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In human brains there are about 100 billion neurons (nerve cells), each capable of producing an electrical pulse up to perhaps a thousand times a second. The neurons are connected in a complicated net, with each neuron having tree-like branches allowing it to pass electrical signals to perhaps thousands of other neurons. And in a rough approximation, whether any given neuron produces an electrical pulse at a given moment depends on what pulses it’s received from other neurons—with different connections contributing with different “weights”.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
One can argue it’s precisely by indulging and acting upon his delusion of agency that man manifests technocapital superintelligence.
KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology
Nick Land,
When the British government wanted to increase tax collection rates, they switched from sending citizens to a web page where the tax form could be downloaded to linking directly to the form. Reducing that one step in the process increased the response rate from 19.2 percent to 23.4 percent.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
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