The link in your post has a typo: correct link https://flightpenguin.com/
D'oh, thank you
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goldfish commented on Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic adamjuliangoldstein.com/b... · Posted by u/goldfish
This is the proper Kantian answer. Certain basic human capacities are innate (e.g. perceptual grasp of relative object size), but it is through socialization processes that these capacites are "assembled" into knowledge and meaning.
A Freudian take that applies more to behavior in the workplace is that certain drives are innate to the organism and require discharge lest tension builds up, and it is through learned "algorithms" that we find acceptable ways to relieve these tensions.
I’m not as convinced as you are that perceptual grasp of relative object size is innate. See recent research in Molyneux’s problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem
goldfish commented on Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic adamjuliangoldstein.com/b... · Posted by u/goldfish
I know it's just an example but there is less drag the higher you go, unless you are thinking of some kind of ground-effect.
I am physically repulsed by the word "founder" when used to signify some sort of holy class of ascended beings.
Memes evolve too and have been dominant since about the invention of agriculture.
Hi Hoseja—
I am indeed talking about ground effect–that's why I included a link for "flying close to the surface reduces aerodynamic drag" which explains how it works.
I also specifically addressed how algorithms differ from memes in footnotes 4 and 14.
Curious to get your thoughts.
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goldfish commented on The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads adamjuliangoldstein.com/b... · Posted by u/goldfish
I wonder if the model here is missing something important - it assumes there is no survival penalty for a false positive attack. In real life this isn’t true. Activating a fight or flight response in humans and animals has an energy (survival) penalty.
It does include a survival penalty for a false attack. I laid out the assumed payoff matrix here: https://www.adamjuliangoldstein.com/blog/paranoia-parameter/.... The penalty for false positives is also baked into the simulations (see first few lines of code here: https://github.com/adamjuliangoldstein/anxiety_algorithms/bl...).
goldfish commented on The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads adamjuliangoldstein.com/b... · Posted by u/goldfish
Hi all, this is a follow-up to two essays:
1) The parallels between anxious ideas and immune system threat prediction (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475370)
2) The game theory of determining which imagined threats are worth our attention (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760540).
Thoughts and feedback welcome as always :)
From a medical perspective this is quite a hand-wavy fever dream interpretation of the immune system and psychology/psychiatry. It’s like saying you should use python instead of rust because it’s syntax more appropriately recapitulates the essence of human neural connectedness (or whatever). There are many types of paranoia (not one dimensional) and they don’t seem to all be trainable.
You'll get no argument here that it's hand-wavy! My goal was to point out that both our immune systems and our minds are imperfect at assessing threats and we can suffer greatly as a result. I'm glad you still found it thought-provoking.