In neuroscience and neuroethics, incremental might be a critique that is considered when reviewing a grant but not when considering a paper, except perhaps for the very top journals in the field. But conference papers? Never.
Physical activity and risk of Alzheimer's disease.
In older adults (mean age 72) with elevated Aβ amyloid, 5,000-7,500 steps/day (<-a plateau) were associated with less Tau accumulation, improved cognition
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Frontier AI could reach or surpass human level within just a few years. This could help solve global issues, but also carries major risks. To move forward safely, we must develop robust technical guardrails and make sure the public has a much stronger say. superintelligence-statement.org
“what was once considered our grandchildren’s problem is now our own is arriving not in the form of hurricane-force winds, but as a letter of assessment from an insurer”
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Call for moonshots. First phase: abstracts due on Oct 25, 2025. moonshots.laude.org/call-for-pro...
AI is reshaping how we live, work & connect. How can it deepen compassion? 🌏
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Excellent advice but also: sign your review. Whether you actually sign it (I have for the last decade) or not, just thinking about it will nudge your review towards a more generous consideration of the authors, working to help them improve the paper rather than offering scathing criticism.
It has come to this: Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer
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“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”
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Scottish government trial of four-day week improves productivity and staff wellbeing
Scientists do more than you think towards saving lives.
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AI progress
in case you wanted at least a bit of good news today
So much of media is bad news. And I think it’s intended to break your will. I think it’s important to purposely spend time to expose yourself to good news and things that improve your spirits. In simpler terms, put yourself in your own happy place. It makes you a better fighter.
Apparently we’re just fancy thermostats (OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration). At least that’s the analogy Herbert Harris uses to explain active inference as the underpinnings of our sense of free will.
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Pretty damn great piece by @harveylederman.bsky.social thinking through the issues that we need to consider if AI’s take away all (or most) of the jobs. Definitely worth your consideration.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.
Pretty wild/worrisome seeing people completely flip out about losing access to previous models of ChatGPT, namely 4o, so much so that OpenAI changed its mind about a GPT-5 only world.
One of the big differences in the new model was reduced sycophancy. Evidently users don’t want to give that up.
