The Hungry Brain is as good as Scott’s review of it suggests. There’s a great portion at the beginning about the neuroscience of decision making that ties into a lot of stuff I’ve been trying to learn about regarding how reinforcement learning is implemented in the brain.
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy,
“the United States is shifting toward an economic and political makeup more similar to developing nations than the wealthy, economically stable nation it has long been.”
he parallels are unsettling. As noted by the Institute for New Economic Thinking:
“In the Lewis model of a dual economy, much of the low-wage sector has little influence over public policy. Check. The high-income sector will keep wages down in the other sector to provide cheap labor for its businesses. Check. Social control is used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the policies favored by the high-income sector. Mass incarceration – check. The primary goal of the richest members of the high-income sector is to lower taxes. Check. Social and economic mobility is low. Check.”
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The Hungry Brain is as good as Scott’s review of it suggests. There’s a great portion at the beginning about the neuroscience of decision making that ties into a lot of stuff I’ve been trying to learn about regarding how reinforcement learning is implemented in the brain.
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy,
“the United States is shifting toward an economic and political makeup more similar to developing nations than the wealthy, economically stable nation it has long been.”
https://theintellectualist.co/study-mit-economist-u-s-regressed-third-world-nation-citizens/
he parallels are unsettling. As noted by the Institute for New Economic Thinking:
“In the Lewis model of a dual economy, much of the low-wage sector has little influence over public policy. Check. The high-income sector will keep wages down in the other sector to provide cheap labor for its businesses. Check. Social control is used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the policies favored by the high-income sector. Mass incarceration – check. The primary goal of the richest members of the high-income sector is to lower taxes. Check. Social and economic mobility is low. Check.”
https://mitpress.mit.edu/vanishing
daniel suarez’s latest book is out, about genetic programming on adults, and the loss of trust. Not as good as his last few on AI.
Change Agent.