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SEVEN AND A HALF LESSONS ABOUT THE BRAIN: Best Books 2020 (Amazon + Barnes & Noble), Starred Review (Kirkus), "Must-read" (Discover Mag), "Beautiful writing" (@DavidEagleman), "Remarkable insights" (Daniel Pink). The world's first neuroscience beach-read. lisafeldmanbarrett.com/books/seven-an…

The best (only) non-reductive account is computational & the best characterized non-deterministic computational account = stochastic policies in reinforcement learning. How does randomization over a probability distribution on action space = the right kind of sourcehood/free will

Watch this amazing speech by Mijal Bitton. And then watch it again. America must stand with Israel, now and always. And we must unite to stop the dangerous and shameful anti-Semitism rising on our campuses and elsewhere. Never again means never again.

The thing with effective altruism is that viewing anonymous donations to strangers as the paradigmatic moral act is a basic misunderstanding of the nature of ethics. It's an error beginning with Bentham that has marginalized the fundamentally interpersonal nature of ethics.

This year, #BreastCancerAwarenesMonth has personal significance for me & my lab members. Folks, take this opportunity to get screened and/or tell your mum, sister, aunt, friend or partner to do the same. Please RT and spread the word!

The opening quote to my 2017 PhD Dissertation:

A Reality Check on Superhuman AI nautil.us/a-reality-chec…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opi…

To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opi…

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

not even meaning to be ironic but the months of rhetoric of the need to "save democracy" are somewhat qualified when, within the Democratic party, it is taboo to even suggest that another presidential candidate be considered; even to hint at such an option, in theory, will result

David Remnick's cogent argument for why Biden must step down -- now. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Trump is wildly wrong when it comes to crime — violent crime rates are lower than they’ve ever been in the last 15 years. They’re also down 26% from Trump’s 2020 levels. Morning Joe

You should probably stop whatever you're doing and watch this right now, because it's amazing. youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4J…

American exceptionalism.

Yann LeCun That’s misleading. Most large employers offer paid maternity leave in the U.S.

Almost a decade after the idealistic Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson got more pessimistic. Warned it was "only a matter of time" before Americans were tempted by dictatorship. He warned future Americans to ward off the "wolf of tyranny." Please listen.

Glad to see this out! Enjoyed speaking with Elissa about the need for rigorous reporting of ephys data quality. Looking forward to broad adoption of the RIGOR standard.

Sometimes, one should listen to German philosophers.