I am realizing that I never fully learned how to think. School overall taught me outcomes. As long as I arrive at a correct answer, I did good. The parts of school that teach me explicitly how to think are the parts of school that taught me best. Phonics for...
I am sharing this information due to Eliezer mentioning in a recent interview: * Only cognitively boosted humans have a chance at aligning AI * Cooling the brain through methods like water cooling is one of our best chances to boost human intelligence Brains and computers both generate heat as...
I am sharing this info due to Eliezer mentioning in a recent interview we need to augment human intelligence to be smart enough to have a chance to align super-intelligent AI. And he then said augmenting brain cooling might be the path to victory. Think of the brain as a...
The human brain is just a wacky biological tangle, the same way that human metabolism repurposes the insanely reactive chemical byproduct of superoxide as a key signaling molecule.
It sounds like you read Petro Dobromylsky's Hyperlipid and Brad Marshall's Fire in a Bottle!
I am realizing that I never fully learned how to think.
School overall taught me outcomes. As long as I arrive at a correct answer, I did good. The parts of school that teach me explicitly how to think are the parts of school that taught me best. Phonics for reading. And early mathematics education. Both taught me mental algorithms to follow. I learned a chain of thought algorithm to follow both for reading and for arithmetic.
Most books and movies are the same thing. There are a few books I have read like "Crime and Punishment" that are written from the perspective of people's inner monologues. In "Crime and Punishment" you can see... (read more)
The research seems to show that mild hypothermia slows down neural activity in the brain but does not damage it. Mild hypothermia is sometimes medically induced after stroke or TBI or protect the brain.
For those people with Alzheimers or dementia and hypothermia, I think their brain has other problems, and hypothermia is downstream of those other problems.
I explicitly remembered hearing it, it was one of his recent book tour videos, but I have looked back and have not yet been able to find the timestamp
You are right that the scalp is less than ideal. The forehead, neck, insides of the nose, and I think the upper parts of the cheek are all better for cooling the brain. I believe the best method found is one where cold dry air is pumped in one nostril and out the other to greatly increase evaporative cooling from the inside of the nose, which cools the blood moving into the brain
A water cooled forehead combined with a water cooled neck pad might work well
Re: Newton's law of cooling - I'm not sure if it applies as much to the brain.
This is because the brain has other cooling mechanisms that kick in when overheating is detected. Yawning, panting, sweating/evaporative cooling from the forehead, and also blood flow to the brain can increase as well.
Yeah - you are right the cooling curve is definitely not linear - but I stand by my point that the data clearly shows that the brains heat generation ability greatly outstrips its cooling ability.
I am sharing this information due to Eliezer mentioning in a recent interview:
Think of the brain as a powerful computer with a small heat sink. Especially in small animal brains. Kiyatkin explains this well:
... (read 717 more words →)We found that brain temperature was consistently higher than arterial blood temperature, and that brain temperature increased prior to, and to a greater extent than … arterial blood… local metabolic consequences of … neural activity appear to be the primary source of increases in brain
I am sharing this info due to Eliezer mentioning in a recent interview we need to augment human intelligence to be smart enough to have a chance to align super-intelligent AI. And he then said augmenting brain cooling might be the path to victory.
Think of the brain as a powerful computer with a small heat sink. Especially in animal brains. The information below is from studies from Kiyatkin in rodents. You can see that under relatively normal situations like social interaction in rodents, their brain temperature increases at a peak rate of 1 degree increase over 5 minutes. Also keep in mind: “Brain tissue is exceptionally sensitive to heat—structural changes occurring with... (read 393 more words →)
When people think of hyper-persuasion, they need to think of falling in love. A person can fall in love with a person that they logically know is not good for them, but their emotional brain will be all in.
AI will be able choose a topic. And 3 months later you will have very positive feelings about that topic, and very negative feelings about anyone who disagrees with you on that topic - and your logical brain will be bypassed and have no say in the matter.