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Aug 1Liked by Andrew Smith

sensory input = logarithmic response

10x input = doubling of perception

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Yes! Weber-Fechner law, right?

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Aug 2Liked by Andrew Smith

Indeed! I used to work with a psychophysicist at Vanderbilt University. He was a PhD in psychology programming parallel (super)computers. Never know where you might end up!

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That's really a neat phenomenon. It's kinda similar to trying to pre-train better Large Language Models, where it gets more and more difficult and expensive to just make incremental gains. You have to like 10x the inputs there, too.

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Aug 1Liked by Andrew Smith

Yes, good musings as “far as we know”. How “far” that is may really be meaningless…

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I heard on the news the other day that a paralyzed ALS patient with an implant in his brain was able to connect to Apple Vision Pro glasses. He was able to send texts and surf the internet with his thoughts alone. That's the future, but without the paralysis.

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Incredible. The technology you describe has been in existence for a long time now (by today's standards, anyway) - like more than 15 years - but it is beginning to become accessible to more and more people, and I can only imagine it's going to work a lot better as more users jump on.

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Aug 1Liked by Andrew Smith

I use my superpower of abstract thinking exclusively to imagine all sorts of worrying future scenarios to feed to my anxiety. Take that, "fun" alternative timelines.

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