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Robert Lawrence | Harvard Kennedy School
May 13, 2023“If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anyone”
May 13, 2023https://hbr.org/2017/03/if-you-understand-how-the-brain-works-you-can-reach-anyone
Beard, Alison. (2017). If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anybody. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr 2017, Vol. 95 Issue 2, p 60‐62.
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People who express certain genes in the dopamine system tend to be curious, creative, spontaneous, energetic, and mentally flexible. They are risk-takers and seek novelty. People who have high serotonin activity (or who take SSRI antidepressants) are more sociable, more eager to belong. They’re quite traditional in their values and less inclined toward exploration. People expressive of the testosterone system are tough-minded, direct, decisive, skeptical, and assertive. They tend to be good at what we called rule-based systems—engineering, computers, mechanics, math, and music. And people who are expressive of the estrogen/oxytocin system tend to be intuitive, imaginative, trusting, empathetic, and contextual long-term thinkers. They are sensitive to people’s feelings, too, and typically have good verbal and social skills.
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Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time
May 12, 2023also the economist :
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive
the NYT also had a write-up about this recently (linked below). Although it’s interesting, sometimes ‘disruptive’ science is over-hyped and over-valued, whereas incremental science can be under-appreciated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/science-breakthroughs-disruption.html
but it is an interesting paper recently published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x
How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist
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As a way of presenting knowledge, llms promise to take both the practical and personal side of books further, in some cases abolishing them altogether. An obvious application of the technology is to turn bodies of knowledge into subject matter for chatbots. Rather than reading a corpus of text, you will question an entity trained on it and get responses based on what the text says. Why turn pages when you can interrogate a work as a whole?
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Passwordless Google accounts are here—you can now switch to passkey-only | Ars Technica
May 12, 2023Cholesterol and dementia | Alzheimer’s Society
May 12, 2023https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-and-prevention/cholesterol-and-dementia
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A meta-analysis is a study that looks at lots of previous studies and analyses all of the data together to increase the number of people studied and to look at the information in a consistent way. A meta-analysis looking at observational studies investigating statins and the risk of dementia looked at data from 11 studies, involving over 23,000 participants, who had been taking statins for between 3 and nearly 25 years on average. When all of the data was analysed together, the researchers found that those people taking statins had a 29 per cent reduced risk of developing dementia.
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‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead – The New York Times
May 12, 2023interesting news about Hinton
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
