what are some good phones to get?

There are none. APAB.

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This is fine II

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indeed and maybe I can be optimistic about this that eventually some ultra wealthy shitass with locked-in syndrome might get to talk to their family again (assuming they rigorously trained a model and brain activity isn't subject to semantic drift)

For sure. Something scarier would be if you don't need fmri but could use some other modality. A researcher at the institution I worked at almost a decade ago had a grant for a project on reconstructing fmri from ultrasound, but that requires direct contact too. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the skull is thick enough and 70mV magnitude spikes are small enough that there's just inherently no good information that can be recorded at a distance that is sufficient to reconstruct with high fidelity the neural signatures of language or other kinds of conscious thought.

Indeed and I would think there should be enough intrinsic differences in individual cortical development that without high quality supervised training prediction will forever be impossible, that is, zero or few shot learning just wouldn't work.

main comment:

For individuals on whom the decoder had not been trained, they said the results were “unintelligible”.

I see a slim silver lining here. fMRI is incredibly noisy and bulky, and the inability of this procedure (for now, and probably forever barring an enormous paradigm-shift in neuroscience) to do zero-shot decoding (ie without training data on the subject) means that lots of factors from drug use to breathing erratically probably hamper even a trained decoder. Inshallah the techbros don't stumble on a way to remotely sense fmri (or sufficient statistics thereof) at significant distances from moving brains.

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why the fuck do "news" outlets never fucking link to the paper?!?!?!

I like your thinking.

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I assure you it was making real judgement calls and not responding randomly.

This is what makes the bit for me.

:hexbear-retro: : talk about HG Wells' interview with stalin

the latent space after extensive propaganda passes through its inputs: :chomsky-yes-honey:

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lophophora williamsonii?

orbi one williamsii

Flouroquinolones?

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well-oiled bloodied capitalist machine.

psilocybeans

Okay so funny story. Early in the pandemic I was working at the same school where this account's owner is a professor but in a completely different department. One day in our local city subreddit, this RunningNumbers asshat starts arguing with me about how my economic ideology causes more harm than good and their primary thesis seemed to be "not every transaction in capitalism exploits someone", which is abstractly but obviously untrue.

Shortly after, I replied something to the effect of, "shouldn't an esteemed professor of economics require of themselves a bit more nuance to account for their own ideological blind spots". After this public reply, I sent a them a PM linking to their CV and told them to go revisit the philosophical underpinnings of their field, at which point they blocked me. But yeah, their particular brand of willfully ignorant liberalism makes them a perfect candidate for their academic rank.