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As pointed out in Where Mathematics Comes From (WMCF), we are born with an innate sense for numbers, which gets fuzzier very fast as the numbers grow bigger. We can also subitize collections, that is to say instantly determine the cardinality, of collections of up to 3 objects. It is...

Epistemological status: these are speculative thoughts I had while trying to improve understanding. Not tested yet. What differentiates understanding from non-understanding? When you pull a door towards you, you predict it will move towards you in a particular way. You can visualize the movement in your mind's eye. Similarly, the...

CERTAIN EXOTIC NEUROTRANSMITTERS AS SMART PILLS: OR COMPOUNDS THAT INCREASE THE CAPACITY FOR MENTAL WORK IN HUMANS A story about LAZAR as told by Hosteen Nez SECOND EDITION Dedicated— To our valiant magic molecule testers and all others who helped. > This material not copyrighted, 1990. It may be copied...

This is a bit of a rant but I notice that I am confused. Eliezer said in the original Sequences: > Rationality is Systematized Winning But it's pretty obvious that LessWrong is not about winning (and Eliezer provides a more accurate definition of what he means by rationality here). As...

[Epistemic status: a software engineer and AI user, not an AI researcher] I could not find a readily available book database that offers semantic search with embeddings. Amazon sells lots of books, wouldn't it be useful for them to propose such a tool to their clients, so they can easily...

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei 8 May, 2025

I am reading the Sequences and recently started to use LLMs to further analyze each post as I read them. As an experiment I also generate lyrics based on each post's content and analysis, and feed these to Suno AI to create songs. I find some of these songs pleasant...