiographic i... | Inexact Sciences | | 1 | 2021-02-10 07:31:30.485Z |
Non-human intelligences Been reading Frans De Waal's Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? and wanna start a mega-thread on animal intelligence. Will post excerpts as they come up. Starting the thread after discovering a Wikipedia entry on causal reasoning in n... | Meat Machines | | 6 | 2021-03-20 01:10:09.675Z |
general theory of signaling general theory of costly, explicit signaling just dropped: No preview for Twitter tweet: https://twitter.com/chunkbardey/status/1356803755224793095?s=20 [TyE0LNPV] View on Twitter | Link Dump | | 0 | 2021-02-04 09:11:26.919Z |
John Cassavetes I've only seen Women Under the Influence but it was fantastic. Peli Grietzer recommends Faces and my friend Leo Harding-Hill says Husbands is great. View on YouTube | Cultural Capital | | 2 | 2021-02-04 16:28:16.977Z |
Bartering in Balinese macaques Springer link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0611-1 Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s10329-017-0611-1 We've talked before about macaques before, in the context of Jessica Flack's work on complex organization and signaling: ... | Strategic Interaction | | 2 | 2021-02-12 01:37:38.092Z |
Other kinds of inference? Crispy's always saying, there are other kinds of inference, there are other kinds of inference! I'm not sure I get what he means, but I trust he'll show up in the comments and set us all straight. Possibly relevant: Why was causation tabooed from 20t... | Inexact Sciences | | 1 | 2021-02-10 07:25:00.121Z |
The surrogation matrix Cross-posted from suspendedreason.com The "thing in itself" (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least ... | Surrogation | | 0 | 2021-02-20 18:36:50.368Z |
Book Club Wk 4: Games, Art, the Structure of Possibilities Archive of a past book club. James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: "Where a society is defined by its boundaries, [culture plays with boundaries,] is defined by its horizon." Where rules (and hence, success) in a finite game are contractually deter... | Book Club | | 4 | 2021-01-29 00:58:55.110Z |
From measurement to degeneration Cross-posted from suspendedreason.com There is no characteristic that is common to everything that we call games... It is a family-likeness term. Think of ball-games alone: some, like tennis, have a complicated system of rules; but there is a game wh... | Surrogation | | 0 | 2021-01-28 18:35:45.298Z |
Forum Meta Ask questions about the forum, make suggestions, report bugs. | Community Meta | SPB | 20 | 2021-03-13 18:57:30.020Z |