Huh, you’re right. I thought most fruits have enough to cover daily requirements.
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Avoiding wireheading doesn’t seem like failed inner alignment—avoiding wireheading now can allow you to get even more pleasure in the future because wireheading makes you vulnerable/less powerful.
Even if this is the case, this is not why (most) humans don’t want to wirehead, in the same way that their objection to killing an innocent person whose organs could save 10 other people are not driven by some elaborate utilitarian arguments that this would be bad for the society.
Does severe vitamin C deficiency (i.e. scurvy) lead to oxytocin depletion?
According to Wikipedia
The activity of the PAM enzyme [necessary for releasing oxytocin fromthe neuron] system is dependent upon vitamin C (ascorbate), which is a necessary vitamin cofactor.
I.e. if you don’t have enough vitamin C, your neurons can’t release oxytocin. Common sensically, this should lead to some psychological/neurological problems, maybe with empathy/bonding/social cognition?
Quick googling “scurvy mental problems” or “vitamin C deficiency mental symptoms” doesn’t return much on that. This meta-analysis finds some association of sub-scurvy vitamin C deficiency with depression, mood problems, worse cognitive functioning and some other psychiatric conditions but no mention of what I’d suspect from lack of oxytocin. Possibly oxytocin is produced in low enough levels that this doesn’t really matter because you need very little vit C? But on the other hand (Wikipedia again)
By chance, sodium ascorbate by itself was found to stimulate the production of oxytocin from ovarian tissue over a range of concentrations in a dose-dependent manner.
So either this (i.e. disturbed social cognition) is not how we should expect oxytocin deficiencies to manifest or vitamin C deficiency manifests in so many ways in the brain that you don’t even bother with “they have worse theory of mind than when they ate one apple a day”.
Has anybody converted https://projectlawful.com/ into ebook format or is working on it?
I’m not sure if that’s what you mean that genes and agency are both perfectly valid abstractions IMO. An abstraction can summarize the state of a small part of the system (e.g. genes), not necessarily the entire system (e.g. temperature).
Hm, I had a vague memory that contrast detection relies on something like lateral inhibition but when I thought about it a bit more it doesn’t really make sense and I guess I conflated it with edge detection in the retina.
Regarding cerebellum in hearing voices: If I understand your model correctly, it goes something like this. Region S (sender) “generates voices” and region R (receiver) “hears voices” generated by S. R expects to receive those signals from S (or maybe even just expects to receive these kinds of signals in general, without specifying where they come from). R gets surprised when it receives unexpected signals and interprets them as “not mine”. R would expect to receive them, if it first got a message “hey, S is soon going to send some voice-signals to you”. Isn’t this exactly the role of the cerebellum, to learn that, e.g. if S activates in this particular way (about to “generate voices”), then R will soon activate in the other way (“hears voices”) and therefore it would make sense to preempt R, so that it can expect to get that particular signal from S and act accordingly even before receiving that signal?
(according to Vanessa there are only three people in the world who fully understand the infra-Bayesian sequence)
Vanessa, Diffractor, and who is the third one?
Interesting. One thing ut doesn’t seem to explain is gender imbalance in onset time. Women start developing schizophrenia about a decade later I think. On the other hand, IIRC the usual explanation is “sth sth protective estrogens”, so if it turned out that estrogens inhibit pruning of medium/long-range cortico-cortical connections, then you get another puece of weak evidence.
Regarding context of discovery, I would expect effects like this one to work through local connections, perhaps not even in the visual cortex but LGN or even retina (?).
Regarding your explanation of “hearing voices”, wouldn’t it fit better with your hypothesis that the function of the cerebellum is to resuce latency between cortical(/telencephalic) regions by presicting advance what signal arrives where?
People with schizophrenia are also less susceptible to hollow mask illusion
Can you give an example of somebody making that move?
(I’m not a native English speaker either)
mostly from a psychology-adjacent context
Yeah, but a conversation with a chatbot is not a psychology-adjacent context (or song lyrics), so if the model learned to put “the” before “me” and “you” from this kind of data, then inserting that into a conversation is still evidence that it was badly trained and/or fine-tuned.
Example 4: “I will lose more of the me and more of the you”
I’ve never seen GPT-3 or ChatGPT put “the” before pronouns. It looks to me like they didn’t even train it well enough for it to learn that you don’t put “the” before pronouns. I think extreme repetitiveness points in a similar direction.
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I guess this right parentheses should be after “fame”
Thank you!
There’s a lot of criticism of EA on the forum, arguably too much (or at least it’s misdirected), so I don’t think you’ll be eaten by piranhas or whatever in the comments, although if you have your reasons-for-~wanting-the-EA-forum-to-burn written up somewhere I’d like to read them
In case you don’t know it, Machery’s Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds is a book-length criticism of using (what could IMO be seen as) badly construed intuition pumps as philosophical arguments. A part of their badness is that their the judgments they produce are not robust to turning the knobs. Relatedly, his earlier book may serve as an example of (at least attempted) deconfusion regarding what abstractions are most useful in cognitive psychology.
It does. Thank you very much
So to clarify, reification, in the sense you use it here, refers to explaining some thing A by a reference to an thing X, whose existence we need to postulate to explain A (or some other thing B, for which we have already postulated that X exists)?
Nitpick: the box in the application form under the header “Going by past similar cases, how many hours...” doesn’t allow for text formatting, embedding links and the like.
That’s also what this meta-analysis found but I was mostly wondering about social cognition deficits (though looking back I see it’s not clear in the original shortform)