“activating in another pattern” sounds similar enough to “scrambling”. so are you saying, the brain will keep/change the patterns based on them being good/bad? it would seem partly likely (on my model), like say the motor function is scrambled in a useless way, it would be rescrambled into a way that works by learning, and if it happens to work better it would be kept. but it seems unlikely this process would strongly reflect my deepest intellectual endorsement. there could be conscious feedback fixing it, but the worry extends into the feedback “getting scrambled”.
additional thought: I’d be especially worried about “destructive” changes—compare to lobotomy, it was also a procedure done directly on the brain that was considered to cure stuff, but now we consider it bad because it was destroying stuff.
[uninformed neurology is fun]
Warty
first time I hear of TMS. I find it sus for the same reason as I find electroconvulsive therapy sus. like, what’s the mechanism of the healing? sounds like it scrambles your brain and the new configuration is not depressed. but given this effect on depression, I would be worried about having other parts of me scrambled.
the fun and/or clarity can be improved/worsened. a way to improve fun is to have less text and more puzzle, here’s a more fun hitchhiker version
burning the dog defense commons 😔
cute, I hoped it would be more like historical or philosophical
An argument against computationally bounded Solomonoff induction is that it wouldn’t get quantum physics, because it’s exponentially hard to compute. But quantum computation isn’t less natural than classical, so we might as well base it on a bounded quantum computer, which gets around the objection.
Warty’s Shortform
I generally think non-descriptive names are overused, but this isn’t the worst of it because at least it’s easy to tell which is which (1 comes before 2). Intuition/Reason aren’t a perfect replacement since the words are entangled with other stuff.
I also found a huge effect in my twitter poll https://twitter.com/warty_dog/status/1773479101568786736 , though that has worse potential selection issues than ACX poll
Prayer beads, such as rosary beads (or anglican prayer beads?), are made of small round pieces of wood or metal with holes in them
wait is the lever position meaningful like that? I used lever direction = where the train go, cause it seemed intuitive.