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• [marginalium] When Ockam's Razor doesn't work — 7 Feb 2025
• [marginalium] Rationalist 'death cult' — 7 Feb 2025
• [article] Mini-brains inside the brain — 7 Feb 2025
  If you look closely, you’ll see that our ability to speak just hides the fact that other processes are running the show. Find a way to cut the language regions out, and you see other little consciousnesses start to take over.
• [marginalium] Quantum entangled time — 7 Feb 2025
• [marginalium] Fun critique of rationalists — 6 Feb 2025
• [marginalium] The Mediterranean diet is a lie — 5 Feb 2025
• [marginalium] Time to drop the 'cargo-cult' — 4 Feb 2025
• [article] Anticipation beats reward — 31 Jan 2025
  Basically, reward and ancipation both use the same system, but differently. Anticipation seems to come in through the senses and get sent throughout the brain, but pleasure seems to come in from more evaluatey bits—maybe to help us learn what’s rewarding.
• [marginalium] The ideology that is 'species' — 31 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] The magnetic poles might flip — 30 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Relaxed AI skepticism — 29 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] The populist phantom — 29 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Thermodynamics drives complexity? — 28 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Charisma as Representation — 27 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Is Democracy Strong Enough for Trump? — 27 Jan 2025