Anil Kumar

That you try to capture a conscious state for its own sake, because you think that matters. The true artist in my view is somebody who captures conscious states and that's the only reason why they eat. So you eat to make art. And another person makes art to eat.

And the arts is slightly different. It's a mutation that is arguably not completely adaptive. It's one where people fall in love with the loss function. Where you think that your mental representation is the intrinsically important thing.

And when the contribution is negative then the superorganism kills it in order to be fitter in the competition against other superorganisms. And it's totally brutal. I don't like fascism because it's going to kill a lot of minds I like.

Fascism is a mode of organization of society in which the individual is a cell in the superorganism and the value of the individual is exactly the contribution to the superorganism.

And in a way we are yeast. Everything we do, all the complexity that we create, all the structures we build, is to erect some surfaces on which to out compete other kinds of yeast. And if you realize this you can try to get behind this and I think the solution to this is fascism.

The thing that is able to digest anything and turn it into structure to sustain and perpetuate itself, for long as the local puddle of negentropy is available.

Evolution is about getting eaten by monsters. Don't go into the desert and perish there, because it's going to be a waste. If you're lucky the monsters that eat you are your own children. And eventually the search for evolution will, if evolution reaches its global optimum, it will be the perfect ..

The arts are the cuckoo child of life. Because the meaning of life is to eat. You know, life is evolution and evolution is about eating. It's pretty gross if you think about it.

“I find that most people serve practical needs. They have an understanding of the difference between meaning and relevance. And at some level my mind is more interested in meaning than in relevance. That is similar to the mind of an artist. The arts are not life. They are not serving life.

Hey, thanks for the Alfred snippets. I don't know if it is our fault. We did not choose these incentive structures.

omg. I just set it up a few days ago. Also what about my neovim config?

YouTube video by Neuromatch Academy Working Memory Involvement in Higher Cognition: Insights from fMRI Modeling

Our recent presentation from the Impact Scholars Program at @neuromatch.bsky.social - Neuromatch Academy!
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Statistical and deep learning models acted as “sensors” for task demand and WM activity, predicting how much WM is involved in emotion and language domains.

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🚨 New Preprint!!

LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

Two Kinds Of AI Polar Opposites

Two Kinds Of AI
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YouTube video by Wolfram Institute Seminar | Joscha Bach | Can we understand consciousness using the paradigms of AI?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKu7...

Temu imports more than 10000 tons of fast fashion every day.

Every living system must adapt, or die.

In my first blog post, I show how this fundamental principle can be mathematized:

✅ Brains adapt, and adaptation is about KL divergence minimization.

Let's unpack the main insights 🧵[1/n]
Link: mysterioustune.com/2025/01/13/w...

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I hope you’re well.

Sounds scary

There’s a single formula that makes all of your diffusion models possible: Tweedie's

Say 𝐱 is a noisy version of 𝐮 with 𝐞 ∼ 𝒩(𝟎, σ² 𝐈)

𝐱 = 𝐮 + 𝐞

MMSE estimate of 𝐮 is 𝔼[𝐮|𝐱] & would seem to require P(𝐮|𝐱). Yet Tweedie says P(𝐱) is all you need

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Playing Smart A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the futur...

If you want a very accessible intro (I wrote it so my parents could read it) intro to AI and games, here's my earlier book from 2019:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026203903...

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess are they good or bad?

Why are some LLMs better at chess than others

Part 1: dynomight.net/chess/

Part 2: dynomight.net/more-chess/

Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...

Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7

Curious to learn what research is looking like at Meta these days. Seems that most other places are shutting down research. I’d like to think that this means we will be stagnate once LLMs hit any nontrivial wall. Thoughts welcome on this too.