Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org

@weberam2 hi Alex, follow and interact, that's all I guess... I couldn't try Mammoth unfortunately because my phone is a few years old, but I'm happy with Ice Cubes. No idea on servers, I've not tried many, Neuromatch works for me !

Kenya's UBI trial data is in.
people dont stop working when they have a UBI.
lump sum UBI had the greatest economic benefit, creating a lot more entrepreneurs.

we have conclusively verified humans can be trusted to make excellent financial decisions.

now it is time to fix economic policies to connect people with money directly, not manage it for them out of mistrust.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3x329k32DXVjasx1zSqApH?si=RslQjGSeRYK0osae88yJig

Now services revenue can increase in three dimensions!

Very readable paper on the partially overlapping phenomenologies of meditation and psychedelic experience.

Millière, Carhart-Harris, Roseman, Trautwein, and Berkovich-Ohana. "Psychedelics, meditation, and self-consciousness."

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01475

« #AaronSwartz planned to publish millions of scientific articles, financed by public money and on which the authors received nothing. Prosecuted before he had published anything, he risked 35 years in prison. Facing this prospect, he committed suicide on 11 January 2013. 11 years ago.

In 2024, #OpenAI will apply its algorithms to any document, online or offline, without the consent of the authors. No one is likely to be prosecuted.

#IntellectualProperty is just a tool of oppression. »

@ploum

"Substack’s argument in response to the Atlantic article was a masterclass in how not to do it: the best way to defeat these ideas, it claimed, was through scrutiny. Frankly, if scrutiny was going to defeat neo-Nazis or the idea that the Cultural Revolution had some upsides, it would have done so already."

https://www.ft.com/content/648ec2c0-d71b-4dc6-af15-56fedc54eb2d

"Scientists found the thickly contextualised, sharply focused histories of now-discarded science irrelevant and indigestible. Historians bridled at the scientists’ demands for a mythologised and anachronistic version of the past. We think it’s time to restart the conversation, for the benefit of both scientists and historians."

https://aeon.co/essays/science-and-history-cannot-afford-to-be-indifferent-to-each-other

It's been well over a year, but I still haven't fully processed that I am co-author of a theory paper suggesting that "psychedelics are analogous to cognitive laxatives."

And this happened in part via a question I asked during a journal club!

https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awac256/6648879

Every time I open up Octave, a little part of me dies inside.

I saw the best job talk today! Not one that leaves you thinking just “this person is so smart” but “ I would really like to have this person as a colleague and collaborator”